Example sentences of "[conj] [adj] [prep] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's not wrong or odd to be different , in fact it 's far wiser to think things out for yourself than just to blindly and unthinkingly follow the crowd . |
| 2 | You see when committees are meeting at two o'clock usually have a much shorter agenda than this committee discussion but to enable to this committee and to do its job properly , I would think we 'd be looking where possible to be able to discuss items properly and to get start at a reasonable time like we do . |
| 3 | There is nothing clever or manly about being dirty and smelly and you have every right to withhold your physical dealings with a body that revolts you . |
| 4 | Another name can be crossed firmly off the IBM Corp list : John Sculley , chairman of Apple Computer Inc has now gone on the record saying ‘ I would like to respond to the persistent rumours that I might leave Apple and go to IBM — I have told Apple 's board of directors and our executive management team that I am not available or interested in being chief executive of IBM ; I believe Apple has a tremendous opportunity to be extremely successful in the years ahead , and Apple will be the most important innovator and leader in the industry ; 10 years ago this April I signed up to do a job , and there is still a lot that I would like to accomplish with all of us ; ‘ I hope this statement will put to rest the speculation that I might go to IBM , and also serve as a clear message of the confidence that I have in Apple , ’ he declared . |
| 5 | Another name can be crossed firmly off the IBM Corp list : John Sculley , chairman of Apple Computer Inc has now gone on the record saying ‘ I would like to respond to the persistent rumours that I might leave Apple and go to IBM — I have told Apple 's board of directors and our executive management team that I am not available or interested in being chief executive of IBM ; I believe Apple has a tremendous opportunity to be extremely successful in the years ahead , and Apple will be the most important innovator and leader in the industry ; 10 years ago this April I signed up to do a job , and there is still a lot that I would like to accomplish with all of us ; I hope this statement will put to rest the speculation that I might go to IBM , and also serve as a clear message of the confidence that I have in Apple , ’ he declared . |
| 6 | But you must be , or you must become , very much your own men and women because newspapers everywhere and all the other parts of the media are only , are just sitting there with baited breath aching for that phone to ring from you , to tell us things , because virtually anything which you get involved in , is likely in one way or another to be controversial . |
| 7 | The municipality and the Imperial Household , less inclined for one reason or another to be parsimonious , added gas lighting to public spectacle by illuminating the city 's monuments on state occasions and holidays . |
| 8 | Have you ever secretly flirted with the idea that it might be rather glamorous or exciting to be widowed young , to go blind , to have cancer or AIDS , to go bankrupt , to be burgled , to be a social outcast , to go crazy , to become homeless , to be a drug addict , even to commit suicide … ? |
| 9 | Surprisingly the 50 , or 47 to be exact , were chosen with scientific precision . |
| 10 | With many aspects of flying , we need to have reached a certain stage or standard to be able to appreciate the problems , or to understand and take in the facts . |
| 11 | ‘ The court may , on the application of the office-holder , summon to appear before it — ( a ) any officer of the company , ( b ) any person known or suspected to have in his possession any property of the company or supposed to be indebted to the company , or ( c ) any person whom the court thinks capable of giving information concerning the promotion , formation , business , dealings , affairs or property of the company . |
| 12 | The paths of two lives , or three to be exact , came together for a little while and then separated . |
| 13 | If such criticisms are valid , is a sterner , more restrictive approach either desirable or likely to be effective ? |
| 14 | Even if that child 's life is not ‘ normal ’ or likely to be comparable with the lives of other people , there can be no arbitrary rule which condemns certain babies to death because they do not conform to some spurious notion of that which constitutes a satisfying or fulfilling life . |
| 15 | So , are we saying that it is somehow abnormal or freakish to be able to stick to a healthy regime and remain slim ? |
| 16 | In addition , the analysts we interviewed do not regard the annual report as sufficiently timely or relevant to be critical to investment decisions in an industry in which the potential successes of individual products and the market direction of research and development are more important . |
| 17 | ‘ I just have a drink or two to be sociable and that 's all . ’ |
| 18 | Comedy , in any case , is not necessarily optimistic , and it can tellingly present a tragic world — a point readily overlooked by those who confuse literary forms like tragedy with states of mind like a tragic view of life , as if over-obsequious to a terminology or eager to be confused by one . |
| 19 | The top line on the picture is even more speculative , but informed by the analysis of 32-year-olds discussed above , it traces what the person would earn with identical characteristics other than that of being male and staying throughout in full-time employment . |
| 20 | He expected to be patronized by Lady Grubb because he came from a lower class , about which he did n't generally care tuppence , but when he saw her effect on Algy he found it more difficult than usual to be ribald about it . |
| 21 | The association released details of a survey of 244 carers showing that half of were unsure of their duties under the Act . |
| 22 | In 1986 the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts appointed a commission of Serbian intellectuals to consider some of these problems , and by the autumn of that year a working group of that commission had prepared a draft ‘ Memorandum ’ which , although supposed to be confidential , was published in the Serbian press . |
| 23 | The critic 's standing is thereby reduced , and the description or evaluation of the prize works is less than likely to be uninfluenced by their new position . |
| 24 | What is true is that the absence of , say , its mother 's milk may affect the baby 's medical condition and , to this extent , it misses the milk ( although unable to be aware of the fact ) but not its mother . |
| 25 | The Legion knew that many of its recruits had learned their killing and soldiering elsewhere , in Beirut , Rhodesia , Vietnam or the Falklands , and was more than pleased to be able to recruit such proficient fighting men . |
| 26 | Statute further ensured that reversionary leases ( i.e. leases to take effect in the future ) , although capable of being legal , must take effect not more than 21 years from the date of their creation : |
| 27 | But in the case of ‘ meaning theism ’ there is the possibility of recognising that the evidence of God 's existence may be less than overwhelming without being negligible . |
| 28 | ‘ Mrs Cole has more reason than most to be anxious . |
| 29 | To ask for solutions as well is perhaps to ask too much , for he has found more than most to be angry or cynical about . |
| 30 | In part three ( chapters twelve to fifteen ) our objective is to examine what is involved in helping a person in doubt , and to see how this can be made practical and specific without being mechanical and stereotyped . |