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 | 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 . |
| 3 | There are ample sporting facilities on offer within the Centre . |
| 4 | Yes , we are fortunate ; we have uncovered parking , and there are ample other parking facilities nearby . |
| 5 | Not a new situation , for there are ample historical parallels . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 ) . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Yet , Hurd 's suggestions implicitly assume that both states are stable political entities — which they are not . |
| 10 | There are drowsy old houses , sleepy alleys and squares , intimate cafes , and the air of medieval Switzerland envelopes you . |
| 11 | 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 |
| 12 | Because of their stability , they are hard to dispose of and are persistent environmental contaminants . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . ’ |
| 16 | There is a good example in Goldmann ( 1964 ) , and there are classic pioneering studies in Gramsci ( translated 1971 ) and Benjamin ( translated 1973 ) . |
| 17 | THE hairstyles and hour-glass figures are classic Forties film star . |
| 18 | … the people of Burma are friendly hospitable folk ; they meet you on a friendly equal basis , without cringing or self-assertion . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Most of our women in the House are frightful old bats . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | They are strange little creatures with a shell-like carapace and clinging feeler-like attachments . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Been dry all day . |
| 25 | For the hotel and catering industry split duties , weekends , Christmas , Easter and bank holidays are normal working periods . |
| 26 | And inside the buildings , there are normal everyday things going on like whist drives , discos and parties ; there are shops , and a pub . |
| 27 | These are normal circular rows . |
| 28 | In these circumstances there is little visible money to be made out of feminism as such , although there are specific financial benefits to be gained by institutions from the identification of women as a deprived minority . |
| 29 | In what follows I will argue that there are specific financial advantages for Japanese firms which compensate for the presumed loss of efficiency that accompanied the shift away from the model of atomistic competition proposed in the reforms of the US Occupation . |
| 30 | In what follows I will argue that there are specific financial advantages for Japanese firms which compensate for the presumed loss of efficiency that accompanied the shift away from the model of atomistic competition proposed in the reforms of the US Occupation . |