Example sentences of "[pers pn] be [prep] [adv] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It all gives me the feeling that I 'm in completely the wrong place . |
| 2 | I genuinely liked them as people , I loved their music , and I was in exactly the right place at the right time . |
| 3 | I was in almost the last batch to receive the award . |
| 4 | You are at least the third person today who calls to inquire . |
| 5 | ‘ She 's by far the biggest influence on my writing , ’ affirms Emily . |
| 6 | She was by far the quietest , as well as much the nicest , of my four aunts , and normally a rather shy woman . |
| 7 | We are conscious , in general , of some of our memory , and the results of speech generation , though in the latter case we are in much the same position as any other observer ( cf. |
| 8 | Because in our field we 're we 're by far the biggest and the best in in terms of support and finance . |
| 9 | No , well we 're , we 're in exactly the same problem with Traidcraft . |
| 10 | ‘ We 're in exactly the same boat . |
| 11 | And I fear therefore that we 're in precisely the same position as we were when the presbytery of Hamilton brought their overture to us . |
| 12 | ‘ We were by far the second best . |
| 13 | We were in precisely the same place that we had been in three dawns previously ! |
| 14 | There are massive quartzites of similar type in the Ordovician of other parts of the world , from Bulgaria to the Canadian Rockies , but in my ignorance I will not risk saying that they are of exactly the same age . |
| 15 | With 464 delegates out of the total of 1,276 , they are by far the largest bloc . |
| 16 | Their recruitment policy has worked very well for them and they are by far the largest outside America , although they are still having great difficulty establishing themselves in the USA . |
| 17 | ‘ They are in exactly the same place , walking down the same path ’ — he paused , pulling back a cuff to expose his stone , circle-sized Rolex — ‘ some four thousand years ago . |
| 18 | This surely , whatever else it means , this , for this scripture here surely means that those people who had the opportunity of accepting Christ , of responding to him , but who have rejected him , they are in exactly the same position as Pontius Pilate . |
| 19 | Within a period of ten days from the date of cancellation , the duty to pay the part exchange allowance will be discharged by the return of the part exchanged goods where they are in substantially the same condition as originally delivered to the negotiator ( s73(2) ) . |
| 20 | They were on exactly the same wavelength as Massim d'Azeglio who said , after Italy had been politically unified : ‘ We have made Italy , now we have to make Italians ’ , that is out of the inhabitants of the peninsula who had all sorts of identities , but not one based on a language they did not speak , and a state that had come into existence over their heads . |
| 21 | Fresh flowers are fine for scenting the air but their life is finite , and to preserve their perfume , it was found that a mixture of flower petals , collected when they were at exactly the right stage in their development , then carefully dried or part-dried , and mixed with an ingredient which " fixed " the perfume , such as orris root ( Iris gennanica florentina ) would continue to give off fragrance for months and even years . |
| 22 | The figures seem to suggest otherwise : robot orders by American firms reached a record $514m in 1989 and — despite a softening American economy — they were at roughly the same level in 1990 . |
| 23 | The haplochromines were also extremely numerous ; indeed , they were by far the principal biomass of Lake Victoria . |
| 24 | I bought an expensive photograph album with a padded cover and gold curlicues on it and spent ages arranging the photographs I had taken at his house so that they were in just the right order . |
| 25 | It 's from here the new subtitling system will be operated . |
| 26 | Indeed it is at once the changing social history and the complex sociology of the changing institutions and relations which take us beyond these formulas to the possibility of more precise analysis . |
| 27 | Enclosure is manifest in many forms ; it is at once the womb-like interior of airplane , the surface of the body , the frame of a window , the border between countries , and the boundary between discourses . |
| 28 | That it is by far the funniest and most essential comedy show on television ( fourth series imminent in October , kids ! ) is a sad indictment , I mean , all that money Roy Clarke earns … |
| 29 | It is by far the best single-source reference on this ever-growing subject available . |
| 30 | The first of these was chosen because it is by far the shortest sentence of the story , whilst the remaining two contain , respectively , explicit and symbolic allusions to death . |