Example sentences of "[adj] be [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Had that been another threat . |
| 2 | Probably contemporary with this are some bronze shields with relief decoration of purely if crudely oriental character . |
| 3 | Silly , crazy antics like this were all part of being young . |
| 4 | I 've often heard people say , ‘ You can always see someone worse off than yourself , ca n't you ? ’ as if this were any comfort ! |
| 5 | The shops were mostly dreary Woolworth-type places , and they were all shut , but there was a surprising number of people wandering around , as if this were some kind of marvellous place to take an evening stroll . |
| 6 | Letting the words flow over her Jezrael waited , standing loose , as though this were some jam dance session . |
| 7 | So high were these prison walls , indeed , that they left you wondering at the build of the common Italian criminal . |
| 8 | The explanation for this being that weather caused by frequent vigorous systems coming off a relatively warm Atlantic is not conducive to lengthy spells of severe frost . |
| 9 | What Jencks 's argument makes clear is that inheritance theories are only of practical value when the inherited characteristic is specified , together with the way in which it actually operates to produce criminal behaviour . |
| 10 | What does seem clear is that Nu was one of the hardliners : he was suspicious of the British Government 's intentions , particularly with regard to keeping the Frontier Areas apart on ‘ Divide and Rule ’ lines . |
| 11 | In all these projects , what has become clear is that software configuration control is essential . |
| 12 | However , what is clear is that agriculture in many parts of the developing world is extremely vulnerable to even a slight worsening of conditions ( Parry , 1990 ) . |
| 13 | What is now becoming clear is that clozapine produces a build up of dopamine in different receptors from other neuroleptics , and this gives a strong indication that another neurochemical abnormality underlies at least some symptoms of the disorder . |
| 14 | Whether annexation was a long-term aim in Japan is debatable ; what is clear is that Japanese believed that their nation 's security necessitated a hold on power in Korea of a kind which could only be achieved by colonial status . |
| 15 | There is no room here for a highly technical debate about language , but what is clear is that Christianity can not possibly associate any view of God with what we would normally conceive a person to be . |
| 16 | What is clear is that business managers are pulled in many directions and that they must and do make choices among alternative objectives ’ . |
| 17 | if nothing for the fact that the message that is coming home loud and clear is this request for clarification , the advent of certainty , one way or another . |
| 18 | So clear is this conclusion to my mind that , notwithstanding anything which has been said in other cases , I would be very slow to concede that the word ‘ appropriates ’ in section 1(1) is in its context ambiguous . |
| 19 | It can therefore be assumed that Miller 's message from this is that betrayal is wrong — it is the act of betrayal which finally destroys Eddie 's happiness forever . |
| 20 | This is that kind of book . |
| 21 | A possible conclusion to be drawn from this is that management can provide alternative more attractive forms of work organisation but these may be at higher cost . |
| 22 | One justification for this is that gravity is so weak that quantum gravitational effects would be large only at particle energies way beyond those in any particle accelerator . |
| 23 | The most obvious reason for this is that neuro-science has not yet reached the point where it is possible to describe language as a direct manifestation of underlying physiological of neurological states . |
| 24 | A main reason for this is that preparation for housewifery is intermingled with socialization for the feminine gender role in the wider sense . |
| 25 | A straightforward explanation for this is that inflation affects all voters whereas unemployment tends to be heavily concentrated on ( as far as the UK is concerned ) areas not noted for extensive Conservative support . |
| 26 | This is that empiricism leads to verificationism , and verificationism embodies the foundationalist asymmetries . |
| 27 | One implication of this is that evaluation procedures are usually better developed in-house than bought in from other institutions . |
| 28 | A sufficient reason for this is that M may be an adjective or a verb , neither of which would normally be considered as having a referent . |
| 29 | The response to this is that intentionality and consciousness are emergent properties of physical systems . |
| 30 | The advantage of this is that space is used economically . |