Example sentences of "[prep] [be] [adj] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erosion of the granites gives rise to a barren , rolling landscape such as is seen in the Uig Hills of western Lewis , and steep , inaccessible sea cliffs such as are present in western Harris . |
| 2 | In controversial matters such as are involved in industrial relations there is room for differences of opinion as to what is expedient , what is just and what is morally justifiable . |
| 3 | Some minerals seem to survive more or less unaltered even after being subject to prolonged weathering , whereas others decompose very rapidly . |
| 4 | HOW silly of comedy writer Carla Lane to try to save a pit bull terrier which faces an automatic destruction order after being unmuzzled in public . |
| 5 | Many industrialists and people from local authorities on both sides of the political spectrum are saying , ’ We should have more power over the decisions that affect our lives ’ , instead of being subject to arbitrary decision making from institutions down here . |
| 6 | This would have the merit of being convertible into hard currencies and enable the import of desperately needed consumer goods from the West , and it would help soak up excess ordinary roubles on the domestic market . |
| 7 | However , perhaps to counteract accusations of being overdependent on Soviet gas , a deal has also been concluded with Denmark for gas from the North Sea , although the contract is not a large one . |
| 8 | The aims of this chapter are , first , to explain why women now over pensionable age have benefited less than men from the existence of occupational pension provision , thus increasing their likelihood of being poor in old age . |
| 9 | This is one of the great fascinations of being involved with living things , of discovering that the more one gets to know about natural things , the more there is still to find out . |
| 10 | At a time when the middle class , having acquired literacy for reasons of commercial pragmatism during the twelfth and thirteenth centuries , started to develop a more imaginative personal taste in reading , they also showed signs of being involved with vernacular piety . |
| 11 | MPs were quick to grumble privately that Mr La Malfa is not under suspicion of being involved in million-dollar bribery networks allegedly run by the main parties for years . |
| 12 | By that time I had some history of being involved in socialist politics , which helped make sense of the external world , and a dawning recognition that there was also an inner world to be explored and that the psyche could n't just be dealt with by an effort of will . |
| 13 | The Provo , Utah company says the addition of the software will make networked applications simpler to write as well as easier to update and maintain , without the need for major rewrites , and that applications based on HD-DOMS technology will have the advantages of being interoperable across diverse computing environments and tightly integrated into NetWare 's distributed network services . |
| 14 | Agriculture is not like defence — a matter of being privy to private information ; it is splattered all over the journals . |
| 15 | And pure substances tailored to neurotransmitter sites would have a good chance of being free of unpleasant side effects elsewhere in the body . |
| 16 | Work , paradoxically enough for many small landowners and peasants , is actually an ‘ escape attempt ’ , a means of being independent from large-scale farms and other industrial enterprises . |
| 17 | They were talking to each other loudly as if to keep lurking wood-spirits at bay , and I did vividly remember that teenage spooky feeling of being alone in wild woodland and at the mercy of supernatural eyes . |
| 18 | Ideally this does not ensue from flagrant compromises in outlook and working methods but rather as a result of being true to real aims and objectives . |
| 19 | In attempting to assist pupils in both these areas the Catholic teacher is conscious of the necessity of being true to educational principles . |
| 20 | Instead of being terrified of commercial mainstream pop , she 's now manipulating its stereotypes . |
| 21 | Here Dickens stayed for his holiday one year , baulked of being able to rant Fort House as he desired . |
| 22 | I refused to consider that the silences lacked something — the quality that the silences between lovers have , of being full of unspoken thoughts . |
| 23 | But what young members , what young people find ironic , is that the same people who are telling them they 've never had it so good , in the same breath accuse them of being responsible for high community crime levels , drug and alcohol abuse and the violence . |
| 24 | but , it 's like sum , it 's like some people of being allergic to different things , you know . |
| 25 | Despite being popular in other parts of Europe , this Swedish product was relatively unknown in the UK until recently . |
| 26 | Furthermore , this " military " implication of is consistent with other words in the poem presenting suggestions of a strife and a violence that relentlessly overbear the gentle conviviality of ordinary joys : with , for example , and . |
| 27 | ‘ Oh aye , I would say she was popular : anybody they can get a laugh out of is popular with thick headed rookies … |
| 28 | Being so close to Lord Byron was somewhat like being close to big game — a lion encountered at the foot of Kilimanjaro . |
| 29 | Not content with being obsessive about failed British pop performers like Belouis Some and Matt Fretton ( who , as they will always tell you , were ‘ big in Japan ’ ) , these star victims get all steamed up about their own home-grown talent-free singers , which the record companies churn out year after year . |
| 30 | Indeed far from being fearful of continued public objection , local authorities should be more concerned about their ability to be able to keep up with public demand for calming various residential areas once the ideas take off . |