Example sentences of "[be] [adj] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Roger Peach , of the National Grammar Schools Association , says charging fees would be preferable to oblivion . |
| 2 | Coelocentesis may also be preferable to CVS for prenatal diagnosis . |
| 3 | In fact in many ways they may be preferable to funds raised in the ‘ ordinary ’ way at branch retail level . |
| 4 | In 1976 the Layfield Report considered alternative ways of financing local authorities , and concluded that local income tax would be preferable to rates raised on property as a source of income . |
| 5 | The fact that both Liz and Alix seemed to accept that extra Latin might be preferable to netball indicated that further interchange might be possible , and they continued to talk , through the fruit tart and custard , of the nature of intellectual and physical education , of matter and spirit , of Descartes ( brought up by Esther ) , of T. S. Eliot ( brought up by Alix ) and of schizophrenia ( brought up by Liz ) . |
| 6 | It would be preferable for Taiwan to be returned to Japan rather than fall into communist hands . |
| 7 | It can therefore be argued that , serious as the offence usually is , a policy of non-custodial treatment might be preferable in view of the effects on child victims . |
| 8 | Provocative dress and casual promiscuity ( which are by no means the same thing ) may be abhorrent to juries in the southern states of America or to judges in this country . |
| 9 | If the demand price is greater than the supply price for amounts just less than the equilibrium amount , it is sure to be less than the supply price for amounts just greater : and therefore , if the scale of production is somewhat increased beyond the equilibrium position , it will tend to return ; and the equilibrium will be stable for displacements in that direction also . |
| 10 | She was said to be stable in Middlesbrough General Hospital last night , but no longer on a ventilator . |
| 11 | What appears to be stable in interpretations of here ( apart from curious usages deriving from long-distance telephonic communication and long-distance travel , discussed in Lyons , 1977 ) is that the deictic centre is located where the speaker is . |
| 12 | His condition was later said to be stable in hospital . |
| 13 | That could only be upset by pig-headedness in the Gulf or dumb-mindedness in Washington . |
| 14 | This idea of an optimum arousal level which may easily be upset by under- or overstimulating conditions has also been put forward by Venables ( 1964 ) . |
| 15 | Discussing the patient 's ‘ auditory environment ’ Gough ( 1986 ) provides vignettes showing how noise means different things to different people and reminds nurses that it is possible to be upset by silence , for example a child in an isolation unit — a salutary reminder of the importance of individualising nursing according to the circumstances . |
| 16 | So what is now the status of his later insistence that , ‘ Certainly it is wrong to be cruel to animals and the destruction of a whole species can be a great evil ’ ( 512 ) ? |
| 17 | Their plausibility requires that the disinclination to be cruel to animals is a mark of true humanity ; part of its content , rather than merely a possible cause of it . |
| 18 | Being intelligent , we hope we wo n't be cruel to animals , but you ca n't say that we are , animals are just as important as humans . |
| 19 | The Italians , and indeed all foreigners , are known to be cruel to animals , thought Daisy , looking down to see if she could catch some peasant beating a horse or kicking a dog . |
| 20 | While subsidiarity , indeed subordination , may be inherent in provisions like the new Articles 126 and 127 on education , which refer to ‘ supporting and supplementing ’ the action of Member States , and indeed in Article 2 of the Agreement on Social policy following the protocol on Social policy in the Maastricht text , which states that the Community shall ‘ support and complement the activities of the Member States ’ in certain listed fields , the continuation in force of existing legal bases for action subject to a new general requirement of subsidiarity raises fundamental legal issues , particularly as to the exclusivity of Community competence , as to the necessity for Community action and as to the appropriateness of Community action . |
| 21 | These people should be supportive of animal welfare , of course , but with the understanding that being in support of animal welfare is perfectly consistent with utilising animals for human preferences and interests . |
| 22 | All of them say that the MacSharry plans would be devastating for farmers in every part of the United Kingdom . |
| 23 | The raft of policies that the Opposition are putting before the British people would be devastating to job prospects , and so ashamed are they of the consequences of their policies that four Labour members of the Select Committee on Employment last week voted down a proposal to hold an inquiry into the effects of national statutory minimum wage because they wanted to hide the truth about that policy from the British people . |
| 24 | The effect that that would have on Scottish defence would be devastating in terms of procurement and the employment of people in the armed forces . |
| 25 | In this formulation , while working-class struggle and political action may allow the state to act in ways which are inimical to the interests of specific sectors of capital , it is unlikely that any policies pursued will be inimical to capital in general . |
| 26 | They had also spent the previous six weeks familiarising themselves with the country , getting to know especially the lie of the rivers , which would become torrents after the heavy rain that fell in the afternoon and at night during many months of the year , while the same river beds higher up the hills could be dry at times . |
| 27 | Tonight expected to be dry with mist and fog patches forming and a ground frost in many places , the minimum temperature is down to one degree Celsius , thirty four Fahrenheit . |
| 28 | ‘ After arranging Wetherby 's room , she washes the top part of her dressing gown in cold water , knowing it will be dry by morning . |
| 29 | In the evenings they washed corridors — that had to be an evening job so that the floors would be dry by morning and nobody could slip on them — and did out lavatories . |
| 30 | Dad 's shirts wo n't be dry in time , they 're still dripping into the bath . ’ |