Example sentences of "[be] [adj] [noun] [prep] [noun] [adv] " in BNC.

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1 I do n't think they are that type of band anyway .
2 However , the Australian economy is still weak ; museums are very short of funds and there are few buyers for works over A$ 50,000 .
3 Downing Street has said that the Prime Minister warned President Clinton to make sure the American missile attack on Iraq was ’ limited and proportionate ’ bearing in mind there are British people in jail there .
4 Could it be — and this will shock the glossy posse at Esquire — that there are some things in life more important than fashion ?
5 What I 'm asking is , could there have been some kind of mistake here , at your end ? ’
6 In the United States there has already been some production of material specifically for interactive use , but for most people it is still a question of waiting and seeing what uses , methods and materials emerge .
7 Yeah but I mean the times I 've seen her it 's been this end of town rather than that end of town .
8 They are illiterate coolies from Canton mostly , emigrating to Cochin-China .
9 It should not be forgotten that there are different systems of law even within the UK , so that even for domestic sales such a clause avoids a potential source of confusion .
10 The Chancellor may decide to encourage greater use of diesel : however , he has only limited scope for any price differentiation between DERV and petrol , for since December diesel has actually been 10 pence per gallon more expensive than unleaded petrol .
11 If only I 'd been 10 years of age again , I 'd have loved the ‘ Pirates Club ’ .
12 Bar-tailed Godwits are very rare inland in Sussex , but since 1966 there have been six reports of birds inland on spring migration between 12 April and 3 May , usually in small parties , but 200 together flew north over Arlington Reservoir on 3 May 1971 .
13 The remastering will only really matter if you 're one of those bores with expensive stereos , but if you 're that sort of person then that 's reason enough to buy this .
14 The remastering will only really matter if you 're one of those bores with expensive stereos , but if you 're that sort of person then that 's reason enough to buy this .
15 But it what I 'm saying is that they 're all shades of colour anyway .
16 And although there are large numbers of people happily and effectively working with the same standalone , two-dimensional , text-based products that came free with their PCs several years ago , in the world of corporate computing a little more is needed .
17 This is no hardship when there are fine fruits on offer instead : compotes of dried fruits as well as fresh apples , pears , bananas , citrus fruits and the first invigorating taste of early forced rhubarb .
18 People who are little horrors in school quite often grow up into all right individuals . ’
19 In the sample , there are 35 stitches between motif-centres horizontally , therefore you would need 50 rows between centres vertically .
20 Fifthly , even if there are undisputed economies of scale so that there is a net increase in surplus , it can still be argued that there is a social opportunity loss .
21 So , there are these sort of centres all over the country , er but this is the first time that there has been one that has arts and science under the same room .
22 There are three generations of neutrino just as there are of every other particle .
23 Also in New Guinea are sympatric birds of paradise apparently dealing with fruit in a similar way , staying in the trees for only a few minutes , perhaps through fear of predators .
24 This indicates that thermal convection ( section 2.2.2 ) is the dominant mode of upward heat transfer , and that there are powerful sources of heat deep in the atmosphere .
25 Although houses now look cheap again , relative to average earnings , there are major constraints on demand still — even if the Chancellor resists the temptation to act on mortgage interest tax relief this time around .
26 When you 're trying to write down speech , you can see that there are all sorts of problems initially , of how much you write down .
27 It 's not to say that the positive news it does n't work if in fact it is of interest to people , and it strikes them as , as such , and there are all sorts of subterfuges incidentally ranging from using facts and statistics and which relate to people , to even actually using individual stories .
28 We pose Problem 3 Are all irreducibles in Z[x] also primes ?
29 There are traditional influences at work here , and they are ideologically loaded .
30 My 12 × 40 binoculars will just take in the two Pointers to Polaris , Merak and Dubhe , which are 5 degrees of arc apart ; the 7 × 50 pair will contain them very easily , while , naturally , 20 × 70 will not .
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