Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [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 | 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 . |
| 4 | Perhaps the clearest instance is that reported by Halgren ( 1974 ) and summarized in Fig. 4.1 . |
| 5 | One of the greatest things about the beauty of a Journey through Spain 's rich heritage is that it can start from almost anywhere . |
| 6 | But perhaps their greatest weakness is that they are heavily dependent on trust , a commodity which is in diminishing supply these days . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | On the contrary , it only proved how deep rooted racism was and how successful the New Right had been in discrediting these initiatives . |
| 10 | 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 ) . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | An important study of muscular effort and air-pressure in stressed syllables is that reported in Ladefoged ( 1967 ) , pp. 1–49 . |
| 15 | A drawback of this fire-setting technique is that it was liable to impair the value of the product by cracking it . |
| 16 | And if Mrs Williams — and how very grateful Morse was that she 'd agreed to his earlier telephone request to be present ! — if Mrs Williams could possibly think of some diversion … some talk , some walk . |
| 17 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | The essence of that hope is that through self-knowledge , existing constraints on thought and action can be better appreciated and thereby overcome . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | The professional assessment is that the Mitre ball is heavier when it flies through the air and therefore lends itself to greater accuracy . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | The second reason why God does not give up on you as a hopeless case is because he can see the future . |
| 30 | Although the electronics industry has changed greatly , possible the greatest change is that very little component level manufacture is done in this country . |