Example sentences of "be [adj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is a tenable hypothesis that Bayezid II did indeed set a pattern and that many of the later foundations involving a joint muderris/muftilik were made simply in imitation of his precedent , though their effect might have been to create an official muftilik where none had existed before or to upgrade an existing muftilik ( which latter may well have been Bayezid II's intention in Amasya and Istanbul ) . |
| 2 | ‘ How high are fifty-five thousand feet , anyway ? ’ |
| 3 | There are spacious public rooms opening onto terraces and a small garden , a popular bar , pizzeria , á la carte restaurant , lounges , TV room and two lifts . |
| 4 | Not only are lower paid workers likely to occupy housing that is different in tenure from that of skilled workers but a certain proportion of the latter may occupy housing that is similar to that of the non-manual group adjacent to them . |
| 5 | TODAY THERE ARE 4,200 LOCAL AMNESTY GROUPS AROUND THE WORLD . |
| 6 | There are ample sporting facilities on offer within the Centre . |
| 7 | Yes , we are fortunate ; we have uncovered parking , and there are ample other parking facilities nearby . |
| 8 | Not a new situation , for there are ample historical parallels . |
| 9 | However , the patterns of species diversity do not coincide with those of endemism and one of the present ‘ refugia ’ seems to have been underwater 5000 BP and its endemism must have arisen subsequently . |
| 10 | At the centre of his treatise on society , as we once knew it , are upstanding noble politician Sir Robert Chiltern ( David Yelland ) and his terribly principled and adoring wife Gertrude ( Hannah Gordon ) . |
| 11 | There are 2,300 harmless species of snakes and only 400 poisonous ones , but few people take the trouble to find out which is which . |
| 12 | This is a matter about which many sociolinguists feel sensitive , particularly since a large proportion of the communities which they study are repressed indigenous groups like the Aborigines , or underprivileged ethnic minorities like the American blacks or British Asians . |
| 13 | Yet , Hurd 's suggestions implicitly assume that both states are stable political entities — which they are not . |
| 14 | There are drowsy old houses , sleepy alleys and squares , intimate cafes , and the air of medieval Switzerland envelopes you . |
| 15 | out , he says to me you 'll kill yourself , you always want to do something , but to be honest it 's worse for me to sit there and watch that , it 's more tiring because by the end of the night I 'm not tired or I 've been asleep all evening I , I 'm better to go out , I know it sounds awful but I do n't like being trapped , I do n't like being in because somebody seems to think I should be in |
| 16 | According to the Driver Vehicle Licensing Centre in Swansea , there are 70,361 17-year-old men with full licences in Britain at the moment , and 39,417 women of the same age . |
| 17 | Because of their stability , they are hard to dispose of and are persistent environmental contaminants . |
| 18 | The police know that ’ hotting ’ , ram-raiding , and related offences are committed by a comparatively small number of people , many of whom are persistent young criminals . |
| 19 | The satellites revealed a rather remarkable feature in the Antarctic sea ice in that there are persistent open water areas even in the middle of winter when the area should be frozen over , the atmosphere is cold enough to freeze the ocean and yet , in these areas , the ice does not form . |
| 20 | Those luggers , as Denholm said , are hopeless windward sailors but in this case it will be directly astern of them and carry them down towards the Kásos Strait to the east of the easternmost tip of Crete . ’ |
| 21 | There are 120 adult magazines legally for sale in Britain . |
| 22 | There is a good example in Goldmann ( 1964 ) , and there are classic pioneering studies in Gramsci ( translated 1971 ) and Benjamin ( translated 1973 ) . |
| 23 | THE hairstyles and hour-glass figures are classic Forties film star . |
| 24 | … the people of Burma are friendly hospitable folk ; they meet you on a friendly equal basis , without cringing or self-assertion . |
| 25 | I accept that , if there are unnecessary bureaucratic rules or regulations or ways to get forms filled out singly rather than in triplicate , we shall do everything we can to speed up the process . |
| 26 | Most of our women in the House are frightful old bats . |
| 27 | Good examples are grass-pollen producing hay fever , some constituents of perfume or make-up producing contact dermatitis , and sensitivity to gluten — a protein found in wheat — producing coeliac disease . |
| 28 | They are strange little creatures with a shell-like carapace and clinging feeler-like attachments . |
| 29 | Well , there are strange little bits of old-fashioned good Englishness about , dating perhaps from the late forties , when city streets were safe and when people of good will in England were happy and even proud to see the end of Empire . |
| 30 | I accept the offer of the hon. Member for Aberdeen , North ( Mr. Hughes ) as given in good faith , but there are 646 hon. Members — I exclude you , Madam Deputy Speaker , and your colleagues for this purpose — and we can not necessarily rely on them all to show such restraint and singlemindedness as the hon. Gentleman . |