Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] be [adv] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The reason for that is partly the attitude of the people involved ; they will identify with individual cows and know them . |
| 2 | He did not breathe spontaneously and died in a pulmonary W with lungs filled with water and we ca n't exclude that the reason for that was just the water bath . |
| 3 | One of the gruesome factors about this particular stitch in the Arran is that every family had its own pattern and the reason for that was often the menfolk were lost at sea and the only way they could identify them was through the pattern . |
| 4 | One reason for this is undoubtedly the fact that many of those who are attracted to homoeopathy are well content just to treat patients as they present , and do not have the expertise or the scientific bent of mind required to design and carry out clinical trials . |
| 5 | The reason for this was also the reason for her sorrow . |
| 6 | It is no accident that there is a similarity between the diagnostic test , above , and the claim which used to be advanced in transformational grammar to the effect that an attributive adjective incorporated in a noun phrase is derived from some such structure as : ( 6 ) the N present BE ADJ This proposal was questioned quite early in the development of transformational grammar ( see Berman , 1974 ) , and a major reason for this was precisely the fact that too many phrases with attributive adjectives were discovered where the derivation does not seem to be usable ; as we shall see later , there are other reasons why such a derivation may not work , apart from the issue discussed here . |
| 7 | Er and I mean er a lot of that 's perhaps the release of stress , so that you know you 've been under pressure for a long time and then you , you take that away , and it may actually be detrimental to but er it does n't , obviously the figures are a little bit odd . |
| 8 | The most striking example of this is perhaps the frontier in the Danubian plain between the Ottoman empire and the Habsburg territories in central Europe . |
| 9 | In front of this was usually the atrium or forecourt . |
| 10 | The first two of these are simply the result of the inversion . |
| 11 | One of these was probably the carver known as ‘ Guillaume de Nourriche ’ ( William of Norwich ) in documentary sources . |
| 12 | The Act of 1897 was partly the result of trade union pressure . |
| 13 | The highest court of all is still the Football Association with their brocaded traditions , honest principles and missionary zeal . |
| 14 | The year of 1990 was truly the beginning of a new decade . |
| 15 | Prominent amongst these is usually the selection of an inappropriate knowledge representation through absent or incorrect problem formulation . |
| 16 | Lifestyle studies like these are usually the source of the acronyms such as ‘ yuppies ’ , ‘ dinkies ’ , ‘ glams ’ , etc. , that have been enthusiastically bandied about the media in recent years . |
| 17 | The consternation this single idea provoked will be nothing compared with the new breed of whole-school responsibilities which are now beginning to emerge : technology across the curriculum , IT across the curriculum , and economic awareness for all being just the start . |
| 18 | St. John 's Roman Catholic Church founded in 1138 was formerly the Chapel of the medieval Hospital of St. John . |
| 19 | The reopening of the Halls in 1985 was just the beginning . |
| 20 | New Soft Liner Pens from 17 are just the thing for adding definition to eyes . |
| 21 | A simple clause reserving title in the goods to the seller until the buyer has paid their purchase price in full is probably the type of clause most likely to be effective . |
| 22 | At constant prices , the real value of government drug imports in 1989 was only the value in 1980 ( Noormahomed et al , op. cit . ) . |
| 23 | Fur example the devaluation of sterling in 1967 was mainly the consequence of higher inflation in the UK over a number of years than that experienced by her major trading partners . |
| 24 | The fall in this share from 1979 to 1983 was mainly the result of the nearly 10 per cent decline in that period in the personal incomes of government employees in comparison with incomes of employees in productive industries . |
| 25 | The privatisation of British Steel and Rover during 1988 were probably the privatisations which gave government ministers the most satisfaction , particularly in the aftermath of the disappointments of the BP flotation . |