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 | If it is inappropriate or if you are underprepared then the likelihood of success is reduced . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | I remember one simplistic piece of Greater London Council propaganda which said ‘ We are all either the victims or the perpetrators of racism ’ . |
| 7 | ‘ If we are successful then the timing is absolutely perfect . |
| 8 | We hold onto stuff because we 're afraid someday the money will run out . |
| 9 | If everything was uniform then the beam diameter would go on decreasing . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | These composers are not coldly exploiting their audiences ' kindness ; they are all equally the victims of the going ideology . |
| 15 | Once they are manageable then the tummy either twinges or aches . |
| 16 | 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 : |
| 17 | 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 ? |
| 18 | You know we were asked , Do you want your own bank account really and we decided er democratically that we 'd have the one bank account really for make sure the D H S S did n't start snooping really and you know er that 's worked very well I mean certainly the men very much tell us everything that 's going on and erm well you know I do n't think there 's any conflict of erm I do n't know you know it 's it 's difficult I suppose it 's amazing really the way it does work you know and that er you know but it 's quite loose really because it 's er that 's in a way the way one of it 's successes probably you know that 's it 's not a very structured I mean probably the lodge is more structured I mean men are used to their lodge meetings are n't they you know ? |
| 19 | Dear Julie gets drunk and for some bizarre reason suddenly starts feeling you up under the table while we 're nibbling our cheese and biscuits , and making pathetic double-entendres , and attacks you outside the bathroom ; totally unprovoked , of course , and it 's all just the drink talking . |
| 20 | If it is appropriate perhaps the opportunity might be offered again next November , but the value of the meeting has to be guided by the views of the Committee . |
| 21 | If it is internal then the individual could control it . |
| 22 | It was twelve o'clock the funeral was a usually at . |
| 23 | When he was angry then the Yorkshire surfaced again in his voice , the grate of the harsh streets of Leeds . |
| 24 | he was Vietnamese presumably the comments were of a racist nature ? |