Example sentences of "[be] [adj] [conj] [adv] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The publicity given to the conference is important because both the propaganda department and the People 's Daily , the official voice of the Communist Party , have long preferred stability and ideological orthodoxy to the no-holds-barred economic reforms favoured by Deng . |
| 32 | It is evident that today the expertise ( knowledge + expertise ) and reasoning strategies used by highly skilled maintenance engineers are the most critical areas of the problem-solving process . |
| 33 | It is unclear whether all the eligibility criteria listed in points ( i ) to ( iii ) need to be satisfied before a grant will be awarded . |
| 34 | Setting clear boundaries for the child 's behaviour is essential as once the child realizes that the parents are being consistent and firm in their reactions the problem behaviour will disappear . |
| 35 | The heat capacity of this is negligible and so the term Cvessel in equation ( 5 ) can be ignored . |
| 36 | Information obtained retrospectively from case notes is unreliable but generally the correspondence to be found in case notes showed the clinician 's reason for referring a patient and gave reliable clues to the prediction of the result . |
| 37 | Or does it get left outside , and then somebody comes along and kicks it , and then it 's open and therefore the rubbish is all over . |
| 38 | Technically , the inquiry is non-statutory and therefore the Church Commissioners are not bound by its recommendations , but the likelihood is that they will abide by them , as in the case of the village church of St John the Baptist in Avon Dassett . |
| 39 | For example , an exponential ramp may be required for optimum acceleration , but its implementation is expensive and so the designer may compromise with a linear ramp , which is available at very low cost . |
| 40 | It is noteworthy that neither the article nor the constitution uses the expression " deaf and dumb " . |
| 41 | Hilton is aware that ultimately the lord will be best judge of what helps him most , but he suggests that every day should start with an effort to discipline his whole attention to God . |
| 42 | But you see the thing is , that 's true but sometimes the way they deal with it , they deal with it say eight weeks , so which makes it what ? |
| 43 | The land is ploughed and then the seed is sown , the crop sprayed , the harvest taken , and so on . |
| 44 | They stood to attention , but it was clear that both the administrator and his deputy were unsure of the proper response . |
| 45 | Shearman recalled that , at first , discussion with Hickson was unpromising but eventually the appointment of Pateman to the post , vacant from 1928 , was confirmed . |
| 46 | The King , however , made it clear that neither mother nor son was welcome and so the journey to England had to be resumed . |
| 47 | Law and morality were not yet clearly distinguished , nor could one even say that the whole of law or justice was to be found in any one court ; the Ecclesiastical Courts , and Local Courts of many different kinds , administered a justice which was not the justice of the Common Law Courts ; so the thought was natural that even the King 's justice was not exhausted in the power conferred on his courts . |
| 48 | It was argued that since any payment above the standard rent would be illegal and indeed a criminal offence under section 17 of that Act , the lease itself was unlawful and accordingly the agreement for commission fixed upon the amount of the rent stipulated in it was also illegal and irrecoverable . |
| 49 | The West saw revolution coming through military struggle , misunderstanding that the appeal of Communism was sociological and thus the struggle was political . |
| 50 | The success was phenomenal and soon the company opened factories in other parts of the United Kingdom . |
| 51 | The term ‘ an efficient farm ’ has defied description from many authorities but from this survey it appeared that it was not a farm or a system or an enterprise that was efficient but rather the man who ran it . |
| 52 | It was true that both the house and the grounds had the curious quality of seeming larger than they were . |
| 53 | The time was approximately 12.30am and all was quiet when suddenly the door handle rattled . |