Example sentences of "to [be] [adv] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Finally , our most recent results have shown that ( 1 ) the differential perspective cues described here also affect the perceived absolute distance to the surface ( such that a surface containing perspective cues appropriate for near viewing is perceived to be closer to the observer ) , and ( 2 ) the shape of the apparent fronto-parallel surface systematically varies with the differential vertical perspective cues generated by surfaces at different absolute distances from the observer , as Helmholtz informally demonstrated over a hundred years ago . |
| 2 | The latter would seem to be closer to the truth . |
| 3 | I have moved the patient in there to be closer to the turret , the better for me to nurse her . |
| 4 | Face crushed face , but even the humiliated ones , the ones pushed away , the third-raters and the defeated ones , even those — from a certain distance imposed by the law of hierarchy , it 's true — still moved toward the front , showing here and there from behind the first-rate , titled ones , if only as fragments : an ear , a piece of temple , a cheek or a jaw … just to be closer to the Emperor 's eye ! |
| 5 | But if you were old enough to be around at the time , reactions like ‘ Well , of course , the political circumstances were such that … ’ , and ‘ Yes , I have to admit I took offence to that ’ are more likely , and cause one to take a more considered and less dogmatic view . |
| 6 | In all three areas the mammals that happened to be around at the start fanned out in evolution , and produced a specialist for each trade which , in many cases , came to bear a remarkable resemblance to the corresponding specialist in the other two areas . |
| 7 | MVS is still supreme in IBM 's view and expected to be around through the decade as a leader . |
| 8 | That has begun shipping to members , and SAG optimistically expects products complying to the specification to be around by the end of year . |
| 9 | All major religions offer a deepening understanding of spirituality because of the way they enable people to be consciously in the presence of that Mystery . |
| 10 | Since it was impossible to envisage the use of nuclear weapons in any way consistent with the laws of war , and since great and apparently law-abiding Powers possessed and threatened to use them , they must be held to be simply beyond the scope of international law , |
| 11 | Virgin had long ago ceased to be simply in the music business ; it was now in that most Eighties of concepts , the lifestyle business . |
| 12 | Previously his work seemed to be strictly about the inter-relationship of material , colour and shape , but in his new ‘ Shadow Paintings ’ at Rubin Spangle until 18 November tattoos , car explosions and other scenic bits coalesce behind veils of white paint . |
| 13 | The thirty-six-patch leather ball of those days was heavy , and headers had to be strictly from the forehead . |
| 14 | Fenella 's complaints continued to be mostly about the way he treated her on stage . |
| 15 | The damage seemed to be mostly at the back . |
| 16 | But do n't you know whether a solicitor 's going to be here for the committal proceedings today ? |
| 17 | We 're going to be here for the rest of our lives . |
| 18 | ‘ I 'm going to be here for the rest of your life . ’ |
| 19 | Well you 'll have to be here for the surveyor |
| 20 | You ca n't go away on holiday , Helen 's got to be here on the day . |
| 21 | How had that fancily-named high-hab brat come to be here at the garrison block ? |
| 22 | What a wonderful privilege to be here at the beginning of it all ! |
| 23 | She told an audience of deaf and hearing people : ‘ I am very happy to be here at the launch of the dictionary and I hope it will help people to greater interaction . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ It sounds reasonable , tell him to arrange for his solicitor to be here in the morning . ’ |
| 25 | I do not wish to appear uncharacteristically churlish , but I wonder whether I alone raised an eyebrow when the hon. Member for Eastbourne ( Mr. Bellotti ) questioned whether the Secretary of State should have left the debate after an hour when the hon. Gentleman has been the only member of his party to be here throughout the debate — until the hon. Member for Liverpool , Mossley Hill ( Mr. Alton ) scuttled in towards the end of his speech . |
| 26 | To undo this moment — to force time backwards — to be again at the moment of choice back at the house … |
| 27 | If the movement of the workers had been clearly revolutionary , or at least sharply segregated from the middle-class world ( as it had been before 1848 and was to be again in the era of the second International ) , the distinction would have been clear enough . |
| 28 | You can of course stay in one of our other hotels featured in this brochure but parking will have to be either on the street or in one of the municipal car parks . |
| 29 | I also felt that I wanted to be apart from the routine of normal home life with the washing , cooking and to think about . |
| 30 | He wanted to be apart from the humiliation he had engineered . |