Example sentences of "[noun pl] [conj] [prep] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | But I would place a somewhat different emphasis , and suggest that in the Chewong case fear is a positive emotion and encouraged in children because to be fearful is to be human , while the arousal of other inner states is negatively valued and discouraged — as manifest in the various rules that forbid them ( see Howell 1981 ) . |
| 32 | Castles were also frequently designed as houses for great lords or to be administrative and judicial centres . |
| 33 | Biocontrol reckons this to be much cheaper than current eye-tracking and visualisation systems and to be suitable for a host of applications ranging from medical research through computer games to lie detectors . |
| 34 | Germany promised to support a Russian seizure of the Straits and to be neutral unless Russia launched an attack on Austria-Hungary ; Russia promised to remain neutral unless Germany attacked France . |
| 35 | I expect her to preside over the abolition of wages councils and to be strong on industrial training . |
| 36 | Moralists are , by definition , inclined to deal in absolutes and to be uncomfortable with pragmatic accommodation , but political leadership in the United States requires bargaining skills and , ‘ calls for actions such as compromise , renunciation , face saving of oneself , which are morally ambiguous or even downright immoral to people with morally rigorous standards . |