Example sentences of "[be] [adj] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most advances are supposed to be short-term but in practice many are outstanding for long periods . |
| 2 | Of the twenty-one bedrooms , seventeen are spacious with private facilities , and the remaining four are attic rooms with shared bathrooms . |
| 3 | Self completed diaries are preferable to single questionnaires or clinic based consultation because accurate recall of symptoms may be affected by memory bias and single measures may be misleading . |
| 4 | Of course , even if insider trading had some tendency to make the market smoother the benefit from that smoothness ( and it is not entirely clear why smooth gradual movements are preferable to sudden jumps ) might not be worth its cost . |
| 5 | Smaller weekly or fortnightly water changes of 10–20% are preferable to large monthly ones . |
| 6 | Smaller weekly or fortnightly water changes of 10–20% are preferable to large monthly ones . |
| 7 | There is a policy supported view that mentally handicapped people should not be placed in institutions ; that community based alternatives should exist ; and that small living arrangements are preferable to large . |
| 8 | Even the most ardent critics of the closure programme agree that modern , small , and homely residential ‘ sanctuary ’ units are preferable to drafty wards in crumbling old hospitals where staff morale is often low . |
| 9 | Instead of one group of market participants who do not learn from experience and another ( entrepreneurial ) group who do , we can work with market participants who are alert to changing buying and selling possibilities . |
| 10 | If we are alert to textual detail — and all studies of the reverberations of imagery in the Miller 's Tale tell us that it is a tale that encourages us to be so ( see below ) — then we can also find a suggestive parallel between Absolon 's inability to detach himself entirely from the vulgarities of the human world and the Host 's failure to impose an elegantly hierarchical structure on the tale-telling competition . |
| 11 | They demonstrate that no heights are unobtainable by British Industry if it is willing to apply its enterprise and commitment to excellence . |
| 12 | Nevertheless , in the course of a great deal of inservice work with both primary and secondary teachers I have gained the impression that many are dissatisfied with current practice without knowing with any certainty how to improve matters . |
| 13 | Prone to blockage they are unsuitable for general use . |
| 14 | These squatter settlements have sprung up in great abundance , generally in undesirable and inaccessible areas , which are unsuitable for standard building . |
| 15 | The development of such ‘ industries ’ has also been facilitated by improved communications and transport as well as the need to generate income in areas that have been adversely affected by the economic recession of the early 1980s or which are unsuitable for other kinds of economic activity such as agriculture . |
| 16 | By the same token they are unsuitable for small rooms , and would be so even if their considerable bulk was n't so dominating in such surroundings . |
| 17 | There is a lack of provision focusing on creating a pathway for cumulative accreditation and the criteria often dissuade many who feel that the types of training on offer are unsuitable for mature students . |
| 18 | Publishers ' casings are unsuitable for heavy library use , and many public librarians take up various options for strengthened editions offered by the library suppliers . |
| 19 | Although at first sight , the great abundance of bogs and freshwater lochs on the Outer Hebrides suggests an abundance of suitable sites for palaeoecological studies , on closer examination several are unsuitable for detailed investigation . |
| 20 | Soundposts are an important feature of bowed instruments but are unsuitable for plucked instruments and will deaden the sound of a dulcimer . |
| 21 | Pamphlets are unsuitable for open shelf stock . |
| 22 | Verbier ( 0-40cm ) and Zermatt ( 0-45cm ) are skiable on upper slopes . |
| 23 | Artificial amorphous PHB granules prepared as described are stable in aqueous suspension at 30 °C for at least 6 months . |
| 24 | Thus even the earliest and most modest collection of phrase structure rules would have been pregnant with new output ; and as the rules became entrenched so too would innovative effort and diagnostic insight become more relaxed and automatic , as words appeared newly combined in well-understood syntactic contexts . |
| 25 | In all cases the module descriptors are free-standing with clear indications of entry level . |
| 26 | The investigation aims to establish what sub-contracting patterns in what circumstances are conducive to good business performance , and draw conclusions about whether they are specific to an industry or a nation , or transferrable across sectoral or national boundaries . |
| 27 | In terms of subject areas ethnic minority teachers are under-represented in modern language and feel marginalised as in some cases these posts are section 11 funded or concentrated in the areas of special needs . |
| 28 | ‘ Women are under-represented in traditional craft industries due to lack of real training and support for girls at school leaving age , compounded by the hostility of an all-too-often chauvinist workplace . |
| 29 | They say she 'd been depressed in recent days |
| 30 | These criteria do not imply that other longer term influences are not at work and we would have to accept that some of these influences are historical , in that they are inherent to probable ‘ weak ’ parenting skills from John 's earliest life . |