Example sentences of "to be [prep] [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Notice that each successive peak and trough is likely to be above all preceding ones because of underlying growth in the economy 's productive capacity . |
| 2 | Oh , for that uncomfortable bed on his yacht that he now resolved to be aboard this very evening , before any such vote could be called . |
| 3 | She heard the amazement , as if what she 'd suggested had to be beyond all rational consideration ; certainly not anything that had ever merited any thought on his part . |
| 4 | In fact the main lessons of these attempts seems to be to those outside Spiralynx — that organising from the outside is impossible . |
| 5 | As a result of her in fidelity and disloyalty to her country , the child was cursed from birth , rapidly growing to be over six-foot long with a snake 's tail and bat wings , and the head and mane of a black stallion . |
| 6 | An ounce of coral beads was reckoned to be worth ten large jars of oil . |
| 7 | The ontological version of the argument involves the claim that existential propositions , in the final analysis , can all be shown to be about certain concrete ontological items and attributes of such items . |
| 8 | ‘ It 's got to be about this Spanish thing , ’ Mitch said quietly . |
| 9 | ‘ We had a fair hearing for Martin Allen , but the result is a major blow because there are some vital games coming up and we are going to be without two important players . ’ |
| 10 | Coventry are likely to be without three regular players : Brian Kilcline , the captain and centre-half who is still suffering from a leg injury , midfielder Dean Emerson ( knee ) , and Micky Gynn ( bruised shoulder ) . |
| 11 | As a non-invasive technique ECT is a potentially useful method for estimating language laterality in individuals presumed to be without gross organic brain damage . |
| 12 | You can not afford to be without this brilliant package . |
| 13 | Break 's conclusion was that the net effect of taxation rates ‘ be it disincentive or incentive , is not large enough to be of great economic or sociological significance ’ . |
| 14 | The continued marketing of products of dubious provenance , dubious efficacy , and dubious quality could bring discredit to a new approach to stopping smoking that seems to be of great potential benefit . |
| 15 | It has proved to be of great popular interest and audiences of more than 200 people have attended the series of lectures on ‘ Studying the Scottish Home ’ , which were held in the Royal Museum of Scotland this winter . |
| 16 | The emerging pattern seemed to be of each main electronic and electrical sector being left with about three major companies . |
| 17 | Modules will only follow a process model if they have been defined to be of that particular model subtype via the MODULE-SUB-TYPE-IS keyword in the module header . |
| 18 | In general it was almost exclusively extreme right-wing elements who were first involved , but they tended to be of two distinct types . |
| 19 | The assessment is to be of two basic forms , first the teachers ' own judgements of their pupils , based on their work in class , and secondly , the pupils ' performances on standard assessment tasks ( SATs ) . |
| 20 | In the literature a " simple " material is referred to as one in which the stress depends only on the history of the deformation gradients F ( dependence on higher-order gradients has been considered but at present seems to be of little practical value ) . |
| 21 | Helping children complete tasks which the support teacher considers to be of little educational value . |
| 22 | The disposal of both nuclear and non-nuclear wastes has proved to be of major public concern in recent years . |
| 23 | But the recession may even be healthy in making it more difficult to publish the second-rate , he argues : rather than having a clear strategy of which subjects they would concentrate on , far too many academic publishers were happy simply to print a selection of the manuscripts they were sent , including multi-authored books and conference proceedings which tended to be of limited academic market . |
| 24 | Transduction seems to be too drastic and to involve fragments of DNA too small to be of serious ecological importance . |
| 25 | Thus in 1702 the Lower House of Convocation issued a declaration in which they denied that they were " in Opposition to Episcopacy " , asserting " that we acknowledge the Order of Bishops … to be of Divine Apostolical Institution " . |
| 26 | But they are likely to be of greater strategic than employment significance , and there will be losses . |
| 27 | The contribution of the primary sector is likely to be of greater relative importance in these regions than in Scotland as a whole . |
| 28 | For this reason , as we shall see , the architecture of Holyrood palace was to be of crucial political importance in the reign of Mary Queen of Scots . |
| 29 | This attitude was also responsible for a new horological invention that was ultimately to be of far-reaching social significance . |
| 30 | Unfortunately there have rarely been precise identifications although two are stated to be of Middle Eastern origin , the Cypraea Arabica from Sarre grave 238 and a tiger cowrie from Haslingfield ( Cambridgeshire ) , whose source is the Red Sea . |