Example sentences of "[conj] [noun prp] be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Vallance said further that ‘ the chances that British Telecom would enter into Eunetcom or Infonet are slender ’ because of the diminished returns in a joint venture with too many partners . |
| 2 | Bill had had his own small share of this sometimes useful refusal to recognise awkward truths , particularly where Marcus was concerned . |
| 3 | ‘ Out of the stuff I 've heard , ‘ This Is Not A Song ’ by The Frank & Walters is one of the most moving songs in a long time . |
| 4 | Children under about 14 do n't enjoy long day cruises , so we recommend they join dinghy holidays with good local sailing options ; Porto Heli , Nidri or Cannigione are best . |
| 5 | His cases were apt to be commonplace affairs , or at least to begin as such , as opposed to the affairs of state that occupied Holmes in his latter years , and where Holmes was tall and hawk-faced Hewitt was stoutish , of average height and had a round , smiling face . |
| 6 | Private wealth certainly does n't appear to have been translated into personal greed where Roddick is concerned . |
| 7 | Apart from McLeish 's indiscretion , there was such an air of superiority about Aberdeen that disintegration looked an imminent possibility where Clydebank were concerned . |
| 8 | There was a particularly piquant episode when it had been reported to him that a meeting had allegedly taken place somewhere in the country , where Jenkins was supposed to have organised his cabal . |
| 9 | The L & NWR is unique in that it manufactures its own accumulators for carriage lighting plants . |
| 10 | These statements are from The Wrench , where Faussone is good at his job and Levi is good at getting this across . |
| 11 | The oversized designs of the Italian team Dolce & Gabbana are such a big hit in Britain that the mainstream menswear companies keep them under scrutiny . |
| 12 | Where Keynes is concerned , they have long recognized his importance as an inspiration between the wars for a certain type of progressive , Lib-Lab politics : but few could pass an examination in Keynesian theory . |
| 13 | Either , therefore , Oswiu did become king in 642 , as Bede says , or Bede was able to date the council of Whitby to 664 by reference to the eclipse and plague of that year and he calculated Oswiu 's regnal year at this point for himself on his own assumption of a succession for Oswiu in 642 . |
| 14 | There was a strong chase behind and the leaders never got more than a 25-second gap but they held on to the finish where Scott was strongest up the hill to 21 win by a second with Downey a further 14 seconds back . |
| 15 | It is not , as far as Beth or Lucy are concerned , about escape from tedium but about using the imagination to come to a provisional understanding of a view of reality . |
| 16 | Connections : I 'd seen Nevil at Sedgeley House ; I 'd seen Jo at the Mimosa Club where Nevil was supposed to work , or at least beat up barmen . |
| 17 | Yet , while the New Popsters produced a stream of memorable hit singles ( Culture Club 's Do You Really Want To Hurt Me , or Duran 's Hungry Like The Wolf ) , within three years they 'd all be defunct , or frantically searching for a new ‘ adult ’ audience . |
| 18 | Rosa 's susceptibilities could n't have worried him overmuch where Didi was concerned , Luce thought waspishly . |
| 19 | They had returned to the Operations Room , where Bernice was surprised to hear Ace 's voice — as far as anyone knew she was recovering with the rest of her party on Moloch — and even more surprised to hear it raised in anger and directed at — of all people — the Doctor . |
| 20 | She moved into Fife to be near the Forth estuary , where Thorfinn was oftenest to be found . |
| 21 | Chayote : Coco or Christophene are pale green , pear- shaped squashes . |
| 22 | IN the final matches of this year 's Five Nations rugby championship , the Welsh are in Paris tomorrow , where Scotland were unlucky to lose early this year . |
| 23 | Where Benny was dark-haired with the characteristic Ryan dark blue eyes and full-lipped mouth , Garry was the opposite . |
| 24 | They act as if Flaubert , or Milton , or Wordsworth were some tedious old aunt in a rocking chair , who smelt of stale powder , was only interested in the past , and had n't said anything new for years . |
| 25 | They are strongest where England are weakest — in midfield . |
| 26 | I 'd never set much store by rational argument where Karen was concerned . |
| 27 | Where Gould was shrewd , cautious , even cunning , Lear was gullible , naive , and often incompetent . |
| 28 | Where Janice is concerned , Stevely said he had watched , almost spellbound , as she turned , in the space of 12 months , from " a seemingly ordinary nine handicapper " into the Scottish Girls ' Champion she is today . |
| 29 | Even cereal Castile was not uniform : the proprietors of Salamanca or Valladolid were independent men of substance , very different from the subsistence farmers of Avila . |
| 30 | 3 REEFING & STOWING are safer and flogging is reduced |