Example sentences of "and [adj] [noun sg] [prep] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | These include , first , any calls for a radical restructuring of society in which new structures and processes of government are sought which would significantly alter the balance between governors and governed ; second , calls for greater priority to be given to social , community and ecological factors in decision-making and lower priority to be given to economic and technological factors which are geared towards reproducing or sustaining the kind of society that exists at present ; and , third , calls for a significant change in defence policy , for example , a renunciation of nuclear weapons , neutralism or disengagement from military alliances such as NATO ( McAuslan , 1980 , p. 6 ) . |
| 2 | And that sort of is very encouraging . |
| 3 | By a respondent 's notice dated 28 February 1992 the father contended that in the event of the appeal being allowed in part the order should be varied so that the local authority pay to the father a sum representing the costs incurred by the father in the family proceedings court and that sum to be calculated by a costs draftsman by reference to the Legal Aid in Family Proceedings ( Remuneration ) Regulations 1991 or alternatively , to an order that the local authority pay to the father a sum representing in relating to the proceedings below calculated in the same way but excluding all or part of the costs incurred on 27 and 28 January 1992 . |
| 4 | It is the job of those responsible for managing that plant and that technology to be thinking furiously what the next step is , and what changes and improvements they can see , because if you are not doing this your competitors will . |
| 5 | Notwithstanding the popular appeal and political capital to be derived from such a humane-sounding statement , this definition is nevertheless at variance with the traditional understanding of the meaning of punishment . |
| 6 | Accordingly , he suggested separate facilities at each exchange for dealing with juveniles ; notices with information about the exchanges were to be displayed in schools ; lists of prospective school-leavers to be sent to the local exchange with details of their ‘ ability , tastes and desires ’ ; and each school-leaver to be told to call at the exchange for an interview . |
| 7 | No one who has undergone the traumatic and humiliating experience of being bundled unceremoniously out of a senior position will deny that . |
| 8 | The smaller Amazonian manatee ( or cow fish ) has been wiped out in many of its traditional homes in the inland river network by a combination of deliberate hunting and accidental death through being caught in fishing nets . |
| 9 | But as we shall see in Chapter 6 more flexible planning policies are required if the low-wage rural economy is to be alleviated and rural depopulation to be assuaged in those areas where it remains a problem . |
| 10 | The network of Training Enterprise Councils ( TEC ) has been set up to allow strategies for dealing with vocational training , employment needs , new enterprise and economic development to be handled at a local level by a single local body , which benefits from the practical experience and local knowledge of the employers and others who serve on its board . |
| 11 | According to Soviet claims the Brezhnev plan was also directed at Egypt 's intention to establish its own rapid deployment force with American and Israeli assistance to be deployed against Libya . |
| 12 | I came to see the world as an abundant and joyous place to be . |
| 13 | Because of the chemical dissolving process , there are very much larger volumes of both solid and liquid waste to be dealt with than at any other nuclear site . |
| 14 | If total benefit ( utility ) derived from being in locality is denoted by and total benefit from being in is , then equilibrium occurs where |
| 15 | More generally , therefore , an employee 's initial idea may be several steps ahead of the present state-of-the-art and yet be too far removed from practical and profitable application to be of immediate benefit . |
| 16 | This will drive most of the air out of the growing medium and prevent clouds of bubbles and associated debris from being released into the pool . |
| 17 | Taxes and public spending to be set to reach a ‘ savings target ’ for the nation over a period of years . |
| 18 | We want our houses to go up in in value and this sort of is not important to us ! |
| 19 | Let me make it clear , I believe in the Union of Scotland , England , Wales and Northern Ireland as the only sensible and acceptable way of being a member of the European Community . |
| 20 | There were plenty of crumbs to be gathered from around the cheese and scraps of meat and tasty skin to be picked from the carcass of a cooked chicken . |
| 21 | Clearly , too , English language teaching and research would be greatly aided by facilities enabling particular types of linguistic and historical information to be extracted . |
| 22 | The Maggot , Ellen insisted , was an untoilet-trained redneck jerk whose only expertise was as a player of the most brutal and mindless sport to be devised since the lions took on the Christians . |
| 23 | Eventually he was rewarded for his long and faithful service by being placed in the heavens as the constellation of Aquarius . |
| 24 | The two items in the struggle for the liberty of the Church to which Anselm was committed were for him not negotiable either by himself or the successor of the pope who had declared lay investiture and clerical homage to be irreconcilable with the law of the Church . |
| 25 | This chapter outlines the procedures and recommended practice to be adopted when engaged to sell a company or business . |
| 26 | This chapter outlines the procedures and recommended practice to be adopted when engaged to provide acquisition assistance . |
| 27 | It would be necessary to allocate at random a group of people to smoke ( say ) 50 cigarettes per day and another group to be non-smoker controls . |
| 28 | ‘ I 've been living on salad , fish and fresh air to be at my lightest for this , but it was well worth it . |
| 29 | Far from hitting business , it is particularly important for Skinnergate and High Row to be rid of traffic if they are to survive the opening of the Cornmill development . |
| 30 | A problem in studying language is that it is often too close to individual speakers to be observed dispassionately : it is either taken for granted and not seen at all , or is too intimately involved in individual and social identity to be discussed objectively . |