Example sentences of "[noun sg] be [adj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The environs of the waterfall are pleasant enough and there is no suspicion of the Peril 's dark secret unless a small opening under the overhang of the cliff alongside is noticed : this insignificant hole admits to the largest cave system in the valley , underground passages extending for more than half a mile below and far beyond the road in a succession of tight crawls and large caverns . |
| 2 | Nirvana are crap though . |
| 3 | The conditions for the application of the defence are cumulative rather than alternatives , so that if the publisher fails to meet any one of them , the defence fails . |
| 4 | The facts of the tiger 's existence are impressive enough without adding legend to them . |
| 5 | Modernism , the tip of whose iceberg is visible by the mid-nineteenth century , but whose social conditions of existence are pervasive only from the end of that century , is an end point of this differentiation , a point at which spheres take on full autonomy . |
| 6 | Fish and seafood are common too , especially freshwater crawfish and catfish , oysters and softshell crabs ; and popular sea fish are snapper and the local fish pompano . |
| 7 | Further acquisitions in this direction are likely late this year if reconstruction plans progress satisfactorily . |
| 8 | In the first category are those often described as ‘ Western ’ , although strictly speaking they are Near Eastern religions . |
| 9 | " When head and heart are hot/ Then tongue and hand are wild : / So , Ma'am , it looks to me " . |
| 10 | Indeed , several authorities have striven to prove that the Pembroke and the White Park are different only in colour and that the Pembroke was a direct descendant of those tenth-century red-eared whites . |
| 11 | The reasons for the change are simple enough . |
| 12 | The study was specifically about school boards , but the finding are relevant also to the planning of training in other fields , especially where volunteers with varied knowledge of existing concerns and varied understanding of their responsibilities are involved . |
| 13 | ‘ Supplies of suitable coal in the future can not be guaranteed and unless the current experiments with oil firing are successful then it is likely that steam operation on S.M.R. may have to be abandoned in a few years time . |
| 14 | According to Martyn Fear , drill bit specialist from the Drilling Technology group in Aberdeen , the duration of the rotating time required to drill the well , the extremely rough drilling conditions , the time spent tripping and replacing worn bits , and the costs of bit purchase are all highly dependent upon drill bit efficiency . |
| 15 | Courses at first-year level are available both for beginners who can show proficiency in Latin or a modern European language ( Greek 1A ) and for those who have already obtained a pass in SCE Higher or GCE A-level ( Greek 1B ) . |
| 16 | As we show in the next section , the assumption that expectations of the general price level are rational severely restricts the possible ways in which the economy can respond to the assumed change in aggregate demand . |
| 17 | Otherwise the Legacy is a decent but not notably quiet cruiser ; significant engine , wind and tyre noise are all there . |
| 18 | In the same camp are several largely left-wing popular movements that portray Maastricht as the first step towards a European superpower and the end of Denmark as an independent state . |
| 19 | Miss Fisher and her cackling lieutenant are hungry again . |
| 20 | But hidden away in Fredson Bowers 's book on bibliographical description are some altogether clearer descriptive notes . |
| 21 | Festuca ovina , Nardus and Deschampsia cespitosa are common here . |
| 22 | For the more energetic , tennis courts and a golf course are available nearby . |
| 23 | Even small amounts of the lithospheric component are rich enough in most incompatible trace elements to dominate the composition of the hybrid magmas . |
| 24 | The mechanics of gill function are simple yet effective . |
| 25 | But the laws of physics are valid only until further notice " , i.e. until instances are found that falsify them , and this conceivably might be such an instance . |
| 26 | Open or loose clusters of this kind are common enough , and binoculars will show many of them . |
| 27 | Cases of this kind are few indeed , but they are exactly the cases which are read widely by everyone , including future victims of sexual assault . |
| 28 | This mechanism ceases when the demand for money and supply of money are equal again . |
| 29 | Foucault 's account of power is thus difficult to the degree to which he argues that the exercise and resistance of power work in a disruptive rather than a dialectical relation to each other , suggesting that ‘ points of resistance are present everywhere in the power network ’ . |
| 30 | The benefits in terms of reliability and speed are dramatic enough — reckons that what took 20 minutes to send down a line can now take a tenth of the time . |