Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] [verb] [pron] [be] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I walked alongside the men at the head of the column and soon learned they were the Black Watch , a well-known Scottish regiment . |
| 2 | Germany is at last waking up to the what has been clear to outsiders for the past year or so , that there is going to be no quick fix to the recession it is facing and that it will be long and grinding : this week the BDI industrial federation admitted that the downturn could develop into Germany 's worst recession since the end of World War II , saying that the western German economy will continue to decline , and the fall will be deeper than previously thought , so that in important sectors such as the capital goods industry the downturn will represent a new post-war record ; the body blames weak foreign demand for German goods , the now over-valued mark and rising costs for German industry and now admits it is the result of structural problems that will have long-term economic effects . |
| 3 | It is one thing to speak of involving the student , " teaching concepts rather than facts " , " practising skills " and all the other catch phrases of educational discourse ; it is quite another thing to put them into practice , to find out how to involve the student , to elucidate which concepts are of most importance and which facts are necessary to their understanding , and particularly to distinguish which are the key skills and how they are to be most usefully practised with these students in this situation . |
| 4 | From stories handed down , it seems that the Frenchman saw Marama , insisted on painting her straight away , and then said she was the most beautiful woman he 'd ever seen and begged her to come and live with him . |
| 5 | The court must take into consideration the whole of the lease and the purposes for which it was granted , and then see what is the proper construction of a particular covenant ( Bickmore v Dimmer [ 1903 ] 1 Ch 158 ) . |
| 6 | For teaching purposes we would encourage lecturers to ask students to identify a number of different activities and their associated costs , and then to discuss what are the associated independent variables that drive the costs of these activities . |