Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [det] be [adv] " in BNC.

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1 And he has er and he has once again once again made it clear , he has once again made it clear that that is particularly important in such areas as standards in education , law and order and the provision of public services .
2 In doing so I must make it clear that these are only the main functions ; there are of course many exceptional occurrences during a session , but time does not permit of my dealing with that here .
3 It is now clear that this is no longer an adequate explanation and that the rates of schizophrenia in British black young people are worryingly high .
4 It is clear that this is partly due to the fact that incomes have been rising in real terms , so that people feel able to take on an increased burden of debt .
5 But later on he makes it clear that this is so , at least in part , because the supposedly inevitable outcome of that choice is not really neutral :
6 Although most speakers in British society are also literate , and therefore have the advantage of knowing where /r/ occurs in writing , it is not clear that this is really a big help in flowing conversation , though it might be in very slow speech styles .
7 He decided in favour of Balliol , but made it clear that this was only the appointment of a figurehead : he himself was the true monarch .
8 It is true that during the 1991/92 presidential year a certain amount of friction occurred between Moorgate Place and the district societies , but it should be made clear that this was almost entirely due to the funding problems and not because of any breakdown in the relationship between the national president and the district society presidents .
9 It is now clear that this was too simplistic a view .
10 Furthermore , in practice , we are often interested in making comparisons among the strata so that it is sensible that each be well represented .
11 That was always the portrait that was painted by the right hon. Member for Finchley ( Mrs. Thatcher ) and I am afraid that that is occasionally true of the present Prime Minister also .
12 I am afraid that this is rather like asking ‘ How long is a Piece of string ? ’ as there is no hard and fast answer .
13 It is interesting that these were exactly the issues that Mezey was concerned with at the same time , though for the whole of the region rather than one area .
14 I 'd say it was a dog but it 's very , very old and that 's as much as I can tell .
15 If a system of government is , in the long term to continue to enjoy the broad acquiescence on which , in a democratic society , it stands , it must be sufficiently responsive to the voices of the governed and this is most effectively ensured by the constitution 's providing for the regulation of social affairs at the lowest and most immediate level possible .
16 The only information I have , I 'm afraid cos that 's as far as
17 ‘ We are interested but that 's as far as it has gone because Alex Ferguson has shown no desire to let him go , and that 's despite the fact that Neil has not been in his first team .
18 The absence of Arundel and Huntingdon is especially interesting since both were only in their mid-thirties and neither showed any signs of infirmity in their subsequent military careers .
19 In addition , in order for the price mechanism to be an effective way of allocating resources , the consumer ( ie the patient ) must possess good information and it is doubtful whether this is so in most cases .
20 Eventually enough of these shapes were collected and studied for it to be undeniable that this is just what they must be .
21 It is just possible that this is exactly the situation that we face when , as individuals , we experience these stages , and it may certainly be the situation that , as psychoanalysts , we encounter when we try to reconstruct the phases of ego- and superego-development from the sole evidence of the clinical analysis of individuals ( For instance , I strongly suspect that this fact has seriously misled the Kleinian school in its theory of developmental stages and is still obscuring much of the psychological structure of the psychoses , and perhaps the neuroses too . )
22 A disturbing number of librarians now appear to believe that their jobs may legitimately be used to proselytize , for political and other beliefs , and to be unaware that these are highly damaging views for librarians to hold .
23 Ironic that that was originally the reason she 'd hesitated to invite Carolyn : fear of her Mum hovering round the house all the time .
24 But what if it is untrue that this is so ?
25 As the negotiations proceeded , Owen became more and more convinced that this was so .
26 So how can it be fixed if that 's too small to put it in
27 Except for the fourth and fifth which is easy cos that 's just one semitone less .
28 The numbers were vast and this was very largely because the movies were not just appealing to sections of the masses but to the masses in general .
29 Their laboratory is tiny and that 's always the mark of a good brewery . ’
30 But each station is autonomous and some are more music-oriented than others .
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