Example sentences of "[coord] [adj] [noun sg] [prep] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thatcherism makes intellectual liberty just another commodity , to be enjoyed when there is no particular political or commercial or administrative price to be paid for it , but abandoned , with no evident grief , when the price begins to rise . |
| 2 | Microsoft Corp says it is now shipping LAN Manager 2.1a for Unix Systems to OEM customers : the new version adds a Windows Network Administration program that gives administrators a unified tool for managing multiple servers from a Windows-based desktop , the LAN Manager Print Station that enables an MS-DOS- or Windows-based micro to be designated as a print server , and support for OS/2 2.0 clients . |
| 3 | ‘ Structure ’ sprays are a sort of setting lotion in natural spray form , allowing permed or curly hair to be scrunched into shape . |
| 4 | Thus both knowledge and the learner are viewed as discrete entities which happen to be in one or another state of being , rather than as sets of dynamic and unstable processes . |
| 5 | ‘ Boardroom struggles for power , wheeler-dealing in the buying and selling of shares and , indeed , of whole clubs sometimes suggest that those involved are more interested in the personal financial benefits or social status of being a director than of directing the club in the interests of its customers . ’ |
| 6 | There is , in other words , no neat or clear distinction to be drawn between political equality and social and economic equality . |
| 7 | Winter cereals are slow to establish , and must be sown earlier : this is apparently because there is a tendency for stubble or killed turf to be pushed down into the slits with the seed where it can create anaerobic conditions leading to the formation of toxic substances such as acetic acid . |
| 8 | Whereas in the examples taken from scenes one and three , Anderson fulfils the Interest Principle by merely 'saying what is unpredictable and hence interesting " ( Leech 1983 : 146 ) , in later scenes he uses irony to implicate propositions which might be too face-threatening to be made directly or ironic understatement to be deliberately impolite . |
| 9 | Potential cross-references in symbolic form are checked against the current data-base and must succeed for the new or changed record to be accepted without reservation . |
| 10 | There was a great need to obtain access to knowledge through books , or quick money to be made by pirating cassette tapes or Gucci bags . |
| 11 | A person commits the latter offence if he ‘ by any false pretence … with intent to defraud , obtains from any other person any chattel , money , or valuable security , or causes or procures any money to be paid , or any chattel or valuable security to be delivered to himself or to any other person for the use or benefit or on account of himself or any other person . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ We can only presume , ’ wrote Dr Foxley ‘ that this lesser or non-existent discount to be granted in Wales is as a result of the ‘ fiery nature of the controversy ’ over holiday homes in Wales in the past ’ . |
| 13 | It is not enough , for example , for a president or prime minister to be popular . |
| 14 | let the slope of the CML be defined as : let the slope of IMI at point M ( where the market is in equilibrium and there is no excess demand for , or excess supply of be defined as follows : therefore in equilibrium Eq . |
| 15 | Family views about what is naughty or good start to be absorbed as mothers begin to talk about transgression of family rules or social behaviour . |
| 16 | Such a tradition of behaviour ‘ is neither fixed nor finished ; it has no changeless centre to which understanding can anchor itself ; there is no sovereign purpose to be perceived or invariable direction to be detected ; there is no model to be copied , idea to be realised , or rule to be followed ’ . |
| 17 | 1.3 The premises Unit no of the Centre more particularly defined in the First Schedule The premises must be readily identifiable and provision in the particulars is mainly for a unit or postal number to be inserted . |
| 18 | There was no union to be consulted , no time and a half or double time to be considered . |
| 19 | There is a further cause-effect or condition-effect relation to be noted , but it will be best to do so after noting one between causal circumstance and effect , implied already . |
| 20 | They do not have either the mental or physical equipment to be able to carry out the many complex activities involved in the AL of maintaining a safe environment . |
| 21 | This process is repeated each time the highest-level index existing at that time requires a third or fourth track to be added . |
| 22 | The waiting room at the Moscow station where Newby caught the Trans-Siberian was like waiting-rooms in all communist countries , the ‘ preserve of the lumpen proletariat , the hoi polloi ’ , with not a member of the administrative or managerial class to be seen . |
| 23 | We can begin to foresee the time when old people will not spend their last years in large wards which lack privacy or any pretence at being homely . ’ |
| 24 | To this end it is creating a universal type for Cobol ‘ 97 to enable any message to be sent or any method to be invoked . |
| 25 | It does not provide that no solicitor shall have any cause of action in respect of his costs or any right to be paid till the expiration of a month from his delivering a signed bill of costs , but merely that he shall not commence or maintain any action for the recovery of fees , charges , or disbursements until then . |
| 26 | It is usually better to cause an hour-glass or wasp-waisted specimen to be made as this can be arranged to break in the middle where it is thinnest . |
| 27 | Indeed given the opportunity it might be better for someone publishing obscene or indecent literature to be charged under one piece of legislation rather than another , since one might permit more or better defences . |
| 28 | The Indonesian market has also opened up to foreign investment allowing up to 49 per cent of any listed company or new issue to be bought by foreigners compared with only 11 companies being open to foreign investment previously . |
| 29 | Section 11 provides that a direction prohibiting publication may be made ‘ where a court ( having power to do so ) allows a name or other matter to be withheld from the public in proceedings before the court . ’ |
| 30 | It 's not that Novell has any moral or financial obligation to be the keeper of the Unix flame . |