Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [be] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Labour present is Neil Kinnock , who speaks for 63 minutes and quotes Robert Frost about miles to go and promises to keep , and about a brighter dawn when poverty , privilege , fear , disease , woe , and war shall live only in the memory of time . |
| 2 | A special class of prose-speakers for whom verse-speakers descend to the lower level are clowns , who may sing lyrics or speak verse for satiric purposes , but who are almost invariably addressed in prose the moment they appear . |
| 3 | But the name of that provision is Jesus . |
| 4 | That provision was part of the international public order and applied to all ships which sailed on the seas . |
| 5 | In the UK the airworthiness authority is a division of the Civil Aviation Authority and in charge of that division was John Chaplin ( who was subsequently appointed Group Director , Safety Services in September 1953 ) . |
| 6 | What I was able to do in that instance was play all the symphonies through with the orchestra and then forget about them for three months . |
| 7 | The oral shield is lozenge shaped or rhombic . |
| 8 | The oral shield is arrow shaped with the distal projection slightly depressed . |
| 9 | The oral shield is arrow shaped or light-bulb shaped and is about a quarter of the disk radius in length . |
| 10 | SC , Dunfermline Your total income is £7,326 a year , less £260 paid to your ex-wife , which leaves you with £7,066 . |
| 11 | In the chart your total income is 100% . |
| 12 | Our man in Companies House reports that the good doctor is the sole shareholder of the consultancy ( just two £1 shares have been issued ) and , contrary to various Companies Acts , no accounts have been returned since 1978 ( when total income was £260 in fees and £18 in donations ) . |
| 13 | It was a pasture next to the hayfield of yesterday and that cow was Rose . |
| 14 | If you try to do the sums and ask could you do all those changes simply by sort of species going one way and the other relative to these changes erm in their origins and then those species which happen to be in the right direction being selection by some kind of species selection , I think the answer is you just ca n't make the sums add up right . |
| 15 | I do try to keep away from fattening foods , but my greatest weakness is chocolate cake . |
| 16 | The observers of that coin is stagnation at best , but usually decline . |
| 17 | An amusing instance of this comes when Orlando , romantic lover whose normal level is verse , enters unknowingly on to a prose-scene with one blank-verse line : ‘ Good day and happiness , dear Rosalind ! ’ at which Jaques instantly observes with disgust , ‘ Nay then God buy you , an' you talk in blank verse ’ , marching off the stage in a huff ( As You Like It , IV.i.30f. : his exit is unaccountably not marked in the Riverside edition ) . |
| 18 | All the records in that chart are pogo classics , and will get you jumping around like a lunatic , but do n't forget Britain 's finest purveyors of the pogo : Galliano . |
| 19 | The heart of the government 's economic difficulty is sterling , and the credibility of Mr Major 's indications ( if that is not too strong a word ) that he will defend it . |
| 20 | The first important facet of this inside story is teachers ' own view of what they would wish the job to be like . |
| 21 | Another source , and consequence , of the economic chaos was inflation : like all the belligerents in the war , a part of the Russian expenditure upon arms and munitions had been met by an increase in the note issue of the central bank or treasury . |
| 22 | Well , I think the first starting point is asking men to be self-aware and if one of the untoward consequences of that self-awareness is self-consciousness , then we 'll just have to live with that . |
| 23 | The best advanced text is Atkinson and Stiglitz ( 1980 ) . |
| 24 | Crossfires of water and sea to is that unity is strength and workers of this union , this country and Europe and even beyond . |
| 25 | That direction is North . |
| 26 | One of the latest to succeed in that direction are Harlequins with the announcement of help to the tune of £350,000 over the next four seasons from Flowering Original , an offshoot of the Whitbread beer company , which already sponsors the Welsh Heineken Leagues . |
| 27 | Packed five per case , each skirting is 4m ( 13ft ) long . |
| 28 | The supreme masterpieces in this short-lived genre are Lassus 's posthumously published Lagrime di San Pietro . |
| 29 | Though in neither case was delivery underwater . |
| 30 | The thing that you you have to remember , which you tend not to at the beginning is that Ceefax is B B C for instance , so on one and two now if you change channel if you 're on teletext and you want to go onto Oracle which is on three |