Example sentences of "[coord] [adj] [be] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What determines whether people see a glass as half-full or half-empty is mood rather than fact , and change in mood often defies quantification . |
| 2 | If you need a rule of thumb , any item which is common or plentiful is 90% likely to be here ; any item which is average or scarce is 70% likely to be here ; anything else is 20% likely to be here . |
| 3 | What will determine whether it emerges in one form or another is market demand — the same thing that will determine the pace and direction of electronic book development more generally . |
| 4 | Lord Shawcross , who at one time or another was chairman of the Bar Council , the Press Council , the Medical Research Council , the Takeover Panel , and assorted royal commissions and tribunals of inquiry , claimed when questioned that the consideration uppermost in the minds of such figures was ‘ the national interest ’ . |
| 5 | I mean Spock is more concerned with the external situation , and what 're they gon na do , and you know he says Captain that 's not rational , or this is life but not as we know it , er that kind of thing . |
| 6 | And wh what tends to happen is the dreams are , are , are repetitive , although they often vary in small details , and the idea is , or this was Freud 's , Freud 's idea , and basically it 's the same as his explanation of anxiety dreams , that , that what is happening here is that the mind has got a very disturbing latent content that it ca n't forget . |
| 7 | Heuston concludes that of Halsbury 's thirty appointments to the High Court , four or five were men of real distinction , eighteen or nineteen were men of competent professional attainments , leaving no more than seven ‘ whose appointments seem dubious ’ . |
| 8 | She says I think one of the worst or strangest is errif which is a two year old canary — why anyone would want to have a word for that I do n't know . |
| 9 | One-many , sorry many-one or one-one are functions . |
| 10 | each year , of which only 2 or 3 are experts , the remainder being arbitrators. small . |
| 11 | Heuston concludes that of Halsbury 's thirty appointments to the High Court , four or five were men of real distinction , eighteen or nineteen were men of competent professional attainments , leaving no more than seven ‘ whose appointments seem dubious ’ . |
| 12 | The debonair style they both preferred for handling issues gave or grim was part of an improbable legacy from P. G. Wodehouse , whose inter-war writings they had both admired from boyhood on . |
| 13 | In his notebooks of 1867 we find an extraordinary profusion of plans for a book : one or two are lists of wide-ranging topics arranged to form a more or less coherent whole ; most are variations on the theme of tragedy . |
| 14 | come out , you know , one or two were leaves and you could see the shape of the leaves well that was just like me on my on my back . |
| 15 | THE NEXT day or two were ones of mild confusion . |
| 16 | If you need a rule of thumb , any item which is common or plentiful is 90% likely to be here ; any item which is average or scarce is 70% likely to be here ; anything else is 20% likely to be here . |
| 17 | ‘ And that is understeer . ’ |
| 18 | I agree with what has been put on the agenda of our last meeting and that should be and that should be and that is fate , you can not alter that unless you do something about it . |
| 19 | There is one particular practice that has been singled out for special treatment and that is resale price maintenance . |
| 20 | Okay , well we 'll come back to that , if I may , in a moment , because I just want to move on again to another guest , who is waiting to talk to us on the telephone , and that is Lindsay McNeill , who is the Aviation Reporters for Travel News . |
| 21 | I O one is the molecule most closely associated with the mi , the effects of lodose endotoxin and that is fever I O one er , when released into the blood sys bloodstream affects the hypothalamus and th i one of the principle reasons why infective conditions lead to fever . |
| 22 | From the perceptual point of view , all stressed syllables have one characteristic in common , and that is prominence ; stressed syllables are recognised as stressed because they are more prominent than unstressed syllables . |
| 23 | strength : at the back , substitute Johnsen with Bratseth and that is norway 's starting line-up ( who let in a total of 2 goals in 4 matches vs England and Holland ) . |
| 24 | So I think we must today level out the rules on this and we must speak for what is the majority of opinion in this country , by every single opinion poll that 's been conducted , and that is Chairman to vote to ban fox hunting on our land . |
| 25 | Sadly , there can only be one winner … and that is M J Gill of Manchester , who correctly spotted that twinkly-eyed Albums Ed Big Stuarty Bailie is a son of the Emerald Isle . |
| 26 | However , it does highlight a major problem that we have so far not considered — some would argue it is the major reason why interagency cooperation is so difficult — and that is lack of resources . |
| 27 | Much has changed in the European energy picture over the past decade and much will change over the next two , yet one central preoccupation persists and will persist , and that is Europe 's dependence on imported oil . |
| 28 | It reduces a great deal of pain and hardship amongst the people who live in the City , and that is money well spent . |
| 29 | There is a feline phenomenon even stranger than superfecundation and that is superfetation . |
| 30 | Part of our case for the Radio News Network is that we must do better about telling our country about itself , not just in terms of law or education but also in terms of science , technology , medicine , the environment and an area where I personally have a great commitment — and that is coverage of business and our economy on which all our futures depend . |