Example sentences of "[be] [prep] [adj] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You see , we 've been through this public witch hunt before . |
| 2 | Having already been through some significant change the company is therefore well placed to face the likely ‘ upheaval ’ of the following year or so . |
| 3 | Sad though that may have been for that particular patient , there was a positive side , the cancer never reappeared . |
| 4 | And doubtless there would have been many more had it not been for that unfortunate accident which befell Mr Rabbit in Mr MacGregor 's garden whereby he ended up in one of Mrs MacGregor 's rabbit pies . |
| 5 | Had it not been for one other factor , it seems likely that the combined pressures upon English both from inside and outside the discipline might well have caused it to accommodate itself more directly to the service of " vocationalism " , and " social responsibility " , and thus the needs of interdisciplinary and applied work . |
| 6 | Erm the certification of the flight control system is the critical path item and has been for some considerable time . |
| 7 | It was in his experience difficult for most people to prove conclusively exactly where they had been for any forty-eight-hour period , members of the Metropolitan police force always excepted , and this was going to make his life very difficult . |
| 8 | It would be wrong to disregard them and they are worth some special study . |
| 9 | Ultimate said the new facilities , the company 's first after nearly four years of restructuring , are for general working capital purposes . |
| 10 | If celibacy and the life of professed religious women are about anything at all , they are about this hidden strand both within the Christian tradition in particular and in women 's lives in general . |
| 11 | Most of this book has been about mainstream mental health care of adult people . |
| 12 | When Wordsworth confessed in a letter of 1794 that " I am of that odious class of men called democrats " , what he was indicating was not so much that he was a supporter of a wider parliamentary franchise as that he was on the side of the people and that he was a social and political egalitarian , though not necessarily also an economic one : " … my heart was all/Given to the people , and my love was theirs " , recalled the poet in The Prelude ( 1805 , Book IX , II . |
| 13 | Fortunately I am of good tough stock . |
| 14 | Experience gained in the course of employment as Librarian , British Geological Survey ( BGS ) , Edinburgh , suggests that such theses have been of great practical benefit to the geological community . |
| 15 | The poem was the finest Wordsworth had yet written , and , coming so soon after his departure from Alfoxden , suggests that the loss to him of the Quantock countryside had been of little real significance . |
| 16 | If the bands are reshuffled , the trials will have been of little practical value . |
| 17 | This has been because social psychology has had few ways of handling the macro-level political , economic and social change which has been of such great interest to sociologists . |
| 18 | Rather , I felt a strange exaltation that our brief married life together — consisting of but a few short leaves — had been of such ravishing sweetness , and that I had not spoiled it as I had spoiled things over two years before . |
| 19 | It was also noted by the Court of Appeal , at p. 379C , that the Report of the Review Committee on Insolvency Law and Practice ( 1982 ) ( Cmnd. 8558 ) under the Chairmanship of Sir Kenneth Cork considered that the power , contained in any well-drawn floating charge , to appoint a receiver and manager of the property and undertaking of a company had been of outstanding public benefit . |
| 20 | Had she been of any other class , he would long ago have stormed her defences and conquered . |
| 21 | Laura glanced through her eyelashes at the thick dark hair curling over the edge of his collar , the relaxed set of his broad-shouldered figure as he continued to idly watch the passing scenery , while he talked so calmly and dismissively about a marriage which , it was quite clear , had never been of any major importance in his life . |
| 22 | There was no one else in the hotel who could have been of any possible interest to the assassins . ’ |
| 23 | It has been of considerable economic advantage to both countries . |
| 24 | It can not be doubted that the post-war black migrations have been of considerable economic benefit to Britain , just as the migrations from North Africa , Turkey , Greece and Italy have boosted the economies of Western Europe . |
| 25 | The quality of his work has always been of exceptional high standard and featured in every major project in the company . |
| 26 | The ingredients in these pies are of similar high quality but the fruit and seasonings have been changed . |
| 27 | In the morass of detail Mills brings forward to describe his ‘ power elite ’ , it is easy to ignore this fundamental assumption which precedes his empirical work : ‘ In so far as the power elite is composed of men of similar origin and education , in so far as their careers and their styles of life are similar , there are psychological and social bases for their unity , resting upon the fact that they are of similar social type and leading to the fact of their easy intermingling ’ . |
| 28 | Such technical recommendations are of little practical value and sometimes provoke vigorous protest from professional aviation people , but from the patient painstaking AIB inspector who has gone to great lengths to provide the sheriff 's court with as much guidance , information and advice as he can , there will be little more than a wry smile or shrug of the shoulders . |
| 29 | Broad statements of intent ( ‘ the library takes account of varying needs … anticipates future requirements and current demands … ’ etc. ) are of little practical use — although many policy statements consist almost entirely of generalizations along these lines . |
| 30 | This leads to the adoption of objectives of such generality — ‘ to provide for the recreational needs of every section of the population ’ — that they are of little practical use . |