Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [pron] [prep] [be] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | What these descriptions present us with is the concept of an impersonal Absolute or Ultimate and this is exactly what Gandhi wishes to convey for he has no hesitation in expressing a preference for the idea of God as formless Truth . |
| 2 | The Donatists considered themselves to be the church of the martyrs , and kept alive the old posture of the persecuted church in the new , much altered , times after Constantine . |
| 3 | They have been chosen for the posts in other parts of the country because their employers consider them to be the best people for these particular jobs . |
| 4 | Plus ça change : in the 1990s these words ( apart from their dated gender references ) remain as relevant and as enlightening as in the 1970s and at the beginning of the century : the problem of poverty is the condition of the normal man [ and woman ] in normal circumstances , neither better nor worse off than his [ or her ] neighbours , not of those whose failings qualify them to be the text for the moralist , and who are no more common in the manual working-classes than in other sections of the society . |
| 5 | To sidestep any arguments about who should inherit the party 's vast fortunes if a split occurs , the delegates declared themselves to be the legal heirs of the HSWP , whilst dissociating themselves from the old party 's ‘ crimes , false and mistaken principles and methods ’ . |
| 6 | We have , of course , developed many other ways to show ourselves to be the masters of all creation — fox-hunting , fur-wearing , bull-fighting , and perhaps even scientific vivisection , to name but a few . |
| 7 | The Aztecs believed it to be the ‘ sweat of the sun ’ whilst the Egyptians connected gold with their Sun God , Ra . |
| 8 | And the only Church adviser with a constitutional right to speak thought that he would be wrong to tell the Queen the name of the person whom his instincts told him to be the right person . |
| 9 | Mark rose from his chair fully aware that politicians believed themselves to be the best informed people in the world , which made them a very sceptical audience for any speaker . |