Example sentences of "the [noun pl] be [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The defences were at that time concerned with 59 Squadron which was bombing the docks . |
| 2 | I could n't believe how good the pros were from 100 yards . |
| 3 | The circulars were for double glazing , a credit card company and for small deductions on the purchase of a variety of household goods . |
| 4 | The crowds were in good form as well . |
| 5 | If the excesses are of equal amounts one excess only shall be deducted . |
| 6 | G Those discussions were fitted into a regular CDP meeting which itself discussed ‘ polytechnic autonomy ’ , and in which a variety of views were recorded — the institutions were at different stages of development ; the CNAA had established national status and its degrees were accepted currency ; the CNAA was known to be giving serious attention to ways and means of giving greater freedoms to experienced colleges ; emphasis should not be placed on charters as such … . |
| 7 | The problem generally classified as ‘ shirking ’ also extends to incompetence , since if the shareholders are for practical purposes unable to replace management the company may suffer from inept leadership quite separately from questions of managerial diligence . |
| 8 | The buildings on all the estates are of modern construction , designed and built to a standard acceptable to institutional purchasers . |
| 9 | On the other hand , virtually no motion can be detected in atactic poly ( methyl methacrylate ) at 300 K , but at 450 K , the chains are in rapid motion . |
| 10 | Now the enemy 's all deflated and dead , I feel like all my friends and all the artists were like little pygmies and we 've been trying to kill this elephant all these years with little arrows , and finally tonight … |
| 11 | The toilets are on that way . |
| 12 | However , the implications of urban decentralization for the cities are of greater concern . |
| 13 | The frequency with which the operation is carried out depends upon the plants involved and the compost or soil in which they were originally planted , but its need becomes apparent when the leaves of the plant become yellowish and get progressively smaller , and the blooms are of poor colour and with few petals . |
| 14 | Now , that has been quietened , with even some of the arch critics from those days , such as Ivan Lendl , saying that the courts are in perfect shape . |
| 15 | If the judicial function were wholly automatic , then not only would the making of decisions in the courts be of little interest but it would not be necessary to recruit highly trained and intellectually able men and women to serve as judges and to pay them handsome salaries . |
| 16 | Certain test writers argue that the blank substituted for the deleted word should correspond to the length of the missing word but in many cloze tests all the blanks are of uniform length . |
| 17 | The Notes are in eight languages : English , French , Italian , Spanish , Arabic , Greek , Japanese and Portuguese . |
| 18 | He says it 's hard at first because the notes are in different places . |
| 19 | The RUC said the notes were of poor quality and did have a water mark . |
| 20 | In the noisy gannetries the birds were at all stages of development . |
| 21 | The foundations are in good order and the quality of the original lime mortar is excellent . ’ |
| 22 | All of the houses are in good shape , and there should be no trouble . |
| 23 | And when the little bouncing balls came up onscreen , pointing out the subtitled lyrics for ‘ Fixin' To Die Rag ’ , the ciderheads were in seventh heaven . |
| 24 | It must be greater than unity unless all the molecules are of equal length , as is easily seen . |
| 25 | Such a state is less ordered , or more disordered , than the original state in which all the molecules were in one half . |
| 26 | The Teleuts needed Russian trade and agricultural products and the Russians were in desperate need of leather goods , cattle , horses and women . |
| 27 | ‘ The majors were like lumbering giants , ’ Jay explains . |
| 28 | The tapestries were in good repair and intact , so too were the pictures and the collection of Bow . |
| 29 | It is not clear at present exactly what the rules are in such cases , nor whether the choices of readings are as clear-cut as they at first seem . |
| 30 | No counsel appearing on this appeal has attempted to defend those findings of fact or suggest that the reasons are in any way adequate . |