Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [be] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The implications of this accelerated diffusion of technology and rapid translation into innovative products are that companies have very little time to rest on the strength of any one currently successful product . |
| 2 | Once the modules in the package are in this state , the only difference noticed by users carrying out normal operations is that should one or more such modules be required in a transfer of a package out of LIFESPAN , the transfer takes longer than usual , since these modules must first be brought back online . |
| 3 | An important study of muscular effort and air-pressure in stressed syllables is that reported in Ladefoged ( 1967 ) , pp. 1–49 . |
| 4 | Examples of these unwritten rules are that parents should play with their children , or that one should respond in the appropriate manner to a ‘ good morning ’ greeting . |
| 5 | The Home Secretary 's private views were that if this Quinn fellow could recover Simon Cormack alone , well and good . |
| 6 | The principal characteristics of tripartite schools are as follows : |
| 7 | Growing disenchantment with economic arguments based essentially on the continuous maximisation of consumption , together with disaffection from the vogue for central planning and large scale social and economic units are but two aspects of a complex situation . |
| 8 | Some august partnerships , such as Herbert Smith , long disdained the idea of working out what their profitable strengths were and then marketing them hard . |
| 9 | In some respects , you have to determine what your strong characteristics are and then use them . |
| 10 | The result of these strong words was that the irksome proviso was deleted and the new lease agreed . |
| 11 | Sources said top administration officials told politicians in a closed briefing on Wednesday that one of their greatest worries was that a long-term American occupation would turn opinion both in Panama and throughout the region against the new government . |
| 12 | The distortions of communication which occur in these social institutions are as they are , as a result , in part , of unconscious activity of groups of people over time . |
| 13 | In order to assess how ‘ fair ’ the warranted Accounts are and to verify or compare profit/and/or net asset growth it is useful to be able to assume that previous accounts have been drawn up on a similar basis and that , for example , the Vendor has not unfairly weighted the profits for the warranted Accounts . |
| 14 | The official business of these essentially philosophical rather than scientific views is and must be the first or conceptual matter , the analysis of our conception of causation . |
| 15 | By contrast , the position ultimately reached in the English cases is that if the primary reason for issuing new shares is to fend off a potential bidder for the company then the decision of the directors will be one that the courts can overturn even if the directors are acting bona fide in the best interests of the company . |
| 16 | Some examples of endonymous pairs are as follows ( the endonym is given first ) : animal : horse , horse : mare , horse : stable , hand : finger , hand : glove , foot : kick . |
| 17 | Not least of this chairman 's social misdemeanours was that he tried to introduce a special charge for members who missed the meeting , but who came to the pub afterwards : ‘ Imagine it : jackboots in the YCs ! ’ |
| 18 | Another characteristic of social policies is that , while some involve broad responses to popular needs and wishes , many are specific measures to assist quite small disadvantaged groups in the population . |
| 19 | One of the disconcerting features of New Historicist accounts is that a recognition of critical partially and a mapping out of the historicity of texts through the textuality of history does not produce a critical manner which is careful and self-scrutinising . |
| 20 | One reason for the previous misrepresentation of the logical abilities of such social groups is that the tests carried out to assess such abilities were unreliable both in method and in conception . |
| 21 | My view is and it 's a widely held view within the association and , and the informed clubs is that if we let that situation go on and do nothing about it we will have a decreasing er number of people going and number of people going sailing . |
| 22 | The extraordinary thing about the tenor of the right hon. Gentleman 's speech in the past few minutes is that once again he seeks to make out that this is not a very important problem and that we can push it away . |
| 23 | Hundreds of different products are or have been manufactured there , and the capacity and capability is impressive . |
| 24 | My objection to his high heels was that he would do himself a mischief if he had to bale out ! |
| 25 | The contents of subsection ( 1 ) that relate to the remedial steps are as follows : |
| 26 | What moves me very deeply about primitive peoples is that they still attach an enormous importance to a certain kind of communication which we have lost ; and that is that they allow the being of the person they are with to communicate with more than words . |
| 27 | The great skill of Japanese and German manufacturers is that they know how to make things efficiently and well , which is what we are so bad at . |
| 28 | What frustrated his old fans was that when he went it more or less alone , as on 1982 's masterfully stark and turbulent Music For A New Society , Cale produced what he also regards as his best album , ‘ because all the old pain was right there . ’ |
| 29 | The reason , I suspect , that the postmodern avant-garde of the 1920s did not have greater social effects was because of a delinkage or desynchronization of the cultural and the social . |
| 30 | One problem with normal car launching in light winds is that any poor steering on the part of the pilot results in the parachute dropping outside the normal dropping zone . |