Example sentences of "[adj] [pron] [be] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such a system punishes the elderly and the unemployed who are on fixed incomes , and the disabled who , we all know , live well below the poverty level . |
| 2 | What matters most are the attitudes of teachers to parents and parents to teachers — whether there is genuine mutual respect , whether the parents understand what the schools are doing for individual children and ( whether ) teachers realise how dependent they are upon parental support . |
| 3 | Of particular policy interest will be the analysis of the living standards of households dependent on supplementary benefit to assess how different they are from average living standards . |
| 4 | The efficiency of government could only be increased at the expense of its popularity ; the more corrupt and less efficient the government , the more acceptable it was to creole merchants and landowners . |
| 5 | She 'd known he was growing up peculiar — he did badly at school , and had no friends — but she 'd begun to see , from living in the same house as him again , how different he was from other kids . |
| 6 | ‘ Hopefully , following the tour to New Zealand , there is now a realisation of what needs to be done and of just how appalling we are in certain areas . |
| 7 | How typical it is of British government that the barrage dream should be allowed to dribble on and then left to fizzle out . |
| 8 | On the Monday they showed how easy it was for top-class bowlers to pitch the ball up and get wickets . |
| 9 | Lucky you 're on opposite sides of the room . |
| 10 | Make sure you 're in different groups . |
| 11 | No matter how tedious she was in other ways , he had always assumed that it was n't in her nature to be coarse , and certainly she 'd never displayed evidence of the inclination . |
| 12 | ‘ Could it be that your machine is due a jolly good clean and ‘ MOT ’ to make sure everything is in good working order before you start your Christmas rush ? ’ |
| 13 | The study was intended to evaluate the extent to which the graduated tests are compatible with the Cockcroft recommendations and how effective they are in generating curriculum change without the use of the SMP G materials . |
| 14 | Backpackers should make sure they 're in good shape , though , as the scale of the climbs and descents can come as a shock to UK walkers . |
| 15 | Smoke alarms need very little maintenance , but they do need to be tested regularly to make sure they are in good working order . |
| 16 | Five-line limericks , however , add humour , but be sure they are in good taste . |
| 17 | For the management of change to be effective it is of paramount importance to identify the factors which , unless properly controlled , tend to create adverse effects such as those enumerated in the preceding section . |
| 18 | Every tortoise will be given a Spring MoT to make sure it is in good condition . |
| 19 | To make things as realistic as possible , the Sergeant Major made sure he was in good voice . |
| 20 | Two fathoms deep it is at high water . |
| 21 | Flashlit me 's on glossy paper . |
| 22 | Every organization has these unofficial groups , and research has shown how important they are for organizational effectiveness . |
| 23 | The study will isolate key aspects of the successful transition to democracy in Spain , and examine how important they are to contemporary |
| 24 | Quite how independent they were of other craftsmen , particularly in the temples , is impossible to judge , but the fact that many objects — and especially the cult objects — required the shared expertise of several different crafts implies collaboration . |
| 25 | ‘ The figures are a movable feast , but they show how important it is for anonymised prevalence testing to get under way so we can get a true picture of infection in the population . ’ |
| 26 | A comparison of such different ballets as Enigma Variations , Fancy Free and The Rake 's Progress emphasises how important it is for young choreographers to remember that ballet is an art of the general as well as of the particular . |
| 27 | It is not considered relevant , however important it is in normal human terms , in planning terms it is non-existent . |
| 28 | Many transracially adopted children are aware that the darker their skin colour the more undesirable they are to white society ; and many feel it is better to be white than black . |
| 29 | The Secretary of State has said several times today how proud he is of British Rail 's safety record — a pride which we all share — but that is surely no reason not to look again at the real doubts that have arisen in the past year about manning , the number of hours worked and the quality of some of the new systems of signalling that are being installed . |
| 30 | As will later become clear , Mrs Whitehouse has been involved in many campaigns in this area but there are two in particular which are of immediate relevance to this discussion . |