Example sentences of "[noun prp] be [adj] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | NOT even the fairy tales of Hans Christian Andersen are immune from political correctness . |
| 2 | Sunderland are unbeaten in four games but have scored only one League goal at a time when rivals Newcastle have been hogging the limelight . |
| 3 | Clearly writers like Kant and Ritchie are impressed by this fact . |
| 4 | The findings of this report on four inner-city areas in Liverpool , Glasgow , Hull and Middlesbrough are essential to any record of an emerging underclass in Britain . |
| 5 | Mary and Jim are typical of many couples in this situation . |
| 6 | Although both Romaine and Knowles are critical of some aspects of Labov 's method , there is an important difference in their underlying goals and assumptions . |
| 7 | In this idea Marx and Engels are different from earlier writers such as Adam Smith , or later writers such as Durkheim , who say nothing necessarily inegalitarian in the division of labour . |
| 8 | The works of Beethoven and Bach are full of similar constructions , and it is remarkable how certain basic rhythmic cells ( such as or ) are used over and over again in their music . |
| 9 | Above right : Daphnia are grown-on in these tanks . |
| 10 | The DSS believes that NICs are due on such payments ( the Faculty has set out the reasons why it does not agree ) , but comments that it is possible to deal with matters rather differently by the so-called ‘ statutory method ’ . |
| 11 | Pennick and Devereux are blunt on this point : ‘ The dowsing rod has become an implement to authorise the acceptance of subjective ideas as factual statements . ’ |
| 12 | Marx and Engels were interested in primitive cultures because they wanted to construct a general history and theory of society in order to explain the coming to be of capitalism . |
| 13 | Phoenix is available in several sizes . |
| 14 | Because DRP is under-represented in amplified cDNA libraries , we constructed an unamplified library using messenger RNA extracted from the human glioma cell line IN157 , in which DRP is abundantly expressed in the absence of dystrophin . |
| 15 | I am not trying to say that Dr Scott is typical of general practitioners — in some ways his willingness to bare his soul makes him unique . |
| 16 | Wright 's yellow on white upholstery — wool carpet and mercerised cotton , rayon and cotton chenille — was made by Loja Saarinen , head of the weaving workshop at the Cranbrook Academy of Art , Detroit . |
| 17 | Not many , probably — but then Leo Brennan is exceptional by most standards . |
| 18 | Tennis : Graf is upset by nervous second |
| 19 | The range of RCDs from PowerBreaker is available from high street stores and DIY Superstores . |
| 20 | Adopting a Child : a practical guide for people interested in adoption ( 1984 ) published by BAAF is useful for adoptive parents . |
| 21 | ‘ The truth is , Harry , Rex is obsessed by that car crash twenty years ago and what led up to it . |
| 22 | Chartering in Mexico is fraught with legal problems for the organisations that set up there . |
| 23 | Devereux is open on this question , though he admits that we know of only some of the ‘ invisible and subtler forces that course through creation ’ and even those we are beginning to discover can occur in contexts with which we are unfamiliar . |
| 24 | Although almost entirely forgotten now , during the late nineteenth century Herbert Spencer was pre-eminent in this field . |
| 25 | Perhaps her mother had convinced him that Shiona was incapable of such behaviour , or perhaps he had n't needed any convincing . |
| 26 | ( This meant that till Philip II 's time Macedon was short of good harbours . ) |
| 27 | Ceauşescu was amused by this story , particularly by his own interpreter 's stuttering as he came to translate the punchline . |
| 28 | Manville was silent for several moments . |
| 29 | As with security and intelligence organizations in other countries , the KGB was involved in widespread operations abroad , but a major part of its concern was with Soviet citizens themselves . |
| 30 | Air Chief Marshal Kaset Rojanani was relieved of two posts , as Armed Forces Supreme Commander and Head of the Air Force , and was appointed as Armed Forces Inspector-General . |