Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] [pron] [be] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is typical of this Tory government , a government that has not had a constructive idea all the time it has been in office , but thinks that union bashing is the only answer to the country 's problems , that thinks it is the only way to unite the Tory troops . |
| 2 | Some said it was the happiest day of their long lives . |
| 3 | It was not hard to guess what was the wrong answer . |
| 4 | The crowd at the door parted to let through a gaunt old man wearing the black peci hat , symbol of Indonesian nationalism , faded sarong and a shirt with so many patches that it was hard to tell which was the original material . |
| 5 | They all say you are the best houngan in Haiti . |
| 6 | It is useful to know which is the likely response to your committed attack and that is one way of finding out . |
| 7 | TO JOG — Jogging is popular and many claim it is the best way to exercise . |
| 8 | ‘ We all think it 's the best thing for you , to see something of life beyond the dale . ’ |
| 9 | What brings all of the x86 family together , primarily because of MSDOS , is that they can all pretend they are the original 8086 , if a bit faster . |
| 10 | But the managers I played for all said I was the best professional . |
| 11 | There was immediate uproar and they all said it was the other batsman who was out . |
| 12 | Such brief ‘ thumb-nail ’ sketches do give some indication of the essence of sociology , but ultimately it is both necessary and perhaps more fruitful to emphasise that the most important and distinctive feature of sociology is not so much what is studied but how it is studied , i.e. it is important to indicate what is the particular perspective of sociology , its distinct way of looking at the individual and society . |
| 13 | In order to sustain the argument that I am putting forward here , it is important to establish what were the major arguments levelled by anthropologists and others against the ‘ great divide ’ theory . |
| 14 | Rory had looked very hard but had n't been able to decide which was the false eye . |
| 15 | One of the first to treat her was the noted Jungian psychotherapist Dr Allan McGlashan , a friend of Laurens van der Post , who has consulting rooms conveniently near to Kensington Palace . |
| 16 | When Calder-Marshall and Malcolm Lowry first met it was the latter who felt flattered , but though Calder-Marshall was a generous friend , there is something poignant in Gordon Bowker 's comment in Malcolm Lowry Remembered that he has ‘ given a great deal of time to writing and speaking about him ’ . |
| 17 | so I mean if , if they caught one , they actually took a photo , managed to take a photo out of all those hundreds of people , look how many more were , were there , and it just seems like basically their not sure who fired first , obviously the Irish say it was the British them and the British say they were fired upon first and erm , on , on the strength of it , who , who would you rather believe I mean , somebody that 's been living in Ireland for twenty odd yea twenty years now with all that happening around him being able to be got at by the I R A or a British body who may , may be up on a murder trial , you know , the , at the end of the day its six of one and half a dozen of the other , they 've both got stuffed by a bleeding troop |
| 18 | The consensus it that by four or five strokes it is the toughest course in either county because the battle is only half over when you 've found the green . |
| 19 | ‘ I 'm proud to say I 'm the first member of my family to join the Labour Party . |
| 20 | And she has n't got two , that means it 's the first time I 've seen those three lights on . |
| 21 | It 's difficult to know who 's the bigger dreamer , Franco Sbarro or Willy Koenig , who is convinced he 'll find 30 buyers for his 236mph , £700,000 C62 Porsche-engined , Porsche 926 race-car clone . |
| 22 | In a situation where excessive wage claims and rising import prices , accompanied by an increase in monetary growth , have led to inflation , it is extremely difficult to determine which is the major cause of the inflation . |
| 23 | Although it is difficult to determine what was the original material from which these rocks were derived , the general consensus of opinion is that the original material was of igneous origin , with the old term orthogneiss being used to describe these rocks in the past . |
| 24 | It is all judgement and decision , weighing up many factors that all have varying influence , and you do what your commonsense tells you is the logical and rational thing to do . |
| 25 | I think it 's fair to say he 's the first one to acknowledge that but he did win the gold medal and as a result he became yachtsman of the year and at a time when there is very a much heightened interest in the problems of disabled and people with visual impairment it was a real boost for sailors who have those problems that we did so well during the year . |
| 26 | Before turning to the competing interests and engaging in the balancing exercise , it is necessary to consider who is the public authority who may be seen to be exercising the interference referred to in article 10(1) . |
| 27 | Maybe she 'd been too ready to believe it was the real thing ? |
| 28 | You stopped because you both decided it was the right thing to do for you at the time . |
| 29 | ‘ We 've learned in the last go it 's the public accountability thing , ’ said a senior official . |