Example sentences of "[adj] [adj] [prep] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Woodward knew the area well and there were no railways here at all ; there used to be many years ago and there are still signs of the old trackbed to be seen . |
| 2 | Its plans also include the low-end/low-cost Tsunami workstation-on-a-chip due to be productised later this year ( UX No 367 ) , see below . |
| 3 | It will fail to ask the rather broader and much more important question about retailing : how is the great British public likely to be doing its shopping in five or 10 years ' time ? |
| 4 | The most widespread bee-eater of the region , and the only bird with harlequin plumage and central tail feathers slightly projecting likely to be seen over the greater part of it . |
| 5 | World No5 , Neal Foulds , became the fifth player in the top ten to be eliminated in the last 64 when he was beaten 5-3 by Paul Tanner . |
| 6 | John Whitaker was anxious to qualify for tonight 's Next International Masters and the Dutch rider , Jos Lansink , had an even more obvious reason for abandoning speed in favour of accuracy when jumping a slow clear round to be be fourth on Optiebeurs Felix . |
| 7 | Oh yes , because he thinks he 's got perfect right to be there and nobody else . |
| 8 | IMPATIENT AND SOMEWHAT TACTLESS FEMALE seeks male willing to be ordered around and generally walked all over Age irrelevant . |
| 9 | The House of Lords held this to be so , even though the buyers were unaware of the precise terms on the sold notes . |
| 10 | I 'm real glad to be out of that place . |
| 11 | I try real hard to be sensible and do things right , but they never work out . |
| 12 | He may be so anxious to please you that he tries extra hard to be good . |
| 13 | In the case of lions , not only was a rival male likely to be a close relative , but the costs of physically competing with him were high and the benefits low . |
| 14 | THE COUNTESS DE BORCHGRAVE finds the BMW 325i convertible thrilling to be in and easy to drive . |
| 15 | What is the future likely to be ? |
| 16 | So when he was approached in the early '80s to be part-time chairman of Wandsworth Health Authority in London ‘ I knew what I was taking on ’ . |
| 17 | Er , composite fourteen to be moved by Liverpool Region . |
| 18 | The new hydraulic piston corers ( Shackleton and Hall , 1983 ) are now providing better samples as the basis for more detailed analysis to allow a greater degree of isotopic structure and this should enable the climatic variability of the early Pleistocene to be analysed in detail comparable with that already achieved for the late Pleistocene . |
| 19 | These are the recommended minimum space and heating standards proposed by the Parker Morris Committee in 1961 , which were required to be incorporated in public housing design from January 1969 — yet another gain made in the early 1960s to be whittled away under the current government . |
| 20 | PROFILE OF AN INDIVIDUAL SUITABLE TO BE A JUDGE |
| 21 | Indeed , this was one of the few areas in the early 1980s to be aware of the significance of these centres for early intervention in psychiatric illness , aimed at countering the drift of clients into inpatient facilities and dependency . |
| 22 | Although the Argentinians are noted for their defensive play , they have several attractive players , with the experienced Alejandro Siri likely to be the key performer . |
| 23 | They 're infringing on our basic right to be a member of a trade union . |
| 24 | My thoughts are crowded with death and it draws so oddly on the sexual that I am confused confused to be attracted by , in effect , my own annihilation . |
| 25 | He was seen by a doctor at the police station and certified fit to be detained . |
| 26 | While barely profitable , retail continued to be a useful source of ready cash . |
| 27 | Mann concedes that non-assignability is likely still to be the rule in international law , and assignability the exception . |
| 28 | No one moved , or said anything , because each one of the boys sitting there was quite certain that he would be one of the lucky twelve to be chosen . |
| 29 | Successful road safety campaigns , says the report , are likely to be those that encourage responsible and considerate driving to be the norm . |
| 30 | Born of parents who mixed three heritages between them African , Hispanic and Chinese he grew up in Cuba and subsequently went on to live in Spain , Italy , Mexico and the United States , stopping long enough in France in the late Thirties to be bouleversé by Surrealism , and by Picasso 's ‘ Les Demoiselles d'Avignon ’ in particular . |