Example sentences of "be [art] [adj] [coord] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The white areas are the brightest and the red the dimmest . |
| 2 | The materials used are the same but the weaving methods are completely different : |
| 3 | You know so make sure the units are the same and the scale is the same so you 're using the same number of squares for each one . |
| 4 | Taplow was supposed to be a Lutheran but the prisoner said he believed in Purgatory . |
| 5 | The publishing history of Mills and Boon emulates precisely that of the developments in mass market publishing in Europe and America ; it may be an extreme but the dating of shifts in their ownership and distribution structure conforms to the major historical changes in the publishing industry . |
| 6 | Your three separate readings should have been executed at very different speeds , the third reading being the slowest and the second the fastest . |
| 7 | They took trouble to make sure our rooms in the hotel were the best and the result was that this was a very happy film to make . |
| 8 | Until that first excursion most travellers for pleasure were the wealthy and the aristocracy who travelled independently ; less privileged people travelled only through necessity . |
| 9 | Well what I want is the black and the cerise |
| 10 | In a movie you 've got to have good and bad : in Backdraft the fire brigade is the good and the fire is the bad it even has a kind of growling sound . ’ |
| 11 | The present issue is the 36th and the rate is 8.5 p.c. tax free with a maximum holding of £10,000 . |
| 12 | There are one or two clerks , er that have male , purely because it 's , it 's their job anyway , and er the chief clerk headquarters is a male but the majority of them now are women yep , and they do well er , headquarters staff do it very well I think , that side of it . |
| 13 | The last decade of the struggle was the 1680s and the period is known as ‘ The Killing Times ’ . |
| 14 | I had other pet lambs , but Nanny Bateson was the first and the best-remembered . |
| 15 | Published by order of the general meeting of subscribers to the College , London , 1801 , Smith described it as ‘ … a very poor product for seven years ’ work : it was the first and the last' . |
| 16 | Thus , in part , a causal circumstance is such that if it occurred , then even if there also occurred any change logically consistent with it and its effect , the effect occurred — or , it was the first and the effect was the last of a sequence of things such that the given connection obtained between each thing and its successor . |
| 17 | Chris explained : ‘ James here is our scorer and Mr Marshall signalled four wides when there was a wide and the ball went to the boundary , but the other side 's scorer says you ca n't have four wides at once , only one , and the other three must count as byes . |
| 18 | It was n't a bad meal , but it was a rip-off and the service was appalling . |
| 19 | But he was a Moslem and the crowd would be Copt . |