Example sentences of "be [adj] [conj] the [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Make sure that the dumb-bell bars are lower than the top of your chest . |
| 2 | Moreover that growth has been greatest where the decline in manufacturing employment has been least — that is , in the regions of ‘ the south ’ . |
| 3 | Mr Smith , they added , had been depressed since the death of his father 11 years ago , and he found it hard to work the farm alone . |
| 4 | Work by Bagnold has shown that the pressures are greatest when the pocket of trapped air is thinnest and that when the dimension of the pocket at right angles to the cliff reaches half that of the depth of the pocket the pressure is negligible . |
| 5 | These qualities are perceptible but the nature of their interactions is never talked of as if they could be quantified . |
| 6 | Reading scores are low , maths scores are low and the amount of repair work needed when kids get to college , if they do , is phenomenal . |
| 7 | I to you young men because you are strong and the word of God lives in you and you have overcome the evil one . |
| 8 | Any variety of examination/coursework proportions are possible and the majority of modules are assessed either by 1()0 per cent examination or 100 per cent coursework or the following proportions of examination to coursework : 80/20 , 75/25 , 70/30 , 60/40 or 50/50 . |
| 9 | I am sorry that the Secretary of State was not in the Chamber when the hon. Gentleman ended by saying that his last ambition in politics was to abolish the Department in which he served for eight years . |
| 10 | I am sorry that the Leader of the Opposition has announced that he would take money from British farmers and contribute it to those in southern Europe . |
| 11 | Out of 12,000 mostly unskilled workers taken on to staff the park , of which two thirds have been French and the rest from abroad , as many as 4,000 are thought to have quit in the last few months , prompting worries about mounting costs on the operators ' training and employment budgets . |
| 12 | Rex and Tomlinson ( 1979 ) are clear that the position of ethnic minorities and the conflicts that surround race and ethnicity in Britain can only be understood in the light of Britain 's imperial past and the recent collapse of empire ; ‘ a serious sociological analysis of race relations problems must rest upon a concept of the social structure of Empire and of the class formations which occur within it ’ ( p. 286 ) . |
| 13 | Follow the old Craven Way on a frosty October morning when skies are clear and the whole of Dentdale opens below you tinged with autumn and you can keep your Grand Canyon and your Taj Mahal . |
| 14 | The worst of the teaching offered in theological colleges occurs because the staff are few and the ground to be covered enormous . |
| 15 | Manometric studies in patients with Barrett 's oesophagus are few and the comparison with patients with gastrooesophageal reflux are less frequent . |
| 16 | The offences do not require any endangerment at all : that is taken to be inherent in the carrying of firearms , since their potentialities are grave and the risk of accidents as well as deliberate use is well known . |
| 17 | The perception of area , volume and movement is a complex activity in which the space and its boundary are interdependent and the quality of one affects the other . |
| 18 | Ward , the world No 2 looking forward to being packaged as ‘ Dazzling Daz ’ , has been unemployed since the sale of his father 's butchery business and still lives with his parents . |
| 19 | I am afraid that the evidence at the moment is that the game is not sufficiently supported by members of the armed forces . |
| 20 | I am genuinely sorry , for I am heartily thankful that we have escaped from the small-mindedness of the medieval church and I despise modern astrologers , but I am afraid that the rhetoric about backwaters in the previous paragraph is just empty rhetoric . |
| 21 | So , the economy of agriculture is in dire straits and the environment is suffering , but I am afraid that the position on animal health is even more dire . |
| 22 | The participation rate has been high and the method of eliciting responses , which identifies individual reactions and then tests them out in two other contexts , has produced a reliable collective record of student experience . |
| 23 | Will my hon. Friend join me in paying tribute to the imaginative experiment that the Lord Mayor of London is supporting this year , in which young people go into schools to help pupils with learning difficulties and those who are quicker than the rest of the class ? |
| 24 | I am delighted that the Minister of State , Foreign and Commonwealth Office , my hon. Friend the Member for Watford ( Mr. Garel-Jones ) , who is one of the most influential Ministers in the discussions , is here today , and I say to him and to others that I want Ministers to be more positive . |
| 25 | I am delighted that the number of disconnections for debt has continued to fall . |
| 26 | I am delighted that the Association of British Insurers , an organisation committed to a reduction in car crime , has recently issued a video aimed at young males , particularly in the 12-to-16 age group . |
| 27 | However , the statistical methods applied to the concept of a bounded area of land are dubious unless the shape of that area is taken into consideration and only those cemeteries within 100 m of parish boundaries were considered ( Reilly and Zambardino 1986 ) . |
| 28 | Teachers are relieved that the Secretary of State ( albeit belatedly ) decided to restrict compulsory testing at age 10–11 to the three core subjects . |
| 29 | The smilers are relieved that the removal of the iron curtain has revealed a broader , more variegated Europe , full of national pride and unripe for Euro-regulation . |
| 30 | ( ‘ Bet your gums are relieved when the rest of you goes to sleep . ’ ) |