Example sentences of "[vb base] be [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What is more , many naturally-occurring chemicals are highly toxic : the natural foods we eat are stiff with potentially damaging chemicals — plants , in particular , spike their products with an armoury of defensive substances ( see p 15 ) , fungi on the plants contribute their own toxins , and the bacteria in our gut add to the number we absorb . |
| 2 | Some common names are OK ( Oscar , Jack Dempsey , Convict are current throughout the UK ) but ‘ Yellow Dwarf Cichlid ’ could be any one of several dwarfs from Africa or South America , and ‘ Butterfly Cichlid ’ can mean at least two different fish . |
| 3 | Other issues that develop are concerned with caring people who wish to help relatives and friends express their grief . |
| 4 | Though some of the foregoing indicates diversity , the questions they raise are common to all teachers : |
| 5 | I mean er does it bother you at all that well I mean are most of the men managers ? |
| 6 | If you want to carry the smallest possible quantity of water or get the best possible price in the market , the judgements you make are important in a way those made in a water tray or school shop can never be . |
| 7 | He and the staff of Safe-Buy are responsible for checking the credentials of every firm applying for membership . |
| 8 | However , more jobs than you probably realise are open to graduates no matter what they have studied . |
| 9 | The international trend is towards an ever greater degree of devolution ; here the tendency has been to centralise , and the issues of autonomy , which most locals want are confused with the mechanics of finance . |
| 10 | If they 're knocked over , the paraffin leaks and ignites , causing what firefighters say are some of the worst fires . |
| 11 | That the services they provide are relevant to environmental groups , and in that way to help environmental groups plug in to the kinds of advice on fund raising and er , management and all sorts of other aspects of running a voluntary organisation , which , at the moment , of , er a lot of , er social service organisations plug into , but so many environmental groups . |
| 12 | Our members need to know that the services and benefits that the union provide are available to them regardless of where they work . |
| 13 | Too often in the past , schools/industry work has suffered from an inability to present value for money indicators and this we suggest is one of the strengths of the TPS . |
| 14 | Aiming at ‘ normal ’ concentrations runs the risk of inducing phenylalanine deficiency , which several lines of evidence suggest is harmful to both nutrition and brain development . |
| 15 | And he 's had it slapped in his face , because this council has provided an adequate budget for the police authority , it has pr , treated it fairly and squarely like every other council committee , and made sure that the service they provide is adequate for the people of this county . |
| 16 | The other is my lack of understanding of sending money abroad — on the face of it , anything we send is liable to a double loss , once when exchanged into a form suitable for sending to America ( Covenant House ) and again when passed onto Guatemala . |
| 17 | I would estimate that on present form our cost to the heads of agreement stage may be another [ ] assuming it is a UK buyer and that the information you supply is satisfactory to the potential purchasers . |
| 18 | What it means , of course , is that very often we have different definitions of experience and reality from men , and that much of what we say is critical of men and about what they have done to women . |
| 19 | That , that I , I say is reserved for Parliament . |
| 20 | ‘ What you say is close to the truth . |
| 21 | An international team of astronomers estimated that the distance to Supernova 1987A , and therefore the LMC , is 169 000 light years , a figure which they say is accurate to within 5 per cent . |
| 22 | But I I do n't erm from the nature of Mr Justice in the Midland Bank that there 's a a well known but w what I say is that in this case er what your Lordship will be dealing with are essentially what are matters of practice for conveyancing solicitors when faced particularly with clients er making financial arrangements to enter into this and the duties of in that particular situation . |
| 23 | If all this had to be summed up in one sentence I suppose it would have to be that Wittgenstein 's treatment of the ‘ Other Minds ’ problem is an extended illustration of a point in philosophical logic : namely , that the meaningfulness of some of the things we say is dependent on contingent facts of nature — such as that the Earth revolves on its axis , and that we moan with pain and react as we do to others who moan . |
| 24 | The 1977 US survey also shows that most people give APRs a lower place in their actual shopping than in the more abstract terms of what they say is important with regard to disclosure . |
| 25 | If anyone older than you , even someone you know , tries to kiss or touch you in a way you do n't like or that confuses you , or which they say is supposed to be a secret , say NO in a very loud voice . |
| 26 | Everything we do and say is reflective of our personality and mental-emotional patterns . |
| 27 | ‘ Your University — which you say is short of cash . |
| 28 | ‘ So this is the man you say is indispensable to us . ’ |
| 29 | These were Cypripack plastic media which Cyprio offer as a cheaper alternative to foam ( which they say is 3 to 8 times better than most plastic media ) . |
| 30 | A second widely-used transform is that of principal components . |