Example sentences of "[noun pl] [be] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , planning ahead may not always be possible — for example if your circumstances change quickly or vacancies are in short supply . |
| 2 | This usually means that melody benefits if notes are of different durations . |
| 3 | He says it 's hard at first because the notes are in different places . |
| 4 | After all , salesforce personnel are in close contact with the people who actually make up the market , and ought to have the most detailed knowledge about how it is likely to behave in the near future . |
| 5 | These satellites are in geostationary orbit and the images that they provide are used primarily in weather forecasting applications . |
| 6 | Becher et al ( 1981 ) point to some of the problems : it is not obvious what the real reasons are for poor results ( e.g. poor intake ) ; criticism of a hardworking school operating in bad circumstances undermines morale ; and a high scoring school acts as a magnet and deprives other schools of high ability children . |
| 7 | If , therefore , prisoners are in future to be told the judicial recommendation as to the tariff period , many judges may think it appropriate to announce their own recommendations publicly in court when passing sentence . |
| 8 | Duties are specific to each profession or kind of work , whereas wishes are in general a reflection in the working context of the kinds of personal values that people hold . |
| 9 | A further 11 States are at various stages of adopting these tougher regulations and this will lead to the benefits of cleaner exhausts being extended to a further 15% of the US car market . |
| 10 | If picture-books are for young children , then what is one to make of , for example , Charles Keeping 's edition of Alfred Noyes The highwayman or Raymond Briggs ' Fungus the bogeyman ? |
| 11 | N. W. Cusa 's ducks are like attractive wooden decoys . |
| 12 | It is hypothetically assumed that if a woman marries but remains childless , she would work continuously in a full-time job until switching to part-time employment , set somewhat arbitrarily at age 54 , the age when the majority of her employed contemporaries are in part-time jobs . |
| 13 | It is logical that this should be so for actuarial skills are in limited supply , are in increasing demand , and frequently carry a great deal of responsibility . |
| 14 | The inability to speedily and correctly diagnose aircraft system and component failures because good diagnostic skills are in short supply leads to departure delays and possible compromises in safety . |
| 15 | Your skills are in short supply and have acquired a rarity value undreamed of in the 1970s . |
| 16 | If I can clarify that , our policies we 've been going since nineteen eighty three , and all our policies are in full print , which are readable . |
| 17 | However , there has so far been virtually no attempt to find out either how significant such policies are amongst leading firms or whether some are more prevalent than others . |
| 18 | In most peasant communities agricultural operations are of considerable communal significance , and this is likely to be particularly true of wet-rice agriculture where irrigation is the key to survival . |
| 19 | In such research , exact statistics of public attitudes are of small importance . |
| 20 | These attitudes are in striking contrast to the British tradition , where party conflict is the primary institutional feature of Westminster and has been for over a century . |
| 21 | Out of the office , Muriel 's preferences are for classical music , a quiet existence , with knitting , visiting the elderly and church on Sundays pretty well top of the list . |
| 22 | On the other hand , virtually no motion can be detected in atactic poly ( methyl methacrylate ) at 300 K , but at 450 K , the chains are in rapid motion . |
| 23 | Most of the original copies are in fine condition : they are , moreover , exceedingly rate and one is very likely to go through life without coming across better ones . |
| 24 | The problem generally classified as ‘ shirking ’ also extends to incompetence , since if the shareholders are for practical purposes unable to replace management the company may suffer from inept leadership quite separately from questions of managerial diligence . |
| 25 | As we pointed out then , although a stretch of discourse can appear to be largely concerned with a single individual , or one discourse subject , so that the discourse may be loosely reported as being ‘ about ’ that individual , this should not lead us to claim that all discourses are about single individuals or can be given convenient one-word titles . |
| 26 | ‘ My clubs are in good and capable hands , ’ he said . |
| 27 | These projects are of considerable interest and lead to a lot of activity work but much of the work is done in groups , and the issues of the individual skills and abilities of children are n't addressed much at all . |
| 28 | The laibon 's fingers are like rolled-up tobacco leaves , crudely made cabbage cigars . |
| 29 | Now , that has been quietened , with even some of the arch critics from those days , such as Ivan Lendl , saying that the courts are in perfect shape . |
| 30 | However the courts are in general reluctant to exclude the possibility of such legal representation in toto within a particular area . |