Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The big hook which had once been part of a hanging scales was in the shape of the letter S , and sharpened to a point at both ends . |
| 2 | This year 's event , the 40th of its type to be held , proved once again that Oshkosh is without doubt the largest aviation event of its kind in the world . |
| 3 | In extract 15 , for example , Cheryl 's Creole response is to the London English part of Jane 's turn , while Jane 's next turn is an English response to Cheryl 's Creole turn . |
| 4 | I 'm dealing with two estates where no will has been made and the house was in the name of husband alone who died without a will and the net result is that on on law on intestacy neither of the those surviving widows is of right entitled to the house and in both cases there are children and as you can imagine there is a certain amount of anguish about it . |
| 5 | The greatest freedom is to be responsible . |
| 6 | THE station 's prime economic function was as a reception and distribution point for goods of all kinds . |
| 7 | Mr Clarke said the working plans were for about five units with about 40 places each . |
| 8 | Now it has finally taken to the field and just about touched first base , announcing that OfficePower is from today , generally available worldwide on Santa Cruz Operation 's SCO Unix implementation . |
| 9 | Their symbolic political struggle is in defence of a cultural order in which there exist strong moral rules to provide solutions to the problems of the appropriate constituents and roles of the family . |
| 10 | and therefore the question of the new settlement is inextricably bound up with where that provision is in relation to you br definition of Greater York . |
| 11 | I think our view is that if that provision was to be any greater , then we would have significant difficulty in accommodating that provision within our part of Greater York , primarily for for greenbelt considerations , not reasons , erm any additional provision would require a rolling back of the greenbelt , er significant provision would have two implications , erm either it would mean peripheral expansion er of York into the greenbelt around York and into our district , we feel that would adversely affect the special character of York , lead to outward sprawl of the York urban area , encroachment into open countryside , and coalescence of the urban area with the villages in our district , er and we we would n't want to support that . |
| 12 | My right hon. Friend recently announced that the mental illness specific grant is to be increased by 50 per cent . |
| 13 | The fact remains that internment is on the statute book and is available to the Government to use . |
| 14 | Once the budget is decided , the retailer needs to draw up a plan of how that money is to be spent . |
| 15 | Again I agree with my hon. Friend , if that money is to be expended it might be a good thing if there were a public inquiry . |
| 16 | Instead , it seems that money is to be spent in an almost futile attempt to attract to the bay , at a time of recession , companies and start-up projects that , by rights , should be located elsewhere . |
| 17 | But the idea of given you that money is to homework , . |
| 18 | ‘ That money is for my future and for the future of my little girl ! ’ |
| 19 | So erm and how we use that money is at our discretion . |
| 20 | ‘ That money 's for the future . ’ |
| 21 | But that money 's for his work … not for living expenses . |
| 22 | Dad had left slightly more money than expected , and that money was to be divided equally between Nathan , Georgia and Rona , Rona 's share to be held in trust until she attained the age of eighteen . |
| 23 | Many statutes can already be summoned up on a video screen at the touch of a few buttons , and complete coverage is in the offing ; but , since the use of these computerised systems is expensive , the old-fashioned methods will long be with us . |
| 24 | But it says here should a tribunal require them to pay a basic award for compensation then that payment is on the basis that it 's offered and accepted in satisfaction er towards those payments . |
| 25 | And European funding is in place . |
| 26 | Gamma , a decidedly orange K-type star , makes up the Dragon 's head with Beta , Xi ( 3.7 ) and Nu , which is a wide double ; each component is of magnitude 4.9 , and the ‘ twins ’ are identical . |
| 27 | SynOptics Communications Inc has announced an order from the Unipart Group of Companies for its System 3000 intelligent hubs , which will be used to spearhead the latter 's migration from IBM Corp mainframe systems to personal computer local networks : the order comes via network integrator Harris Adacom , and comprises seven System 3000 hubs which will be used to run Token Ring and Ethernet ; the total contract is worth £250,000 , and SynOptics says it won the order ahead of competition from Cabletron and IBM . |
| 28 | This can be done , however , only where a taxpayer 's total income is below the level of their personal allowances . |
| 29 | ‘ The finest views are from the bottom , and at some places a little above it , but few dare venture to the bottom particularly those females whose pedestrian excursions have chiefly been upon level ground ; nay the male sex are often appalled with a view of the way , and many a Bond-street gentleman , in his stable costume , would rather hazard his neck four-in-hand , than risk it by having his arms precariously supported by the twigs and branches he may find in his way to the gulph below . ’ |
| 30 | The use of unemployment rates as a criterion of the effectiveness of regional policies is of limited value . |