Example sentences of "be [prep] [noun sg] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Is it not clear , in retrospect , that our right hon. Friend the Member for Finchley ( Mrs. Thatcher ) was absolutely right when she went to Rome in October 1990 and warned our partners that the talks should be about world free trade , and not about cloud cuckoo land — that is , political and economic union , which was doomed to failure in any event ? |
| 2 | I think that diving can be as calorie consuming as you would like it to be . ’ |
| 3 | To derive benefit from taekwondo training , the body has to be in peak physical condition . |
| 4 | The completed aircraft will be in factory new condition . |
| 5 | For example , a system that can compute convexity may be in principle incapable of computing spatial connectedness ( Rosenblatt 1958 ) . |
| 6 | It preferred to insist that industrial democracy should be imposed by a means that had to be in principle unsustainable : that is , by the appointment of representatives of trade unions to the boards of directors of industrial enterprises . |
| 7 | No of course that 's all gradually gone on see , I mean when even when er at fourteen , fifteen we , we had to be , all be in bed asleep before nine o'clock at night . |
| 8 | The particularly high rate of loss of manufacturing jobs in the UK and the consequent problems for inner cities and manufacturing regions would therefore on this reading be in part due to the relatively fragile development of Fordism , which means that certain manufacturing industries had remained relatively backward and therefore less competitive . |
| 9 | These inconsistencies may be in part due to the heterogenous nature of patients who are diagnosed as suggering from irritable bowel syndrome . |
| 10 | Changes in stimulus distinctiveness might , indeed , be in part responsible for the development of different patterns of overt behaviour to the different training stimuli , but the mere fact that discrimination learning occurs can not prove this to be so . |
| 11 | The tact that the effect survives a contextual change so readily encourages acknowledgement of the possibility that a non-associative process ( such as differentiation is presumed to be ) may be in part responsible for it . |
| 12 | In both shallow and deep water examples the origin of the overgrowth cement calcite is generally thought to be from aragonite dissolution during early diagenesis , although modifications of sea water chemistry with ocean depth and with shallow burial may be in part responsible . |
| 13 | We have noted that a male community defends a group territory and the outcome of aggressive interactions between different communities is known to be in part dependent upon party size . |
| 14 | ‘ We are not going to be in business long term , ’ Mr Crandall said at a dinner with the reporters . |
| 15 | ‘ At the labour costs we incur today , we can not be in business long term . ’ |
| 16 | The reason is that otherwise the surface charges would be in motion contrary to the assumption that a static equilibrium exists . |
| 17 | Ideas and concepts may thus be in fact misleading as to the real condition of existence ; they are not the reflection of the economic system but the product of a complex historical process of changing adaptation . |
| 18 | Since registration , there have already been eight examinations , all of which were passed with flying colours , at all times , a company representative or deputy has to be on call ready to answer any questions . |
| 19 | Ideally , said Mr Edwards , he would like a consultant to be on duty full-time in the labour ward but because of financial constraints that was impossible . |
| 20 | A.1.1 is now and shall be at Completion true and accurate ; and |
| 21 | Admission will be by programme available from — Room 137 — during the week beginning from 8.00 am to 8.30 am . |