Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [be] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The only good thing , the only good thing about La the only good thing about Labour is that they would have brought back student grants so if I ever , if I ever do go to university then I 'll get lots of money . |
| 2 | The upshot of these pressures for self-financing was that in the first ten years some 36 per cent of the industry 's investment was internally financed : £488 millions from depreciation allowances and £98 millions from surplus after interest payments . |
| 3 | Because another way in which I had to throw good money after bad was that after he died once I started having things done in the house they kept on turning up things that he had done that were absolutely N B G |
| 4 | A major merit of network planning systems such as PERT is that the structure ensures that the work content and logical sequence of jobs is not stated in potentially ambiguous groups of words but by a combination of the layout of the network and the defined symbols forming it . |
| 5 | The drawback of multi-threading is that it only allows whole processes to run on individual CPUs and is unsuited for particularly large applications . |
| 6 | I picked up a couple once — The Dawning of Extraordinary Being and The Zigzag Path of Super-Zen . |
| 7 | Some of these books are raw as hell , but whether the inspiration comes from Jilly Cooper or Thomas Hardy , Iceberg Slim or Samuel Selvon , what can be said for sure is that the Black British Novel is here to stay , giving voice to a bunch of people with a whole mess of new stories to tell . |
| 8 | All we can say for sure is that it entered the microscope , perhaps on one side , perhaps on the other , perhaps in the middle . |
| 9 | All I do know for sure is that I woke up loving him . |
| 10 | One thing we did know for sure was that it was not keep-fit exercises that we needed but homes that were ‘ fit ’ to live in and incomes or benefits that prevented us from having to choose between dying from hypothermia or malnutrition ! |
| 11 | ’ All he knew for sure was that the stuff went off-planet . |
| 12 | The Prime Minister won a strong ovation when she added : ‘ The trouble with Labour is that they 're just not at home with freedom . |
| 13 | The submission in short is that the judge 's ruling was wrong . |
| 14 | All we can say in general is that there is a critical frequency , a knife-edge . |
| 15 | Thus a peculiar feature of utilitarianism in general is that it emphasizes the comparability of situations . |
| 16 | What left-wing historians regret in particular is that the emergence of this new ‘ popular culture ’ came at precisely the moment when conditions were favouring the development of a radical working-class political consciousness . |
| 17 | One in particular is that we currently lack a theory , or theories , of an alternative process . |
| 18 | We 've argued that that would stimulate migration as opposed simply to accommodate past trends , so we 've argued that , but the the problem for West Yorkshire well for Leeds in particular is that the brown field sites we have , the regeneration that we need is not of sites which would readily accommodate housing , they 're not sites which lend themselves as nice places to live . |
| 19 | One of the biggest problems with insurance policies and pensions in particular is that many are not written in trust . |
| 20 | What they have in common is that each escapes ‘ the limitations of the personal ’ . |
| 21 | What all three things have in common is that they were caused by autumn . |
| 22 | What the following thrillers have in common is that each is a rattling good read , and together they are the cream ( 1939 , as will be seen , being a particularly creamy year ) of their genre , leading you on to other delights . |
| 23 | Apart from the fact that most of them were self-made , the other thing they had in common is that they were all essentially ‘ doers ’ , unencumbered by second thoughts . |
| 24 | Another aspect which the two modes do appear to have in common is that in neither mode is the participant required to concentrate on the emotion itself ( another reason why Cemrel has got it wrong ) . |
| 25 | Indeed , the main thing that the reef-building creatures have in common is that they are sessile , and produce limestone skeletons , and when they die , the skeletons stay behind . |
| 26 | The most important differences are those to be found between individuals , rather than between groups or categories This seems to imply that the one thing Shetlanders have in common is that they Are All different from one another , and that their common identity as Shetlanders is something that emerges only when they contrast themselves to people from the south . |
| 27 | The big factor that all these illnesses and health problems have in common is that they are virtually non-existent among Third World communities , living on what-grows-naturally in age-old traditional ways . |
| 28 | What they all have in common is that they are all attempts to go beyond appearances . |
| 29 | In truth there are liquid acrylics of varying viscosity and therefore suitable for different uses , but the one thing which they all have in common is that they open up acrylic work to the whole field of design and illustration and offer other useful techniques for the fine artist . |
| 30 | I 'm cool with Janet , because one thing we have in common is that both of us are out there . |