Example sentences of "be [prep] [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ontological version of the argument involves the claim that existential propositions , in the final analysis , can all be shown to be about certain concrete ontological items and attributes of such items . |
| 2 | If a species is to be excepted , it must be for good particular reasons . |
| 3 | As TODAY suggests , one answer could be for newly-licensed young drivers to carry restriction plates for a specified period . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | It could be for starving Romanian baby whales with AIDS for all I care . |
| 6 | Sometimes these disputes may be between large private organizations when companies argue about the terms of a commercial contract . |
| 7 | Minority representation would be through influential back bench committees . |
| 8 | While the bidding for contracts may nominally be through international competitive bidding arrangements between suppliers and members of a government , the award may in practice be carried out in ways which make it impossible for the Bank and other donors to police it . |
| 9 | Transduction seems to be too drastic and to involve fragments of DNA too small to be of serious ecological importance . |
| 10 | For this reason , as we shall see , the architecture of Holyrood palace was to be of crucial political importance in the reign of Mary Queen of Scots . |
| 11 | The only clues we have are the symptoms and signs , both past and present , and any history there may be of possible precipitating factors . |
| 12 | Unfortunately there have rarely been precise identifications although two are stated to be of Middle Eastern origin , the Cypraea Arabica from Sarre grave 238 and a tiger cowrie from Haslingfield ( Cambridgeshire ) , whose source is the Red Sea . |
| 13 | I recently helped one of the Costain girls on some research and she has sent me the final document , which I suspect will one day be of invaluable professional use , so it was nice she remembered . |
| 14 | Thus in 1702 the Lower House of Convocation issued a declaration in which they denied that they were " in Opposition to Episcopacy " , asserting " that we acknowledge the Order of Bishops … to be of Divine Apostolical Institution " . |
| 15 | The Court felt that , ‘ Such information can be of tremendous historical value in demonstrating what agency personnel were involved in making a particular policy decision and what officials knew and when they knew it . ’ |
| 16 | This attitude was also responsible for a new horological invention that was ultimately to be of far-reaching social significance . |
| 17 | In order to recover so much extra information , thin section preparations must be of consistent high quality . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Data collection should be of immediate practical in the formulation and evaluation of assistance programmes in Zambia . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 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 | Break 's conclusion was that the net effect of taxation rates ‘ be it disincentive or incentive , is not large enough to be of great economic or sociological significance ’ . |
| 23 | And looking behind us in an emotional sense can be of great preventive value . |
| 24 | The continued marketing of products of dubious provenance , dubious efficacy , and dubious quality could bring discredit to a new approach to stopping smoking that seems to be of great potential benefit . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | This would be of great educational value to new members giving tips and ways of how other embalmers around the country practice their work . |
| 27 | It has proved to be of great popular interest and audiences of more than 200 people have attended the series of lectures on ‘ Studying the Scottish Home ’ , which were held in the Royal Museum of Scotland this winter . |
| 28 | The disposal of both nuclear and non-nuclear wastes has proved to be of major public concern in recent years . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | But the recession may even be healthy in making it more difficult to publish the second-rate , he argues : rather than having a clear strategy of which subjects they would concentrate on , far too many academic publishers were happy simply to print a selection of the manuscripts they were sent , including multi-authored books and conference proceedings which tended to be of limited academic market . |