Example sentences of "be [adj] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | IT MUST be awful being in Guns N' Roses , standing next to Axl Rose and listening to him making that funny noise all the time . |
| 2 | Now be kind to her because it must be awful living in Grantham hello Sharon . |
| 3 | What this suggests is that if there ever were a completely stable community which was totally insulated from the outside world , there would be stable differentiation within it — and gender-difference might often be one aspect of this . |
| 4 | It could be monotonous work for an aspiring and impatient young painter and Thomas Girtin ( 1775–1802 ) for one rebelled against the repetitive work , with the result that his master Edward Dayes had him put in prison for breaking the terms of his indentures . |
| 5 | ‘ Yes , I wanted to be nearer home to be able to give my parents a hand with Jennifer . |
| 6 | In Conversation A , the British-born speaker Brenda uses both London English and Creole , but shows what seems to be differential behaviour in responding towards her father ( F ) and her brother ( L ) , for example , in A-3 : |
| 7 | In relation to offences involving personal violence there would appear to be little evidence from the survey to substantiate claims that Merseyside is an exceptionally violent area In relation to household crimes , however , the rate in Merseyside is substantially higher and in the case of burglary three times higher than the national average . |
| 8 | Miners ' leaders attending a special conference of the National Union of Mineworkers in Sheffield yesterday backed away from a strike over the imposition of a 7.6 per cent pay rise by British Coal , when they realised there would be little support from members . |
| 9 | There seems to be little work from the Labour local member . |
| 10 | The horse box charge from the south would be a minimum of £500 and more for those coming from the West Country , so there would be little change from a £2,000 race when all the expenses , including the deductions for trainer , jockey and stable lads have been completed . |
| 11 | Contrary to the Jenkins and Sherman argument a group of academic economists ( Stoneman et al. 1981 ) , in a study published by the OECD , claimed that ‘ up to now there is no firm evidence that the current high levels of unemployment are due to technical progress ’ and that ‘ if account is taken of the offsetting effects that can be predicted , there will be little change in overall demand [ for skills and jobs ] ’ . |
| 12 | There will be little change in the employment situation , despite signs that the cold economic climate is thawing , said the MPs as they set out their Budget hopes . |
| 13 | There appears to be little change in prevalence rates with age ( see Figure 5.2 ) , but rates are considerably higher in women as compared with men ( see Figure 5.3 ) . |
| 14 | There can be little doubt about the lack of parental rights over choice of school prior to 1980 . |
| 15 | There can be little doubt about the need for the clear formal statement of the aims of nurse education . |
| 16 | While there may be some uncertainty about what the future holds for Britain 's larger provincial cities , there can be little doubt about the massive strength of decentralization forces in the case of London . |
| 17 | Although no reports on incidental killings of small cetaceans in the new Tasman/South Pacific drift-net fishery were provided by the Taiwanese , Japanese , or Korean governments , there could be little doubt of the damage being done . |
| 18 | Although industrial conflict occurs across a wide range of behaviour , there can be little doubt of the massive amount of attention focused on one of its forms : strikes . |
| 19 | There can be little doubt for instance that the doubtfulness or downright hostility felt towards Eliot by some Americans , particularly in recent decades , derives from the sort of American Eliot was — and remained , long after he had taken British citizenship . |
| 20 | Even with that level of scrutiny , there could be little hope of containing fraud , which is already a serious drain on the EC 's coffers and on its reputation . |
| 21 | Environmental protection and wealth creation are in tension but not necessarily in conflict , and indeed there can be little hope of improving the quality of the environment without the resources to do so . |
| 22 | However , while they remain in the hands of farmers , and while agricultural workers are completely dependent on their employers not only for their jobs but also for housing and education , there can be little hope of real improvement or of community involvement . |
| 23 | There seemed to be little hope for the future , just a mundane job and low pay and fewer prospects for meeting the opposite sex once university days were over . |
| 24 | Following this there was considerable despondency amongst the committee as there seemed to be little hope for the future . |
| 25 | There can be little hope for Newcastle 's future until some form of stability is achieved . |
| 26 | But clergywomen say there would be little value in that . |
| 27 | Finally , as summarized in table 4 , there seemed to be little interest in some of the current general matters of concern in education . |
| 28 | If , for example , the retailer required a supply of cards for Mother 's Day , they would be little use to him if they arrived afterwards . |
| 29 | These , not merely the hopelessly wounded , but those whose wounds were just too complicated for the frantic surgeons to waste time probing , or who looked as if they would be little use to the army again , were laid outside in the bitter cold . |
| 30 | All these transactions were secret , for there would be little use in keeping a paper alive if it were known to be owned by a political party . |