Example sentences of "[noun pl] [conj] be [adv] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | National campaigns , like the support for Edward VIII during the abdication crisis of 1936 , and the portrayal of the BUF as a peace movement in the later 1930s , either fell on deaf ears or were only partially successful in changing the focus of fascist politics from the parish pump and the anti-immigrant concerns of the East End of London to wider issues . |
| 2 | In this chapter , then , the term ‘ permissiveness ’ is subjected to further critical scrutiny , and an attempt is made to isolate those ‘ factors ’ or characteristics that are most usually invoked by moral entrepreneurs in their discussions of the ‘ permissive society ’ . |
| 3 | I often used to go fell walking but can not ever remember seeing the deep ruts caused by walkers that were all around , in some cases up to 12–15in deep . |
| 4 | When direct dealing costs , brokerage and VAT were included they tended to help filter out the trades that were only marginally profitable and hence raised the overall profitability . |
| 5 | Maggie was shown into a very expensive flat that overlooked the river and she had one of her rare glimpses of the owner as he stood with his back to a roaring fire and regarded her through eyes that were just as sharp as they had ever been in his youth . |
| 6 | Erm when I say parties that 's probably not the right word because erm party indicates sort of food and games , we had concerts and we used to put on these concerts , the pupils used to put them on ourselves and our parents were invited to come and watch these concerts . |
| 7 | Er , if they say that er , they should be er , a balance or reserve put in by constituent authorities then we will have the money available to do that , if we did n't then they may have frozen the reserves that are already there and asked us to put some more money in as well . |
| 8 | The social welfare indicators that are most commonly agreed to be of relevance here are the degree of literacy , the distribution of health and educational services , the infant mortality rate and the life expectancy of the population . |
| 9 | Investing in capital does not mean preserving units that are no longer needed . |
| 10 | There never seemed the opportunity , and I was frightened to bring into the open subjects that were as potentially explosive as these . |
| 11 | What like dried up , dried grapes prunes that are no longer in top condition . |
| 12 | It is divided into three sections : the first records the books that are most frequently referred to in the dictionary , the second lists the books in numerical order , the last registers the books in alphabetical sequence . |
| 13 | The use of images that are subtly out of tune with our inner world can be extremely damaging and many of the images and practices applied by practitioners can cause new problems while attempting to solve existing ones . |
| 14 | The cars that are always ahead of you at the lights . |
| 15 | But Johnson they 're often old words that are totally out of use erm and we 're not even used to Johnson 's vocabulary because |
| 16 | The young reader wonders how one human being could invent such an interesting story , and write it all in words that are so easily read . |
| 17 | He sang an endless string of tuneful but meaningless words that were only very loosely attached to the long , narrative poem that went on inside his head . |
| 18 | Unlike the original metal-insulator-metal technology , the new Super-MIM can provide pictures that are just as good as those using thin-film transistors , the firm claims . |
| 19 | This innovation makes it possible to produce rugs that are almost twice as long as the distance between the horizontal beams . |
| 20 | Most decent councillors have been placed in an impossible position because of the failure of the Government 's housing and economic policies to deliver the affordable rural homes that are so desperately needed . |
| 21 | Comet debris , as its name suggests , is derived from comets , and much of this debris lies in orbits that are far more eccentric than most of the asteroids ' orbits , and which in many cases carry debris far beyond Jupiter . |
| 22 | Our figures for short ( Ε ) in figures 3.5 and 3.6 show a pattern of variation between low and mid realizations with the mid realizations beginning to occur in environments that were formerly categorically low , and with females leading in this change . |
| 23 | We have demonstrated in various publications ( for example , J. Milroy and L. Milroy , 1978 ) that in the inner city there is a change in progress moving from front values of /a/ towards back values , beginning to affect even those environments that were formerly always front ( for example pre-voiceless stop environments , as in map , that ) . |
| 24 | Among those elongated tails that are apparently sexually selected , the marginal costs of graduated tails greatly exceed those of streamer-shaped tails ( that is pintails and deep forks ; Fig. 1 ) . |
| 25 | ‘ They 're all on these little labels that were primarily there for the tourists , like Waikiki and Hula records . |
| 26 | There was an immature moustache above lips that were pretty enough to belong to a girl . |
| 27 | Many of its main weapons , from tanks and aircraft to submarines , were bootlegged and upgraded from Soviet designs that are now up to 40 years old . |
| 28 | The planning department found that business units considered the time horizon of the issues to be too long to be of relevance and these issues were therefore considered to be ‘ back of the mind ’ flagging signals and were therefore not acted on . |
| 29 | The cotton industry was relatively new compared with the older and more protected and restricted woollen trades and was therefore more open to innovation . |
| 30 | Leucistic individuals have normal-coloured eyes and are thus easily distinguished from albinos . |