Example sentences of "[pron] be [adj] [adv] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Looking at the evidence leads many scientists to believe that God made the world , whereas other scientists look at the same evidence and believe that it all happened by chance and that the world , the solar system , you and me are all just the result of a lucky string of enormous flukes ! |
| 2 | I am sure neither the record company nor Symbols And Instruments share my view , but wait until the mass media gets its claws into the return of the underground . |
| 3 | But I 'm afraid even the TARDIS is n't that enormous . |
| 4 | ‘ I was 20 when the change came , ’ he recalls . |
| 5 | I suppose I was ten when the school said I could n't see . |
| 6 | I suppose I was ten when the school said I could n't see . |
| 7 | These figures suggest that where items are available at all times ( as in the case of items housed in the Main Building , which are accessible whenever the Library is open to the public ) and can be delivered relatively quickly ( as is again the case with items from the Main Building ) readers will tend not to make advance reservations , but where access is restricted ( as in the case of material from the Annexe and from the Advocates ' Library , both of which have restricted hours of service ) or where delivery may take some time ( as is particularly the case with Annexe materials ) advance orders will more frequently be placed . |
| 8 | If it is inappropriate or if you are underprepared then the likelihood of success is reduced . |
| 9 | How come you were all up the garage last night ? |
| 10 | Well there are a number of spaces that are in positions which could be used by disabled , in other words , they are not sort of , sandwich tight against other spaces and what 's happened in the past is that erm when a need has arisen an and when perhaps there 's been er generally a bungalow that has been er , occupied by somebody who 's disabled then the housing department have erm modified that space I mean , wha what we 've actually done is we 've er , taken a certain amount of block paving out but put back some block paved logo , sort of , standard white er symbol that erm that identifies disabled space and and , and that space is actually earmarked for that person , and it could happen in a variety of different locations erm it 's just that there 's probably not so much point in doing it until you know that there is er a specific need . |
| 11 | The courses are designed for anyone in the voluntary sector who is unsure how the changes will affect them or who simply wants to be better informed . |
| 12 | She was thirty-five when the machines wore her out . |
| 13 | She was thirty-three when the baby was born . |
| 14 | I remember one simplistic piece of Greater London Council propaganda which said ‘ We are all either the victims or the perpetrators of racism ’ . |
| 15 | ‘ If we are successful then the timing is absolutely perfect . |
| 16 | We hold onto stuff because we 're afraid someday the money will run out . |
| 17 | If everything was uniform then the beam diameter would go on decreasing . |
| 18 | The impression just described is not characteristic of all uses of the modals however : there are some where the infinitive 's event seems to coincide with that of the auxiliary , but in a very different way from do . |
| 19 | The problem is that if a hotel reneges on its contract with a tour operator , there is little else the tour operator can do other than take legal action for breach of contract . |
| 20 | There is another back the way we have come … |
| 21 | It is to say that there was available neither the will nor the means to drive through the revolution which would have established Owen 's new order . |
| 22 | The Truman administration was widely condemned for allowing the " fall " of China , although , as Secretary of State Dean Acheson pointed out , there was little more the US could do for Chiang — short of direct intervention by US forces in the civil war . |
| 23 | DURING the months of March , April and May , while at Verdun the Germans were painfully inching forward towards the summits of Le Mort Homme and Côte 304 , in the world outside there was little enough the belligerents could find of positive comfort . |
| 24 | These composers are not coldly exploiting their audiences ' kindness ; they are all equally the victims of the going ideology . |
| 25 | Once they are manageable then the tummy either twinges or aches . |
| 26 | If the module versions are the same then that fact is output to the log file ; if they are different then the log file is updated with : |
| 27 | They 're all up the creek . ’ |
| 28 | The door is great I mean it 's bigger actually the doors and windows are bigger now than they used to be , are n't they ? |
| 29 | ‘ Oh , it 's surprising how the Army toughens the lads , brings out the fibre in ‘ em . |
| 30 | The evening is drawing in early but it 's sad how the shadows lenghthen around Melville 's words . |