Example sentences of "the [adj] be [verb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And it was of no help to the Scottish Protestants that on 8 August , in the instructions given to that experienced diplomat of the 1540s , Sir Ralph Sadler , now sent north to make a comeback in the Scottish political scene , the English were encouraging the idea of being anti-French and anticipating their outspoken memorandum of the 31st by warbling about the need for government by someone of the blood of Scotland . |
| 2 | This was a game which two could play , and the English were to raid the coast of Normandy several times between 1400 and 1410 . |
| 3 | The mere fact that the British are debating the pound 's place in the EMS is enough to worry holders of sterling : perhaps the debate will end with the pound being devalued . |
| 4 | The overriding concern of the British was to protect the route to India and to secure their hold on Afghanistan , the buffer between Persian and India . |
| 5 | Thus the British were denied the chance of a monarch who would have been more cultivated than any of the other Hanoverians , while Sophia , born in exile , died without ever visiting the country to whose throne she was heir . |
| 6 | It does not have to be that he has conceived what the French are calling the coup de force for Miss Jonathan . ’ |
| 7 | Already , then , it might be seen that the French were digging the pit into which the US would eventually fall . |
| 8 | ‘ We can never re-create Australia but if the French were calling the side the Lions it would have been an appropriate thank-you to the players . ’ |
| 9 | By this time it was becoming obvious that in spite of the fact that the French were conveying the impression of a limited operation ‘ to restore order ’ ( which might be at least six months to a year ) they were hoping for more moderate Vietnamese leaders to emerge and , in the meantime , they would not after all negotiate with Ho Chi Minh . |
| 10 | In the meantime , the US Joint Chiefs of Staff were giving their professional opinion how the French were to win the war and what the US would and would not do . |
| 11 | His chief executive Derek Wanless says the super-rich are feeling the pinch too . |
| 12 | Experts in the held are questioning the basis on which the satanic abuse war is being fought . |
| 13 | The proper state of mind of the dying was to accept the will of God and die at peace with all men . |
| 14 | At the Potsdam Conference of Allied leaders , the Japanese were given the deadline of 3 August for surrender . |
| 15 | The second is to analyse the ways in which women 's employment has been affected by the recession in France and Great Britain . |
| 16 | The second is to treat the infection promptly when discovered . |
| 17 | The second is to tackle the job yourself , if you have the skill , using either traditional moulding planes or power tools such as the router or edge cutter . |
| 18 | The second is to give the courts power to sentence the serious cases in the way that they deserve . |
| 19 | The second is to encourage the study of comparative religion , philosophy and science . |
| 20 | The second is to measure the land-use effects of afforestation , in terms of the land use displaced and also in terms of possible neighbourhood effects beyond the areas immediately affected . |
| 21 | There are two main ways of looking at the question of advertising effectiveness — the first is to consider the results of the advertising in achieving target improvements in specific tasks eg increasing brand awareness in a specific market ; the second is to consider the impact of advertising on sales generally . |
| 22 | The second is to model the transition between compulsory schooling and finishing HE ( Royal Statistical Society ) ( RSS ) , 1984 ) . |
| 23 | The second is to place the interpretation of trusts in the context of Roman legal interpretation as a whole . |
| 24 | The second is to increase the establishment of HMI so that it employs thousands of people , but I do not believe that a centralised civil service approach is desirable . |
| 25 | The second was having the material produced … |
| 26 | The following are awarded the J.W. Medal for Courage : |
| 27 | By the 1860s , Oliver Bird was the mill owner and by the 1870s was running the mill within the partnership of Bird and Bubb . |
| 28 | A North-South cold war formula is unlikely to command the same kind of broad domestic support , even though for the time being , the parties of the Left are supporting the war , at least in the United States and Western Europe . |
| 29 | If , for instance , the loudspeaker on the left were playing the song of the female 's own species , while the one on the right played the song of some other species , the female turns to the left . |
| 30 | In 1782 the 34th was given the title of The Cumberland Regiment . |