Example sentences of "[adj] [det] [noun] [be] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The extraordinary collection of 20th century art that opens this month to the public at New Hall , Cambridge gives us all a chance to see how rich this history is and much of what we have been missing . |
| 2 | The intent of some such guarantees is that the rights of the holder of the shares against the group are the same as those of the holder of preference shares of the parent . |
| 3 | The problem is to assess how responsive these processes are and what the residual long-term effects are on employment prospects in the area initially affected . |
| 4 | One of the aims of our study will be to determine how old these fish are when caught and how sustainable a commercial fishery could be . ’ |
| 5 | To establish good communication with the guests is part of this job ; they are paying for service and how much nicer that service is if it is given with a smile by a person who takes a personal interest ! |
| 6 | Mr Clarke knows how serious this dispute is but he is prepared to risk people 's lives rather than talk . ’ |
| 7 | The protestant version has variants as to how pure this church is or whether it remains sinful , but the evangelical version which is the basic one in the North of Ireland opts absolutely for ‘ Jesus Saves ’ ; the community , no longer medium of salvation , tends to take on a visible , earthly role , an occasion of grace and a support for religious ‘ this-worldly ’ activity . |
| 8 | The way that many politicians and others have called for the teaching of " facts " and wish to throw out all matters relating to " mere opinion " such as environmental concerns , shows how unaware many people are that there is any problem with regard to the reliability of facts or the possibility of there being evidence supporting beliefs and values . |
| 9 | However , the critics who review recordings of early music in Europe find , time and time again , that there is a distinctive tradition anglaise or a tradición británica behind a cappella recordings by English singers , and they are well aware how valuable this tradition is and how it is sustained : |
| 10 | We can now not only see how justified this comment was but , in details inaccessible to Freud at the time he was writing , can determine with some exactness both the causes and the consequences of this fateful development in human evolution . |
| 11 | Ironically , the message of all this activity is that the market is intensely worried about Saatchi 's prospects . |
| 12 | The penalty for all this housekeeping is that the files generated by the program do tend to get bigger and bigger as time goes on . |
| 13 | The only good news in all this time was that Boris Goldgather became one of its victims in 1115 , and news of his death helped to raise morale amongst the oppressed population . |
| 14 | The result is a sense that a great deal is going on , although how good all this writing is and , even more significantly , what the make-up of the new public and the social function of its reading are matters for debate . |
| 15 | The snag in all this thinking was that most of the people involved knew little or nothing about producing mass-market newspapers . |
| 16 | Days ago she had decided to be good — she was being quite good — but she was only pretending to be good so far and all this appreciation was as yet undeserved . |
| 17 | ‘ All this trouble is because of Isabella ! |
| 18 | The difficulty with all these criticisms is that they never specified exactly what was the ‘ correct ’ style for Nonconformist chapels . |
| 19 | The interesting thing about all these observations is that they went unnoticed and unconnected for so long . |
| 20 | The difficulty with all these forecasts is that the type of skills required depends on decisions made by managers about the way in which work is organised around the technology , and we thus come back to the problem identified with forecasts made about the impact of new technology on society . |
| 21 | The trouble with all these lines is that when you get to a length exceeding about fifty miles ( 80km ) , the curvature of the Earth begins to become significant : a straight line on the map is not necessarily a straight line on the ground . |
| 22 | The common factor in all these cases is that they were not discovered by MI5 . |
| 23 | It may well be he would argue that all these things are but part of the private man 's attempt to gain public approval . |
| 24 | The problem with all these drugs is that they have many side effects which are sometimes fatally toxic . |
| 25 | Though the Lords expressed a slight preference for Heath , the upshot of all these inquiries was that most people , in the House of Commons and out of it , intimated that they would be equally happy with either Heath or Maudling . |
| 26 | A feature of all these quotes is that they conflate the social and the personal ; Vicky , for example , argues that the arts are ‘ a waste of taxpayers ’ money' and then says ‘ I could n't motivate myself to do it ’ . |
| 27 | The point of all these arrangements was that the flexible caulking could accommodate shrinking and swelling of the planking , and to some extent movement of the hull , without leaking very much . |
| 28 | The trouble with all these guys is that they had become too aware of their public image after Saddam Hussein 's little escapade into Kuwait and the atrocious acts his troops had performed . |
| 29 | The problem with all these formulations is that they are reductionist : that is , they claim that complex and multi-faceted phenomena can be explained by a single , simple cause . |
| 30 | The characteristic of all those areas is that for a long time they have been Labour controlled , although Conservatives have been in control in Brent for the past year and the Liberal Democrats have recently been in control in Tower Hamlets . |