Example sentences of "[adj] be the [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Traditionally this is the sorting out round of the Schweppes , with matches dispersed around the country , but none of these immediately stand out . |
| 2 | is the people themselves vote that this is the has in some appropriate way , or not the case . |
| 3 | Thus part of the purpose of Chapter 2 is the getting together of a kind of conceptual tool-bag in advance of the specific case studies which are the content of the second part of this book . |
| 4 | The most striking example of this was the giving way of a work-centred culture to a home-centred one , as a result of a diminishing working day , the institution of the free weekend , the introduction of Bank Holidays , and the growing geographical separation of home from work as , in many towns , the working class followed the middle class out of the inner , industrial areas . |
| 5 | And such was the liking the company felt for Colley the Mason that they put their fingers in their ears and turned away from the door , and stared straight ahead at the altar . |
| 6 | Examples of these are the confronting pairs of animals in the mosaics from Wellow , Som . |
| 7 | So these are the include and exclude |
| 8 | Speakers from only two organisations gave evidence to support the airfield 's retention for flying : these were the Save West Malling Airfield Action Group ( SWAG ) and the Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association ( AOPA ) . |
| 9 | One of the strangest is the Splashing Tetra , which jumps out of the water to lay its eggs where no fish can reach them . |
| 10 | Gregory 's chief opponent in Tours in the late 570's was the comes Leudast . |
| 11 | The most important of these was the Save the Children Fund ( SCF ) ; Nina Boyle went to the USSR in 1921 to work in an SCF famine-relief programme , she wrote articles for SCF publications , and she made frequent speeches as a representative of the organization . |
| 12 | ‘ The best marriages of all were the made marriages , ’ he said authoritatively . |
| 13 | Great was the slaying that day , and merry was the feasting afterwards . |
| 14 | More important were the leudes of a king . |
| 15 | One is the handing over of the child to the mother . |
| 16 | That is the earning in your two to three week period . |
| 17 | That is the follow up , yes . |
| 18 | If you sold the whole of this that 's the earning and you 've got to do this excuse me , in three weeks . |
| 19 | That 's the keep er the actual , the actual master tape for that one I , I lent to somebody and I have n't got it back , I ca n't remember where it is |
| 20 | Erm the Aldershot method works or appears to work very well with structured thoughts the two merge together very well and erm again that 's the putting down on paper I did n't believe that had actually talk at all and yet it works and as you read it things come into the brain and when you combined all that with the coaching and you can see what you 're doing wrong the rest of it . |
| 21 | But that certainly was in Stronsay , and that 's the to prove it . |
| 22 | That 's the suppose it 's in now it 's up by the Mauritania down in Park Street so they tell me . |
| 23 | So that 's the do da . |
| 24 | what does , what was the start of that ? , the commencement , benefit commencement date , sixth of April nineteen eighty eight , that was the contracting out |
| 25 | Yes , but that was the get , |
| 26 | That was the Save the Children slogan last year , and £5m. was raised and a great many lives were saved . |