Example sentences of "[to-vb] [art] [noun] be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Much of the housing rapidly thrown up to accommodate the workers was overcrowded and insanitary ( see Ferguson 1964 ) . |
| 2 | The idea , however , that the rebels aimed to kill the King is unlikely — not only did the rebels show a positive loyalty to him at Mile End and Smithfield , and adopt as a watchword ‘ King Richard and the True Commons ’ , but they made no attempt to take vengeance on him for the death of Wat Tyler , when he could have been at their mercy . |
| 3 | How long could their own obstruction permit the slave-owners to claim the slaves were unfit for freedom ? |
| 4 | For example , if the economy is in the deflationary gap situation illustrated in Fig. 9 , but is also suffering from a 15 per cent rate of inflation , an increase in government spending or a cut in taxation designed to combat the unemployment is likely to worsen the rate of inflation . |
| 5 | It was easy to see the place was cool , thought Miles , there was always a copy of The Naked Lunch on the table . |
| 6 | Betty came to the rectory on Wednesdays , when the Reverend Morey was in London , and on Saturdays to see the place was clean for the sabbath . |
| 7 | In the second category , general civil cases , parties should be able to choose their own lawyers because the interests of justice would be inherently less likely to fetter the client 's right of choice . |
| 8 | Several men were convicted by a jury even though the evidence which was laid before the court to support the charge was inconsistent . |
| 9 | Heckling , or seeking temporarily to disrupt the speaker are insufficient to amount to such an offence . |
| 10 | Progress made at follow-up talks between the two sides to implement the agreement was minimal [ see p. 35950 ] . |
| 11 | Therefore an adjective which has the effect of qualifying a property rather than an entity will not occur in ordinary predicative position ( nor in postnominal attributive position ) ; this prediction is confirmed by the unacceptability of sentences such as : ( 11 ) the sum of $300 she had to pay was total the lecturer who is to greet the Queen is mere a scoundrel complete must have taken my umbrella the cousins distant were put at a separate table If the adjectives in ( 12 ) are acceptable , reflexion shows at once that they are adjectives with more than one meaning , and the one which appears in predicative position is not that in which they are sense-qualifiers : ( 12 ) their village is distant and hard to reach burning his licence was wholly lawful the set complete is worth 1500 francs |
| 12 | To sum up , if examples such as those in ( 28 ) and that in ( 29 ) are all ungrammatical , as we can readily agree , it is for different reasons : ( 28 ) the sum of $300 she had to pay was total the lecturer who is to greet the Queen is mere ( 29 ) the man is very The adjectives in ( 28 ) lead to incoherence because , as already observed , they are specialized to qualify a property , and so they are incoherent in the predicative construction , which assigns the adjective property to the entity of the subject , not to its sense . |
| 13 | However , the two men he approached to arrange the murder were undercover detectives and Taylor and his daughter were arrested . |
| 14 | Assessment for selection and evaluation is summative ; assessment to inform the teaching is formative . |
| 15 | On July 5 Islamic Finance Ministers agreed to increase the IDB 's working capital from 2,000 Islamic dinars ( the IDB 's unit of account , equivalent to the special drawing right of the IMF ; ID1=US$1.4355 as at July 6 , 1992 ) to ID4,000 million , and to raise authorized capital to ID6,000 million . |
| 16 | Whether such a statement did much to repair the damage is questionable , but the jockeys and trainers did not mince their words . |
| 17 | The ability to win over an informant who is undecided whether or not to grant the interview is important , as is the ability to put people at their ease and reassure them that the interview is not going to be some sort of viva voce examination . |
| 18 | to find the law is green , the sun long up |
| 19 | I bought an amplifier from a mail order company only to find the unit was faulty ( it crackled on the overdrive channel ) when it arrived . |
| 20 | When Celia got back from the opera , she was pleased to find the flat was empty . |
| 21 | Given the purposive approach to construction now adopted by the courts in order to give effect to the true intentions of the legislature , the fine distinctions between looking for the mischief and looking for the intention in using words to provide the remedy are technical and inappropriate . |
| 22 | Does he also agree that what Yorkshire as a whole needs to restart the economy is low tax , low inflation and another Conservative Government ? |
| 23 | Hence , the time needed to train the device is likely to rise roughly exponentially with N. |
| 24 | But despite these ominous developments , the pressure to contain the crisis is substantial . |
| 25 | Pray that Garry would continue to know the Lord 's leading . |
| 26 | Getting to know the audience was important but so too was the more formidable task of getting to know the potential audience and advice on this was equally explicit . |
| 27 | Failure to observe the ban was punishable by up to three years ' imprisonment . |
| 28 | They used to pass the time being cruel to the poor , gambling , whoring and indulging in most other perversions you could care to name . ’ |
| 29 | When dawn comes , some individuals will have been unlucky and return completely empty , while those individuals that have managed to find a victim are likely to have sucked a surplus of blood . |
| 30 | However the time taken to re-charge the capacitor is proportional to the charging time constant , so if a high resistance is used the capacitor may not be completely charged when its stored energy is next required . |