Example sentences of "[noun] [be] [adj] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | Amplex Capsules are refreshing in Original or Ice Mint Flavours . |
2 | According to our preferred model only two-thirds of the vacancies are acceptable to teenage men . |
3 | Legal raves are fun for young people . |
4 | New patients ' NHS notes are essential for general practitioners : they contain specific details of past treatment and confirm what the patients say about their current treatment . |
5 | Oscars are notorious for digestive troubles , and you can avoid future trouble by varying their diet . |
6 | The place is devoid of alcoholic recourse , even the bands ' riders are untroubled by hard liquor , shit , we 're all going to have to take crack instead ! |
7 | MOST New Yorkers are cynical about current efforts to clean mobsters out of their city 's waste-disposal business — and with good reason . |
8 | All these four reasons are subject to varying degrees of criticism : Unskilled manual jobs may well be done just as well , if not better , by the less educated ; resistance to change in employment can be affected more by the alternative job opportunities that are available than by levels of education ; advanced industrialisation has so atomised and de-skilled the production process that for many workers further or higher education is not necessary in their jobs , etc. , etc . |
9 | Our model does predict that long-period comets with kinetic energies in the tens of kiloton range should catastrophically disrupt and deposit the bulk of their energy just above 60km altitude , so the fates of these objects are consistent with cometary airbursts . |
10 | It is by definition a complex object , and all complex objects are explicable as logical constructions out of logically simple elements . |
11 | The important thing is that circles near heavy objects are different from normal . |
12 | Some argue that high returns are possible in declining industries and that this is inconsistent with the harvest/divest strategies indicated in the BCG and McKinsey-GE matrices . |
13 | Table lamps are ideal for soft lighting and look particularly good in a traditional-style room . |
14 | It would appear that states prefer to act legally where possible and it is not possible to claim that states are unaffected by legal prohibitions on war , but the regularity with which such a large proportion of states are prepared to use force illegally — despite their total commitment to law-abidingness within their territories and the apparent lack of any retributive consequences of such illegalities ( unless defeat in war is unhelpfully labelled as a punishment ) — raise doubts about the parallels between municipal and international law in terms of the parameters of the concept of law . |
15 | While such states are central to literary studies , it is difficult to describe them precisely or effectively ; and for this reason , although they are of great interest , they are also inevitably weak points in your argumentation . |
16 | The view that the attitudes of Arab states are irrelevant to future security arrangements unless they coincide with Western prejudice — has been reinforced by the destruction of the Arab League early last August . |
17 | Heads with wiglike hair are frequent in various eastern arts and surely served as a model , but the Greek geometry is entirely absent from them . |
18 | NOT even the fairy tales of Hans Christian Andersen are immune from political correctness . |
19 | Mandibles of lagomorphs are almost never found in pellets of the species investigated here , even in the largest eagle owl pellets , presumably because lagomorph skulls are too large to be swallowed whole , but fragments of skull and jaw are present in mammalian scats . |
20 | Arithmetical skills are often considered to be ‘ basic skills ’ , and the implication is drawn that such skills are relevant to everyday life . |
21 | This type of work , movement works closely with memorization in many cases , these skills are essential for daily living , they need regular daily practice in a great variety of situations . |
22 | In addition , evaluation within a Piagetian framework has led Furth ( 1966 ) to claim that cognitive skills are similar in deaf children , given equivalent exposure to the task requirements . |
23 | ‘ The important thing is the skills are transferable to general management or maybe back into practice , because we still need good managers to manage provision . ’ |
24 | The saxophones are capable of great agility . |
25 | — during life the size , shape and position of the heart are subject to considerable variations ; |
26 | The Company 's accounting policies are consistent with previous years . |
27 | Both policies are subject to certain exclusions . |
28 | The Buid are sub-moral in Christian eyes because of their refusal to ‘ properly ’ acknowledge their debts . |
29 | Through their transistor radios , the Buid are aware of various gira ( Spanish guerra , ‘ war ’ ) being fought in different parts of the world . |
30 | Such operations are subject to strict conditions . |