Example sentences of "[det] [noun] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not least that comics are serious stuff . |
| 2 | With respect , I find this comment hard to follow in the light of the first of the questions asked in Reg. v. Lawrence and the answer to it , the passages from Viscount Dilhorne 's speech already cited , the fact that it was specifically argued ‘ appropriates is meant in a pejorative , rather than a neutral , sense in that the appropriation is against the will of the owner , ’ and finally that dishonesty was common ground . |
| 3 | With respect , I find this comment hard to follow in the light of the first of the questions asked in Reg. v. Lawrence and the answer to it , the passages from Viscount Dilhorne 's speech already cited , the fact that it was specifically argued ‘ appropriates is meant in a pejorative , rather than a neutral , sense in that the appropriation is against the will of the owner , ’ and finally that dishonesty was common ground . |
| 4 | There are many things that ‘ our experience shows us … by the testimony of the senses ’ ; for example ‘ that fire is hot and tends upwards , that water is cold and flows downhill , that honey is sweet ’ . |
| 5 | See that park 's black and yet it 's that blue . |
| 6 | The head of each division is responsible for its operating performance , which is judged by indicators of overall success in its markets ( for example , by operating profits , sales growth or market share ) . |
| 7 | Debtor-creditor-supplier versus debtor-creditor : the first category involves the supplier in the transaction ( for instance , HP , trading checks , credit cards , shop accounts , and even personal loans where the money is to be used for a particular purchase and the supplier of that purchase is involved in the loan agreement ) ; the second does n't involve suppliers of potential or actual purchases in any way ( for instance , bank overdrafts , most personal loans ) . |
| 8 | At the end of the book , though , Zuckerman confronts Roth with the opinion that the latter has made a mistake in trying to tame or to shed his imagination in the foregoing text , that fiction is superior to fact , and that the factuality of The Facts is specious . |
| 9 | It was held that that provision was sufficient to make time of the essence of the time limit for the landlord 's application . |
| 10 | That money is pure commission , Nick , a mere ten per cent of the value of the cocaine that was stored on their island while it awaited transportation to the good old US of A ; and neither you , nor I , nor even the dickheads in the Drug Enforcement Administration will ever know just how much money was not put in the bank , but stored in paper bags under the bed . ’ |
| 11 | But getting that money is expensive . |
| 12 | Are you going to be sure that that money is available to provide for this . |
| 13 | A moral conclusion drawn is that money is powerful but harmful , and that : ( … |
| 14 | In mid-January , the minister made his frankest admission yet that money is tight . |
| 15 | Whether that money is weekly pocket money , monthly wages , or the retailer 's annual income , it is essential to plan how it will be spent — otherwise the result could be disaster ! |
| 16 | Monetarists had previously maintained that money was neutral only in the medium and long run , implying that there was some scope , albeit limited , for policy activism in the short run . |
| 17 | That allegory is complex , but seems mainly concerned with the way in which Frankenstein , standing for science in general , wishes to remould the world for the better , and instead leaves it a worse place than he finds it . |
| 18 | The judge found as a fact that the flats were ‘ substantially completed ’ and that payment was due to the plaintiff in respect of the number of flats substantially completed , which left an outstanding amount due from the defendants to the plaintiff in the absence of the payment of which the plaintiff was entitled to remove from the site . |
| 19 | Although each component is necessary to the final taste of the cake , to ask how much of the taste is contributed by the flour , how much by the eggs , how much by the time and temperature of baking makes no sense ; the mixing and baking have qualitatively transformed the components . |
| 20 | The conventional hip replacement is designed in one piece it 's rigid and made in standard sizes.But the new design called the Oxford Universal Hip is made up of three components , each component is available in different sizes . |
| 21 | It is also true that the partial molar Gibbs free energies of each component are equal at this point and it emerges that the conditions for incipient phase separation are |
| 22 | To remove an inequality constraint is straightforward if the slack variable for that constraint is basic ; we just drop the corresponding row from the tableau . |
| 23 | ‘ But there are so many demands on the public 's compassion these days that funding is hard to find . ’ |
| 24 | If the data have been ordered into contigs then the positives should occur in overlapping runs ( Fig 3 ) , and inconsistencies in the data are immediately apparent by eye because all the hybridisations to each clone are visible , including those which do not fit well with the current order of clones and probes . |
| 25 | Little progress was apparent on ‘ regional issues ’ , particularly Afghanistan and Central America , or on human rights , where the final communiqué recorded that a ‘ thorough and candid discussion ’ had taken place . |
| 26 | And if you like , that bit is short for nitrogen , what 's nitrogen ? |
| 27 | but clearly there , there is an element of that , there is an element that they 'd gone beyond it that 's that that bit is difficult to define and quantify . |
| 28 | That bit was rude , . |
| 29 | I 'm a geologist — that bit was true — and until recently I 've been working in Sydney . |
| 30 | Well that bit was wrong . |