Example sentences of "[adj] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | The order of these is established in a ‘ series ’ which recurs constantly throughout a work , so that all the notes of the total-chromatic are used evenly to maintain an atonal atmosphere . |
| 2 | There is also evidence that many who have the financial means to be mobile are actually committing themselves to post-retirement migration . |
| 3 | They report that the odds of qualifying for HE for the upwardly mobile are doubled relative to those who have stayed in the same social class . |
| 4 | Restitution questions over property nationalised by the State following the communist putsch of 1948 are also damaging relations between galleries and the public . |
| 5 | The young , the old , the frail are all sucked into its sweeping tide . |
| 6 | Many old people are as good a set of consumers as anyone else , but the very old and frail are at risk . |
| 7 | Among the 31 pits on British Coal 's hit list is Point of Ayr , near Prestatyn , where the jobs of 478 are on the line . |
| 8 | Articles by Moore , Ray and Ahamed are collected together , along with a fact sheet , in an issue of ‘ Community Outlook ’ ( 1982 ) which is devoted to the subject of home accidents and clearly shows that there are many ways in which the nursing profession can contribute to their prevention ; although these articles are not recent , they contain useful information which is still relevant . |
| 9 | Comparisons with page 32 are inevitable ! |
| 10 | However , if both plural markers in 32 are realized as [ ? ] , ambiguity with the singular form [ la xeina ] may result ( Poplack 1980a : 59 ) . |
| 11 | The Spanish are now promoting the use of the caper berry , the fruit that is produced after the plant has flowered , as a garnish for both food and drinks . |
| 12 | For students who have no second language , beginners ' courses in German and Spanish are available . |
| 13 | His theory is that , as they were fourth on the water , the Spanish are at least fourth favourites to win . |
| 14 | Second Language for Business units in French , German , Italian , Russian and Spanish are available at three levels ( beginners , intermediate and advanced ) . |
| 15 | Spanish are nice w nice girls |
| 16 | Optimistic statements from government sources suggest that the real incomes of the retired are increasing and that this group is improving its economic position with regard to the rest of society . |
| 17 | The retired are also important to the economy as suppliers of a wide variety of services and other forms of labour . |
| 18 | Nevertheless , ‘ those areas where pressure to build is greatest are precisely those where pressure not to build is also greatest ’ ; but , ending on an optimistic note . |
| 19 | By July 1988 , when the House of Commons Energy Committee came to reassess the figures , it concluded that ‘ many of the critical assumptions that underlay the Inquiry Inspector 's view that Sizewell B will be economic are no longer tenable ’ . |
| 20 | The only native Hawaiian plants and animals that are n't extinct are found on the high mountainsides ( yes , a lot of people live their whole lives in Hawaii without ever coming across a native species ) , and the biggest problem up there is that type of pig that descended from European wild boars and Polynesian pigs . |
| 21 | The two new servers using the 7100 are the HP 9000 Models 887S and 897S , with performance ratings of up to 184 transactions per second . |
| 22 | Versions of Hewlett-Packard Co 's Snake workstations based upon its latest PA 7100 are now due early November ( UX No 397 ) , reliable sources say . |
| 23 | The systems for recovering monies due are broadly similar in England and Wales and in Scotland . |
| 24 | Save where the Rules or the Funds Rules 1987 provide otherwise , all monies due are paid to the party in whose favour there is a judgment or Order ( Ord 22 , r 1A ) . |
| 25 | The conclusions from that are of profound consequence . |
| 26 | Days like that are very important to us . |
| 27 | ‘ Record companies and things like that are not my main concern . |
| 28 | These latter examples may be more appropriate for those countries or regions with large rural populations or that do not have a well-developed system of local educational institutions comparable to the community colleges , technical institutes or the like that are found in Australia , Britain , Canada , Denmark , and the US . |
| 29 | The electrodes for that are only linked up at intervals , of course , since they have to be directly attached to his scalp . |
| 30 | But the reasons for that are in the general principle that people are responsible for the consequences of their actions . |