Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] be [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now we know why Labour policies are in such a mess . |
| 2 | It is an indication of how low Kylie 's emotional defences were during this crisis that — just for once — the intensely personal details of her life suddenly came gushing out , as if to exorcise some spirit that was within her . |
| 3 | If judicial divisions and controversial judgments are in any case inevitable , the pragmatist asks , why should the controversy not be about what really matters , about which decision will produce the least inefficient practice or the fewest occasions of injustice in the future ? |
| 4 | The girls in the barrio chino of Spanish cities were of all ages , sizes and nationalities . |
| 5 | Nizan 's literary and political activities are in many ways best understood as a contribution to what he would doubtless have designated as a " cultural revolution " . |
| 6 | Specific applications of multimedia in business and professional environments are to some extent determined by commercial ingenuity . |
| 7 | It is not suggested that any but a small proportion of private homes are like this , but where such conditions do occur , it indicates that the vetting , registration and monitoring procedures are failing . |
| 8 | The Technical schools were for those who had a technical , practical bent . |
| 9 | While the major political parties are at each other 's throats over most areas of policy , they seem to agree on one idea to aid innovation — probably it is from an independent body . |
| 10 | Until 1957 the French news agency , Agence France-Presse , had no legal status : rival agencies and French communists were among those who presented it as a state or of official agency . |
| 11 | In the north , the question of naturalization was not so black-tinted : Egyptian , Tunisian and Moroccan immigrant workers were a higher proportion of the labour force ; and Libyans did not fear many American or European employees would apply for Libyan nationality — petroleum and foreign companies were in any case outside the scope of legislation . |
| 12 | For some , the war was brought much nearer home when the French ( with their Castilian allies ) began once again to attack and plunder towns and villages on the south coast of England , the legitimate activities of English fishermen being among those which suffered from such raids . |
| 13 | Because the popular classes are in most cases effectively excluded , on account of relatively undifferentiated cultural capital , from even the large-scale social field of artistic production , the interests which pertain here are those of the two main fractions of the dominant class : the bourgeoisie and the intellectuals . |
| 14 | In previous centuries needs were recognized reluctantly , if at all , when social problems were of such proportions they could no longer be ignored . |
| 15 | The motives described by these authors are little more than romantic inventions , but the fact that the dying cat 's actions have been recorded in this way by very different writers is of some interest . |
| 16 | The conspicuous features are like those for general insurance companies , but more so . |
| 17 | This is because social arrangements are to some extent arbitrary ways of organising human life — there is an apparently endless range of variations in social rules , ideas and conventions . |
| 18 | Public Relations is in many ways far more complex than advertising , because it functions over a wide spectrum of alternatives for a multitude of purposes . |
| 19 | Implied covenants are of little significance with regard to business tenancies , since business leases are usually comprehensive and expressly deal with many points which would otherwise be implied . |
| 20 | Slowish tempos are to some degree unavoidable , because of the textural detail in Mozart 's score ; and the conductor can not altogether be blamed for the ways in which the music is softened . |
| 21 | Teenage girls are like that . |
| 22 | Can an exchange of ideas across different languages be of any general value ? |
| 23 | Can an exchange of ideas across different languages be of any general value ? |
| 24 | But as the century proceeded , these rigid differences were to some extent eroded . |
| 25 | The most important change in the pattern of use of peptic ulcer drugs ( especially H 2 -receptor blockers ) is probably that the drugs are increasingly being used to treat non-ulcer dyspepsia and other unspecific gastrointestinal discomfort for which H 2 -receptor blockers are of little value . |
| 26 | The words are an echo of the great series of Scottish bonds of protection and service — maintenance and manrent — made from the mid fifteenth to the early seventeenth century by the nobles and the lairds ; the only difference is that rather than being completely mutual , as these bonds were , the king had the confident assurance that his subjects would serve ‘ exactly as he likes ’ — a confidence very far removed from the idea that Scottish kings were in any way at the mercy of their most powerful subjects . |
| 27 | The latest estimates suggest that more than one million dependent children are in such families . |
| 28 | If published claims are of any real importance others will want to repeat , verify , contradict , or confirm them . |
| 29 | FRENCH scientific journals are of such ‘ questionable quality ’ that few researchers outside France either read them or are willing to contribute to them . |
| 30 | The patron of the third kind , offering social reputation and protection , often worked within conditions where the work was being partly or wholly offered to a paying public ; the Elizabethan public theatres were in that sense fully commercial institutions . |