Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] be and " in BNC.

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1 Some august partnerships , such as Herbert Smith , long disdained the idea of working out what their profitable strengths were and then marketing them hard .
2 In some respects , you have to determine what your strong characteristics are and then use them .
3 In order to assess how ‘ fair ’ the warranted Accounts are and to verify or compare profit/and/or net asset growth it is useful to be able to assume that previous accounts have been drawn up on a similar basis and that , for example , the Vendor has not unfairly weighted the profits for the warranted Accounts .
4 The official business of these essentially philosophical rather than scientific views is and must be the first or conceptual matter , the analysis of our conception of causation .
5 Dear Feedback , it is up to the listener to decide how funny things are and not loutish Mr Baker .
6 Indecency in public displays is and should remain a separate if lesser offence .
7 We have learned , for example , that when you think of your University days , your department and your friends feature most frequently in your thoughts ; that you prefer the idea of reunions of your department or your contemporaries to University-wide events ; that you like the idea of the regional ‘ roadshows ’ ; and that you very much want to know where all your old friends are and what they 're up to now .
8 And they tell us which boat old men been and what th See that 's how we learned did n't we .
9 Because British crowns were and happily still are used they have continued to respond to changed circumstances .
10 ‘ We will real Americans be and with our hands chicken eat , ’ the second man said .
11 Such contests permit ‘ horse race journalism ’ ; they make possible endless speculation about who the front runner is , who the dark horses are and who has fallen at what fence , all of which helps to make television news broadcasts more exciting and enter-taining than they would otherwise be .
12 He knew in each piece exactly where the real climaxes were and he avoided completely the kind of hurrying or dragging which ruins so many performances .
13 If , as the psychodynamic school believes , obesity is fundamentally a psychological problem , it follows that treatment should ideally be aimed at the mind rather than at the body , and that treatment aimed at the body will leave the underlying psychological problem unaltered or even aggravated , similar objections were and still are levelled against behavioural treatments which allegedly deal only with ‘ symptoms ’ , leaving the underlying problem to spring up anew .
14 It is quite amazing how warm these little covers are and you do n't have to keep pulling them on and off , so they wo n't get lost !
15 We need a radical reassessment of what our organisational goals are and how we will achieve them .
16 She was not sure what their present domestic arrangements were and whether there was some splendid woman in the kitchen who had perhaps failed in her duty on this occasion
17 Alice gave her the bag in which Catherine 's disposable nappies were and a change of clothes and she put the two bottles of formula into the fridge .
18 We have I have got I we have produced for you today , some detailed plans showing you what the capacities are of the routes , what the present flows are and what the effects of the new settlement will be upon those capacities .
19 I think I think this war in particular is an example of how complex situations are and it 's an opportunity in a way for us to show to our children that there are different views involved here and different positions will be reflected , perhaps , amongst the children and the community in which they live , that we do n't all in this country hold perhaps the same view , and even those that have one particular stance have very mixed feelings about it .
20 Erm and I think just by way of introductory comment , I I refer to the the paper that that North Yorkshire put round , N Y eleven , erm in which there there 's a far fuller discussion in there of what of what the environmental constraints are and what the considerations should be .
21 Behind Raymond , near the estate office where the raili , black railings are and you 'll see Fay there and you 'll know what to do .
22 Traditional options were and still are offered in three forms :
23 At this point , however , it is useful if we explain briefly what the principal economic objectives are and now their attainment is influenced by the level of national income .
24 If , on the other hand , the ambiguous segments were and , followed by kiss would probably win out over such competitors as kick , kitsch , etc and give , Gish , etc .
25 We do n't know what the full facts are and I would not want to comment in detail .
26 * If you are not a native speaker of English , learn where your weak spots are and check them ; you may well have problems with choosing the right preposition , inserting " the " correctly , or using " have " with the correct meaning ( see pp. 119 – 21 ) .
27 So you 've named it systematically and then looked to see where the , the various groups were and put cis in front if you had that arrangement .
28 The only real meter of sexuality and its changing ways is and must remain the actual extent of the increase in sexual relationships and their intensity , and the degree to which people as a whole are more tolerant of such relationships under varying circumstances .
29 A complete merger , while mooted , was never really on the cards as , apart from philosophical and traditional differences , their practical requirements were and are too different .
30 What we hope to be able to do is to complete the requirement the staff target this year and set in train some industrial studies to see what the various options are and then once we enter the production investment phase then that would be the time that we would er look to doing the development work .
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