Example sentences of "[prep] [be] [adj] and [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unfortunately , in 1959 it was found to be unsafe and alterations had to be made . |
| 2 | The whole line of docks seemed to be ablaze and ships in the river , shops , offices , streets of terraced houses and mansions , as well as beautiful and historic buildings like the Walker Art Gallery , the Museum and Central Library , had all suffered as high explosive bombs , land mines and incendiary bombs had rained down upon the city from hundreds of aircraft . |
| 3 | The demand for Magritte , and for other Surrealist painters , continues to be strong and prices have risen consistently , although Surrealist works have not yet commanded the top flights of prices seen for other Classic modern artists . |
| 4 | Thus , analysing the attempt by political philosophers to justify the exclusion of women from public life on the grounds of their defective capacities ( either rational , moral or cognitive ) , she suggests that there is a hidden argument which takes the exclusion of women to be unquestionable and attempts to justify the status quo by seeking an explanation in the defective capacities that women must then be assumed to have . |
| 5 | Decision outcomes tend to be binary and matters are ultimately settled by means of adjudication . |
| 6 | Synthetic drugs such as quinacrine and chloroquine , were developed to replace natural quinine but some strains of malaria are found to be resistant and doctors are using quinine again to treat malaria in Vietnam , fortunately , trees grow well in Java which is now the main global source . |
| 7 | Consider a closed economy in which investment ( I ) and government spending ( C ) are assumed to be autonomous and taxes ( T ) are all lump-sum . |
| 8 | All talk of plunder , piracy and plagiarism in a shopworn discourse of ‘ irreverence ’ and boisterousness , as if Westworld kick up some kind of a rumpus on pop 's trash-heap of efflorescences , as if there are still grandmothers to be shocked and purists to be cheeked . |
| 9 | Stephen Roach , a senior economist at Morgan Stanley , said : ‘ The numbers show export resilience continues to be intact and exports will continue to support the recovery . |
| 10 | Post-Fordism implies that management , too , has to be decentralized and forms of work discipline changed , because they can no longer be organized through hierarchies in which standardized messages are passed from above and implemented in any very straightforward fashion . |
| 11 | If it is the case that we are motivated by nothing more than the need to reproduce , then it makes sense that women are programmed to be broody and men to satisfy that broodiness . |
| 12 | His condition is said to be stable and detectives at his bedside are hoping he may be able to give them more information about the attack . |
| 13 | It was beginning to be light and swallows , gathering to fly away , were noisy and busy round the eaves . |
| 14 | However , a decision is believed to be imminient and reports suggest the SFO will take no further action . |
| 15 | ‘ It 's still a social stigma to be unemployed and employers wonder what you 've been doing . ’ |