Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [conj] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's the trying part that 's unbearable . |
| 2 | Smaller types generally have a solid base and are intended to display a solitary objét d'art ; larger types may have several glass shelves and a frosted glass base which can conceal a light source . |
| 3 | In recent years , Arab linguists ( Abdel Jawad , 1987 ; Alahdal , 1989 ) have found it difficult to reconcile the concepts of ‘ standard ’ and ‘ prestige ’ , because rural norms that are identical to standard Arabic are shown to be dispreferred in favour of urban ‘ non-standard ’ forms . |
| 4 | We will deal with everyone in due course and are delighted to be deluged . |
| 5 | We visited both city and rural programmes and were struck by the amazing capacity of the people to overcome adversity , both natural disasters and the extremes of poverty . |
| 6 | This reflects the traditions of an authority , or the lasting influence of a chief officer , but it may also reflect a natural desire by those involved to minimise the political conflicts that are generated when big changes are proposed in one department 's budget compared with others . |
| 7 | The agreement has now been reached and erm that is provided for in the amount the Council has for pay and price increases , and when we yesterday the Council agreed to cash limit it 's inflationary provision that was exclusive of teachers ' and lecturers ' pay , so that is secured , the cost is secured . |
| 8 | The supply of money is assumed to be under the control of the monetary authorities and is not influenced by changes in national income or in interest rates . |
| 9 | They sprang from blood spilled by the mutilated Uranus and were horrible indeed to behold , with snakes in their hair and bat-like wings . |
| 10 | We , the organisers , put up ideas to the executive committee which arrives at a consensus , then we discuss possible titles that are appropriate and short enough to capture the necessary publicity . |
| 11 | The chief analyst should have both organisational and technical skills and be seen as linking the users and the technical group , and needs to possess good personal skills . |
| 12 | Kanhai made a mess of an attempted pull and was caught ; resuming next over , Martin found the edge as a languid Sobers propped forward , to be caught by Simpson at slip ; and after playing the hat-trick ball , Worrell was also caught by Simpson completing a ‘ pair ’ . |
| 13 | The studies of Ernst Engel in the nineteenth century , led to the conclusion that after income has risen beyond a certain level , there is a decrease in the percentage of total income that is spent on food . |
| 14 | Skelton is well within the general area of the approved York greenbelt , and is a small free-standing settlement that was washed-over by the greenbelt in the draft Southern Ryedale District Plan of nineteen eighty one . |
| 15 | But this philosophical disposition also tends to be harnessed to a political orientation which seeks to democratize political institutions and is supportive of reforms pioneered through social legislation . |
| 16 | Dramatic herself , she enjoyed drama in art ; and the music swept in over emotional defences that were already down . |
| 17 | ‘ Clients are looking for people with specific skills and are very choosy , ’ says Tony Jackson , consultant for taxation recruitment specialists Beament Leslie Thomas . |
| 18 | These now comprise 10pc of the total index but are under a cloud because of fears about US President 's wife Hillary Clinton , who is expected to stamp on their profits hard when her review of the US health scene comes out later this year . |
| 19 | Midfielder who impressed in his first year at Elland Road making several reserve outings and being rewarded with a professional contract . |
| 20 | His subsequent letters to her reveal a side of his personality that Victorian biographers preferred to suppress At this point it seems that Wolfgang was interested in matters more scatological than sexual ; his humour is of the smutty adolescent variety that was evidently taken for granted in Salzburg middle class society . |
| 21 | It had a small receptive field that was somewhat elongated vertically , and on examination with elongated stimuli it became clear that it responded well to a vertical bar but not at all to a horizontal bar . |
| 22 | Reagan , furthermore , notwithstanding executive experience as a two-term governor of California , was totally without national political experience and was a complete novice in foreign affairs . |
| 23 | The unexpected element in the result , however , was that second place went not to Prime Minister Tadeusz Mazowiecki but to Stanislaw Tyminski , an emigré businessman who had no previous political experience and was virtually unknown until the last weeks of the campaign . |
| 24 | As far as the working classes were concerned all that was needed was managers who could determine the right mix of films and the right range of prices to suit the specific down-town drop-in cinemas and even more the neighbourhood and small-town cinemas that were now increasingly thought of as catering for ‘ industrial ’ or working-men audiences . |
| 25 | Two further general observations can be made about the view of economic change that is held by Bell and other post-industrial writers . |
| 26 | The asserted transformation of the economy from an industrial to a service-based post-industrial economy rests upon a linear model of economic change that was first proposed by Fisher and Clark in the 1930s . |
| 27 | This deplorable situation has come about because no British government has given the people of the Highlands and Islands the economic support that is given , for example , to Norwegians who live in difficult , out-of-the-way places . |
| 28 | Hence he reads educational books and journals , becomes involved in various professional activities and is concerned to further his own professional development through in-service work . |
| 29 | A 40-lb mushroom that was going to be dried and stored at a US university as an educational specimen was instead sauteed in butter and eaten by three scientists . |
| 30 | He had been elected last month to the Spanish Parliament and was murdered the night before he was to take his seat . |