Example sentences of "[be] [adj] [adv] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Very few features appear to be attributable solely to the action of wind-driven sand and Cotton ( 1942 ) mentions only yardangs as likely to be caused solely by wind action . |
| 2 | It seems to be that only during the period of very rapid growth . |
| 3 | Acceptance of these presuppositions would seem to be possible only on the basis of faith , and this point is made by Gandhi when he says |
| 4 | Even a decentralised arrangement , it says , would fail to provide the kind of accountable local government that would be possible only by the provision of smaller unitary authorities . |
| 5 | If that were so , one accused might be guilty on the basis of concert but the other could be guilty also on the basis only of his own actings . |
| 6 | Where marine action is relatively stronger deltas tend to be cuspate with concave outlines in plan , for example the Tiber , though one wonders whether these differences in plan might not be due primarily to the frequency and location of distributaries : the Tiber has only one . |
| 7 | This variation seemed to be due both to the severity of the impairment and to personality factors ; it would therefore be simplistic and unwise to make generalisations based entirely on impairment . |
| 8 | Group formation may be due here to the collaboration of males in defence against rivals , so that male relationships become the main factor influencing the dispersion of females . |
| 9 | Its apparent unpredictability might be due just to the operation of undisclosed effects-hidden variables they were called . |
| 10 | This could be due either to the failure of these methods to elevate Ca 2+ in the appropriate manner ( presumably what is needed is a large transient within spines ) or to the need for additional pre- and/or postsynaptic signals . |
| 11 | This may be due partly to the need consciously to establish common cultural references in a pluralistic society , whereas the historically narrow class base of British higher education meant that a lot of the cultural references could be taken for granted ; the Robbins ( 1963 , p. 7 ) reference to the ‘ transmission of a common culture and common standards of citizenship ’ was perhaps a sign that this cultural assumption was finally breaking down under the pressure of expansion and democratization . |
| 12 | This may be due partly to the fact that , compared to the University of Wales , the Polytechnic is a relatively new arrival on the higher education scene , and partly because of the Welsh tendency , even more marked than in the rest of the country , to regard technological education as less prestigious than that in pure science and humanities . |
| 13 | They will be very serviceable , and needs must bring their tools with them insofar as these be scant indeed on the island . |
| 14 | This does n't mean that you have to spend a fortune on tools , but beware of cheap spanners and screwdrivers which may not be strong enough for the job or of cheap hammers which may lose their heads . |
| 15 | Hence , speculating against ERM parities can be profitable even in the absence of fundamental competitiveness problems , a fact illustrated most recently by Spain . |
| 16 | This is why thresholds are needed : when cat is presented , numerous logogens will be excited , but in every case the excitation will not be high enough for the threshold level to be reached — except for the logogen for cat , which will receive so much evidence that its threshold will be reached . |
| 17 | Tunnels and bridges must be high enough for the train to go under . |
| 18 | The top shelf needs to be high enough for the monitor to be seen from the back of the room over rows of heads . |
| 19 | ‘ I can be free only to the extent that others are forbidden to profit from their physical , economic , or other superiority to the detriment of my liberty . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ . But if rule-following is a practice , which must be public only in the sense of being a way of behaving rather than in the sense of being regulated by a community , how are we to derive from that thought the conclusion that the solipsist 's private language is impossible ? |
| 21 | This idea is not very palatable : why should the Sun be anomalous just at the time that we start to search for neutrinos ? |
| 22 | FoE says that alternatives are in use and existing stocks will be adequate well past the year 2000 , when the Montreal Protocol requires an end to their use . |
| 23 | That is what Weber bids us do , when declaring that the final account must be adequate both at the level of meaning and at the causal level . |
| 24 | ‘ You would n't be interested then in the glue . ’ |
| 25 | Rent which continues to be payable either to the Policyholder or by the Policyholder while the Policyholder 's home is uninhabitable as a result of destruction or damage caused by an insured peril . |
| 26 | Instead the widow 's pension or widowed mother 's allowance will be payable immediately on the husband 's death . |
| 27 | In order to make the procedure ‘ fair ’ , you are imagined to : know little except the most general facts about human society ; be ignorant of your own eventual position and role in society ; be unaware of your own endowments ; be ignorant of where your own best interests will in fact lie , and be ignorant also of the state of development of the society in which you will find yourself . |
| 28 | Not only will a significant proportion of information be accessible commercially via the computer but the next generation will also be inputing and retrieving a substantial proportion of its own information via the computer . |
| 29 | The cuts would be noticeable only to the expert onlooker and there was certainly ‘ no cause for alarm ’ , he said . |
| 30 | ‘ I am so lucky , ’ she said , ‘ the water in these two hot-water bottles will still be warm enough by the morning for my bath . ’ |