Example sentences of "[be] [adj] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These excellent jogsuits are outstanding value for money at a greatly reduced price . |
| 2 | We can see , then , that Weber agrees with Marx that the crucial economic features of capitalism are private ownership of the means of production , and markets for goods and labour . |
| 3 | We have seen that both Marx and Weber see contemporary Western societies as capitalist , and both agree that the crucial distinctive features of this are private ownership of the means of production , and a market for labour . |
| 4 | In my village there had been historic upheaval over such questions as whether it was right that hymns should be sung in the House of God . |
| 5 | For the last six years he has been assistant curate at St. Barnabas ' Church in Linthorpe , Middlesbrough , and he will be instituted as vicar of Saltburn in July . |
| 6 | Johnson , who had been assistant coach with the national under-21 team , is now the backs ' mentor with Scotland ‘ B ’ as well as succeeding Dixon as Glasgow 's district coach . |
| 7 | Dick had been assistant editor of the New Statesman from 1938 to 1955 and , as has already been explained , was no friend of the leading men of the Labour party in the years after the War . |
| 8 | The portraits of Lady Charlotte Burgoyne ( c1771–2 ) and an anonymous woman in a pink dress ( c1772 ) are ample proof of this . |
| 9 | For a long time deemed a white , Western organization , the setting up of section sin countries like Tunisia , Algeria and South Korea , are ample illustration of Amnesty 's worldwide stature . |
| 10 | The Sinhalese were thought lazy because of their reluctance to work for planters , but the poor living conditions of estate labourers are ample explanation of the failure to recruit Sinhalese workers . |
| 11 | ‘ Perhaps we are striking form at the right time , especially among the forwards . |
| 12 | There has been scanty analysis of either the individual members of the household 's different structural relationship to housing , or of households that do not comply with the nuclear family model . |
| 13 | ‘ HAVE been sweating blood over the question of what is right and feasible to do . |
| 14 | I could have understood it in Cottee 's case if he had been sweating blood for Everton . |
| 15 | We have been very pleased that in the intervening months , when there has been ample opportunity for discussion and feedback , considerable support for this scheme has been forthcoming . |
| 16 | Daly stressed the narrowness of most reefs and showed , from examples where the rate of reef growth is known , that there had been ample time in the Post-glacial period for the growth of modern reefs . |
| 17 | Again , it would have been professional suicide for a civil servant to describe the indignities of derangement and to represent himself as having been mad , unless the facts were as well known to his colleagues and masters as he says they were ; while to try , on the other hand , to put his known condition in a better light , as Hoccleve does , is sensible only if the fact of his illness was well known but his recovery less well recognised , which is what he claims . |
| 18 | They are centres of friendship where relationships which are light-hearted combine with the serious business of running a school on corporate lines . |
| 19 | I mean I think to a , I think to a degree we always have been fifty sort of thing when the rock 'n' roll started to come over then again you see for we , we look little one . |
| 20 | Robertson 's drive over the bar and Klinsmann 's shot , astutely blocked by Walker , ensured that there would have been adolescent opposition to the idea of an early exit while there was so much to appreciate . |
| 21 | There are 300,000,000,000,000 fermis in twelve inches . |
| 22 | For goods , there had been tariff-free trade in manufactures since 1972 , but non-tariff barriers would now be removed . |
| 23 | There has been conflicting evidence concerning the occurrence of DGR in both normal controls and in association with gastric ulcers . |
| 24 | The systematic study of a non-standard system , however , supports the argument that there could have been orderly variation in EModE involving merger and reversal patterns of /a/ and /Ε/; ( or /α/); in certain consonantal environments , and suggests that the usual account of the history of /a/ ( fronting to [ ae ] and subsequent split into two RP phonemes ) is oversimplified . |
| 25 | She had tried to explain this fleeting instinctive comprehension to Peter , but he had said , ‘ I think you are confusing faith with emotion , ’ so she had not tried again . |
| 26 | Christopher Poll , managing director of Micropal statistics service warns : ‘ People are confusing volatility with risk . |
| 27 | As we drove back to the airport Smith said that at the end of the war he had been executive officer at a naval air base in California , and that one of the officers there had been a certain Lieutenant Richard Milhous Nixon . |
| 28 | Trade and Industry Secretary Navarro was the head of an accounting firm , while Agrarian Reform Secretary Garilao had been executive director of the Philippine Business for Social Progress , a business-funded foundation established to undertake community projects . |
| 29 | An invigoratingly stormy relationship was in the making and if Nicholson had been gossip-column fodder at the time , the writers would have had a field day . |
| 30 | This route would have been wishful thinking to the classical organic chemist hut the reaction proceeds readily in the presence of rhodium , one of the rarest metals , and of iodine , which act together as a catalyst system . |