Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] be [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dolphins captured in nets can be freed if skippers and crew are sufficiently compassionate or are legally obliged to do so . |
| 2 | If there are major disagreements as to concepts ( eg as to whether the warranties are to be very detailed or are merely trying to catch material items ) it may be necessary to have a meeting of the principals to resolve the concepts against which the agreement is to be negotiated . |
| 3 | Was change incremental or was there a sudden , sharp turning point ? |
| 4 | The most prominent aspect of privatisation , as practised by the Conservative government , has been the transfer of ownership of assets from the public sector to the private sector ( as in definition 1 ) , and it is the arguments for this that are now considered . |
| 5 | The licensing of the play-text rather than the performance conferred a form of authority on the written artefact and it was this that was supposedly acted . |
| 6 | It would be more acceptable if the dam made electricity , but it is silted up because the water analysis got muddled up and the river is much siltier than was originally expected . |
| 7 | Doubtless this wish was at bottom an ideological one , inspired by the same mania for dividing the world into masculine and feminine that is still at work today . |
| 8 | Among the lexical units which go to make up a lexeme it is possible to distinguish some that are more basic , or central , and others that are less so . |
| 9 | But , so far as this world of common experience is concerned , all living creatures , including perhaps some that are now extinct , can be arranged in a continuous hierarchy , lesser to greater , with man at the summit , as stated in Genesis . |
| 10 | We have some that are very specific , in the sense that they are intended to provide certain particular skills or techniques . |
| 11 | Ant colonies often entertain a variety of parasitic arthropods such as beetles and mites , and some that are merely commensal ; that is they merely co-habit with the ants , and thereby perhaps gain protection , or scavenge for scrap food , but do no obvious harm . |
| 12 | There are also some that are actually innocuous but are seldom eaten for they have taken a rather complicated gamble by copying the colours of poisonous caterpillars to delude aggressors into giving them as wide a berth as the creatures they mimic . |
| 13 | There were some that were quite valuable , a Churchill , I think , and a Boss , but they were sent to his gunsmith in Glasgow , Peterson and Briggs , and they were sold . |
| 14 | I thought I had sent him some that were very good , but I received a most snarky letter from him saying " They may be very fine artists but they do n't know anything about teaching , and I 'm not interested in any of your geniuses unless they really take trouble about the job in hand " . |
| 15 | Pretty tasty that is actually in n it ? |
| 16 | I 'm , I 'm afraid that is so . |
| 17 | I 'm afraid that 's just about all I can do . ’ |
| 18 | " I 'm afraid that 's quite impossible . |
| 19 | I 'm afraid that 's very general . |
| 20 | the Palladium — a cheap trick to try and convince the punters that they were in somewhere far classier than was really the case . |
| 21 | So the very few that were still on the road I really treasured and appreciated seeing . |
| 22 | Currently , the evidence is suggesting that both the motives and the actions are more prevalent than was previously supposed . |
| 23 | There was the scandal of the Westminster Council 's sale of cemeteries for 15 pence ; a report of an enterprising Yorkshireman , Edgar Dakin , who , shocked at the prices charged for memorial headstones in the conventional marble or granite , had patented his design for thermoplastic ones at a tiny fraction of the cost ; and yet another that was virtually a half-hour commercial on BBC television for the ubiquitous Hodgson Holdings . |
| 24 | It did not matter that I had rejected my father 's ways , that I had become a marine and was as poor as a church mouse while McIllvanney had become a rich man ; the stench of privilege still clung to me and McIllvanney loved to discomfort me because of it . |
| 25 | Wolf arrived in Vienna on Aug. 30 and was briefly detained . |
| 26 | Thus if deg unc is primitive and is also irreducible in Q[x] [ by 1.9.15 ] . |
| 27 | Police fixtures , the Pilgrim Society was started without knowledge of this and is thus something of an odd coincidence . |
| 28 | The individualistic fallacy is the exact opposite of this and is equally wrong . |
| 29 | The explanation will also include what is related to this and is absolutely fundamental to scientific method , which is the experimental procedure of testing and establishing connections by the " varying of circumstances " , which is essentially the discovery of what is relevant and what is irrelevant to a given event . |
| 30 | I admit I have watched Jamie doing this and been quite impressed . |