Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [be] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has throughout been common ground that the benefit in this case to each taxpayer is that ‘ his son is allowed to participate in all the facilities afforded by the school to boys who are educated there . ’ |
| 2 | And the political assessment was that there would be another round of talks in the summer . |
| 3 | Perhaps the clearest instance is that reported by Halgren ( 1974 ) and summarized in Fig. 4.1 . |
| 4 | One of the greatest things about the beauty of a Journey through Spain 's rich heritage is that it can start from almost anywhere . |
| 5 | But perhaps their greatest weakness is that they are heavily dependent on trust , a commodity which is in diminishing supply these days . |
| 6 | The beauty of that trail is that you have the thrill of walking beneath the railway viaduct and carrying on up alongside the Allt Chonoghlais into Coire a' Ghabhalach , the mirror eastern corrie of the one gained by the Bridge of Orchy route . |
| 7 | It is unnecessary for the purpose of this case to determine whether that decision is or is not correct : I will assume ( without expressing any view on the point ) that it is . |
| 8 | On the contrary , it only proved how deep rooted racism was and how successful the New Right had been in discrediting these initiatives . |
| 9 | The result of both explicit and covert discrimination was that boys were far more likely to succeed at public examinations and to enter higher and further education ( Wilkin , 1982 ) . |
| 10 | She did n't know what that prayer was but she wondered if they meant it or if to most of them it was … just words and phrases . |
| 11 | A strange finding was that the rate was the same for all the ‘ mixed ’ molecules , regardless of what ‘ unusual ’ oxygen isotope they were composed of . |
| 12 | A drawback of this fire-setting technique is that it was liable to impair the value of the product by cracking it . |
| 13 | ‘ My greatest hope is that we shall gain a deeper knowledge of who we are and how we are related to the Universe , and that this knowledge will further the evolutionary progression of our collective consciousness . ’ |
| 14 | Another strong link is that the areas of inefficiency and non-collection are the very areas where the Conservatives have been scoring the most remarkable by-election victories in terms of council seats . |
| 15 | The essence of that hope is that through self-knowledge , existing constraints on thought and action can be better appreciated and thereby overcome . |
| 16 | Ormerod 's working hypothesis is that the parasites migrate there to avoid the host 's immune response , which can not recognise foreign invaders that have crossed the blood-brain barrier . |
| 17 | Then , fearful of things going wrong — their greatest dread was that they would be late and that the ship would sail without them — they decided to allow an extra twenty-four hours . |
| 18 | The remarkable thing about that response was that the hon. Member for Islington , South and Finsbury ( Mr. Smith ) failed to tell the House whether he agreed with our proposals . |
| 19 | A consequence of this unquestioning enthusiasm is that the implications of change have not been thought through , and may yet have a sting or two in the tail . |
| 20 | The fact that a person is suffering from a mental disorder within the Mental Health Act 1983 does not preclude a legally effective consent ( ss. 57 and 58 ) The question in each case is whether the person was capable of understanding . |
| 21 | The professional assessment is that the Mitre ball is heavier when it flies through the air and therefore lends itself to greater accuracy . |
| 22 | The whole significance of that Budget was that it was designed to eliminate the need for , or the risk of , the monetisation of debt as a result of the level of Government expenditure in relation to the level of the national product . |
| 23 | Now one of the interesting things about this is that they 've worked out , in order to erm achieve our sales forecast , erm the impact of recruitment for each branch is that we need a net growth in branch of one plus one for every er on every month . |
| 24 | The second reason why God does not give up on you as a hopeless case is because he can see the future . |
| 25 | Although the electronics industry has changed greatly , possible the greatest change is that very little component level manufacture is done in this country . |
| 26 | The only meaning to that part was that he was on top of — i.e. , surpassing — her in public . |
| 27 | However , the important additional point in that case was that the transferor foundation was in principle and in fact a legal person whose objects were non-commercial . |
| 28 | The point of that story was that Scrooge could afford to be generous . |
| 29 | But as the key diagram stands at the moment , because it goes north of Knaresborough in its indication of where the route proposal will be , I think if that i key diagram is to remain , it is right for the examination to consider what the need for that route is as opposed to a route or any other route which goes between Harrogate and Knaresborough . |
| 30 | Part of the reason there has been so little bloodshed is that nobody yet is certain who killed Mr Gandhi or why . |