Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [adj] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , Jim Payne of the SSGA said : ‘ The continued use of a formula based on the end price of a product , whether this price is profitable or loss-making is fundamentally flawed . |
| 2 | Wallerstein and Kelly ( 1980 ) have described a ‘ diminished capacity to parent ’ during the divorce period , when parents who feel humiliated , depressed or angry are unable to cope with the distress , anxieties or needs of their children . |
| 3 | At both seasons flocks totalling 500 or more are commonplace , and the highest counts were of totals of 1,210 on 12 October 1969 , and 1,430 out of 2,000 in the whole Pagham Harbour to Portsmouth Harbour complex on 19 October 1974 ; and , in spring , 950 on 15 April 1972 , and 1,370 on 29 March 1975 . |
| 4 | However , throughout the period November to February flocks of 500 or more are regularly present , and the average of all counts in this period between 1964 and 1976 was over seven hundred . |
| 5 | Eleven or twelve was n't he ? |
| 6 | One-many , sorry many-one or one-one are functions . |
| 7 | The government has made it clear that redevelopment should , as far as possible , be in line with local planning policies but that where this is impossible new uses are preferable to leaving a large site derelict . |
| 8 | If the frail or housebound are to eat properly , it is essential to see that they have help with their shopping , for carrying or pushing heavy baskets soon becomes an impossibility and very few shops now deliver goods . |
| 9 | Whether the destruction was accidental or deliberate is impossible to determine , but the pagan shrine was not rebuilt . |
| 10 | The " feeling of knowing " offered either when drunk , drugged , drowsy or asleep is no reliable indication of having achieved a real solution to a problem ; there are unfortunately no short cuts in that direction ! |
| 11 | This you must have if players are going to accept that this or that is not right . |
| 12 | Those who assess , therefore , have little to back their judgement other than an instinctive feeling , aided by experience , that this or that is good , useful , or will be successful . |
| 13 | There are , at present , approximately 13,000 students on advanced further education courses in the Principality of whom probably half or less are in the colleges and institutions . |
| 14 | If it 's a thing that the public thinks is wrong or that is n't really , truly , basically artistic it 'll fade away anyway ten years from now nobody 'll think about it . |
| 15 | Then there is a need for rules which legitimate the intervention of one state in the internal affairs of another where this is a matter of urgent humanity . |
| 16 | Inside a walnut cabinet at Weston the following account from 1747 or 1748 is pasted : |
| 17 | Regulation 14 : A vehicle shall not by regulations 12 or 13 be prevented from stopping in any length of road on any side thereof |
| 18 | Finally , a mutant octamer oligonucleotide which does not bind Oct-1 or Oct-2 was used ( oligonucleotide M ) . |
| 19 | Ultimately , of course , whether a cause is held to be direct or indirect is a statement about the state of scientific knowledge at the time ; while one variable may provide an illuminating explanation for a puzzle at one point in time , it is likely to provoke further questions about how it operates at a later date . |
| 20 | In Israel , by sharp contrast , anything suggesting the sexual or sensual is strictly banned from the worship of God — as this chapter and chapter 15 make plain . |
| 21 | We 're not likely to experience such treacherous driving conditions many more times this year , but the benefits of all-wheel drive in the wet or dry are still undeniable . |
| 22 | The gharial or gavial is the only member of its family . |
| 23 | It was as much their world as it was ours , and the recollection of other less co-fraternal moments such as 1776 or 1812 were displaced by these representations of shared origins . |
| 24 | The most important factor was whether all the crops were housed in the barn or whether some or all were kept in ricks in the fields , being moved to the barn for threshing . |
| 25 | Differences resulting in p values of 0.05 or less were considered significant . |
| 26 | each year , of which only 2 or 3 are experts , the remainder being arbitrators. small . |
| 27 | ( 3 ) The ICAEW appointed 70 accountants in 1990 ; only 2 or 3 were |
| 28 | Many of the act 's remaining provisions will be replaced by European directives in 1993 , although some will be replaced in 1992 and the guide makes it clear where this is the case . |
| 29 | I think you should n't expect too much from them , but I think anything which makes maths interesting or enjoyable is worthwhile . |
| 30 | Twenty-five years ago , during a period of full employment , employers may sometimes have been right to assume that those who were unemployed or redundant were less effective than those who held down a job . |