Example sentences of "be several [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed , there may well be several external views , perhaps as much as one per application or user that accesses the database . |
| 2 | While HP is keeping tight-lipped about what exactly it will be announcing , we understand there will be several new models at entry-level , mid-range and high-end price/performance points . |
| 3 | In the first of what were likely to be several criminal prosecutions resulting from the collapse of the Lincoln , Keating was convicted of misleading small investors over the sale of junk bonds — high-risk , high-yield securities — in American Continental Corp. , of which the Lincoln was a subsidiary . |
| 4 | In addition to these papillae there may be several supernumerary papillae situated on the edge of the jaw and on the edge of the adoral shields , but they are less common in smaller specimens . |
| 5 | He said there were to be several explicit love scenes . " |
| 6 | Though there may be several good reasons why our paper was not accepted ( one being that the editor in question was no longer alive ) , the fact is that there is no outlet for complaints against editorial abuse of power . |
| 7 | There appear to be several major faults in the reasoning that animal decline was the result of such plant disappearances . |
| 8 | As we have seen in the previous chapter , there may be several other processor registers accessible to the programmer apart from the accumulator , for example the MQ register . |
| 9 | If we broaden it to mean simply ‘ cleverness ’ then obviously there can be several other explanations , mostly elucidated by an understanding of general intelligence and the way in which , even in the absence of ‘ psychotic ’ modes of thought , that facilitates high achievement . |
| 10 | It is probable that there will be several different approaches in one class and the trainers will have to enable each of the students to take control of their own learning and develop skills in a way which is most effective for them . |
| 11 | I mean people do n't always agree on what evidence means ; they do n't always agree on what is the best thing to do , erm and I 've developed the idea that it 's possible to do an evaluation that I like to call divergent in the sense that there might be several different things that one might do as a result of it . |
| 12 | Phillips , Chang and Buzzell ( 1983 ) also showed that it was quite possible for there to be several different degrees of differentiation . |
| 13 | Watson ( 1986 ) suggests how some of the communication problems can be surmounted when in contact with minority ethnic groups who have difficulty with a second language but even within one language there can be several local vocabularies which strangers can not understand . |
| 14 | There are several stylish set-pieces and more imaginative slang than you could shake a cheer-leaders ass at . |
| 15 | There are several distinguishable types of foraging behaviour and food preference , varying from tracking and pursuit of prey animals by running them down through stealth and pouncing methods to omnivory or insect eating . |
| 16 | The decision is to some extent arbitrary , but there are several relevant considerations . |
| 17 | Furthermore , there are several empirical results ( some provided by Lubow and Moore ( 1959 ) themselves ) that speak against it . |
| 18 | There are several early references to a fulling mill at Cudnell , let to Robert and Joan Walker , although there is little else to suggest that Cheltenham and the surrounding area had any substantial involvement with the cloth trade . |
| 19 | Overall , there are several major issues confronting us on the media front right now . |
| 20 | In support of these publications there are several general reference books of value . |
| 21 | There are several general measures that can be taken to reduce or eliminate the problem altogether . |
| 22 | Fortunately there are several introductory books on the subject ; [ 65 ] and [ 66 ] are just two of them . |
| 23 | In Lully 's operas there are several explicit examples of four-part writing for oboes or flutes : in the Prologue to Atys , for example , the ‘ Entrée des Zéphirs ’ alternates phrases between a five-part string orchestra and a four-part oboe band . |
| 24 | At times tonal zones can be identified ; at others they are elusive , but in their sum tonalities are so well hidden that we can regard this as truly ‘ atonal ’ ( in the sense of being tonally obscure ) : It would be laborious to analyse this note by note , but there are several principal features which can be noted : |
| 25 | There are several non-addictive herbal and non-chemical remedies which can help you while you are withdrawing from your prescribed tranquillisers . |
| 26 | There are several black children who have grown up in children 's homes with purely white staff , and others who have been placed with white families who are isolated geographically and have no contact with black people ( Gill and Jackson , 1983 , p. 134 ) . |
| 27 | Within a 10-mile radius there are several archaeological sights , stone circles and museums to visit . |
| 28 | On the other side of the gate there are several abandoned cars and an old caravan . |
| 29 | Nationally , at present , there are several quality-monitoring inspectorates with well-defined but overlapping remits . |
| 30 | Included in this group are several nervous system adhesion molecules such as the neural cell adhesion molecule ( N-CAM ) , L1 , and TAG , which are involved in neuronal guidance and fasciculation . |