Example sentences of "[noun] [be] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These institutions are among some 200 ‘ unverified and lost ’ , and so excluded from the 11th edition of the Directory of British Associations , just out . |
| 2 | Because such religions are of more interest to the media than are more ‘ ordinary ’ religions , it is quite likely that whenever the tragedy occurs we shall be treated to the headline Cult Member Commits Suicide . |
| 3 | Many beginners are at first baffled as to how to make the shout . |
| 4 | GOALKEEPERS Toni Schumacher and Jean-Marie Pfaff are among 46 foreign players who learned yesterday that their lucrative attachments to Turkish clubs will be terminated at the end of the season . |
| 5 | However , planning ahead may not always be possible — for example if your circumstances change quickly or vacancies are in short supply . |
| 6 | This usually means that melody benefits if notes are of different durations . |
| 7 | The Notes are in eight languages : English , French , Italian , Spanish , Arabic , Greek , Japanese and Portuguese . |
| 8 | He says it 's hard at first because the notes are in different places . |
| 9 | ( It should be noted in passing that the Sex Discrimination and Race Relations Acts are of little relevance here . |
| 10 | After all , salesforce personnel are in close contact with the people who actually make up the market , and ought to have the most detailed knowledge about how it is likely to behave in the near future . |
| 11 | The following hardy green manures are among those most suitable for autumn sowing . |
| 12 | These satellites are in geostationary orbit and the images that they provide are used primarily in weather forecasting applications . |
| 13 | The tasks of planning and liaising , and monitoring are of particular relevance here . |
| 14 | If you are importing , the cheapest and most straightforward methods of settlement are by international payments in currency or sterling , and Midland offers three options : Priority Payments , where speed of funds transfer is of paramount importance ; Mail Payments , where there is less urgency ; and Bankers Drafts , which are particularly appropriate for low priority , low value payments . |
| 15 | Ten parts of South Africa ( not necessarily contiguous geographical entities but based on ethnic groupings ) have been designated by the government as " homelands " for Africans ; four of these have been declared independent sovereign states but are recognized only by South Africa and by each other ; the remainder are at various stages of " self-government " . |
| 16 | Becher et al ( 1981 ) point to some of the problems : it is not obvious what the real reasons are for poor results ( e.g. poor intake ) ; criticism of a hardworking school operating in bad circumstances undermines morale ; and a high scoring school acts as a magnet and deprives other schools of high ability children . |
| 17 | No counsel appearing on this appeal has attempted to defend those findings of fact or suggest that the reasons are in any way adequate . |
| 18 | The only thing that I would ask everybody in Oxfordshire is to write to our M P's here because er yes it 's true that I do n't know what the returns are from last night 's voting , but I do know that er the only local MP that I can see on the voting on the last occasion was John Patten , here in Abingdon , and he voted no . |
| 19 | These tendencies are at most tangentially in line with changes in concentration , suggesting a need to look elsewhere for causal factors . |
| 20 | One issue cited a Daily Herald report on Nazi Germany which claimed that ‘ About 40,000 prisoners are between 65 and 85 years old . |
| 21 | If , therefore , prisoners are in future to be told the judicial recommendation as to the tariff period , many judges may think it appropriate to announce their own recommendations publicly in court when passing sentence . |
| 22 | Accounts are of two types , capital and revenue . |
| 23 | Accounts are of two types , capital and revenue . |
| 24 | Balance sheets are usually produced for each account , but the operating accounts are in much more detail : the General Fund will be segregated into , for example , education , public health , roads . |
| 25 | ‘ Audited accounts are in any event only one of the sources of information which a prudent banker takes into account . |
| 26 | The four lamps are worth 20 GCs each , the two rails 30 GCs each ; all have Enc 25 each . |
| 27 | Duties are specific to each profession or kind of work , whereas wishes are in general a reflection in the working context of the kinds of personal values that people hold . |
| 28 | A further 11 States are at various stages of adopting these tougher regulations and this will lead to the benefits of cleaner exhausts being extended to a further 15% of the US car market . |
| 29 | Today , in the time of the Emperor Karl Franz , these states are of two distinct kinds : City States and Provinces . |
| 30 | Investments are of two major types . |