Example sentences of "be [adj] [adj] [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Euless , Texas-based Xalt Software Corp 's Xalt Office , the suite of five graphically-based integrated applications including Desk , Diary , Notes , Mail and People Manager , is now immediately available for Sparc machines priced at $200 ; Hewlett-Packard Co and IBM Corp versions are due any day now ; the company has been circulating early development copies since last September , and adding features and functions . |
| 2 | Survival following a diagnosis of KS is much better , as up to 80% of people with KS are alive one year later , and to be living five years later is not uncommon . |
| 3 | They are tiny white worms about half an inch long which look like ‘ threads ’ of white cotton — hence the name — threadworms . |
| 4 | The levels are marked so that they are visible some feet away ; you do n't want undignified scrabbling around under a speaker 's feet . |
| 5 | They have been prominent reef-building organisms too , often in association with bryozoans . |
| 6 | Anyway , marrying a Jew , fancy marrying a Jew , they 're awful those Jews here in Leeds . |
| 7 | They 're great big lumps though . |
| 8 | They 're nice little things though are n't they ? |
| 9 | Oh they 're nice little windows well I think we 've got some have n't we ? |
| 10 | Anyway they 're nice old bales though , I would n't mind a few of them . |
| 11 | This would have been unthinkable 5 years ago . |
| 12 | ‘ The collection I showed this spring would have been unthinkable three years ago — so many dresses , so much evening wear . |
| 13 | Studies like those described by Dean ( 1982 ) , in which he attempted to distinguish between deficits in visual memory and visual object categorization following damage to part of the visual association cortex in rhesus monkeys , would have been unthinkable forty years ago . |
| 14 | ‘ Especially in countries where there are large rural populations still living under Third World conditions , the transistor is usually among the most prized of possessions . ’ |
| 15 | No these are little individual ones rather than one little big one . |
| 16 | ‘ Unix Lite would have been okay four years ago , but with the performance and memory capacity of today 's machines — and their future potential — we do n't need cut-down Unix . |
| 17 | The flinty soils overlying chalk are ideal grazing land so long as water is available . |
| 18 | yes , I 'm living at home but I 'm also married and I 've been married three times before , and I 've got six children now . |
| 19 | Secondly there 's some of the nurses who were n't present at the meeting three weeks ago who had been present three years ago . |
| 20 | There are important ethical issues here . |
| 21 | There are numerous stately homes nearby including Petworth House with its excellent fine-art collection . |
| 22 | Sam came back frowning and , stretching inside without stepping into the water , pressed the three switches that had been unresponsive two days earlier . |
| 23 | But actually , because they were very tight , they had to be whacking great things so that they would n't bend under the pressure . |
| 24 | It wo n't be right this month either . |
| 25 | It wo n't be right this month either , but if that 's the case |
| 26 | ‘ March hares must be strange daft creatures then , to be so helpful . |
| 27 | A hundred thousand will still be alive five years later . |
| 28 | ‘ Some of these poor bastards wo n't be alive this time tomorrow , Piper . ’ |
| 29 | On the other hand , comparisons with national data may be less relevant in that there may be broad geographical variations either in incidence or in case ascertainment that would make it difficult to determine whether an increase in Seascale or Allerdale and Copeland was a local effect ( and hence possibly related to Sellafield ) or whether it affected the whole of Cumbria . |
| 30 | There will be broad scholarly interest simply in seeing the whole thing together and in reuniting certain pairs or groups of paintings which were conceived together but which have not been seen together in the past . |