Example sentences of "[be] the [adj] story " in BNC.
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| 1 | And if she 'd married Vincent Van Gogh it would have been the same story . |
| 2 | It will be the familiar story of the management of Britain 's relative , if not absolute , decline . |
| 3 | Once again , this can not be the complete story , because some owners have observed that their pets ' daily intake is not always the same . |
| 4 | It will be the same story for many moons to come . |
| 5 | Two months ago six million people faced hosepipe bans — it could be the same story next year . |
| 6 | Tersteeg had finally told him venomously : ‘ You failed before and you 'll fail again — it 'll be the same story all over again . ’ |
| 7 | It may well be the same story that has come down in two different strands of tradition . |
| 8 | Although this might sometimes occur in discourse , and van Dijk 's own data reveal the complexity of racial discourse , it can not be the full story . |
| 9 | First of all , the main story in our news at five thirty , and I think unless anything more dramatic happens , it will be the main story right through the news bulletins of this programme . |
| 10 | And what we tell here may not even be the whole story . |
| 11 | But it can not be the whole story . |
| 12 | Yes , but again this can not be the whole story because sometimes the food in question is identical to the previous meal , which was consumed greedily . |
| 13 | But this can not be the whole story , for David Rhodes and others have discovered that this communication can even take place from tree to tree , where there is no root or other physical contact . |
| 14 | But Lakoff 's particular academic training can not be the whole story . |
| 15 | But atavism can not be the whole story . |
| 16 | I knew that what she told me could n't be the whole story . |
| 17 | … being the inside story of China 's Cultural Revolution |
| 18 | ‘ Mission to the Unknown ’ stands unique in the annals of Doctor Who , being the only story , albeit a one-episode story , where the star of the show was not the actor playing the title role . |
| 19 | Sieving is an essential ingredient in the generation of living order , but it is very far from being the whole story . |
| 20 | The seaman — Gustave continued as if this were the best story he had heard for many years — apparently claimed that he had no notion of how the section of mast had reached the position in which it was found . |
| 21 | She decided he was one fat pig in Wimbledon who was not , could not , should not be brought under the knife of the evil abattoir man who lives , in case you need to know , in Clifton Road just off the common , and the story of how she fought off his terrible friend Farmer Dune , and rallied all the pigs of Wimbledon is the greatest story ever told . |
| 22 | Here is the sad story of the initiation of a new dealer at Eyas Securities who for the purposes of this book shall be called Sandra . |
| 23 | Returning this autumn is the ever-popular story of the revenge seeking jester Rigoletto and his possessive love for his daughter . |
| 24 | Among the thousands of press cuttings he collected for possible inclusion in the dossier is the following story , clipped from L'Opinion nationale of June 20th , 1863 : |
| 25 | THE title of the exhibition of African , Asian and Caribbean art at the Hayward Gallery is The Other Story , as though it were an account of an alternative and continuous tradition , independent of Western European and American modern art . |
| 26 | ‘ The Keys of Marinus ’ is the one story for Doctor Who Cusick looks back on with a shudder . |
| 27 | In the case of the lobster this is the usual story . |
| 28 | Here is the rich story of the social history of one of Britain 's most important sports . |
| 29 | ‘ The third point is the amazing story about heart disease . |
| 30 | which , in many ways , is the entire story of Brief Encounter encapsulated in two lines . |