Example sentences of "[be] [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We ask them to be multi- skilled , we ask them to use new technology , we ask them to be obsessed as they should be with quality add customer service . |
| 2 | These may include grains of different shapes and sizes ( Terry & chilingar , 1955 ) , or be computer-generated random percentages ( Folk , Andrews & lewis , 1970 ) ( Fig. 5.4 ) . |
| 3 | The pound needs to be stable long term . |
| 4 | Erm , had , he was very happy with it , and he was so happy that he tossed up , obviously it turned to be inexpendible small child , erm , who was promptly decapitated by this fan , which is , I mean , it 's a terrible story . |
| 5 | A much more interesting objection is that such courses might well be practicable given energy and determination , but were inherently objectionable , and should not be attempted . |
| 6 | The reasons seems to be differential parental investment . |
| 7 | He saw what appeared to be rich American clients and insisted on taking them to lunch first . |
| 8 | Otherwise , they fear , there will be little public support for the policies on health and welfare , national service and education , which both they and Mr Clinton want to see . |
| 9 | Aid has created such artificial divisions within what should be normal national programmes of health care or agriculture that it now obstructs the development of such programmes on a country-wide basis . |
| 10 | However , extracodes are usually distinguished by the fact that operation codes have been allocated to them at the computer hardware design level , either because they will be normal hardwired instructions in some models , or because an instruction requirement has been recognized that is uneconomic to implement in hardware . |
| 11 | ‘ Surely there must be normal feminine legs inside those masculine trousers ? |
| 12 | Secondly , and perhaps most important , they have claimed that they do not want to hand over control of an income tax to what they perceive to be extremist Labour local authorities . |
| 13 | A fair voting system , which we would also like to see in local government , would mean that it would be unlikely that there would ever be extremist Labour councils . |
| 14 | The architect or the engineer working within the civil service may believe this to be unnecessary red tape and their culture may be dominated by a concern to do the best possible job conforming to the highest professional standards . |
| 15 | It has attempted to be very explicit about what it considers to be unnecessary local expenditure . |
| 16 | As shown in Table VIII , the 13 cases that were judged histological to be definite ulcerative colitis ( category A ) were distributed almost evenly between the RP and control groups . |
| 17 | This means that by 2001 there are likely to be 18,000 extra cases , all aged over 75 . |
| 18 | Sometimes it appears to be little more than this , as in the case of the temporary vogue for ‘ Occitania ’ in France in the 1970s , the shift of a number of able intellectuals of the Left to Scottish nationalism in the same decade and the preoccupation with what was claimed to be Valencian national identity in the early 1980s among left intellectuals of the Spanish Levante . |
| 19 | GIVEN THAT Jacob 's Mouse have been involved in this rock ‘ n ’ roll malarkey in some form or another from an age when your hack still believed a bosom was Captain Birdseye 's right hand man on the SS Fishfinger , you would , perhaps — just like the kids of Bury St Edmunds — expect Sam , Jebb and Hugo to be precocious little shits with heads as big as Frank Sidebottom 's . |
| 20 | Main reasons seem to be persistent low profitability among farmers and their uncertainty about the future . |
| 21 | But actually , because they were very tight , they had to be whacking great things so that they would n't bend under the pressure . |
| 22 | Both are then held to be deficient relative to Marx 's conception of a ‘ mode of production ’ within which differentiation can be understood , made intelligible and ultimately accountable to a materialistically grounded ethics of emancipation rooted in a conception of a ‘ complex ’ totality . |
| 23 | As Rushdie and recession deepen hostility to race equality legislation , few believe the new government will do more than seek greater managerial competence from the Commission for Racial Equality while encouraging those blacks who can be multicultural Tory role models . |
| 24 | Those of the low Arctic ( within a boundary similar to that of Aleksandrova , discussed on p. 85 ) appear mainly to be boreal alpine species that have spread northward . |
| 25 | ‘ March hares must be strange daft creatures then , to be so helpful . |
| 26 | She thought he looked at her rather searchingly , and she held her breath , for surely there would be strange untold stories about this place and surely he would know of them ? |
| 27 | To enjoy these types of appeal there must be specific statutory authority . |
| 28 | MBO and venture capital fund investors are only slowly appreciating that the trade-off for the lower risk inherent in transactions that are more carefully selected and more conservatively structured than those typical in the mid-eighties has to be lower anticipated rates of return , whether the exit is via a trade sale or a flotation on to a less than receptive equity market . |
| 29 | I said I got ta be bloody sober ! |
| 30 | Gon na be bloody rich in a minute ! |