Example sentences of "[be] [adj] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cerene white frits are lead-free and do not contain zirconium silicate as the opacifying agent . |
| 2 | As is to be expected such loans are liquid and generate income . |
| 3 | Located on Scheveningen Beach , all rooms are spacious & have private bathroom , TV , phone , mini bar , safe , and hairdryer . |
| 4 | The rooms are spacious and furnished to suit the Victorian features of the house , such as the marble fireplaces in the lounge and drawing room and heavy panelled doors . |
| 5 | The public rooms are spacious and create a discreet atmosphere of good living . |
| 6 | Public rooms are spacious and include a TV lounge , card playing area , discotheque and bar . |
| 7 | The hotel is being immaculately restored to ensure all its public rooms are spacious and decorated to give a generally elegant , relaxed ambience throughout . |
| 8 | The staff are alert and responding to the needs of their guests and are dressed appropriately to support the scene . |
| 9 | Clearly many are dissatisfied and feel that they can point to declining standards ( e.g. in the numeracy of engineering apprentices ) , but this situation is more likely to reflect changing social patterns of recruitment rather than a real decline in ‘ educational standards ’ . |
| 10 | For example , proposals such as those to base service provision on charges or vouchers are impractical and tend only to increase the differences between the services available in different areas and to shift the costs from the more visible budgets of the services to the less visible ones of the individual , relatively powerless consumer : either their pockets or their time and energy will be hit . |
| 11 | The boots are suede-lined and have a thin contoured footbed . |
| 12 | You can take a dialogue where all the sentences are complete and make all the deletions you can , still making it natural . |
| 13 | You can also take a conversation where all the sentences are complete and go through and make all the deletions which make it natural . |
| 14 | In general , we have been writing about those melodies which are complete and have a well-defined entirety . |
| 15 | For example , most abduction experiences , which often take place in childhood , are repressed and have to be recovered using hypnosis . |
| 16 | Woolwich says six-month arrears are back to the levels of February 1988 and the Abbey National says short-term arrears have been declining since the end of last summer and repossessions are stable or falling . |
| 17 | H Prefix endorsements are pre-printed except for H90 — H99 which are free-format and require careful checking . |
| 18 | It is impossible to describe in a few words , but one thing that many knitters do not realise is that it can be worked from either left or right and that some people find one side much easier than the other ( not necessarily related to whether you are right or left handed either ! ) . |
| 19 | Hampshire and Worcestershire are profitable and have a positive cash flow , Derbyshire and Somerset are negatively positioned . |
| 20 | This would increase group revenue before tax by £171m in respect of companies which are profitable and reduce it by £141m in respect of loss-making companies . |
| 21 | It was not until she saw the colour of the light — deep warm gold — that she realised how long she must have been asleep and looked at her watch . |
| 22 | The Minister must have been asleep or doing something else when I raised my final point about the article in the education press in Scotland about the middle of last year . |
| 23 | There is often a tendency for pilots to think that , because they are solo and have managed a few soaring flights and their Bronze C , they should be allowed to go cross-country . |
| 24 | Some measures taken in this context have been controversial and offered an easy target for criticism in the press . |
| 25 | The previous year when she finished fifth she discovered she had been pregnant when taking part . |
| 26 | He then runs out of anger and the last lines are hopeless and show a broken mind : |
| 27 | Realising that her crossness with Vendelin Gajdusek had been short-lived and had quickly faded , Fabia was left to worry about Cara , and Barney , and the interview which by rights should now be over , but which had n't begun yet . |
| 28 | All packaging is recyclable , the ingredients are bio-degradable and have n't been tested on animals . |
| 29 | Soon , thought Henry , feeling , as he often did , a sense of solidarity with chickens , they would label one with THIS FOWL HAS BEEN HAND-REARED AND TALKED TO NICELY . |
| 30 | But the young are resilient and Ensign in Italy : a Platoon Commander 's Story ( Leo Cooper , £19.95 ) is without a trace of self-pity or mock heroism . |