Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] [pron] [be] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet further fumblings by Mr Major could haul Mr Clarke to the top job much earlier than that ‘ one more year ’ which , by Tory consensus , is now Mr Major 's time-limit for proving he is the right man to lead the country . |
| 2 | Undamped relaxation oscillations had already been seen in such lasers , and at the time of writing there is the exciting prospect that the Lorenz system of equations may soon develop an experimental significance in laser physics to match their theoretical impact . |
| 3 | By the eighteenth century growing sugar and carrying out the first stages of refining it were the main economic activities on the islands . |
| 4 | She had no way of knowing it was the same man who had interrogated Madeleine , then made her his mistress , any more than Madeleine could know that her friend was in the building being interrogated by him . |
| 5 | Whatever your Dreams , the steps towards achieving them are the same . |
| 6 | Although some children may be capable of finding there are the same number of things in two sets ( by matching ) , they may not be at all sure there are still the same number of the objects if one of the sets is differently arranged . |
| 7 | The need to enter printed text or data into computers without the effort of re-keying it is the driving force behind the development of optical character recognition ( OCR ) technology . |
| 8 | Another way of accenting it is the so-called à six temps , that is , two bars with six strong beats . |
| 9 | Do not be fooled into thinking it is the noisiest or jokiest member of the panel . |
| 10 | For letting me be the first . |
| 11 | Although physicists are having some difficulty in deciding what are the fundamental particles of which matter and energy are composed , they seem to agree that there are fundamental particles . |
| 12 | So I prefer to have regard to the expert evidence of today in deciding what is the ordinary authority of a solicitor . |
| 13 | A Duxbury calculation could not by itself provide the answer as to the sum to which the wife was entitled , though it produced a figure to which the judge was entitled to have regard in deciding what was the right answer . |
| 14 | Ashworth , J. in Peaty v Field recognised the difficulty local authorities may have in knowing which is the appropriate notice . |
| 15 | Others prefer to use independent intermediaries and their skill lies in knowing who is the best person to deal with your particular needs . |
| 16 | If there is a point to saluting the winner of a race , it is ultimately to celebrate his good fortune in being given the natural attributes to do what he does ; and to thank him for the excitement of the spectacle he provides in devoting all his concentrated effort to showing he 's the best . |
| 17 | Sir Richard Body Tory MP for Holland-with-Boston in Lincolnshire does n't look like a radical Maverick ; indeed you could be forgiven for thinking he is the original grey man of politics . |
| 18 | A line set at exactly right angles to the wind is rare , so you have to set about detecting which is the favoured end , three methods for this are shown in Fig 95 . |
| 19 | Kandel and his colleagues began by asking what was the neural circuit which underlies the gill and siphon withdrawal response . |
| 20 | I started by assuming it was the usual sort of thing but I 've made inquiries with our people in Narborough and I 'm not sure it was anything sexual . |
| 21 | For by insisting it is the only way to knowledge it is dismissing other ways as unimportant , irrelevant and probably misleading . |