Example sentences of "[be] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Few jobs are easy to get these days and , if you have set your sights on advertising , it must be worth extra effort . |
| 2 | Or should they hang on in the hope that these assets will soon be worth serious money ? |
| 3 | It must be about ordinary people taking control of our own lives . |
| 4 | The ‘ Crossroads ’ experiment presented a mentally handicapped child within the dimensions of a programme which purports to be about real people and real life , and to explore some of the issues raised in having such a child . |
| 5 | If the politics of the eighties has been characterised by Mrs Thatcher 's confrontational style , Mr Kinnock believes the politics of the nineties must be about international negotiation and co-operation . |
| 6 | On the other hand we have noticed that the Greeks were much less curious than we would expect them to be about certain countries within their reach and indeed well inside their sphere of economic and cultural influence . |
| 7 | The training in on offer appears to be about increasing management capabilities and if you do n't want to go down that road there is a problem , for there is a significant and genuine gap between the expectation of school boards and how their task was perceived by the Scottish Office . |
| 8 | Questions about specific pictures , which could , for example , be about specific saints , can be readily answered from the standard works which abound , provided such answers treat the works as history books , and make it quite clear to the children that the stories about a ‘ heaven ’ and miracles , which are to be found in those books , are not now really believed . |
| 9 | Animal Painting in Britain was the title of a book by Basil Taylor , where he explained in his first chapter that the topic had been neglected since it was either assumed to be about sporting pictures , or about pictures of horses by such specialists as Sartorius . |
| 10 | Partnerships should challenge the trend ; partnerships should not be about alternative sources of funding for the public education service but about ensuring proper levels of public funding with additional support from the private sector . |
| 11 | If propositions purporting to be about fictional things are to be accepted as meaningful , then it is only on condition that they can be paraphrased into propositions about non-fictional things ; for example , into propositions about persons who are thinking , alleging , claiming , etc. something fictional . |
| 12 | It is more likely to be about sore things from childhood , which we were not allowed properly to experience or mourn : or we may have been too young in emotional or physical development to cope . |
| 13 | Presumably each side would want to state its position about the quality/condition of the sample and the evidence would presumably be about other samples said to be of various qualities or conditions . |
| 14 | It can be about other universities . |
| 15 | Whatever reservations there may be about individual decisions from time to time , the basic premise that most planning decisions should be taken locally has never been seriously challenged . |
| 16 | Architecture can no longer be about individual statements , buildings . |
| 17 | The love poetry of Saadi and Hafiz though seeming to be about physical love was really about transcendent love . |
| 18 | These dreams tend not to be about sudden drops or stumbles , but of long drops from high buildings or down deep holes , ending in collisions with the ground , or perhaps with miraculously soft landings . |
| 19 | It could be about particular authors who 've been through the public-school system , or even about the way the system works at close hand . |
| 20 | And it ca n't by definition be about sexual liberation simply because it duplicates and exploits those same power relationships . ’ |
| 21 | It pretends to be about local government when it is nothing of the sort . |
| 22 | Embarrassment , it seems clear , is a major concern of the British psyche , and the dreams the British dream , if opinion-polls are to be believed , tend to be about social embarrassment , with amorous fantasy playing only a disappointingly minor role ; and if that is to be taken in evidence , then it may be said to represent a more powerful obsession than sex . |
| 23 | ‘ The new approach will be about direct generation of business . ’ |
| 24 | Appointments will be as Technical Assistants or Trainee Scientists . |
| 25 | Furthermore when a random access pallet system is employed utilization of pallet spaces provided can be as high 95% rather than less than 85% in more conventional warehouses . |
| 26 | Their main use will be as independent units , to be acquired by those carrying out assessment functions . |
| 27 | The next LAN to be developed will probably be for Horticultural Education , where external funding is currently being sought for hardware and software to run specialist grounds maintenance , works scheduling , and computerised landscape design and costing . |
| 28 | Hofmann believed that the proper objectives of such research should not be for personal gain , but for the pursuit of fundamental knowledge and the fulfilment of social needs . |
| 29 | The first is that it now seems the £200 must all be for personal injury or death and not just include such damages . |
| 30 | The limitation that " consumer goods " must be for private use or consumption , whilst a " product " can be supplied for any use , does not mean that suppliers of industrial or business products can escape their responsibilities , because the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 will apply . |