Example sentences of "be [num] [prep] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From the year 2000 onwards it is estimated there will be 104000 from the Indian subcontinent ( South Asia ) , 100000 Caribbean , 125000 from the Far East ( Chinese ) ( Norman , 1985 ) . |
| 2 | The nature of a painter 's technique is never scrutinised so closely as when a work has just been cleaned , and at the heart of the exhibition will be eight of the fourteen Titians in the Louvre 's own collection that have just been freed of their treacly , dark varnishes and retouchings . |
| 3 | Candidates who began under the traditional system will complete their course under that system and so it will be 1995 before the old system — and the examinations which were a part of it — finally disappear . |
| 4 | After all , having some fun , earning some money and getting better at what one does have got to be three of the key elements in business and , potentially , a career in executive search ( in the right environment ) offers all three . |
| 5 | He submitted that the multiplier should be seventeen for the whole life . |
| 6 | Now Wilkinson has turned the stale escargot into the galloping gourmet of the English game , a player who can be one of the shining lights of the new Premier League season . |
| 7 | He was said to be one of the highest-placed spies unmasked by Soviet intelligence in recent years . |
| 8 | He was particularly angry that the government had abandoned its demand that ‘ federalism ’ would be one of the cast iron principles that a constituent assembly , to be elected next year , would be compelled to implement . |
| 9 | Having said that their newly-released album Going Blank Again is likely to be one of the better buys of the year and tonight 's showing should not have put anyone off . |
| 10 | You 're right about it being good just to be in the premier league and be one of the better teams . |
| 11 | It was a bold experiment that is almost certain to be rewarded with full houses and , as the acoustics are to be softened , by tonight 's performance it might prove to be one of the better stagings . |
| 12 | IF IT were n't for the presence of two eclipses , December would be one of the better months of the year . |
| 13 | Scrutinising this familiar object revealed some untidy details in the first movement : the performers have not quite solved the problem of what must be one of the cruellest openings for an orchestra ever devised . |
| 14 | As the director of child services , Jim Harding , said : ‘ For abuse to take place in an institution where a child has been sent for protection must be one of the cruellest experiences you can dish out to any human being . ’ |
| 15 | This paradox is strongly reminiscent of Bradleyan idealism , and to understand the nature of Four Quartets it is appropriate to recall what Eliot as a student considered to be one of the central principles of Bradley 's thought : that , for the sceptic faced with the possibility of acquiring only relative truth , coherence and comprehensiveness were important for their own sake . |
| 16 | This theory was to be one of the central beliefs of Stukeley 's historical and religious philosophy . |
| 17 | The strong and independent judiciary , acknowledged by the Government in the Green Paper to be one of the central supports upon which our liberties are based and upon which the rule of law depends , will be weakened by the diminishing quality of available recruits and the growing political influence in their appointments . |
| 18 | The continuing high level of inflation was reported to be one of the principal causes of public dissatisfaction with the party , which had been founded by Özal as a broad alliance in 1983 . |
| 19 | Foundations were laid for a rivalry between the two countries which was to be one of the principal causes of the First World War . |
| 20 | But , despite the technology , cars will still continue to be one of the principal contributors to air pollution . |
| 21 | Yachting World has long believed sailing to be one of the principal sports in which women can compete directly with men , particularly as , in sailing , brain and not just brawn is of the essence . |
| 22 | Clearly , high-risk industries need special consideration wherever they are sited , although being well away from high-density population areas may be one of the prime considerations . |
| 23 | The exotic influence may stem from the fact that her dream garden would be one of the Moorish gardens of Southern Spain such as The Alhambra in Granada . |
| 24 | You could be one of the 10 winners who each receive a pair of tickets for the WWF Rampage — live — at the NEC Birmingham on Tuesday September 29 . |
| 25 | It must be one of the funniest speeches ever written for an actress , and needs a bubbly , light touch . |
| 26 | I Want A Cat by Tony Ross ( Red Fox , £3.99 ) now out in paperback , has to be one of the funniest picture books I 've seen in years . |
| 27 | Overall , however , the railways are likely to be one of the toughest state sell-offs of them all , for BR has not made a profit for 40 years and is widely perceived as demoralised and run-down . |
| 28 | This is not shown on my machine , the only other machine I think that this could be one of the blue knobs behind the H.C.L. levers but these only show the two settings N+T . |
| 29 | The continued squeeze on defence procurement , combined with a demand for ever-more complex weaponry , has encouraged NATO to think the once-unthinkable : a code of practice for defence companies that should wring better value for money out of what used to be one of the capitalist world 's most protected and pampered industries . |
| 30 | I might have known that it would be one of the 2–7 verses . |