Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] [pron] [be] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One can only just go on hoping and praying that it is the best and not the worst that has happened . |
| 2 | The endoscopy results further suggest that it is the small bowel and not the stomach or duodenum that is the main site of chronic low grade blood loss in patients on long ter , NSAIDs . |
| 3 | 6 One movement in a single section but in two different versions ( no. 5 ) has a timing , but it is not clear to which version this timing relates ; however , the composer 's autograph direction , ‘ Point viste , mais marque ’ and those given in the Cauvin MS ( Versailles , Bibl. mun. , Ms mus 226 ) and the 1729 edition ( ‘ Rondement et marque ’ ) , together with the stated desire on the first folio to shorten the work , strongly suggest that it is the shorter version of 60 bars to which this timing applies . |
| 4 | Here , I can only think that he was saying , ‘ well , we do n't know that there 's the full authority of the city council in this view ’ , but erm I 'm not going to put up a defence , I just think that what we do is basically stress from yourself and from the chief officer that we do want this file known . |
| 5 | I do not think that any one of us expects our children to walk out of the place ‘ normal ’ , but we do know that it is the best place in the world for them to achieve their fullest potential . |
| 6 | ‘ How did you know that it was the right body ? ’ |
| 7 | He added , generously : ‘ You may know that it was the bitter taste which made it unpopular with poisoners of the past even when it was fairly freely available . ’ |
| 8 | Did you know that I was the only one in the management meeting that picked that up ? |
| 9 | I do n't need to be reminded that it was the previous administration who put it in the structure plan but I also want to remind those who were n't here that I was utterly opposed to that at the time . |
| 10 | If you happen to know that it is the Prime Minister personally who advises the Queen to dissolve Parliament , you will realise that this gives him the whip hand over other members of the Cabinet — who fear the cataclysm of an untimely election as much as back-benchers do . |
| 11 | Liz had giggled , before explaining that it was the eldest son , Ross , who now ran the family business — consisting of two merchant banks and many companies both here , in England , and abroad . |
| 12 | And as for Steiner 's suggestion that the West lays waste to the natural world , can he have forgotten that it was the Soviet Union that brought us Chernobyl ? |
| 13 | Has the Prince forgotten that it was the French farmers who attacked British lorry drivers and burned their cargoes of lamb ? |
| 14 | However , Melancia maintained that he was the innocent victim of a politically motivated smear campaign . |
| 15 | Melancia , who resigned after being served with a summons in connection with the alleged bribery , denied all charges of corruption and maintained that he was the innocent victim of a politically motivated smear campaign . |
| 16 | I also had fierce battles with Peter Rees , while Peter 's successor , John MacGregor , maintained that I was the only minister who almost walked out of one of his ‘ bilaterals ’ . |
| 17 | Some authorities maintained that it was the first time a single drug had been shown to be useful in controlling psychotic patients . |
| 18 | The desire to establish that one was the first to arrive with the finding , and the priority disputes which are part of the scientific game , are testimony to the point . |
| 19 | The high proportion of royalists looks embarrassing not only for Merton 's thesis but for variants of it which have claimed that it was the political radicalism ( not the puritanism ) of the parliamentary radicals that made them receptive to revolutionary science . |
| 20 | It is not merely that there are portraits of him at every turn , for there are almost as many of Inglis , nor could it be claimed that he was the greatest lawyer , for he had many rivals for that title even in his own generation , yet it is beyond argument that he was the most influential advocate ever to walk the floor of Parliament House . |
| 21 | It must be added that they were the better team , had the outstanding individual in Gordon Strachan and deserved the victory procured by a touch of finesse which could have Vinny Jones drummed out of the cloggers ' union . |
| 22 | ‘ Does n't the Prime Minister realise that she is the only person in this whole shameful episode that ca n't make the excuse that I was only obeying orders , because she was the person giving the orders — and the orders are tyrannical . ’ |
| 23 | And er we er ploughed through this until tonight , and er I think I 'm right , Mr returning officer , say that we 're the first Euro constituency in the northwest to get to this stage . |
| 24 | The Liberal Democrats write to The Scotsman and say that they were the first to back the consortium . |
| 25 | Pluralists do not deny such a possibility , even probability ; they simply say that theirs is the pragmatic solution to the difficult methodological problems involved in the analysis of power and interests ( discussed in chapters 3 and 4 respectively ) . |
| 26 | well , when I say that it 's the best opportunity for peace I 've seen in twenty years . |
| 27 | They say that it 's the poor that helps the poor and that 's how I 've found it goes quite honestly . |
| 28 | The winter of nineteen forty was extremely bad , in fact most people say that it was the worst winter of the war . |
| 29 | It took five months of telephone calls , letters and faxes to Dr Neil Sontag , before a replacement set arrived , only to find that they were the same , unusable version . |
| 30 | One day Mr Hurd woke up to find that he was the Foreign Secretary , pinched himself , and found that his first big job was forcibly deporting the boat people in Hong Kong back to Vietnam . |