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

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1 And I think problems like that are due to human irresponsibility !
2 The societal benefits of this are akin to those arising from the imposition of general controls on financial efficiency of the firm — forcing it to think more carefully about its spending .
3 If you feel that your award is wrong in some way you can ask for the decision to be reviewed or make an appeal — details of how to do this are available from social security benefit offices .
4 If you feel that your award is wrong in some way you can ask for the decision to be reviewed or make an appeal — details of how to do this are available from social security benefit offices .
5 If you feel that your award is wrong in some way you can ask for the decision to be reviewed or make an appeal — details of how to do this are available from social security benefit offices .
6 And surely our reasons for allowing this are close to those suggested by the tripartite definition ; he has the right answer , and not by luck .
7 Vitamins and minerals often work together in this respect , and some are necessary for normal energy production , the use of protein in growth and tissue repair , and in many other functions , ranging from hormone production to effects on skin quality .
8 Notice that some are capable of non-interlaced operation which gives a virtually flicker free display but you also need a video card that can work with non-interlaced SVGA .
9 Most of the beads are of amber , probably imported from the Baltic , but some are multi-coloured in blue , yellow and red glass .
10 Some are beneficial for some aspects of rabbiting , detrimental to others .
11 Television and radio in the region have several channels so , while some are devoted to local issues and productions others are packed with imported serials , films and games .
12 Will this be alright with these fish ?
13 Could this be true for all types of defacing ? ( razor-slashing other people 's faces not counted ! )
14 How can this be true of Christian Aid ?
15 However in all of these fields there was a still older tradition of the free market and elements of this were present in early strands of competition in both telecoms and radio ; these , however had often been eradicated by the mid-twentieth century .
16 And as for defence , ’ he went on , ‘ Britain would be defended by arms manufactured in Germany or France just as well as by arms manufactured in Britain , if this were necessary for good economic reasons . ’
17 If this were true of all individuals , then the aggregate demand for money ( MD ) could be written as proportional to money national income ( Y ) : where k is a constant .
18 A few were similar to small stations in southern France , reflecting the control of North African railways by French companies like the Paris-Lyon-Marseille .
19 Most consultants viewed management budgeting with suspicion , as a vehicle for cutting their budgets , and few were interested in time-consuming management posts ( Harrison et al.
20 Some were critical of this orthodoxy and — behind the scenes — nobody more effectively so than Toby Weaver , the most powerful civil servant of his generation in the formulation of educational policies .
21 Some were impatient of disarmament talks which never resulted in the abandoning of a single weapon ; some were appalled by Civil Defence pamphlets which advocated spending your last four minutes on earth whitewashing your windows and by planners who talked blithely in terms of ‘ megadeaths ’ ; some were convinced that Armageddon would be next week : the immensely influential film of On the Beach showed the last survivors , in Melbourne , waiting for death in 1963 .
22 Further , although half were involved in general inspection few advisers wanted to spend more time on it ( again senior staff were the exception ) .
23 What we want to emphasise is the theoretical context of method and how this is integral to sociological investigation , not simply as a technique but as something which has profound significance for the possibility of sociology itself .
24 This is integral to cultural differentiation because is separates the process of signification from reality .
25 This is compulsory on most foods .
26 This is payable on all properties valued at over £30,000 and is a fixed rate of 1 per cent .
27 This is payable to infirm or disabled people , ostensibly so that they can pay someone to come in and look after their needs .
28 This is misleading for two quite separate reasons .
29 This is misleading in that baptism is an initiation rite within Christianity as a whole and is not performed on dead people .
30 There are some yachts which come close to this spec : the FF boats of Holland ( only 30 and 35ft ) ; the X119 , but I do n't think this is suitable for two and its bulb keel with forward protrusion seems to me to be dangerous in our net-infested waters ; the Dehler db36 is interesting , though ugly and over-designed .
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