Example sentences of "[be] [adj] [det] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 out , he says to me you 'll kill yourself , you always want to do something , but to be honest it 's worse for me to sit there and watch that , it 's more tiring because by the end of the night I 'm not tired or I 've been asleep all evening I , I 'm better to go out , I know it sounds awful but I do n't like being trapped , I do n't like being in because somebody seems to think I should be in
2 Been dry all day .
3 His work rate has been prodigious all season , and although he may not have the quickest service around , he must rate currently as the world 's no 1 scrum-half .
4 The company is beta testing implementations for the NCR 3000 series , Bull DPX and SCO Unix 5.32 which are due this quarter .
5 Versions for Unix System Labs ' Unix SVR4 and IBM Corp AIX are due this year .
6 Versions for Unix System V.4 and IBM AIX are due this year .
7 First products are due this year .
8 Euless , Texas-based Xalt Software Corp 's Xalt Office , the suite of five graphically-based integrated applications including Desk , Diary , Notes , Mail and People Manager , is now immediately available for Sparc machines priced at $200 ; Hewlett-Packard Co and IBM Corp versions are due any day now ; the company has been circulating early development copies since last September , and adding features and functions .
9 The weather — a few showers are possible this evening and tonight , with some patchy cloud .
10 The set of favoured firms is likely to be composed mainly of research-intensive firms or firms with enormous manufacturing expertise , and the odds are that such firms may have discovered the information for themselves through their own R&D before it spills over to them from rivals .
11 The advantages in the use of cylinder-type batteries are that such batteries have no snap terminal to splay or fold under , and they have more stamina when used as a group than an equivalent voltage single PP3 .
12 The implications of the very sharp fall-off with increasing distance from Kent are that such items were controlled at particular centres which maintained a near monopoly over their supply .
13 What had not been right that day ?
14 I think prob problems of identification have n't really been right this time and we made a point a clear point this time with a note to people , if they were n't sure , to make comments on the books .
15 I 've not been right this season .
16 The group 's organisers are aghast that South-East Asians have caught the Japanese love of driving and putting .
17 There are eight such standards of which No. 2 requires twice the exposure to fade to a given extent as No. 1 , No. 3 twice that of No. 2 and so on .
18 She had been strange that morning , even before the row over her car , and dressed strangely .
19 I think those are broad enough headings such that
20 In fact it might well have been that such developments generally attracted more labour than could be fully employed , which departed once the enterprise was terminated , leaving behind a sleepy farming community not unlike the fifteen undeveloped villages of Babergh hundred ( Table 2.18 ) .
21 Another difficulty has been that such councils are attuned to providing finance for the creation of specific works , while the need for support in popular music is not at the point of creation , but for help in reaching audiences .
22 Er I am sorry this Mr means the tone of his
23 Absolutely cruising when falling two out in last year 's contest , the chestnut has also been below-par this term , but freshened by a three-month break , can arrive fast and late to claim the crown .
24 The results of this policy are clear each day on Radio and Television : correspondents have more outlets for their wares — we can cover a wider range of stories — and we can spare people to work off rota on stories that will break new fresh ground .
25 Seen against a plain , bleak background , most disruptive patterns fail miserably , but there are few such backdrops in nature .
26 Now if you do recall your first year notes , this is the relationship underlines a cobweb model , right that prices were based on erm or supply decisions were based on prices at planting right and we showed you that cobweb model erm farmers make systematic errors right cos they never appreciate the cycle there is a cycle to prices , right so they 're making systematic errors right cos prices are high this year as a result erm erm of plant a lot so that when the supply comes on the market next year right , prices are very low and you would thought farmers would er , would learn but prices fluctuated right .
27 ‘ Shaun 's twenty , the twins are twenty-one this year , an' Joe 's just turned twenty-two .
28 Had he been wrong those times ?
29 He once sang , ‘ I keep getting younger/My life 's been funny that way ’ .
30 In the settled summer weather , winds are light most mornings , say force 2 , increasing to 3 most afternoons , with occasional failures .
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