Example sentences of "[be] the [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Having the Ketamine entities lie to us may be the least of our worries . |
| 2 | ‘ And that would be the least of your problems . ’ |
| 3 | Under the Merchant Shipping Act of 1894 , anyone found damaging a navigation aid or tying up to one can be fined up to £500 , but according to Mr Cooper a fine would be the least of the expense . |
| 4 | Now that I 'd brought Jan , Cherry 's sulks might be the least of it . |
| 5 | ‘ Freelance double agents would be the least of your worries , ’ says Lil , ‘ if you knew what was happening Upstairs . ’ |
| 6 | To give an indication as it were which in terms of within the City of York , which would be the least worse of the options . |
| 7 | But not too much for James and his pal Andrew , for whom aftertaste should be the least of their worries . |
| 8 | Greatly increased taxes and a major shift back to defence expenditure could be the least of our worries . |
| 9 | IN THE words of the Gaullist leader , Jacques Chirac , France 's eagerly awaited new government has turned out to be the former Rocard government minus Michel Rocard . |
| 10 | He tried to be the former and his Notebooks show his struggle : the latter he knew he could never be but always revered . |
| 11 | Most will be the former , with the cable running out from the fuseway in the consumer unit to supply a number of socket outlets on the ring , and then returning to the same fuseway . |
| 12 | In the absence of any words displacing those general provisions the answer must be the former . |
| 13 | The answer must be the former . |
| 14 | This must be the former manor house of the settlement , which was downgraded in the eighteenth century and replaced by a larger house with its own gardens and park . |
| 15 | Without records management skills and principles it has been and could continue to be the former . |
| 16 | Ernie Simmons , of Tillsonburg , Ontario , acquired seven Swordfish from a base ( believed to be the former 16 Service Flying Training School at Hagersville ) in southern Ontario , shortly after they were removed from RCN strength . |
| 17 | It 's thought Fresden 's new owner may be the former racing driver Paddy McNally , who already owns a house in nearby Sevenhampton . |
| 18 | BY THE time these words are being read Frank Gray might be the former manager of mighty Darlington FC , this space 's favourite football team . |
| 19 | A good example would be the many editions of Sutherland and Cressey ( 1970 ) . |
| 20 | Typical recent examples must be the many importers of foreign made consumer goods of all natures fulfilling a need or a price structure that our goods do not . |
| 21 | And I think it 's going to have to be the latter , we are going to have to decide , and the M twenty five enlargement is the critical debate at the moment . |
| 22 | They may have bought it for £9,000 with full discount , if it is actually worth £30,000 it will be the latter figure that will be used to work out their roof tax ... |
| 23 | It will be the latter 's task to optimize the results of the joint efforts of these people in the presence of personal differences of education , training , temperament and maturity . |
| 24 | In this respect , the scholarly standard of a private collection 's catalogue will be very high , and the sort of information which a reader can expect will be the same . |
| 25 | It will be the same story for many moons to come . |
| 26 | This place wo n't be the same with both you and Kathleen gone . ’ |
| 27 | She returned to the formal garden and paced its perimeter several times , counting her steps to see if the number would be the same on each circuit ; but it was n't . |
| 28 | This will be the district office which covers the hospital which may not be the same office as for the place of residence . |
| 29 | In most cases the ‘ rates ’ used in the calculation will be the same amount as the actual bill you received in 1989–90 . |
| 30 | By repetition , he did not mean that every time a phrase was repeated it had to be the same . |