Example sentences of "[prep] be [verb] [conj] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the minus factors was clearly the risk of being caught and the associated penalty . |
| 2 | Ronald Reagan has made a career out of being underestimated and the same mistake was made in 1980 when his critics wrote him off as an amiable , ex-movie actor ill-qualified for the presidency . |
| 3 | The question mark over the reactor protection system is one of a queue of unresolved issues which now do not look like being settled before the public inquiry ends in the autumn . |
| 4 | It used to be said that the Labour Party was a ‘ broad church ’ , as it managed to contain such a wide range of opinion . |
| 5 | Residential work declined for the third successive month , although it has to be said that the average monthly value since the start of the year is higher than for the last five months of 1992 . |
| 6 | It has to be said that the current U D P of Leeds makes er an a an allowance of migration of net out migration of just over about nine thousand three hundred per five year period . |
| 7 | The scheme was a dismal attempt at wholesale social engineering , at wiping out the past and beginning all over again — although it has to be said that the new phonetic script itself , based on a design by someone called Kingsley Read , was rather attractive . |
| 8 | It has to be said that the new home top looks really sad on a large beergut . |
| 9 | However , it has to be said that the British lag behind other European countries , particularly Germany , in this respect . |
| 10 | In the 1970s it used to be said that the British paid themselves more than they really earned . |
| 11 | However , it has to be recognized that the whole concept of conservation areas would never have become established in many places without a willingness by local authorities to accept development behind facades . |
| 12 | There is a challenge to be faced and the hon. Gentleman would make a more constructive contribution if he played a part in helping instead of trying to score cheap party political points when there is a genuine problem to be tackled . |
| 13 | An alternative formulation of the characteristic function is evidently unc and it is to be observed that the two formulations imply , inter alia , unc and unc where Theorems II and III of 1.22 have been used . |
| 14 | Writing about the earliest Ottoman historical text , Inalcik states : It is to be observed that the first compilation originated in the period of struggle for the existence of the Ottoman state alter the fateful defeat in 1402 . |
| 15 | It has to be emphasized that the pedagogical grammar should be used only with a language assistant who is a native speaker of the language . |
| 16 | ‘ I think that 's when American methods started to be applied and the whole atmosphere became less smooth , less gentlemanly ; a wave of toughness started to hit the City . |
| 17 | The United Nations had ordered new sanctions on Serbia and its little ally Montenegro to be applied if the Bosnian Serbs refused to give their final assent to the Vance-Owen peace plan . |
| 18 | Does he regard as sensible the position revealed by Graham Jackson , the cardiologist at Guy 's opted-out hospital , where local people are unable to be treated because the local district health authority 's contract has run out ? |
| 19 | Where a metric pitch part is used ( certain mains transformers , for instance ) , the 0.1″ grid taped to the light box will have to be ignored if the metric component is to fit the board correctly . |
| 20 | The ‘ federal ’ approach recognises the advantages to be gained if the separate local authority services are provided within a framework that allows for economies in the use of resources and recognises departmental interdependencies . |
| 21 | The earliest examples of this type in which the identity of the murderer is no longer a secret to be kept till the closing pages pre-date the blueprint detective story 's heyday . |
| 22 | It also has to be recognised that the general educational standard of aspiring architects is much lower than it used to be . |
| 23 | If team nursing is the pattern , then this has to be explained and the other members of the team for that shift can introduce themselves as and when necessary . |
| 24 | If the petition had to be adjourned because the petitioning creditor needed time to consider the later objections of the debtor , the only sanction , if any , against the debtor would be in relation to the costs of the adjournment . |
| 25 | Whilst explosion other than explosion due to force of internal steam or fluid pressure is excluded , certain forms of explosion e.g. transformers bursting due to electrical faults , are intended to be covered as the proximate cause is electrical breakdown . |
| 26 | Unlike " fixed-alternative " questions , the coding categories of " open-ended " items have to be decided after the interviewing stage of research is complete in order to see the range and kind of answers produced by the question . |
| 27 | Six other cities — Sydney , Peking , Istanbul , Milan , Berlin and Brasilia — are also in the race , to be decided when the International Olympic Committee meets in Monte Carlo in September . |
| 28 | Nevertheless , visiting hours were an ordeal far more to be dreaded than the occasional unattractive things the doctors or nurses came and did to me . |
| 29 | It is now widely recognized that all such attempts have failed , yet it continues to be assumed that the rational agent has somehow pulled himself up by his bootstraps out of reach of his own spontaneity . |
| 30 | It is to be assumed that the general circumstances of the market remain unchanged throughout this period ; that there is , for instance , no change in fashion or taste , no new substitute which might affect the demand , no new invention to disturb the supply . |