Example sentences of "[be] [det] [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Among the sites listed are that of the 1956 crash of a nuclear-armed bomber aircraft at Albuquerque , New Mexico , and the Agriculture Research Center at Beltsville , Maryland , where scientists used radioactive matter to test the effects of fall-out on crops in the 50s and 60s . |
| 2 | view is that one hopes that my hopes are that of the direct report you er worked for erm is equal and competent and is erm in a sense courageous and brave and that they realize that sometimes to get the best results you have to do things which are perhaps challenging and orthodox |
| 3 | In the twentieth century the most dramatic political collapse has been that of the Liberal Party . |
| 4 | Indeed , her pose by the fire had been that of the consummate temptress , and yet … there it was again , the feeling that something did n't add up . |
| 5 | The most influential model of ninth-century political change since Montesquieu 's has been that of the Belgian historian Jan Dhondt . |
| 6 | For a long time after independence , English was the language of the educated élite , just as it had largely been that of the colonial administration . |
| 7 | The most influential presentation of the ‘ strong ’ version of the ‘ autonomous ’ model has probably been that of the social anthropologist . |
| 8 | The main symbol of death had long been that of the old man holding a familiar rural implement , the scythe , implying that man would be cut down when he was ripe for it . |
| 9 | However , there are some on the receiving end of a star fist who become members of a sad sisterly fraternity — beaten wives and girlfriends . |
| 10 | The proportions and detail of these orders are some of the best work of its type in Rome and illustrate clearly the Roman constructional method using arch and order together with the former bearing the load and the latter as a decorative feature ( 127 ) . |
| 11 | The following are some of the financial management issues which individual practices need to consider : |
| 12 | Here are some of the main agenda tasks : |
| 13 | PAHs are some of the same group of cancer-causing substances that are found in cigarette smoke , oil and vehicle exhaust fumes . |
| 14 | There has been some of the same controversy over the role of the mental handicap hospitals as over the psychiatric hospitals , but on the whole the issue is clearer : they ought to be replaced by smaller units , ranging from hostels and homes to specialist hospital units able to provide intensive nursing for the severely handicapped minority . |
| 15 | Er no they 're all about the same depth are n't they ? |
| 16 | I feel happier when they 're all under the same roof . |
| 17 | " Gentlemen , we 're all on the one side remember . |
| 18 | We 're all on the same side . |
| 19 | But the spectacle of a few Labour MPs begging for Nationalist arms to link with , on the grounds that ‘ we 're all on the same side , really ’ gives a degree of credibility to the Tory scare-story that it previously lacked . |
| 20 | ‘ Now we 're all on the same side . |
| 21 | Several mouthfuls later we 're all at the same table . |
| 22 | And , and , and I do n't think they 're all at the same place either are they ? |
| 23 | And they 're all in the same position . |
| 24 | It makes prisoners realise they can do something , and we 're all in the same society |
| 25 | You 're all in the same dressing room . |
| 26 | Yeah cos they 're all in the same set , cos they 're , cos they 're bo cos all of them are thick . |
| 27 | I mean we 're all in the same boat . ’ |
| 28 | These strategies were exemplified in statements on the part of respondents such as ‘ count your blessings ’ , or ‘ we 're all in the same boat ’ , and in methods such as perceiving hardship as the forerunner of an easier future , or devaluing the importance of aspects which are noxious ( such as an unpleasant boss and colleagues ) and magnifying good aspects ( such as the convenient location and reasonable pay of the job ) . |
| 29 | ‘ In theory , we 're all in the same boat , ’ he told a newspaper . |
| 30 | Yeah , that needs to be signed and then we can use these and any future occasions when we 're all in the same place . |