Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [pron] be [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Back in the tent there is more soup , coffee and a hunk of smoked lamb that goes down well . |
| 2 | Well we had a what , we had what they call the banquet which was fifteen pound a head . |
| 3 | Beneath the surface of the index there is much turmoil , with some shares zooming ahead . |
| 4 | With her fingers busy and her mind occupied with the story it was late afternoon before the end of a tape brought Leonora back to earth with a start . |
| 5 | In the west there is more rain ( about 800 mm per year ) , more cloud and therefore less sunshine than in the east ( 600 mm rain per year ) . |
| 6 | Within the citadel there was constant bickering between abbot , Viscount and towns-people — grown so rich that they obeyed no one , remarked Geoffrey of Vigeois ruefully — and yet also a sense of being bound together in opposition to their neighbour , the bishop 's city . |
| 7 | It 's a wonder you did n't wake the baby up with the noise you 're flipping making . |
| 8 | AT the other end of the spectrum there is further oversimplification . |
| 9 | I 'll tell you what you can do on the freezer there 's some cat food for the cat you can feed him that . |
| 10 | Even within the course there is exceptional flexibility . |
| 11 | What 's the term what 's another property you 've got for metals there ? |
| 12 | Towards the end of the nineteenth-century there was general unrest in Italy , a situation brought about by a number of oddly conflicting factors . |
| 13 | ‘ Immediately after the marathon it was local election time and I was on the move constantly . |
| 14 | During the programme there is considerable emphasis on personal communication skills and assertiveness training encouraging participants to develop their self confidence which is vital in dealing with customers , businesses , financial organisations and employees . |
| 15 | One of their most useful features was the thick layer of pure white fat with which they were coated when you took it out of the tin there was this layer of fat round the edge . |
| 16 | In the North-East there are three music schools and although they do not boast as many pupils as their Japanese counterparts they are growing , with over 300 pupils enrolled . |
| 17 | While we have strong reserves to support the pound it is likely Bank of England Governor Robin Leigh Pemberton would advise a Labour Chancellor to combine firm words with firm deeds if support from the Bundesbank and our other exchange rate mechanism partners is to be assured and a drawn-out war of attrition avoided . |
| 18 | One may anticipate the conclusions of the following discussion of the fifteenth-century Muftilik by saying that while both traditions are less than satisfactory and while , in the present state of knowledge , there are questions of considerable importance which remain unresolved , on the particular point of the origins of the institution there is some evidence to support at least the broad outlines of the Mustakimzade tradition , however vexed the details may be ; whereas , on the other hand , not only is there a lack of positive evidence to support the Katib Celebi tradition , there is also a certain weight of evidence , largely of a negative nature , against it . |
| 19 | The video looks back on the occupation of Latin America by Europeans and draws attention to the present situation of the millions of people throughout the continent who are suffering poverty and disease . |
| 20 | Most men read them as prose but to the poet they are transcendent poetry or music that finds a response in the soul . |
| 21 | By the time they entered the harbour it was high tide and the launch , with the Wheel riding her stern , lay almost level with the quay . |
| 22 | There are no remarkable buildings in the town ; there are banks , churches , very many general merchants , and a few bakers , butchers , curing yards , ship-building yards and suchlike , while in the harbour there is some shipping life . |
| 23 | For guests on half board , dinner is served at the Leitner which is next door . |
| 24 | Beyond the window there was another wall . |
| 25 | Nevertheless , in the first part of The Manifesto there is renewed reference to the evolution of society . |
| 26 | Without this experience of reconciliation in the home there is little chance to learn models of mutual forgiveness and the reinstatement of love . |
| 27 | It was , understandably , the peace which was essential information for the descendants , for it influenced their present actions to some extent ; and the solemnities were intended to impose themselves on the memory of the participants and witnesses and their children . |
| 28 | DESPITE the slump there 's big money to be made in cartoons . |
| 29 | The village itself was some distance away from the railway , and there was no transport of any kind . |
| 30 | To the north and east of the village there is extensive meadowland along the river Yeo , with no earthworks except drainage ditches . |