Example sentences of "[conj] be [verb] [prep] the [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tracing this back to the seventeenth century , he points out that in such times , it is ‘ always those crimes that are associated with the materially disadvantaged underclass which have provided the continuing thread within this history of respectable fears … |
| 2 | The alternative version has the same two properties together making up a property complex that is applied to the immediately adjacent subject of the sentence ; moreover in both cases the complex as a whole is assigned syntactically to the subject E ; the sole difference is in the matter of which property is taken as " senior " to the other within the bounds of the complex , as in ( 63 ) , and in such a case this will produce an infinitesimal semantic difference : ( 63 ) However this sort of syntactic trading is only possible where the language contains suitable lexical items ; it must have an adverb and verb with the appropriate meanings ; thus , in the absence of an adverb equivalent to after a change and a verb meaning to be orange , for instance , English can not offer such an alternative for ( 64 ) : ( 64 ) in spring , their skin turns orange 5.8 The range of verbs which can occur with postverbal adjectives is in fact quite wide . |
| 3 | Improbably combined with this is a substantial beech bridge , 18 mm high in the bass and tapering to 14 mm in the treble , of the truncated triangular form and mass that is seen in the much more heavily strung harpsichords of the Flemish tradition . |
| 4 | that particular organisation I presume is , is the one that is known as the most profitable investment bank partnership in the world or in history and presumably the reason why you 've been advised is because the advisor or the director to Robert Maxwell who was instrumental in dealing with Robert Maxwell business wherever he was in the world and I mean I 've seen er faxes and cables to France where er that particular director , I believe Mr Shineberg was , I 've seen faxes about Jersey business to Mr Shineberg er presumably er you 're being advised to take that action because in effect it was operating as one operation with transactions routed through New York , routed through London as seemed to suit the circumstances , but not necessarily with any rational basis other than er to avoid perhaps regulation . |
| 5 | Being little more than thin skinned bags of sugary carbohydrate sap from the plants they are sucking , they are an easily taken source of energy for many predators , including other insects and birds — a slaughter that is countered by the extraordinarily rapid rate of reproduction . |
| 6 | Any examination of the history of ‘ history , will demonstrate that it has never had the immediate certainty that is implied in the all too frequent invocation of , concrete history ’ . |
| 7 | As Mr. Charles Webster , the national health service historian , recently told ’ Newsnight ’ , that meant a splurge of spending at the beginning that was followed by the most desperate and dangerous cuts ever in the history of the national health service . |
| 8 | Thus community , as an ideology , was a gloss that was placed upon the very rigid and authoritarian divisions within the village . |
| 9 | She followed him into a tiny , brightly lit room that was suffused with the most delectable scents of cooking . |
| 10 | Possibly it was only after they came together under the aegis of Apollinaire , one of the greatest artistic impresarios of his age , that they felt the attraction towards each other that was to result in the most unusual and intensive collaboration in the history of art . |
| 11 | Over thirty times as much public money was spent globally on hormonal and surgical contraception in 1978 than was earmarked for the less ‘ reliable ’ ( but infinitely safer ) barrier methods , such as condoms and diaphragms . |
| 12 | The pages were crisp and white and were filled with the most marvellous pictures of animals wearing clothes . |
| 13 | One school , deciding that extra space for resource-based learning was a priority , took over a classroom for use in unstructured individualized work , with the result that other classrooms including some specialist rooms were more heavily used than before ; teachers complained that they could not get in to put up work on the blackboard beforehand , and were introduced to the more thorough use of the overhead projector ; the timetabler had to bear in mind the needs of some practical subjects where the previous laying-out of equipment was vital , but the exercise was valuable in focusing attention on such priorities and making them clear to everyone . |
| 14 | It was the first two which carried most force and were backed by the most extensive social research . |
| 15 | Different architects and teams of planners produced drawings and even models in the hope of catching his eye and being rewarded with the most prestigious project of their careers . |
| 16 | TSTSTSTS … , the other of which lies to the right of the stable manifold of the origin and is represented by the doubly infinite sequence ( with mark ) … |
| 17 | Seals make up a large part of the diet of the great white shark the beast which terrified movie-goers in Jaws and is regarded as the most dangerous shark species . |
| 18 | This ability is independent of idiosyncratic beliefs , feelings and usages ( although it may refer to those shared by participants ) , and is based for the most part on quite regular and relatively abstract principles Pragmatics can be taken to be the description of this ability , as it operates both for particular languages and language in general . |
| 19 | The cottage is set on the highest ridge of the Chiltern Hills and is surrounded by the most glorious countryside . |
| 20 | The hydrogen atom loses its electron , becomes positively charged and is attracted to the negatively charged electrode , called the cathode ; the oxygen gains an electron and migrates to the positive electrode , the anode , this migration of ions forming the current . |
| 21 | is the result of much searching and is deemed as the most suitable for the angler . |
| 22 | At a ceremony in Windhoek , the capital , the South African flag was lowered at midnight on the evening of March 20 , and was replaced by the newly designed flag of the Republic of Namibia ( composed of diagonal stripes of blue , red and green separated by white lines , with a golden sun at the top near the hoist ) . |
| 23 | This week I rang up to inquire about train times and was assisted by the most delightful man I have encountered in two decades of dealing with BR . |
| 24 | After a disastrous fire the new church was begun by Justinian in 532 and was built in the incredibly short time of six years , though the interior decoration was completed after this . |
| 25 | By the close of the 1980s the West Coast had started to regain some of its old vitality and was emerging as the most utilised and profitable part of the InterCity network . |
| 26 | My understanding is that the signalling in the Severn tunnel area is relatively new , and was installed in the relatively recent past . |
| 27 | On the other hand , in countries where fetal deaths for the maternal age group under 15 are not reported separately but are included in the under 20 age group , the relationship takes a " J " shape , since the chances for giving birth a viable child are poorer at the oldest childbearing ages than at the late teens . |
| 28 | Similar measures were passed in 1985 and 1988 but were vetoed by the then President Ronald Reagan . |
| 29 | Musical savants could easily learn pieces by Greig which follow classical rules , but were stumped by the less structured avant garde works of Bartok . |
| 30 | The commission estimates the population on the basis of the electoral register — but is working with the artificially low 1991 registers . |