Example sentences of "[pers pn] be the [adj] [conj] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm the biggest and the oldest . |
| 2 | Likewise , in He 's meeting his teacher , his would be translated by the appropriate case form of svojlsvoja provided the referent of his is the same as the referent of he ; otherwise the pronoun used is jego . |
| 3 | Believe it or not — his was the 15th or the 18th of January too . ) |
| 4 | Now what we have to know is whether or not they are in fact getting these contracts because they are the best and the cheapest , or whether they are getting it because they have the best connections and they are paying the most money . |
| 5 | My reply to him is the same as the one that I gave the right hon. Member for Llanelli ( Mr. Davies ) , in which I said that VAT registrations had increased by 25 per cent . |
| 6 | In his softly spoken New Zealand accent he says ‘ It 's the biggest and the most influential monastery in the area and is very much regarded as a religious and cultural centre for the local people . |
| 7 | It 's the same as the one worn by Parsons in that painting you showed me . |
| 8 | The inspectorate er men I do n't know whether it 's the same as the one that looked after the coal field and all that , but erm we we had an inspector coming round every so often anyway . |
| 9 | Ah , so you can still get the W O P benefits from , it 's the same as the thing earlier on ? |
| 10 | It 's the same as the P S P was n't it , basically . |
| 11 | Well it 's the same as the , the way they 've papered the walls round . |
| 12 | But when tha , when the doctor was on in the morning , the doctor said it 's the same as the carotene in carrot |
| 13 | It 's the same as the constant . |
| 14 | We have to assume it 's the same as the nearest observation , so erm it can be misleading just to take the surface observation , surface instrumentation readings , erm but erm we have to be able to interpolate , and this is the experience of the forecaster comes in , to say what is in the gaps . |
| 15 | Erm it 'll be it 'll be erm twelfth , thirteenth it 'll be the Tuesday , no I think it 's the fourteenth or the fifteenth . |
| 16 | But , in support of the maternal depletion syndrome , perhaps contrary to popular belief , it appears from these data that a baby has better chances of being born alive to a woman in the 40–44 years age group if it is the first than the sixth or a higher order . |
| 17 | If you like , it is the same as the body producing the symptom of a cough when the lungs have become congested and need to get rid of the secretions in them . |
| 18 | It is the same as the clinical mercury thermometer which one reads directly , or which can now present its reading electronically . |
| 19 | The seventh-century chronicler Fredegar thought that they were given lands by the Gallo-Roman aristocracy , who thereby gained tax exemption in the days of Valentinian I. It may be that this information actually relates to the reign of Valentinian III , and therefore that it is the same as the grant of Sapaudia , but this is by no means certain . |
| 20 | ‘ I am not sure whether it is the same as the one Gascoigne had , ’ said Dalglish . |
| 21 | Others say no — for this time it is the British and the Americans who are throwing him out . |
| 22 | Of all the people you do not want to get mixed up with he is the first and the last . |
| 23 | He seems different , but underneath it all he 's the same as the rest of them . |
| 24 | Published by order of the general meeting of subscribers to the College , London , 1801 , Smith described it as ‘ … a very poor product for seven years ’ work : it was the first and the last' . |
| 25 | In the earlier years , however , it was the first and the third that he most tended to emphasise — the otherness of God , and the impossibility of climbing up to true knowledge of him by our own efforts — so that even today his thought is widely interpreted as essentially negative , as circling ever around God 's ‘ No ! ’ to human presumption . |
| 26 | Thus , in part , a causal circumstance is such that if it occurred , then even if there also occurred any change logically consistent with it and its effect , the effect occurred — or , it was the first and the effect was the last of a sequence of things such that the given connection obtained between each thing and its successor . |
| 27 | It was the smallest and the most remote of the four western oases . |
| 28 | It was the 1960s before the bishops began to distance themselves from direct relationships with the government of the day . |
| 29 | it was the fifth or the sixth of |
| 30 | He took the stairs slowly , trying to remember if it was the third or the fourth step from the bottom that creaked when you put your weight on it . |