Example sentences of "[coord] [noun pl] be [adv] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These levels or brooks are now areas of flat low-lying grassland drained by a complex system of ditches , but lying wet in winter . |
| 2 | If ideals or values are essentially statements of faith which can not be logically sustained then much of our examination will be concerned with persuasion rather than with facts in themselves . |
| 3 | Offering support to parents or children is just part of human nature . |
| 4 | McCleod scored the only goal , and takings were over £750 . |
| 5 | Training squads and programmes are now part and parcel of the structures within each of the national associations . |
| 6 | Recent surveys show that sausages , chips and burgers are still favourites with children yet they 're just the type of foods we 're being told to cut down on . |
| 7 | By 1928 when the vote was granted to women over 21 , the two sisters had ceased to communicate with each other — their ideas and lifestyles were now poles apart . |
| 8 | We may prefer arrangements based on institutions like the church and the shop but gangs and parties are also forms of social institution , not perhaps quite so easy to break down and displace as ‘ disorganization , would imply . |
| 9 | The dominant religious beliefs among Sinhalese and Tamils were respectively Buddhism and Hinduism , but Christianity had made inroads into both ethnic groups . |
| 10 | Choosing a penn'orth of sweets could be a long job : a gob-stopper , a liquorice wheel , liquorice rope , a chew , each could be bought for a farthing , and many boiled sweets and toffees were only tuppence a quarter . |
| 11 | Architects and planners are usually men and , in the case of local authority housing estates , not of the class of those who actually spend most of their time in the flats and houses they design . |
| 12 | Most of the words and phrases are obviously toasts and are part of the conviviality of a drinking party , but some of the Trier vessels also bear painted portraits of deities , demonstrating a link with the gods . |
| 13 | It does not claim that all lawyers and judges are already conventionalists . |
| 14 | Two weeks later the chest radiograph was normal and eosinophils were only 0.58×10/l . |
| 15 | Actually , a curious discovery is how many scribes and illuminators were still members of religious orders , even after the thirteenth century when book production had largely become a secular enterprise . |
| 16 | They have frozen child benefit for three years so that mothers and families are nearly £1 billion worse off than they would otherwise have been . |
| 17 | Nobles were urban , but outside the areas of disseminated settlement the peasants and farmers were likewise town dwellers . |
| 18 | The parish church ( Pfarrkirche S. Veit ) is one of the oldest examples of Austrian baroque , built during the first decade of the Thirty Years War , although the interior fittings and paintings are largely work of the eighteenth-century high baroque . |
| 19 | The new curricular teaching and examinations are very labour intensive and have considerable resource implications . |
| 20 | The credit risk of each individual counterparty has to be assessed separately , and dealings are largely caveat emptor . |
| 21 | At the same time one may suspect that , despite these occasional ambitions , whether revolutionary or reformist , journalists , novelists and sociologists are typically analysts rather than practitioners . |
| 22 | The Lower Cambrian carinachitiids ( Fig. 3 f ) and hexagulaconulariids are probably conulariids , and the Ediacaran Conomedusites may also belong in this group . |
| 23 | Furnishings and fittings were strictly junkshop , stacked with box-files and scribbled notes and second-hand reference books that were mainly bought cheap and out-of-date when libraries renewed . |
| 24 | English does n't change from year to year and history does n't change and languages are just languages but physics and chemistry are changing constantly because new things are being discovered . |
| 25 | He did it all with words — clever , beautiful words , and you forgot that the women and girls were really boys in dresses . |
| 26 | The total cost of accidents and failures was around 10% of turnover . |
| 27 | The gas meter and pipes were only inches away . |
| 28 | The lowest incomes were generally supplemented by charity and in many households women and children were also wage-earners . |
| 29 | Unfortunately , television studios are strangely designed and dressing-rooms are often miles away from the studio , so we had to find a place where she and her entourage could relax in comfort without the need to climb stairs . |
| 30 | The preponderance of VGP paths lying along the eastern Pacific rim reported by Laj and others is therefore evidence of asymmetry between reversed and normal states in the field . |