Example sentences of "[be] [adv] the [noun] [noun sg] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ A few years ago we 'd be down the piano bar listening to … ’ |
| 2 | ’ Speaking for myself , I read that very broadly as giving the judge who makes a residence order the jurisdiction to attach conditions , or directions which I think are very much the same thing , as to how the children should be cared for and where they should be once the residence order has been made . |
| 3 | when he went in mum started crying she said Lyn he ai n't coming back he ai n't coming back I said he might mum , he 's just might so anyway that was , at one o'clock he went down , quarter past five , ring , we kept saying can you ring and see if , and they rung said be out the operating theatre to tell us how far they 'd got and what was happening , he 's had four units of blood |
| 4 | A typical example would be where the personnel manager specified the rules for disciplining and dismissal of employees . |
| 5 | Why , that must be where the signpost wass pointing to ! |
| 6 | Er now clearly if the if the members had si had been simply the highways committee had been deciding the preferred route simply on the basis of which gives the greatest traffic relief then on that basis they would have chosen an inner northern . |
| 7 | In large hotels the front reception office is basically the sales department dealing with enquiries , necessary records and charts for letting accommodation . |
| 8 | This is merely the reaction time required in picking up the card and placing it on a pile without making any choice based on the value of the card . |
| 9 | These latter arguments , fixed in different ways on the question of how the statute should be read , make sense only on the assumption that the law judges have an obligation to enforce depends on the " correct " reading even when it is controversial what that is ; this is exactly the assumption conventionalism denies . |
| 10 | Lower grade paper is presently in surplus and as yet there is not the mill capacity to deal with it all . |
| 11 | This last is not the day.today catering provided by a commercial restaurant , a hotel dining room or a canteen , but catering at one-off " events " . |
| 12 | Is not the Polaris fleet plagued with cracks to the nuclear reactor , and has not the game been given away by Mr. Reg Farmer , a former member of the Ministry of Defence safety of nuclear warships committee ? |
| 13 | That is not the coal lobby talking — that is the view of senior people in National Power who know exactly what is happening in terms of electricity generation in this country . |
| 14 | Trouble is , as our Law Survey shows , that 's not the way business wants to work . |
| 15 | It 's we it 's once the ball start rolling it |
| 16 | There 's still the home leg to come in two weeks time . |
| 17 | It is also the colour pattern flaunted by hover flies and clear-wing moths that visit English gardens alongside bees and wasps . |
| 18 | There is also the $145m loan to protect MGM-Pathe from bankruptcy . |
| 19 | Burnside water , as it was aptly called , is now the headquarters building rebuilt in the 1920's as a multi storey plate glass building of some note at that time . |
| 20 | Stich , who defeated compatriot Boris Becker in the quarter-finals and watched as other Wimbledon favourites Pete Sampras , Stefan Edberg and Goran Ivanisevic fell by the wayside , is now the form horse going into Wimbledon . |
| 21 | Market demand for it has been much higher than expected and there is n't the manufacturing capacity to build both four and five-speeds for the same application . |
| 22 | They are ideal for repairs and smaller building jobs , and where there is n't the storage space to keep separate ingredients . |
| 23 | Is n't the education authority failing in its duty though , when it has to send children home ? |
| 24 | Still more important from our viewpoint is how the state apparatus relates to its citizens . |
| 25 | So this is how the starting grid looks this evening for Silverstone 92 : |
| 26 | The reason is simple — the insulation used in the warm building is 150mm thick , which is twice the building standard required in Britain . |
| 27 | That 's how the test pilot summed up the first post-restoration flight in Dick Hansen 's Kittyhawk I. Once displayed on top of a filling station , the P-40 is now arguably the best there is . |
| 28 | ‘ That 's how the servant girl described him , sir , ’ agreed the inspector . |
| 29 | That 's how the Gloucester coach saw the game . |
| 30 | Well that 's that 's when the tax man starts getting fishy and you 've got to know |