Example sentences of "[vb mod] be [prep] [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Data collection should be of immediate practical in the formulation and evaluation of assistance programmes in Zambia . |
| 2 | If you are engaged in international trade as an exporter or importer you should be in regular personal contact with the management of the Trade Finance Division of your bank . |
| 3 | In order to recover so much extra information , thin section preparations must be of consistent high quality . |
| 4 | The Training Agency has made it clear that in order for Compacts to attract its support , they must offer training at least to Youth Training Scheme ( YTS ) standards , and that jobs offered must be at full employed status . |
| 5 | If a species is to be excepted , it must be for good particular reasons . |
| 6 | Must be in bloody marvellous condition for that price . |
| 7 | ‘ If I do n't win , they must be in bloody good shape … |
| 8 | Three conditions apply : the claimant must be in paid working employment for 16 hours or more a week , suffer from an illness or disability which leaves them disadvantaged when applying for a job and must have recently been getting benefit such as income support , housing or community charge benefit . |
| 9 | A work on the birds of Europe might be of limited scientific value , as Gould himself confessed — it could hardly uncover any startling revelations — but it would be bound to attract the crucial number of subscribers . |
| 10 | Some companies ( particularly in the USA ) , in response to these and other factors , decided in the late 70s and early 80s that they should designate within their organisations a person or persons whose job would be to specialise in the acquisition and processing of information from the environment that might be of potential strategic importance . |
| 11 | ‘ And she 's perfect , though she 'll be in Neo-natal Intensive Care for twenty-four hours , they said , ’ Bill frowned . |
| 12 | There is evidence that Philips believe Sony 's move towards handheld CD-I could be of immediate complementary benefit to its in situ range of players . |
| 13 | The electronically captured information could be of remarkable historical value . |
| 14 | As TODAY suggests , one answer could be for newly-licensed young drivers to carry restriction plates for a specified period . |
| 15 | It could be for starving Romanian baby whales with AIDS for all I care . |
| 16 | WORKERS at the giant Vauxhall plant in Ellesmere Port could be on short-time working early next year , a motor industry watchdog has warned . |
| 17 | An important application could be in low-speed urban rail systems , which often have tight corners . |
| 18 | Sometimes these disputes may be between large private organizations when companies argue about the terms of a commercial contract . |
| 19 | With printed material the font may be unknown to the system or the copy may be of poor printed quality . |
| 20 | The only clues we have are the symptoms and signs , both past and present , and any history there may be of possible precipitating factors . |
| 21 | But the shattered gabbro of the Troodos ophiolite may well hold water , and information gained by drilling into it may be of great practical value on this semi-arid island . |
| 22 | It is true that in some cases these publications may be of extreme radical tendency , attacking the established practices of academic English teaching , but that is no objection , since it is the fact of publication that counts , not its content . |
| 23 | Other studies , especially randomised controlled trials , may be of little additional help as many exclude important groups such as women or elderly people . |
| 24 | The concept of parental rights may be in serious general decline — ‘ it has become increasingly difficult to reconcile its existence with the predominant emphasis which the law now places on the welfare of children ’ . |
| 25 | It describes a social-psychological process whereby heroin and its associated cultural knowledge ( for instance , how to use it ) are spread by means of communication and exchange between individuals who live in close proximity to one another , but who may be from different social groups . |
| 26 | Erm and I I ca n't help wondering , this is perhaps something that Mr Donson may well want to come back to , erm what Mr Donson 's position would be at subsequent local plan inquiries where local plans were to contain such policies and there was was n't to be a strategic basis er for those policies . |
| 27 | And although subsequent reviews found it thoroughly sane and quite uncontroversial , clerics of the Church of England publicly announced that they would be on standby alert to deal with any members of their congregation upset by the programmes . |
| 28 | These groups would be involved in a ‘ demand-side ’ classificatory struggle with the more established members of the dominant classes whose aesthetic tastes would be for high modernist art . |
| 29 | An improved understanding of the sources of everyday likes and dislikes would be of lasting theoretical importance in psychology , and might also have practical applications in education , product design and marketing , broadcasting , and leisure industries . |
| 30 | Welford Beaton thought that its examination of the progress of cotton from field to factory would be of great educational value and he urged distributors to put the film into every motion-picture theatre in the world . |