Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adj] [be] [adj] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Geno Ventti 's casual evening styling is perfect for long straight hair that 's fine in texture
2 The study of the buildings found on the farms tells us little at present that is definite about the rural economy .
3 You made that decision that 's fine with me okay .
4 Of course that 's impossible in the flat .
5 Well — of course that 's true of all masculine-dominated societies . ’
6 As a social category this was new to me , but in the tradition of white- and blue-collar workers , it has a plausible ring .
7 In no small measure this is due to the concept of cruelty with which the judicial system has operated .
8 In large measure this is attributable to the world recession which developed after the oil crisis in 1974 , although another contributory factor is associated with the failure of western societies to respond sufficiently quickly to the development of new technologies .
9 On one level this is self-evident within the ascendant economic rhetoric .
10 The interesting , though not necessarily plausible , feature of this result is that firms know that when the price falls below the critical level this is due to a random shock , because they know it pays no one to cheat , but nevertheless they must still go into the punishment phase to enforce the collusive agreement .
11 Mum this is supposed to be a silhouette it looks more like a black tree to me ha ha it 's supposed to be a silhouette .
12 We leave the second part to the sorceress who 's the really strong character in the whole play to spoil this love match and she sends the spirit of herself in the form of the God Mercury to deceive Anaeas into saying he 's got to go away , so he goes and tells Dido he must leave and of course Dido 's heartbroken and she commits suicide and of course this is celebrated with the famous lament at the end of the opera .
13 And of course this was far from the setting that coal-owner Bowes choose for his improbable museum .
14 In part this is due to a desire to avoid a rigidly causal account which will straitjacket capitalist societies into a single position , not allowing for their diversity and variation .
15 In part this is concerned with the omission of key features of reality , such as uncertainty , the role of expectations , and market imperfections , which have been discussed to some extent in earlier Lectures .
16 In part this was due to the public-sector controls on investment , but it was also because of the natural priorities that had operated year after year inside British Rail .
17 In part this was due to the recent unification of the kingdom ; he and his successors were felt to be kings not of one but of a group of kingdoms .
18 In part this was due to Henry II 's presence on the Continent from April 1180 to July 1181 ; in part it doubtless reflects the subdued mood of the Angoumois and the Limousin with so many of the wealthiest and most influential nobles away on pilgrimage .
19 In part this was due to the haste in which the system was introduced .
20 In part this was due to the weakness of the unions and the strength of the Federation .
21 In part this was due to an acute awareness of his own awkwardness as a speaker ; the stuttering circumlocutions , the ers and ahs , leading inexorably to a pained silence , or the word that always hung there like a tail , ‘ Anyway … ’ .
22 In part this was due to the continuance of agricultural depression , which not only left many rural areas bereft of a buoyant rate base but also lowered agricultural wages below the level at which even local authority rents could be afforded .
23 In part this was due to his commitment to the nationalist cause , though he played at best a minor role in the creation of Connolly 's Irish Citizen Army .
24 In part this was attributable to the growth of the Empire .
25 Of course some are useful in identifying spies who would have otherwise gone on undetected but often this is not all it seems , as the Russians may have decided to expose one or two spies who have served their purpose in order to protect a more important one still at work .
26 It is said that as route 30 was high on the list for trolleybus conversion , the rails on the new bridge were laid in shallow troughs , from which they could easily be removed , when the tram route was abandoned .
27 There is a great deal that is unclear in this tale of episcopal misfortunes .
28 Moreover , stateless societies are either small tribal societies , or small communities within a larger political system , and their political arrangements do not tell us a great deal that is relevant to the great majority of human societies .
29 You know , Nicholas , that whatever miseries the Great War brought it destroyed a great deal that was unhealthy between the sexes .
30 I , I really feel two pound fifty is low for the quality of , of play that they 're seeing I mean other amateur groups not that we 're comparing ourselves , but they certainly charge more than us and quite honestly the end product on some of them is not up to our end product .
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