Example sentences of "[noun] [be] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | However , planning ahead may not always be possible — for example if your circumstances change quickly or vacancies are in short supply . |
2 | This usually means that melody benefits if notes are of different durations . |
3 | He says it 's hard at first because the notes are in different places . |
4 | After all , salesforce personnel are in close contact with the people who actually make up the market , and ought to have the most detailed knowledge about how it is likely to behave in the near future . |
5 | These satellites are in geostationary orbit and the images that they provide are used primarily in weather forecasting applications . |
6 | The tasks of planning and liaising , and monitoring are of particular relevance here . |
7 | If you are importing , the cheapest and most straightforward methods of settlement are by international payments in currency or sterling , and Midland offers three options : Priority Payments , where speed of funds transfer is of paramount importance ; Mail Payments , where there is less urgency ; and Bankers Drafts , which are particularly appropriate for low priority , low value payments . |
8 | Ten parts of South Africa ( not necessarily contiguous geographical entities but based on ethnic groupings ) have been designated by the government as " homelands " for Africans ; four of these have been declared independent sovereign states but are recognized only by South Africa and by each other ; the remainder are at various stages of " self-government " . |
9 | Becher et al ( 1981 ) point to some of the problems : it is not obvious what the real reasons are for poor results ( e.g. poor intake ) ; criticism of a hardworking school operating in bad circumstances undermines morale ; and a high scoring school acts as a magnet and deprives other schools of high ability children . |
10 | If , therefore , prisoners are in future to be told the judicial recommendation as to the tariff period , many judges may think it appropriate to announce their own recommendations publicly in court when passing sentence . |
11 | Duties are specific to each profession or kind of work , whereas wishes are in general a reflection in the working context of the kinds of personal values that people hold . |
12 | A further 11 States are at various stages of adopting these tougher regulations and this will lead to the benefits of cleaner exhausts being extended to a further 15% of the US car market . |
13 | Briefly the requirements for short story are for fictional narrative based er narrative based scripts of two thousand one hundred to two thousand three hundred words do not use a factual accounts or anything longer or shorter on this , nor can we consider 60 Writers Monthly |
14 | Many of the stories selected for short story are from published collections established authors some are commissioned specifically for the slot . |
15 | If picture-books are for young children , then what is one to make of , for example , Charles Keeping 's edition of Alfred Noyes The highwayman or Raymond Briggs ' Fungus the bogeyman ? |
16 | Notwithstanding the fact that Dirks was found not guilty , the tests laid down in the case are of great significance : a tipper 's liability is contingent upon the purpose of his action ; while a tippee 's liability is limited to those situations where he knows or ought reasonably to know of the insider 's breach of duty . |
17 | N. W. Cusa 's ducks are like attractive wooden decoys . |
18 | It is hypothetically assumed that if a woman marries but remains childless , she would work continuously in a full-time job until switching to part-time employment , set somewhat arbitrarily at age 54 , the age when the majority of her employed contemporaries are in part-time jobs . |
19 | It is logical that this should be so for actuarial skills are in limited supply , are in increasing demand , and frequently carry a great deal of responsibility . |
20 | The inability to speedily and correctly diagnose aircraft system and component failures because good diagnostic skills are in short supply leads to departure delays and possible compromises in safety . |
21 | Your skills are in short supply and have acquired a rarity value undreamed of in the 1970s . |
22 | ‘ ( 2 ) Where the seller sells goods in the course of a business , there is an implied condition that the goods supplied under the contract are of merchantable quality , except that there is no such condition-CC |
23 | ( c ) The implied obligation of merchantable quality The SGA 1979 and the SGSA 1982 provide that , where goods are sold in the course of a business , there is an implied condition that the goods supplied under the contract are of merchantable quality . |
24 | Thus s14(2) of SGA 1979 ( replicated in s10(2) of SOGIT 1973 as substituted by the CCA 1974 and ss4(3) , 9(3) of SGSA 1982 ) provides : ( 2 ) Where the seller sells goods in the course of a business , there is an implied condition that the goods supplied under the contract are of merchantable quality , except that there is no such condition ( a ) as regards defects specifically drawn to the buyer 's attention before the contract is made ; or ( b ) if the buyer examines the goods before the contract is made , as regards defects which that examination ought to reveal . |
25 | And just to prove that Swindon are in good form , how 's this for a keep fit routine — the Hoddle hoki-koki . |
26 | Proceeds from the offering , which was managed by Donaldson Lufkin & Jenrette Securities Corp are for working capital . |
27 | If I can clarify that , our policies we 've been going since nineteen eighty three , and all our policies are in full print , which are readable . |
28 | However , there has so far been virtually no attempt to find out either how significant such policies are amongst leading firms or whether some are more prevalent than others . |
29 | Morphemic complexity and syllabic complexity are in gross terms reasonably equivalent ; but they are not necessarily equivalent for individual words ; for example , six-th-s contains three morphemes , but only one syllable ; establish , on the other hand , contains only one morpheme , but three syllables. ( ii ) An idiom may be roughly defined as a sequence of two or more words , the meaning of which is not predictable from the meanings of the constituent words ; eg get by , as it were , under the weather . |
30 | In most peasant communities agricultural operations are of considerable communal significance , and this is likely to be particularly true of wet-rice agriculture where irrigation is the key to survival . |