Example sentences of "be [adj] [adv] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the computer graphics of Tron ( 1982 ) we are right down on the board with the players of video games , even if we do n't quite share their viewpoint ; the motorcycle shots , much quoted , show how exhilarating rapid movement along wholly imaginary perspectives can be . |
| 2 | Interestingly , two of the cases were diagnosed within four days of surgery , and both patients had been mobile up to the day of surgery . |
| 3 | This is much easier to follow than text which is long-winded and frequently ambiguous or file designs or programming flowcharts which are understandable only to the computer professional . |
| 4 | It must have been eleven o'clock by the time we sat down to eat . |
| 5 | Subscriptions : All subscriptions are due annually by the end of January of the current year and shall be classed under the following categories : — Individual Members , Overseas Members , Group Members ( subscriptions on a capitation basis ) and Affiliated Clubs and Societies . |
| 6 | a ) Subscriptions : All subscriptions are due annually by the end of January of the current year and shall be classed under the following categories : — Individual Members , Overseas Members , Group Members ( subscriptions on a capitation basis ) and Affiliated Clubs and Societies . |
| 7 | ‘ Subscriptions are due annually by the end of January . ’ |
| 8 | Oceanport , New Jersey-based Concurrent Computer Corp has has opted to take Unix System Laboratories Inc 's Unix System V.4.2 MP as the operating system for its next generation of real-time Unix systems , which are due out by the end of this calendar year . |
| 9 | Sparc and MIPS versions are due out by the end of the year . |
| 10 | You know you are due down in the shop . |
| 11 | This has been due largely to the growth of council housing and perhaps to the improvement grants policy of successive governments particularly since 1969 . |
| 12 | The delay has been due mainly to the need to be absolutely certain about the integrity of the flight control system software before the aircraft takes to the air . |
| 13 | She gladly gave her blood for a substantial blood transfusion , and the patient was told after-wards by the doctor , ‘ You owe the fact that you are alive today to the crossing sweeper who first detected a movement in you when you were in the mortuary and then gave her blood for you . ’ |
| 14 | I am grateful both to the Education spokespersons who put a great deal of time in , in order to carry out erm their preparations towards this report and to and to take part in the consultation exercises and to my own colleagues . |
| 15 | ‘ This is attractive for when the variable premium goes many farmers will look at early lamb production , which has not been profitable enough in the past when the cost of spongeing was included . |
| 16 | If , however , the company or the chargee fails to do so the consequences are grave indeed for the chargee ; in effect , he loses his security . |
| 17 | Er , but I mean clearly the , the debt and the guarantees are paid down first and so for the reason we are high up in the pecking order , because we provided the er , the loans and the guarantees . |
| 18 | They must have been high up in the tree , leaves . |
| 19 | The investigators are interested both in the impact a nation 's economic performance has on the economies of other nations ( ‘ spillover effects ' and in the ‘ strategic ’ policy responses which such spillovers may induce . ) |
| 20 | Sankoff and Laberge are interested principally in the alternation between on on the one hand , and tu/vous on the other in their function as indefinite personal pronouns ( cf. 7.4.3 ) . |
| 21 | The very fact that you are interested enough in the possibility to be reading this book makes it so . |
| 22 | We are interested now in the question of moral responsibility . |
| 23 | The conclusion to be drawn from these analyses is that whereas in some States , mainly in the northeastern United States , governments are generous both in the number of welfare recipients and in the amount of support allocated , those in others , mainly in the South , are much less generous . |
| 24 | The decline in hospital orders and the rise of prison sentences are traceable formally to the practice of modern psychiatrists of recommending fewer hospital orders , and in reality to the more restrictive policy on admission to special hospitals being pursued by the DHSS , and also to the higher proportion of defendants who are declared to have ‘ recovered ’ by the time of the trial . |
| 25 | Even the yttrium samples are straight out of the text book . |
| 26 | It is true one or two errors have been noticeable recently in the discharging of his duties , but these are in every case very trivial in nature . ’ |
| 27 | Reminders of this are visible even in the decor of the red-light quarter . |
| 28 | They are often lighter in the belly area , and their ovaries are visible just under the swim bladder when viewed with a strong back light . |
| 29 | In the first two cases , this has also usually meant that criminals are seen as being distinguished by biological or psychic features which are identifiable separately from the disposition towards crime ( although they are causally implicated in it ) . |
| 30 | When the arrears are payable , the presumption is that they are to be paid provided there are surplus assets available , whether or not these represent accumulated profits which might have been distributed by way of dividend , but that they are payable only to the date of the commencement of the winding up . |