Example sentences of "be [adj] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their tanks seem to be part of the framework of a ship ; there are meteorite impact scars on some of the surfaces . |
| 2 | prohibiting the connection of garden hosepipes to taps unless there are back-siphonage protection devices installed at the taps ( see Chapter 10 ) |
| 3 | We are sorry Q.T. day had to be cancelled but because the weather conditions were so bad we felt it was the right thing to do . |
| 4 | The only remedies which can be sought in private actions are private law remedies , that is declarations , injunctions , and damages . |
| 5 | Unlike the declaration and the injunction , which are private law remedies ( i.e. remedies for the redress of private law wrongs ) which have been extended to redress public law illegality , damages is a purely private law remedy . |
| 6 | There are private inquiry agents who offer the service of getting hold of people 's ex-directory telephone numbers . |
| 7 | He 's been Assistant Chief Constable of Humberside and was the Deputy Chief Constable of Lancashire before coming to Gloucestershire in ninteen eighty seven . |
| 8 | Richard , who started work at the University in 1969 as assistant cook in the halls of residence , has been Assistant Catering Manager since 1973 , based at the Revis Barber and Dennis Bellamy Halls , where his deputy , head cook Ian Wade has been ruling the kitchens for 24 years . |
| 9 | The first British administrator of Tanganyika Masailand was Colonel E.D. Browne , who had been Assistant District Commissioner at Laikipia at the time of the second Masai move in 1911–13 , and who came down to Tanganyika convinced that the Kenya Masai had had a rotten deal and determined to see that the Tanganyika Masai got a better one . |
| 10 | Ride is a reasonable compromise considering its dual role ; supple and smooth when surfaces allow but it rolls majestically cornering fast — no wonder there are ample grab handles . |
| 11 | Various events such as Powerboat Races , Circuit of Ireland Rally , Carnivals , Mountain Bike Races and Fun Runs are held in or around the lake and farmlands and there are ample parking facilities . |
| 12 | There really is n't any need to worry though , for all around are ample nut slots , several with the tell-tale whitish scarring that bears witness to the secure passage of countless stoppers and hexes and thus , be implication , other climbers . |
| 13 | Famed jeans maker Levi Strauss and San Francisco 's Bay Area Rapid Transit ( BART ) are end-user beta sites for Univel 's UnixWare . |
| 14 | It is evident that when two or more pieces of notation are combined with , for instance , the colon , the order in which they are combined -their citation order needs to be considered . |
| 15 | Among those who will do this are Combined Power Systems , SPP Energy and British Gas . |
| 16 | Bills of exchange : These are short-term debt instruments , i.e. claims , issued mainly by corporations and the government , purchased by the bank at less than their face value . |
| 17 | Treasury bills ( TBs ) are short-term UK government IOUs of three months ' duration . |
| 18 | It can be divided into four broad and occasionally overlapping ideal-type categories which , in order of decreasing similarity from stable wage work , are short-term wage work , disguised wage work , dependent work , and true self-employment at the polar extreme of the continuum . |
| 19 | ‘ We are complete Disney fans , so it was the perfect place , ’ said Robbie . |
| 20 | There are PREserved Context Indexing System ( PRECIS ) headings " accountancy " and " patients with terminal illnesses . " |
| 21 | The tasks used are spatial memory tasks which are normally used with neuropsychological patients , and it is hoped that the project will lead to a clearer understanding of the nature of spatial impairments following brain injury by clarifying the processing of spatial information presented simultaneously and sequentially . |
| 22 | But how disadvantaged are Labour women supporters ? |
| 23 | They are Labour party policies , which are desperately needed in their own right but which have a vital knock-on effect on offending rates generally . |
| 24 | I would think about 10 or 15 per cent [ of judges ] are Labour Party voters . |
| 25 | Now that 's unusual , because for the last five or six budgets have always been Labour/Liberal Democrat budgets . |
| 26 | 2,250 staff working with mentally handicapped people are now organised into multi-disciplinary community mental handicap teams of one kind or another ; almost 1600 professional staff are full-time core members of teams . |
| 27 | Permanent consumption and permanent income are long-run trend values of consumption and income , so the hypothesis is consistent with long-run time-series data ( like that collected by Kuznets ) which suggests that the apc is constant . |
| 28 | Ministers ensure that there are well-staffed press offices to promote the most favourable reception for their policies and decisions . |
| 29 | The characters in the drama — some good , but flawed and naive , others utterly evil and ruthless — are classic Renaissance types . |
| 30 | Humbuckers or no humbuckers , Les Paul Customs are classic Les Pauls in every way ; compared to sunburst Standards , they 're not outrageously expensive either . |