Example sentences of "[vb pp] be [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The holes drilled are for light weight — and they are just that . |
| 2 | But size and numbers of fish caught are of little importance at Scourie . |
| 3 | He 'd have enjoyed being on this trip with us today , you know . ’ |
| 4 | The picture thus sketched is in strong contrast to the popular view of housewives as a leisured class . |
| 5 | One possibility being considered is for solar power to be used to pump downstream water back up to the main reservoir , so restoring the head of water needed to generate hydro-electric power . |
| 6 | The extent to which this should be viewed as a utilitarian calculus of some kind , or whether a more dignitarian approach should be pursued is of considerable importance . |
| 7 | The buildings which these adorned were in large part of timber and terracotta , but they were true Doric temples like those in stone . |
| 8 | The only way in which these late pouch excisions are likely to be minimised is by greater care in patient selection , particularly the identification of Crohn 's disease . |
| 9 | The address they have selected is in that envelope . |
| 10 | Whether the UK 's proposal will be accepted is in some doubt , not least because it has failed to engender the support of other Member States . |
| 11 | It will be seen that this explanation does not touch the question of whether what is sought is in any sense ‘ evidence ’ . |
| 12 | His analysis of doctrines as expressions of the religious consciousness leaves a fair measure of uncertainty whether what is said is in any sense true about God , or only about our understanding of God . |
| 13 | The sentences were enlarged as much as possible , but sizeable gaps were left between each sentence so that the temptation to interpret contiguous sentences as meaningfully related was to some extent avoided . |
| 14 | There was no equivalent of the ATB in Norway — the nearest approach seen was at Lien College where there was a low trainee to instructor ratio and a considerable practical input . |
| 15 | But our crowded islands were as vulnerable as Japan 's had been to atomic attack , and there appeared to be no sure defence against it . |
| 16 | yeah , erm yeah it was different erm with it only being role play it was a bit erm difficult to keep up with it sometimes and actually keep it going like , erm if it was the real life situation outside right you 'd know that the person you were talking to had more had been through that situation before |
| 17 | can be produced is through mental tension being translated into muscle tension , especially in the muscles of the neck , jaw and head . |
| 18 | And the only bit of damp I 've got is in one corner of the house but it came from a blocked erm pipe . |
| 19 | All that was needed was for one kind of film to do well at the box-office and a new Hollywood format would be established . |
| 20 | Much of the cider produced was for local consumption , with farmers bringing in their cartloads of apples for processing . |
| 21 | Such faults as can be detected are of little consequence to the average kite-maker . |
| 22 | Until development of this system it was difficult to do pattern matching if movements being compared were over varying time periods . |
| 23 | The Greater Peterborough TEC says : ’ Within the Youth Training programme we have about 150 young people actively seeking a place for training who at the moment have not been given an offer the fundamental problem is that the unit cost on which the funds are allocated being for this programme are too low we would hope that more money will be available to meet the guarantee because again , it is not a genuine guarantee , it is a demand-led guarantee and if we are funded on the basis of historical take-up this is bound to change when the economic climate changes , as has been experienced recently . |
| 24 | Other cities where papal government might have settled were on important trade routes which might have added to the pope 's powers and security : but Rome remained the favoured city of the popes and , in spite of all the difficulties of controlling the city , the senate and the people , the popes were prepared to suffer all sorts of indignities in order to stay in Rome . |
| 25 | The place where Aldhelm 's body was found is within close woodland , untended , on a narrow path , where the only light would come from the open sky above the track . |
| 26 | In all types of contracts , particularly the last , definition of the risks it is intended to cover and the manner in which they will be allocated is of great importance . |
| 27 | In a normal conversation , the people involved are of equal status , and any one of them can change the topic under discussion or introduce new points . |
| 28 | When the signals involved are of low-enough frequency for reactive and other frequency-dependent effects to be negligible , the Z-parameters are given by the slopes of appropriate static characteristics at the operating bias levels . |
| 29 | Only answers to what has been asked are of any value . |
| 30 | Next year 's contest is in Barrow — and no-one involved is in any doubt what the result will be ! |