Example sentences of "[be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That s complete tosh . |
| 2 | The chassis is delivered ready panelled , and all the components that require precise location and installation , as well as the safety-related components , are factory-fitted before delivery . |
| 3 | Suspected torturers are permitted under the new law to continue to interrogate detainees while charges against them are outstanding . |
| 4 | The statistics of the eruption are outstanding . |
| 5 | Three major contracts and another 19 minor ones are outstanding , but Mr Outhwaite yesterday declined to say whether he would have to increase the £305 million reserves he has set aside . |
| 6 | Throughout Davies is responsive to the humour , the provocative argument and the emotion of the piece , and there are outstanding performances in the leading roles . |
| 7 | The Cardiff Bay development and the Ebbw Vale Garden Festival are outstanding examples , together with the Programme for the Valleys . |
| 8 | There are outstanding furnishings and sculptures by M. Schönherr , J. A. Quitainer and F. I. Weiss , and fine confessionals of 1765 by Prachner . |
| 9 | Chapels may be eligible in their own right if they are outstanding buildings ( grade I or II* ) , or on townscape grounds if they are in conservation areas . |
| 10 | Most advances are supposed to be short-term but in practice many are outstanding for long periods . |
| 11 | Hybrids between jack donkeys and mares , or stallions and she-asses , are outstanding subjects for research in reproductive biology — both animal and human |
| 12 | Artists of the stature of Sendak and Keeping are visual explorers , never satisfied merely to repeat performances , even though those performances are outstanding . |
| 13 | Amongst the many excellent and well researched books that have been written on the subject of bereavement the following are outstanding in their capacity to help those who have suffered a major loss : Grief and how to live with it by Sarah Morris ( published in 1971 by George Allen and Unwin ) ; A grief observed by C. S. Lewis ( published in 1961 by Faber and Faber ) — of particular interest to widowers — and Bereavement . |
| 14 | Not all are outstanding golfers , but then 18-handicap Group Captain John Prideaux did n't become Secretary at Muirfield because of his own golfing skill . |
| 15 | Where previously REM have relied on their unique four-way telepathy to create their masterworks , ‘ Out Of Time ’ welcomes a string quartet into the picture and there are outstanding contributions from rapper KRS-1 and Kate Pierson of The B-52s . |
| 16 | Either way their lives are outstanding enough to capture the popular imagination ; they are remembered and they become part of the town 's history . |
| 17 | Once they have developed that sound commercial judgment , he says , the rewards in terms of job satisfaction are outstanding . |
| 18 | means they are outstanding for an average of 67 days . |
| 19 | Suppose : That through good collecting your average accounts receivable are reduced to £ 150,000 , which means they are outstanding for an average of 45 days . |
| 20 | In all countries the poor are more national than the rich , but the English working class are outstanding in their abhorrence of foreign habits … . |
| 21 | Paul Moriarty , Jonathan Griffiths and Ian Marlow in particular are outstanding players at the top of their form at the moment . ’ |
| 22 | These excellent jogsuits are outstanding value for money at a greatly reduced price . |
| 23 | For those who do venture in , the rewards are outstanding . |
| 24 | The views are outstanding . |
| 25 | Among them are outstanding objects from the Olmec , Aztec and Maya civilisations including a turquoise Aztec mosaic mask in the form of two intertwined rattlesnakes , painted codices from pre-Hispanic times , among them the Codex Zouche , stone architectural fragments from Mayan sites and jades from the Olmec period . |
| 26 | The views — in good weather — are outstanding . |
| 27 | It 's a bit slow printing out , but the results are outstanding . |
| 28 | The tools for designing slide show presentations are outstanding , and centre round the Light Table . |
| 29 | The computer printed report should be annotated to indicate those problems which are outstanding for more than five days or which led to a Change Request . |
| 30 | As a celebration of the restoration , the illustrations are outstanding , in spite of a superfluity of large colour details of hands and feet . |