Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] be [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 The worst violence yesterday was in the western city of David where the trial had been taking place since July 6 .
2 All the talk now was of the Second Front , and everyone thought that the Army would have to land in France to finish off the war .
3 Otherwise , what can be seen of Patrington today is of the 18th century or later .
4 The only illumination now was from the dim curtained portholes and the deck light of the boat itself .
5 The concerns here are with the internal efficiency of organisations : the design of structure and the motivation of groups and individuals to perform in line with stated goals .
6 The only fight Laker would have with the big airlines thereafter was in the American courts , suing them under the anti-trust laws for driving him out of business .
7 One interesting geological effect of the Vesuvius eruption nineteen hundred years ago was on the famous pillars of the so-called " Temple of Serapis " at Pozzuoli on the opposite side of the Bay of Naples ( plate 5.3 ) .
8 A full exploration of the nature of a place would explore all three components and the three sub-components of the third : my focus here is on the latter only .
9 I du n no what get , I do n't know , it gets on my wick out there , there always like , every country linked with religion for some bloody stupid reason , I mean its so primitive , no body else is in the modern world are they ?
10 Yes , I mean I do n't think there 's a problem about opening it up to them except their meetings traditionally are in the early morning
11 Aware that she was causing David a deal of agony just being in the same room as Luther , Beth turned to him now , saying with some tenderness , ‘ And you , David ?
12 The only access to the interior of the Old Cathedral now is through the New .
13 Service today is of the utmost importance .
14 There are unlikely to be dramatic improvements in noise levels and air quality as a result of these speed reductions , simply because 80 per cent of the traffic now is on the main roads .
15 The houses here were of the same structure as the mean buildings where Hari lived but the properties were well maintained , the outsides freshly painted , the windows gleaming with cleanliness and hung with rich drapes .
16 ‘ use towards another person ’ This can be proved by a civilian witness or a police officer witnessing the incident and describing in his evidence that the threats etc. were towards the other person .
17 His life also was on the open deck .
18 ’ Summing up , ’ said Nilghard , ‘ I must say that the only place where I have seen correspondingly bad situations in Central Europe before is around the biggest airports in West Germany . ’
19 The resemblance here is to the great nineteenth century Reviews , the Edinburgh , the Quarterly , the Westminster , and others , which did include some scientific works among their criticism but were chiefly concerned with literature , history and politics .
20 Again , the pavements under consideration here are in the southeastern part of the province .
21 The concern here is with the first of these points .
22 Chapter 3 discusses the overall macro-economic issues in more detail , for example the extent to which monetary union might produce faster growth , but the principal concern here is with the spatial implications .
23 Our concern essentially is with the first of these possibilities , the case of natural monopoly — no competition is possible .
24 The first of the two meetings then was of the regional chairman of BAIE ( and I was standing in for ours in Scotland ) followed by a meeting of the Council of BAIE .
25 The press immediately took the heat off Margaret Thatcher , went for Norman Tebbit and went for Edwina Currie , and I think that was a part of the success in the build up to the last election , because at a time when the pressure really was on the Prime Minister , like it was a couple of when in the last few months of Margaret Thatcher 's leadership , that 's what happened .
26 The three-region Northern Province however is in the bigger league of population — large enough , as already mentioned , to stand international comparison .
27 Sony and Pyramid were instrumental in the formation of the MIPS System V Special Interest Group two years ago ; however Sony has yet to fully implement UNIX SVR4 on its workstations , that version currently being in the Early Access stage , according to Dr Toshitada Doi , Director and head of the Sony Workstation Division .
28 You produce a good magazine each month ; the readers ' letters alone are worth the annual subscription .
29 And it is hardly a coincidence that women here are on the negative side of the comparison .
30 Erm he 's saying that the way forward is through the cooperative movement erm and this , this again is , ties in with the fact that you 've got peasant associations erm and that you 're gon na be , that , that the average peasant 's gon na be a lot stronger in the cooperative moment system .
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