Example sentences of "be [adj] [prep] [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All are spacious with some suitable for families . |
| 2 | Smaller weekly or fortnightly water changes of 10–20% are preferable to large monthly ones . |
| 3 | Smaller weekly or fortnightly water changes of 10–20% are preferable to large monthly ones . |
| 4 | If you are dissatisfied with any disciplinary decision relating to you , you have a right to apply for a review of the decision to the next level of officer specified in the procedure referred to in paragraph 3 above . |
| 5 | The sycamore ( Acer pseudoplatanus ) is widespread , particularly so on the Downs near the coast where conditions are unsuitable for most other tree species , and it is much favoured by passage migrants . |
| 6 | If the relocation takes place at a time when it is important for a child to complete a course of education , e.g. GCE examinations , the company will pay reasonable board and lodging costs for the child up to a maximum of £200 per month for the remainder of that school term or until all examinations are complete within that academic year . |
| 7 | Whether or not Niki ever said any such thing , since his books are ghost-written without any great elaboration from Niki , who says he never reads them , the facts are true . |
| 8 | It is not only that those extreme means of attempting to extort confessions , for example the rack and thumbscrew , which have sometimes disfigured the system of criminal justice in this country , are abhorrent to any civilised society , but that they and other less awful , though not necessarily less potent , means of applying pressure to an accused person to speak do not necessarily produce speech or the truth . |
| 9 | The marshy lands around Stirling and Bannockburn must have been inhospitable to these early settlers , but were to prove of incalculable worth to fourteenth-century patriots determined to assert their independence from southern predators . |
| 10 | If those figures are right of four hundred and ten now you do n't need to be a real big mathematician , even at this time of night , but you , if you have the two hundred and thirty four out of commission and you 've got to have those cos that 's got ta be a rolling programme each four years . |
| 11 | The wealth of other trades was on a much smaller scale , one that can not have been untypical of most provincial communities . |
| 12 | However , quieter deadspots and louder ‘ wolfnotes ’ are inherent to all wooden instruments , and it 's usually not a problem to adapt to them . |
| 13 | You might be surprised that this needs mentioning ; but it is precisely because these same strategies are maladaptive in many domestic situations that horses are labelled stupid . |
| 14 | The lower portions of the inclined planes descend below the level of the water in the tail bays , and as the tanks on the downward run move down into the water until there is parity of level between the water in the tank and that in the bay , dock gates are unnecessary in these lower channels . |
| 15 | I think maybe I must have been Spanish in some former life — I feel as though I 've come home . ’ |
| 16 | Short 's paper demonstrates , on the one hand , the possibility , and indeed the necessity , of extending the scope of descriptive categories to a diverse range of text types , while on the other hand it stresses the need to refine our understanding of the conventions and expectations that are specific to each individual type of discourse . |
| 17 | We wished to demonstrate whether epitopes contained within the amino acid sequence 206–217 of A-gliadin are specific to coeliac toxic cereals . |
| 18 | You may try to do this by defining or explaining racism in terms which are specific to these two instances , but which also count you out . |
| 19 | Terror and torture are rife in these ancient stories . |
| 20 | The chastened company admitted that the shock loss showed that it had been guilty of poor financial controls and a badly-timed shareholders letter — Vannotti said the board was convinced up to March 22 when the shareholders letter was sent that it would record a profit for 1992 , but he and the chairman subsequently ordered a special audit , after financial controllers warned of problems with the accounts for Ascom 's cable television and mobile telephone businesses in Germany , and a closer examination revealed the German results had to be corrected by $41m — $28m of extraordinary depreciation and $12.8m of adjustments to inventory values , Vannotti said . |
| 21 | A moment before he had been guilty of one damnable , wicked , fleeting moment of joy when he thought Garvey lay dead on the floor . |
| 22 | Well , if I am right in all this — and I rather think I am — then you have decided to override my objections to publication in the most effective and heartless manner possible , have n't you ? |
| 23 | It was agreed that thanks are due to all retiring Chaplains for their service , mutual help and fellowship . |
| 24 | But most thanks are due to all those fellow hacks who provided ideas , anecdotes and scurrilous rumours for no greater reward than a kindly word and a half of best bitter . |
| 25 | My thanks are due to all those , including volunteers , who have become engaged in this initiative . |
| 26 | In a stressful home environment , whether the difficulties are due to parental mental illness or family discord , it seems that a good relationship with one parent ( or both parents ) , characterised by a high level of warmth and the absence of severe criticism , is protective . |
| 27 | The heart muscle suffers direct damage and many heart attacks are due to this direct cause as well as to arterial disease causing raised blood pressure . |
| 28 | 1 small spare carrier-bag ( for apple cores — NT houses are low on modern waste-paper baskets , especially in Chinese Bedrooms ) |
| 29 | However , because salaries are low in many social services as compared to work in industry , many men are put off , and the employment of married women creates problems that society is not yet willing to face — the need for day nursery accommodation , for example ( which itself creates a further demand for staff ) , and for a more relaxed public attitude towards the working mother . |
| 30 | The results also cover much longer periods than are possible with modern experimental field studies and they are based on direct evidence of intercomparable past conditions . |