Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [adj] [be] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What is strange about this is that phonemes are no more than elements of meaning but kinship terms also represent real relationships lived by people . |
| 2 | No , all that 's strange about this is that those two ever came to touch hands at any point . |
| 3 | What was interesting about that was that at the time John Brown got into financial difficulties the banks and institutional shareholders took a tough but very constructive view that it was worth helping the company through a reconstruction rather than forcing it into liquidation , which had been an attitude prevalent some years earlier . |
| 4 | What is interesting about this is that they clearly do not know the history of the form ; they are unaware that the rule was made so rigidly in the first place to suit the whims of anti-feminists . |
| 5 | But is that , in some ways , I mean you ca n't be too critical about yourselves , some of that is because you lack of experience within the , in |
| 6 | Now , the reason we particularly were interested in this was that from the questionnaire we already were beginning to get back some information , and we discovered that eighty-six percent of people had seen their G P in the previous year , and maybe if we could introduce them to the age-well project at some point during that contact , we would be able to achieve something . |
| 7 | There are good reasons for nature to choose macrocyclic species to bind metal ions — foremost among these is that the binding is usually considerably stronger than for comparable noncyclic ligands . |
| 8 | Not the least of these is that this does not square very well with the way to is learned by children . |
| 9 | Not the least of these was that the |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | One of the nice aspects of a task such as that is that I think we , as professional physicists — and I 'm a physicist too erm we , as professional physicists , feel there 's a right way of doing something because it 's the way we learnt and we 've got used to , and we tend to instil this idea into other people . |
| 12 | Part of the point of an exercise such as this is that it can be supplemented with a variety of additional linguistic models which enable the analysis to be developed in a number of different directions . |
| 13 | The implication of images such as these is that the double-axe was the symbol of a powerful female deity , probably Potnia . |
| 14 | Overall what stands out from intercity comparisons such as these is that firstly , London 's difficulties are echoed elsewhere , which is comforting since it is generally easier to put up with a problem if you know that others share it . |
| 15 | One particular advantage of models such as these is that they can be used to produce multipliers which show the effects of changes in eg the population of a region on the employment levels in that region . |
| 16 | Much of this is because the changes identified in the 1960s are viewed through different historical lenses . |
| 17 | Beveridge 's Report was based on three guiding principles : the second of these was that : |
| 18 | And er as probably er you gathered Stan and I are both ex-policemen in relation to erm to er our our background and er I think I said yesterday to the er some of the guys as well , one of the things that lorry drivers and policemen do have very much in common is that we have pr probably one the shortest erm pension lives of most professions . |
| 19 | Anderson ( 1977 ) has used systematic point sampling from the Ministry of Agriculture 's Land Classification maps ( see the last section of the chapter for a commentary ) to produce land use estimates very similar to Best 's as shown in Table 8.2 , and in the uplands , Parry et al . |
| 20 | But looked at in its full historical perspective , Karajan 's career from 1929 to 1949 was as subject to trauma , disruption , and the vagaries of the times as the next man 's . |
| 21 | Perhaps most remarkable of all was that this system of government was based on a written Constitution , drawn up by a group of politicians at the end of the 18th century and only altered on rare occasions since ( there had been 19 Amendments to the Constitution by 1920 ) . |
| 22 | And he still can not resist , all these years later , a spiky dig — ‘ but most gratifying of all was that the journalists who condemned me were proved so utterly wrong ’ . |
| 23 | Most likely of all is that we partially trust one another , and each play some mixed sequence of COOPERATE and DEFECT , ending up with some intermediate sum of money . |
| 24 | The most obvious of these is that he frequently quotes the Old Testament . |
| 25 | The most obvious of these was that mergers occurred in waves and affected all industries . |
| 26 | The most obvious of these was that if fonts were to be provided with any application , it was better if they could be shared by others , and the Typographics fonts supplied with early versions were , if not exactly grotty , not up to the standard users would expect of , say , TrueType or ATM fonts . |
| 27 | Hewlett-Packard says the only thing that makes Unix questionable at all is that there is more than one version . |
| 28 | What 's good about this is that it does n't take too much time . |
| 29 | They basically carved up our surplus between them and each supported the other and overriding all of that is that each and every one of them was an active member of the scheme . |
| 30 | The net result of all of this is that we are deleting two words from point ten the rest of the procedure stands . |