Example sentences of "be [adj] in the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I echo the point made by my hon. Friend the Member for New Forest ( Sir P. McNair-Wilson ) about the delays that could be inherent in the new system proposed by the Bill . |
| 2 | That this was an ill-advised step is very clear to us , but Eadmer was only pressing a claim which he believed to be inherent in the original jurisdiction of Canterbury . |
| 3 | Guns like these could be devastating in the wrong hands . |
| 4 | Carrier testing is also practicable in close relatives but — except in communities with a high frequency of particular mutations — carrier testing will not be practicable in the general population , including the unrelated spouses of known carriers , until it is possible cheaply to scan the hydroxylase gene for the many known mutations . |
| 5 | But if you 've got excitement — and that 's anything from romancing to stalking in the dark — then you 'll be alert in the wee small hours . |
| 6 | It can first be grown in an immersed flower-pot in a smaller tank , and then , once the plant has grown to a substantial height , it should be sunken in the main tank . |
| 7 | The Court of Appeal on 9 August 1989 found that a trial judge has no power to empanel a multiracial jury , even if he believes to do so would be right in the particular circumstances of the case . |
| 8 | In fact , libertarian ideologists seem to be scarce in the Young Conservatives over the whole West Midland region . |
| 9 | Even so , Wendler is careful to qualify best estimates , saying ‘ open environments will not be possible in the absolute , even by 1996 , but solutions will emerge that are increasingly less closed . ’ |
| 10 | With both sides eager to do business , speculation has mounted that a joint space station might be possible in the late 1990s . |
| 11 | The ‘ fuzzy ’ nature of much geographically distributed data , the inherent errors in it , the effects of the processing algorithms used and the assumption of known interactions between variables ensures that completely routine use by unskilled users is unlikely to be possible in the foreseeable future ; |
| 12 | Therefore , either the acoustic-phonetic component must reduce the phoneme graph depth further while still guaranteeing the inclusion of the target phoneme in all successive vertical slots in the graph — but it would be optimistic to suggest that this will be possible in the foreseeable future — or else , lexical and post-lexical processing must be enriched to constrain further the alternative number of derived word strings . |
| 13 | This may not be possible in the short term , and initially a UK company may prefer to make sales and win clients in another EC market without the benefit of a local office , through the activities of visiting marketing personnel or intermediaries . |
| 14 | I believe we truly have something to celebrate , not only what has been achieved but what must now be possible in the coming decade . |
| 15 | Teaching must be alive and it can only be alive in the present moment — it is time-consuming to try to make stale bread palatable , and why bother when fresh bread is available ? |
| 16 | Carbon dioxide emissions per head of population may be low in the developing countries , but they are high when measured against units of GDP . |
| 17 | That future output depends on real investment in productive assets now and in the future , while the piling-up of financial assets in excess of real investment can only be inflationary in the long run ( a ‘ long run ’ which is already with us ) . |
| 18 | He/she must walk a tightrope too : interpret a tentative remark too directly and you may sound rude — but reproducing it too closely to the original may sound so tentative as to be confusing in the other language . |
| 19 | Spending some money on development education at home could , they thought , be cost-effective in the long run . |
| 20 | The new yarn is an 80 % Courtelle and 20 % wool , machine washable mix which will be popular in the current trend for Aran knits . |
| 21 | No porosity or permeability data has been published for the oolitic grainstones but these are known to be porous in the southern North Sea and Poland where they display both primary inter-granular and leached intragranular pores ( Taylor and Colter 1975 ; Peryt and Piatkowski 1977 ; Peryt 1978 ) . |
| 22 | Although the belief in growth as a value in itself , or as the remedy for the ills of society , which seemed to be prevalent in the early 1960s has given way to a more sceptical attitude , it seems clear that an understanding of the long-run consequences of tax and expenditure policy is essential . |
| 23 | He said that he had enjoyed working on his own behalf , but felt that staying out of the profession would not be sensible in the long run . |
| 24 | I suspect that there may be damp in the solid floor of our lounge . |
| 25 | However it may appear to modern man , the measure of ruthless cruelty that may be manifest in the evolutionary processes , can not be labelled ‘ evil ’ . |
| 26 | The other Scots who must be high in the current pecking order are Gary Armstrong , Kenny Milne , Scott Hastings , Damian Cronin , Doddie Weir , Tony Stanger , Paul Burnell and Craig Chalmers , with Andrew Reed a good fringe candidate . |
| 27 | As previously reported , the serum gastrin concentration was found to be high in the renal failure patients compared with those with normal renal function . |
| 28 | Scores were going to be high in the rainy , windy conditions . |
| 29 | Regulation which might be more costly in the short term than the actual abuses it seeks to regulate , may be justifiable in the long run . |
| 30 | ‘ We are very worried that multi-nationals with a captive audience in the East will impose conditions there that would not be acceptable in the European Community . |