Example sentences of "[be] [adj] or [vb -s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Post Office and many houses , there are also earthworks indicating that the village has formerly been larger or has moved . |
| 2 | You may , you may have lec the lectures are supposed to finish at the end of this term , but if , you know , a lecturer has been ill or has n't managed to get through the stuff erm , you may have some lectures next term , but er |
| 3 | The human system is geared to this acquisition , and even when what is learned appears to be maladaptive or produces negative traits , it derives from a natural process . |
| 4 | The boy always having adventures and escapades while the girl looks on admiringly , tells him to be careful or stays to play with dolls , is by no means automatically true of the day-to-day play activities of young children . |
| 5 | The Rural Wales Awards , sponsored by National Westminster Bank , can be given by the county branches of CPRW for practically anything that promotes environmental good practice , or displays design that is in harmony with the landscape , or that has served to restore an important landscape feature ( natural or man-made ) , or that is innovative or promotes better environmental awareness and understanding . |
| 6 | Not one of us begins life feeling angry or frustrated , no one as an infant is dissatisfied or lacks feelings of self worth . |
| 7 | These schemes are regarded as models that should be extended to those whose disability is congenital or arises out of non-industrial disease or accident , for whom cover , though recently improved , is still only partial . |
| 8 | First , whereas the implied terms relating to goods supplied under a contract of sale , or any other type of supply contract , are classified by statute as conditions , the implied term requiring work to be performed with reasonable skill and care will normally be an intermediate stipulation ( SGSA 1982 , s13 ) so that breach will only justify termination of the contract if the breach is serious or goes to the root of the contract . |
| 9 | I do not think that is unfair or leads to an unfairness in the trial . |
| 10 | Perforation is more likely when cutting non-dilated bile ducts , if the sphincterotomy is large or strays from the line of the duct . |
| 11 | Some patients become disoriented , a more likely reaction if the patient is elderly or has already shown signs of mental confusion ( Clarke , 1987 ; Ford et al , 1986 ) . |
| 12 | Provided that the authority adopts a meaning which is reasonable or has a rational basis the courts could accept that interpretation , even if it did not accord with the precise meaning which they would have ascribed . |
| 13 | Looking at it logically , it is not particularly unusual for any man , particularly if he is tired or has had a little too much to drink , to be temporarily unable to achieve an erection on a single occasion . |
| 14 | Dismissal can not usually be justified merely because the employee 's private life is scandalous or involves immoral conduct , and this has been reconfirmed by a recent Higher Labour Court decision ( LAG Hamm , 17 Sa 1326/89 ) . |
| 15 | Where the extent of the demise is ambiguous or lacks definition , oral evidence will be admitted to identify it ( Bisney v Swanston ( 1972 ) 225 EG 229 ) . |
| 16 | Well , we can give a certain clear sense to saying that the hot coffee is able or has a power to dissolve the cube of sugar . |
| 17 | The supervisory authority may forbid the publication of an offer document that is incomplete or requires additional information . |
| 18 | Clearly we can not normalise X in this case to make both unc and unc unit matrices ; we say therefore that in this case X is bi-orthogonal or has a generalised orthogonal form . |
| 19 | ‘ Does she ask who it is first or does she just use it as soon as she hears a man 's voice ? ’ |
| 20 | Assume the dividend and divisor are integral , in two 's complement representation , For definiteness , assume that the remainder is zero or has the same sign as the dividend ( see Stein and Munro 1971 , Chapter 6 for more details ) . |
| 21 | Although for some this may be acceptable as a labour of love , for others it can become an intolerable burden , particularly if the dependent relative or companion is unappreciative or fails to acknowledge the sacrifices being made on their behalf . |
| 22 | Whatever you choose it will need to be a matter of trial and error , but avoid anything that is slow or spends a lot of time near the bottom — it wo n't stand a chance . |
| 23 | If the vomit is bloodstained or looks like coffee grounds . |
| 24 | The House will be aware that I announced last month the principles that I am minded to adopt next year in considering whether planned expenditure is excessive or has increased excessively . |
| 25 | Here and in the United States , most experts now agree that a doctor is not obliged either ethically or legally to continue treatment when it 's refused or is useless or has become a burden to the patient . |
| 26 | In other words I wo n't say it 's non-threatening or does n't have any kind of value judgment behind it because I do n't think that can be true and if anybody is monitoring their classroom practice , it 's got to be threatening in some way , almost inevitably . |
| 27 | The clay mineral assemblage predominantly constitute illite and chlorite ; smectite is absent or occurs in minor quantities as interlayers . |
| 28 | Now if the mixture is isotropic or has cubic symmetry , but the geometry is otherwise arbitrary , it is apparent ( and can be proved ) that the overall bulk modulus would be increased ( decreased ) if both phases had a common rigidity equal to the larger ( smaller ) of their actual values . |
| 29 | If none of the candidates is suitable or fulfils the basic requirements of the job/personnel description think twice before appointing the best of a bad bunch . |
| 30 | Whether the assessor is company-based or comes from outside the company , he or she will need to have an NVQ qualification in training , assessment and verification awarded by City and Guilds to standards established by the Training and Development Lead Body . |