Example sentences of "[coord] be [adj] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 These may include grains of different shapes and sizes ( Terry & chilingar , 1955 ) , or be computer-generated random percentages ( Folk , Andrews & lewis , 1970 ) ( Fig. 5.4 ) .
2 Business chose women who had already got to the top in their careers , or were high-calibre middle managers still on their way up .
3 Nor are Continental cosh-style umbrellas much use ; they do n't last long ; they do n't protect as large a surface area of head and suit ; and they 're useless for hailing cabs .
4 The evidence suggests that they have ‘ clamoured for more staff and for improved premises , ’ but the family health services authority has not had the resources to support this , nor were suitable vacant sites in which premises could be developed easily available in inner London .
5 However , for the class of Gowdy cosmologies , it is found to be convenient to consider the class of solutions given by ( 10.64 ) where and are arbitrary linear combinations of the terms in curly brackets , including the Fourier-Bessel integrals of the form ( 10.65 ) and are Bessel functions of the first and second kinds of zero order , and and are sets of arbitrary constants .
6 Equation ( 6.22a ) may immediately be integrated as in ( 6.24 ) to give ( 9.1 ) where and are arbitrary decreasing functions which , according to the appropriate boundary conditions ( 7.3 ) , are required to satisfy and .
7 Because of their stability , they are hard to dispose of and are persistent environmental contaminants .
8 Some councils have also set up local enterprise boards ( many of which are now organized on a regional basis ) which operate at an arms-length from the councils and are separate legal entities with a commitment to working with financial and commercial agencies to encourage local investment .
9 Such skeletal structures as they have are called spicules or sclerites , and are tiny calcareous particles which are present in large numbers .
10 By far the largest tree in the African savannah , baobabs are protected by law in several African countries and are important ecological resources .
11 An anonymous writer to the Scottish Typographical Circular in 1904 pointed out that " some of the females have been at the trade since 1872 [ over thirty years ] and were grown-up young women when they started " , so they would more or less count as " veterans " . "
12 The insider/anthropologist is therefore somewhat schizophrenic , something of a Jekyll and Hyde , for he knows that publication and explication might be career-suicidal but are necessary intellectual tasks .
13 Mealtimes were not just for eating , but were important social occasions .
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