Example sentences of "[verb] be [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact what he has been using are exactly the same as the cheap mass-produced lasers used in CD machines . |
| 2 | The people who suffer if they are broken are not the owners , the shareholders or the board of directors , but those who work in the industry — people who have given their lives to that industry , built up the companies ' assets and made them into going concerns attractive for privatisation . |
| 3 | Ironically , the players who exert the most influence are not the worthy professionals nor the solid artisans , it is the daring wingers , the vicious defenders , the arrogant bastards and the uncontrollable wide-boys whose image is remembered by fans . |
| 4 | The answers given are not the only right answers . |
| 5 | The sounds they make are not the same as words . |
| 6 | The sort of agreements which the legislation is designed to catch are precisely the same as those which the UK legislation is aimed at , namely price fixing , market sharing , restrictions on supply , etc . |
| 7 | The reason for the neglect of climatic consideration has been partly the relative youthfulness of the science of urban climatology , and partly the relatively weak communication links that presently exist between climatology and planning . |
| 8 | Taiwan 's economic growth has been probably the world 's fastest over the past two decades . |
| 9 | The central issue has been why the ‘ magic of plurality ’ should make something unlawful if it is not unlawful when done by one person alone . |
| 10 | Sicily has been both the home and haven of the Mafia because politicians throughout Italy have found it convenient to tolerate , rather than prosecute , its activities . |
| 11 | Serge Moscovici , who has been both the Marx and the Lenin of this revolutionary movement , has advocated a fundamental reorientation of social psychology around the concept of social representations . |
| 12 | Its defence has been largely the concern of other powers since the fall of Singapore in 1942 ; and the British independent nuclear deterrent is no more than a phrase , since it is not independent and , as the Falklands crisis of 1982 showed , it does not deter . |
| 13 | In the past , accommodating such users has been largely the province of a small number of individuals . |
| 14 | For three centuries , however , an incident of landownership has been effectively the sole right to shoot deer on that land , either for sport or to prevent damage . |
| 15 | And that the business has been predominantly the nature of business has been predominantly manufacturing . |
| 16 | For centuries the practice of philosophy has been overwhelmingly the prerogative of men but it is only recently that feminist analysis has made it possible to see the distorting effect of this historical fact . |
| 17 | ‘ This past month has been easily the most rewarding and satisfying of my career . ’ |
| 18 | Neither jet-lag nor anything going wrong has been evident at the tourists ' training , which has been comfortably the most impressive seen in Cardiff since … well , since the last time the All Blacks were there in 1980 . |
| 19 | In fact , it is only a slight exaggeration to say that the main deterrent effect of monopoly policy has been not the threat of what changes might be required as a result of the MMC investigation , but the threat of having to tie up a large quantity of senior executives ' time to argue the firm 's case in the event that its activities attract a reference to the MMC . |
| 20 | Right or wrong , Chomsky 's theory of grammar has been undoubtedly the most dynamic and influential in modern times . |
| 21 | In marriages in which only one of the partners has been down the aisle before , the number of divorces has jumped 67 per cent since 1980 . |
| 22 | What should the post-Christian then hold of the religion that there has been down the ages ? |
| 23 | Love has inspired more mystical utterances than any other human emotions ; for some saints and mystics , it has been almost the whole of religion . |
| 24 | Yet the new interdisciplinary approaches , the new stress on enquiry and research , and the increased stress on the teacher in the devising of resource-based approaches , require more flexible , efficient and detailed methods of information retrieval than has been typically the case in schools , or in most academic and public libraries hitherto . |
| 25 | In fact it has been mainly the lesbians in the girls ' work movement who have been developing a determination to make the links between all oppressions , and who have become very clear about the need for that work to be accessible to all young women . |
| 26 | Wynne Godley has been consistently the gloomiest economist operating in Britain , believing that the UK economy is suffering from severe structural weaknesses , and it will remain locked in a low growth and high unemployment pattern for years . |
| 27 | The growth in the numbers who have been without work for a year or more has been perhaps the most disturbing aspect of today 's unemployment , despite the Department of Employment 's interviewing of all the long-term unemployed , and the Government 's recent recognition of the need to direct job appointments at those who have been standing in the queue longest . |
| 28 | It is well known in the EFTA countries and in those of central Europe that Britain has been perhaps the strongest advocate of enlargement . |
| 29 | The Earth and the Moon are so close together that it has been estimated that the exposure of both planets to asteroids and comet debris has been much the same . |
| 30 | Behind that long , happy record has been unquestionably the influence of Caroline . |