Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [prep] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | The loss adjusters acted very quickly and have carried out most of the salvage work for me , leaving a few , normal forms to be filled in . |
| 2 | For an officer in Northern Nigeria to complain that his emir refused to take his advice was to put his career at the gravest possible risk ; he could expect in due course to be moved to ‘ easier work ’ — in other words , to administrative oblivion . |
| 3 | One burrow may eventually contain as many as half a dozen of these paralysed prisoners , each doomed in due course to be eaten alive by the wasp grub that hatches upon it . |
| 4 | Now we would expect that justification to emerge from this examination and in due course to be embodied in the er lower case script for the alteration itself . |
| 5 | There are nineteen full-time care staff of whom eleven are on duty in the evenings and Mr has asked for a further eleven full-time care staff , he hopes in due course to be able to have seventeen such staff on duty at any one time . |
| 6 | With regard to galleries , then , we aim to support a number of strategically placed centres in , say , Brighton , Farnham , Canterbury , Folkestone , St. Leonards and Eastbourne , sufficiently for them , each doing their own thing , in due course to be able to service a touring exhibition network , made up of themselves and the other regional galleries , be able to offer the artist whose work they exhibit or promote a fair deal — that means paying them for their transport , insurance , publicity costs and perhaps a fee for exhibiting their work in public — and finally to organize appropriate marketing and education back-up to their own exhibitions programmes , which both pulls people in to the gallery and reaches out to them in , for example , schools and industry . |
| 7 | One day , inspired by the balmy weather , I decided to go and see the great onion-domed tomb of Safdarjung , the last really great Mughal building to be built in India . |
| 8 | As a mother herself , no one is more aware than the Queen of the terrible dilemma Diana wrestled with in reaching the momentous decision to be the loser in a parental battle all too familiar to divided families . |
| 9 | For progressive building to be successful , it was essential that the supply of completely manufactured parts should be on the ground at the point of erection , before the building of a vehicle was commenced . |
| 10 | Executive power — the power to set down the broad policies to be followed by the state and the ability to carry out or execute the laws was in the hands of the King , but the means for carrying it out had to be provided by parliament . |
| 11 | The ideas of Reynolds number similarity and self-preservation taken in conjunction allow certain features of turbulent flows to be derived rather simply . |
| 12 | The advisers should discuss with the investors at the outset the extent of the due diligence to be undertaken and the precise purpose of the exercise . |
| 13 | SFA 's rules impose certain restrictions on the types of investment advertisement that may be issued , require due diligence to be taken in preparing the advertisement and also prescribe certain mandatory contents . |
| 14 | The existence of terra nullius was widely considered by Aboriginal groups to be a huge obstacle in the pursuit of land claims . |
| 15 | By the time Gen McCreery returned to Eighth Army HQ at the end of the afternoon , he had ample opportunity to be fully briefed as to what was going on . |
| 16 | I share the concerns of eminent conservationists that international opposition to the ivory trade may crumble in the face of the heavy and insidious pressure being exerted by Zimbabwe and its allies against the continuation of the total ban to be proposed in March 1992 . |
| 17 | The idea that there is a strong parallel to be drawn between judicial review in administrative law and company law is further strengthened by the similarities between the standards of review used in these two fields . |
| 18 | Most people prefer the total look to be soft and natural without some of the extravagances and hard colours of younger-style make-up , but that is partly a matter of personal taste and overall style . |
| 19 | On May 15 the Greek parliament voted by 117 to 24 that the criminal charges against the former Prime Minister Andreas Papandreou , the latest of which had concerned allegations that as Prime Minister Papandreou had illegally ordered the phones of political enemies to be bugged , should be dropped . |
| 20 | It committed NATO to maintaining " an appropriate mix of survivable and effective conventional and nuclear forces at the lowest levels consistent with our security needs " , and asserted that European stability required a unified Germany to be a full member of the Alliance , but that " we seek no unilateral advantage from German unity " . |
| 21 | For , although the methods by which different animal species obtain their food are about as diverse as the number of animal species , there are certain broad patterns to be seen . |
| 22 | Relatives who are carers may also find that the requirement for professional support to be given locally infringes on their own rights to privacy . |
| 23 | Slopers , smearing and associated delicate manoeuvres allow absorbing progress to be made , while the unexpectedly good protection completes the icing on the cake . |
| 24 | They flicked ash from their cigarettes into the empty wine-glasses and shouted each other down in vain attempts to be witty . |
| 25 | Now that , following Fryer v LTE ( see para 1.50 ) , a payment into court can be disclosed on an interim payment application , a defendant who has paid anything more than a small proportion of the value of the plaintiff 's claim into court will find it difficult to resist the application on this ground , especially as the court will usually order the interim payment to be paid out of the money in court . |
| 26 | For this weak semblance to be rendered strong , |
| 27 | The four circles are not presented as dealing with quite separate topics , such that to move from one to another would be in any sense a change of subject , but rather as four equally fundamental and interlocking dimensions of the same ground-motif that runs throughout : that Jesus Christ is the actualisation and realisation in time and history of God 's eternal decision to be God for and with man ; he is himself the everlasting covenant of God with us , and in that covenant the meaning and purpose of the created universe itself is contained ; and in him too lies the uncovering and overcoming of man 's estrangement from God by the divine ‘ No ! ’ of the cross which leads on to the ‘ Yes ! ’ of the resurrection . |
| 28 | Aftab Jafferjee , prosecuting , said the couple and the girl 's parents were happy for not guilty verdicts to be entered . |
| 29 | During the trial , the judge ordered not guilty verdicts to be entered on two of three counts the lawyer had faced , of false accounting and of procuring the execution of a valuable security . |
| 30 | Political reasons to be cheerful |