Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [prep] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Further , new theories suggest there is some considerable thermoregulatory advantage in being bipedal . |
| 2 | There are nineteen full-time care staff of whom eleven are on duty in the evenings and Mr has asked for a further eleven full-time care staff , he hopes in due course to be able to have seventeen such staff on duty at any one time . |
| 3 | With regard to galleries , then , we aim to support a number of strategically placed centres in , say , Brighton , Farnham , Canterbury , Folkestone , St. Leonards and Eastbourne , sufficiently for them , each doing their own thing , in due course to be able to service a touring exhibition network , made up of themselves and the other regional galleries , be able to offer the artist whose work they exhibit or promote a fair deal — that means paying them for their transport , insurance , publicity costs and perhaps a fee for exhibiting their work in public — and finally to organize appropriate marketing and education back-up to their own exhibitions programmes , which both pulls people in to the gallery and reaches out to them in , for example , schools and industry . |
| 4 | For progressive building to be successful , it was essential that the supply of completely manufactured parts should be on the ground at the point of erection , before the building of a vehicle was commenced . |
| 5 | The 34027 Locomotive Group still retain the prestigious opportunity of being able to say that it was their locomotive which took the first train hauled by a steam locomotive into Waterloo after some 25 years . |
| 6 | The philosophies of Rousseau and of David Hartley , whose work had become a powerful influence on Coleridge , convinced them both that ‘ Vice is not natural to Man ’ , and that given strong reasons for being virtuous , ‘ Man would approach very near perfection ’ . |
| 7 | Most people prefer the total look to be soft and natural without some of the extravagances and hard colours of younger-style make-up , but that is partly a matter of personal taste and overall style . |
| 8 | They flicked ash from their cigarettes into the empty wine-glasses and shouted each other down in vain attempts to be witty . |
| 9 | Political reasons to be cheerful |
| 10 | It was clearly meant to provide serious training , and d'Hauterive even cherished the vain hope of being able to admit students to it by competitive examination . |
| 11 | For used money to be viable it has to be seen to make new money . |
| 12 | Musically it 's just the right side of being cheap — lyrically it 's got a depth to it which cries out Secrets ! |
| 13 | Against that are moments when he strays too far from the printed note in striving for that extra frisson of feeling and resorts to a delivery that stays only just the right side of being coarse . |
| 14 | Just as the injunctions may serve to exaggerate the feeling of powerlessness , in the face of a limited ( even if substantial ) loss of power , so they lead people to exaggerate the imagined risks of being honest . |
| 15 | The national legal rule must satisfy the autonomous European conception of being certain and ascertainable . |
| 16 | These results are consistent with the findings of Chowdhury and Kreitman ( 1971 ) , and Kreitman and Chowdhury ( 1973a ) , who found attempted suicide patients and Samaritan clients to be different in many respects — the Samaritan clients , for example , including a greater proportion of men , and more socially isolated individuals . |
| 17 | You need to be a major international player with a market-making capability to be competitive , ’ McIntosh argued . |
| 18 | Thus the total effect of being young on preparedness to break the law is 0.193 + 0.026 , or +0.219 . |
| 19 | Few voters gave her low ratings for being tough or decisive , and they were an unpredictable few . |
| 20 | If being Maori were a significant variable this might arise because of an inherent effect of being Maori or because there are other confounding variables that have not been considered that could explain the difference between Maori and non-Maori children . |
| 21 | ‘ Our objective is to develop communication through a mutual learning process which would enable the tribal groups to be aware of their cultural heritage and to embrace their history , ’ explained LAMP 's General Secretary , M Dewanji . |
| 22 | Because of its small units the Flydaway also has the theoretical advantage of being able to operate at relatively high frequencies ( one minute headways or less ) even when trade is slack — although this depends on fully automatic driverless trains . |
| 23 | ‘ They need labour but want foreign labourers to be invisible . ’ |
| 24 | In a normal year ( that is , not a boom year or a slump year ) , we should expect aggregate transitory income to be zero , so that aggregate measured and permanent incomes would be equal . |
| 25 | It 's not enough for British products to be good value in terms of price — they must also match the standards of products from other countries in both performance and reliability . |
| 26 | My question concerns the Shetland Island project and the question is this how much has the withdrawal of the Board of Social Responsibility from the Shetland Islands project got to do with the Board 's policy on social responsibility appointed staff being sympathetic to the Christian faith , and how much has it got to do with the fact that the Shetland Islands Council no longer need the Board of Social Responsibility to be able to spend charitable trust money , in other words oil money , without jeopardizing community charge support grant ? |
| 27 | It is absurd , every time we introduce another element of our policy , for him to leap on to the populist pitch and then , as he no doubt will in a few minutes ' time , find some detailed reasons for being opposed to it . |
| 28 | What is ethologically implausible about Ullman 's hypotheses is not that they involve some ( unconscious ) knowledge about material objects and normal viewing conditions , but rather that they assume the perception of rigid objects to be basic , while perception of non-rigid movement is taken to be a more complex special case . |
| 29 | We will guarantee equal pay for work of equal value ; require public authorities and private contractors holding public contracts to be equal-opportunity employers and improve child-care support and facilities . |
| 30 | Now he faces an uphill struggle to be fit in time for the British Clubman 's championship a series he had hoped to win this season . |