Example sentences of "[art] [adj] [noun sg] [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But his recent form has shown the Belgian-bred gelding to be back to his best , and he must be favourite to be the first horse to take the World Cup for a third time . |
| 2 | Most people prefer the total look to be soft and natural without some of the extravagances and hard colours of younger-style make-up , but that is partly a matter of personal taste and overall style . |
| 3 | I share the concerns of eminent conservationists that international opposition to the ivory trade may crumble in the face of the heavy and insidious pressure being exerted by Zimbabwe and its allies against the continuation of the total ban to be proposed in March 1992 . |
| 4 | Every year the government announced the total tonnage to be built of each type of ship and selected which shipbuilders and ( domestic ) owners should be involved . |
| 5 | Some of these remain , but most of the Central Government grant to local authorities is now in the form of the rate support grant and a grant known as a block grant , which involves the Secretary of State deciding the total sum to be paid to all local authorities ( after consultation with the local authority associations , and approval of the House of Commons ) and its apportionment . |
| 6 | As the fund is used up , the income becomes less and less and the amounts withdrawn from the capital of the fund become greater and greater , because the total sum to be provided in such year — the £3,750 — is assumed … to remain constant throughout the relevant period . |
| 7 | To administer these , take one grain and dissolve it in distilled water with some alcohol added , the total amount to be determined approximately by the number of doses you wish to prescribe . |
| 8 | The notice , which can be sent out with the dividend itself , must include the following particulars : ( i ) amounts realised from the sale of assets ; ( ii ) payments made by the trustee in the administration of the estate ; ( iii ) provision for unsettled claims and funds retained for particular purposes ; ( iv ) the total amount to be distributed and the rate of dividend ; and ( v ) whether , and if so when , any further dividend is expected to be declared ( r 11.6(2) ) . |
| 9 | Bourgeois thought indulges in an abstraction of the process of thinking from the total process of being , thereby reifying thought and setting it above being . |
| 10 | Such combinations constitute formulaic patterns which are indeed of very frequent occurrence in language use and need to be accounted for ( as I mentioned in Chapter 3 ) but they can hardly be said to represent the total language to be taught . |
| 11 | Thus the total effect of being young on preparedness to break the law is 0.193 + 0.026 , or +0.219 . |
| 12 | The new code , while retaining the preliminary breathalyser test , provides that the normal method to be adopted at a police station in order to determine the amount of alcohol in the driver 's body is by the provision by him of two specimens of breath for analysis by means of the approved device known as the intoximeter . |
| 13 | The Artisans and the main Aldeburgh club find themselves in separate halves of the draw at the semi-final stage to be played on June 27 at neutral venues . |
| 14 | Now that , following Fryer v LTE ( see para 1.50 ) , a payment into court can be disclosed on an interim payment application , a defendant who has paid anything more than a small proportion of the value of the plaintiff 's claim into court will find it difficult to resist the application on this ground , especially as the court will usually order the interim payment to be paid out of the money in court . |
| 15 | I have found the hatching rate to be greatly improved with the addition of 2–3 drops of Fincare ) . |
| 16 | As a mother herself , no one is more aware than the Queen of the terrible dilemma Diana wrestled with in reaching the momentous decision to be the loser in a parental battle all too familiar to divided families . |
| 17 | But perhaps the grandest shopping to be had in the area is at the Victoria Quarter . |
| 18 | But because he was guilty of an indictable offence , he was also disqualified by the Assistant Recorder from being a company director for two years under the Company Directors Disqualification Act 1986 . |
| 19 | Certainly the United States should be kept out of the Asian continent and it would be beneficial for the Korean peninsula to be ruled by a communist government . |
| 20 | All I could do was to mumble that I regretted not taking my degree , and , though I could see it was irritating of me to whine , to feel stale and bored was not such a trivial thing ; that though we might have the vote now , meals still had to be prepared and children looked after and since this kind of drudgery was despised by society as not being ‘ real work ’ , we were in the hideous position of being both exhausted and imprisoned by it and also looked down on for doing it ; that I had honestly tried to be the sort of wife Richard wanted — and the sort of wife I felt I ought to be — but it was like being in a kind of airless cell and I could only see Richard as a jailer ; that I saw myself becoming progressively more and more incapable of doing anything , not just mentally , but from some kind of paralysis of will . |
| 21 | All outrage fled before the hideous prospect of being thrown into the streets on such a night . |
| 22 | Apart from carrying enough controlled substances in his G-string to keep Spain happy for a year , Tanit has the divine attribute of being everywhere at once . |
| 23 | Physical beauty has long been seen as a reflection of God 's presence in the world ; mystical texts describe the divine beauty to be found in creation as the female spirit , the bride and the beloved . |
| 24 | You may remember , Mr. Speaker , that last year I raised with you the problem of coaches parked in and around Parliament square , which makes it impossible for the Sessional Order to be complied with . |
| 25 | None of this mattered , however , compared with the joyous prospect of being together . |
| 26 | Therefore , they need the democratic powers and the rights of the European Parliament to be developed to ensure that those who are elected can be called to account . |
| 27 | And an adherent of the church is understood in the highland region , the largest single local government area in the European Community to be someone who attends worship regularly . |
| 28 | It is important to make the student aware of the subtle difference between being safe at all times and being safe in particular conditions . |
| 29 | It was clearly meant to provide serious training , and d'Hauterive even cherished the vain hope of being able to admit students to it by competitive examination . |
| 30 | The UCTA covers not only clauses which exclude such liability in whole , but also those which exclude or restrict it partially ( eg a limitation as to the monetary amount to be paid by way of compensation for such a liability when incurred ) . |