Example sentences of "[det] be [adj] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | Each are area-based and are concerned with encouraging economic growth in specific parts of particular cities . |
| 2 | But they are not random errors : they grow out of her particular approach to spelling , and suggest that she may have trouble in the future because of a weak visual memory and her attempts to compensate for this are reckless and haphazard . |
| 3 | The reasons for this are technical and constitutional . |
| 4 | The reasons for this are manifold and often rooted in the historic past though , as discussed in section 4.4 , colonialism can not be used perpetually to excuse failure . |
| 5 | The details of this are complex and will not be discussed here ; it is enough to give an account of this so-called fideicommissum a debitore relictum in the context of indirect words . |
| 6 | The reasons for this are complex and to explain the situation all away in terms of social class is an oversimplification . |
| 7 | The norms concerning this are complicated and sometimes hard to work out . |
| 8 | But examples like this are few and far between . |
| 9 | If a town has 10,000 residents over twenty-one , of whom exactly half are male and half female , a random sample of one tenth of them is unlikely to produce exactly half men and half women , and it might produce a very biased sample of , say , 650 women and 350 men . |
| 10 | Few are naturalized and most do not wish to be . |
| 11 | But few are aware and sensitized to crimes committed by corporate top and middle management against stockholders , employees , consumers , and the general public ( see Chapter 2 ) . |
| 12 | Of the items contained in it , few are novel and some will be criticised … |
| 13 | Some are elderly , some are pregnant and many are carrying babies in striped , woven shawls on their backs , toddlers trailing behind them . |
| 14 | MAX : Some are black and white . |
| 15 | Some are blue and some pink , some have pockets and some not , but they are all examples of what it means to be a shirt : they all exemplify ‘ shirtness ’ — the universal . |
| 16 | No prescription will guarantee success but the cultivation of good staff/management relations by taking a positive approach to labour relations probably explains why some are successful and others are not . |
| 17 | Some are comprehensive and cover short-term exports on a continuous basis , others are tailored for specific contracts . |
| 18 | Some are official and formal , others informal . |
| 19 | Like the eucryphias , some are evergreen and the choicest is the lace-bark H. populnea , which flowers from late summer into autumn and whose trunk is attractively covered with toast brown bark overlaid with white . |
| 20 | Erm I think some do but some are evergreen and these are evergreen . |
| 21 | All births are different ; some are short and intense , some are long and exhausting . |
| 22 | I belong to several organisations , some are small and local who need willing helpers and supporters . |
| 23 | If some are negative and some positive , it may be possible to add a constant to make them all positive , or it may be necessary to consider treating the positive and negative numbers separately . |
| 24 | These apertures in the surface vary in size and character : no two are alike , some are open and vertical gulfs , others mere fissures in the surface rocks not easy to locate ; many have cave entrances that invite a limited exploration . |
| 25 | Some are direct and made up of straight lines , others meander around ; in some the electron moves fast , in others it dawdles . |
| 26 | but to introduce a blanket free charge when some are willing and able to make a contribution to us is a nonsense . |
| 27 | Another result of training is that the different signals arriving at an element often have similar values , except that some are positive and some negative . |
| 28 | For instance , referring to the title , some characters are just and immoral , some are fair and dishonest . |
| 29 | He added : ‘ We may decide that all are acceptable , that none are acceptable , that some are acceptable and others not , or that some would only be acceptable with minor modifications . ’ |
| 30 | Some are purpose-built and others are in makeshift premises . |