Example sentences of "be [verb] [prep] the [adj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Databases remain the number one concern for the second year running , whilst Unix standards are listed as the 8th most important issue , compared with their showing at 19th position last year . |
| 2 | Leon Trotsky protested with his dying breath that he had been shot , not stabbed , even though Stalin 's killer had been caught with the ice-pick still in his hand . |
| 3 | Whether two or more mental events count as of the same type in our sense , to repeat , is a matter of whether there is a discriminable difference in content , any such difference , whether or not the events are included under the same more or less general description . |
| 4 | Whereas the short version makes a flat statement : where the strong stresses of sense are counterpointed with the underlying metrically rhythmical dactyls , and the half rhyme on " stark " and " harde " brings the whole description to a brutal head . |
| 5 | The desk — one of a limited edition of 250 — has been made from the last commercially viable elm wood left in Britain . |
| 6 | Occasionally you 're forced into the other then you 'll , then you 'll , down are n't you ? |
| 7 | Teachers are needed for the following well established and well supported classes : |
| 8 | She must have been going for the six o'clock train , and she was probably in a dickens of a rush when … ’ |
| 9 | Now I 'm preaching to the converted here in terms of you you 'll appreciate we need copy . |
| 10 | It was also announced that the country 's domestic defence industry was to be developed in the 1990s so that by the year 2000 it would be able to produce its own military aircraft , warships and submarines . |
| 11 | Larger parties of up to 100 persons will be considered for the 11.00 p.m. sitting . |
| 12 | For example , the home situation may be seen as the single most important factor ‘ causing ’ the child 's behaviour problems . |
| 13 | 13 CARITA brass ball valves are available from the Office and these can be used on the white pimply Battel balls . |
| 14 | Here the material will be used in the spoken rather than written form and you may want to rephrase the information accordingly . |
| 15 | As this inflow increases — a population movement which can only be compared to the millennial westward movement of peoples to Europe which ended with the defeat of the Mongols — a final answer will be given to our absorbing little debate about European identity . |
| 16 | ‘ And if you 're worried about the taxpayer , should n't you perhaps be attending to the urgent little matter your sergeant told you about ? ’ |
| 17 | It may be that the central significance of modern manifestations of the humanist impulse is to be found at the practical rather than the methodological or theoretical level . |
| 18 | Postmen were waiting there to take it on bicycle to the outlying villages and make the return journey with outgoing mail to be despatched on the 6.20 pm train to Hull . |
| 19 | Ehrenpreis 's approach , while fruitful in some respects , tends to treat the poor as an object to be observed from the outside even if it is with ‘ rapt interest ’ . |
| 20 | Suppose that the total utility v of a union member in employment can be represented by the following additively separable function : where r denotes reputation from membership , and the superscript i denotes the individual . |
| 21 | Because of the common age of onset being in the late teens it can easily be equated with the usual somewhat awkward behaviour and natural rebellion of teenagers , and initially be set aside by both relatives and professionals , resulting in great family trauma , and at times violence or suicide . |
| 22 | Certainly there are no profound conclusions to be drawn from that fact , except to note that various forms of contraception were beginning to be practised from the 1870s onwards , with a steady decline in the national birth-rate apparent during the following decade . |
| 23 | Crude advertising discrimination has tended to be directed at the socialist rather than social-democratic press , thus exempting the mass-circulation , pro-Labour papers that have flourished ; … small circulation publications further to the left which have tended to be poor advertising media , judged by the commercial criterion employed by advertising agencies , have probably also suffered as a consequence of overt political discrimination . |
| 24 | If a volume set is to be rejected , the highest volume number should be entered first as volumes must be rejected from the latest downwards . |
| 25 | A potentially significant structure will be tested with the Loggerhead-1 well set for drilling in late 1992 . |
| 26 | The British seeker lost in the German metaphysical jungle , the homecomer from Paris dinner-parties armed with the latest idea , or what he hopes may pass for that , are abiding images for fun-making ; and cultural insularity is a vice to be levelled against the British only by those who do not know them , though those who do sometimes have cause to wish it were true . |
| 27 | After overheating in 1989 , the market may be verging on the over-cautious today . |
| 28 | South African forces in Namibia have been cut from the 40,000 there on 1 April , at the beginning of the independence plan , to a token 1,500 . |
| 29 | Dr Briarty 's work has been supported in the main directly by the University of Nottingham rather than by external bodies . |
| 30 | True , Romany King has not been at his most convincing so far this season , but he has been trained with the National very much in mind . |