Example sentences of "be [pron] the [adj] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Were you the only person fishing in Hills Bay ? |
| 2 | Mr. Ashworth and Mr. McGregor none the less submit either that , so far as the English common law is concerned , Walker 's case is to be preferred to any inconsistent later decision in any other jurisdiction , or that , as an action by a child for damages for pre-natal injuries had not been recognised as valid in the English courts before 1976 — the enactment of the Act of 1976 — such an action could not now be allowed to develop and the English common law should be taken as being what the latest United Kingdom cases available might have indicated before 1976 . |
| 3 | No , under the right hand side , there 's none the left hand side Well I said I only washed |
| 4 | The size of hole necessary for a soakaway of this type depends on the water table and the permeability of the soil and is something the local Building Control Officer will advise on : usually a hole about 2m deep and 1.2m square is sufficient . |
| 5 | We can all produce fantastic costings for whoever requires them , be it the new Bank Manager , accountant or supplier , but will they stand the test of time ? |
| 6 | He had repeated once more that the central position in the Peace Alliance belonged to the Labour Party " for not only is it the largest opposition party , but it represents the essential core for any progressive alliance — the working class " . |
| 7 | ‘ Is it the Terrible Blood-suckling Toothpluckling Stonechuckling Spittler ? ’ |
| 8 | Is it the only way telecommunications will develop in Europe ? ’ asked Marcel Roulet , president of France Telecom . |
| 9 | And is it the same size ground as the match when there was twenty five thousand in you say you were a bit bothered about it in fact ? |
| 10 | Is it the same access point ? |
| 11 | I 'm doing a thing for the erm what is it the English language research laboratories . |
| 12 | Are you , what are you going to call this form now Si Is it the qualitative review form or |
| 13 | Is he the only geophysics supervisor to have suffered the misfortune of losing a student to the great geophysicist in the sky ? |
| 14 | Or is he the best dress man too ? |
| 15 | You can still see it going on today and it still happens does n't it like the Good News Bible if you look at that , I mean this a version of the Bible rewritten , presumably to tell people good news I do n't know , I 've never , never read it but I presume that that 's what the Good News Bible does and we now have countless bibles , where , where , where , where God is , God is female erm my guess is supposing that were the only Bible we had a feminist bible were no other bible and everybody for hundreds of years believed it , my guess is that in the future literary critics and bible critics could study that very carefully and I bet you somewhere there you 'll find internal evidence to show that once God had been male and had his gender changed , I 'm quite sure of it because edit a whole book like the Bible and completely eliminate all the evidence that God was once male would be a very difficult here , here and there you need little bits of evidence and , and again there 's lots of others I 'll mention in the lecture like God 's name . |
| 16 | That 's what the American artist Kosuth maintains happened over the striking resemblance between his installation presented at this year 's Documenta in Kassel ( closed 29 September ) , and the installation created by Claudio Parmiggiani three years ago in Milan . |
| 17 | And that 's what the old fully-fashioned stocking used to be . |
| 18 | So this is what the great glass eye thinks may have been leaked to our enemies — an inquiry into the nature of happiness . |
| 19 | This is what the Financial Reporting Council and its operating bodies — the Accounting Standards Board , the Financial Reporting Review Panel and the Urgent Issues Task Force — are there to do . |
| 20 | This is what the erupting Mount Etna looks like from earth . |
| 21 | This is what the new Blueprint Dance group have achieved in just 2 weeks . |
| 22 | Most people are already familiar with convection ovens which , in essence , is what the hot air mode is trying to achieve , but with two main differences — the ability to achieve 300°C and the waste air quenching system . |
| 23 | Alan Anderson , Monsanto Quality Manager , presented the award and made these comments : ‘ I had a personal interest in this one because I 've been working on the application of quality to safety management which is what the Rubber Chemicals Safety Improvement team is all about . |
| 24 | This is what the National Heritage Act of 1980 does : ‘ There shall be a fund known as the National Heritage Memorial Fund , to be a memorial to those who have died for the United Kingdom . ’ |
| 25 | However , this is what the full Murrayfield tables could look like . |
| 26 | Oh yes , this is what the big business people , why they run far why one of the big business people used to buy farms . |
| 27 | Essex is what the old travel writers used to call a ‘ place of contrasting moods ’ . |
| 28 | It must have begun to seem that there was nothing the British film producer could do to challenge the place of American films on the nation 's screens . |
| 29 | Was he the was he the only singer- songwriter in the country or something then ? |
| 30 | Did Cook achieve all this without competition , was he the only excursion agent in business in the second half of the nineteenth century ? |