Example sentences of "[conj] be [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or are n't the police knowing yet ? ’ |
| 2 | For example , subjects ( which can be people or , with suitable techniques , animals ) are asked whether two complex shapes , presented in different orientations , are or are not the same . |
| 3 | Apart from making a fortune out of hits like Be Quick or Be Dead the heavy metal band is cashing in on merchandising , which is a fancy marketing term for flogging T-shirts , posters , belts , and anything else the fans will buy . |
| 4 | I am bound to keep him or be much the worse off . ’ |
| 5 | Er these hours th just developed over time or is just the work that 's go |
| 6 | ‘ You know , Charles , do n't you , that the Government 's trying to steamroller a law through to say that everything either is the case or is n't the case ? ’ |
| 7 | Or is n't the assistant permitted to ask her boss personal questions ? ’ |
| 8 | Here , the items of contention in the theories of the state appear as features which can be used to characterize each particular state ; for we need to consider in every instance the extent to which the state is independent of other social spheres , or on the contrary is subordinate to ‘ constellations of interest ’ which themselves have to be specified , and further , the degree to which the state is a repressive agency which dominates society ( and what the sources of that domination are ) , or is rather the executive body of society as a whole . |
| 9 | Native speakers of English typically use " have " in the present tense ( as in these two examples ) only when they want to imply that the event described is still happening or is still the case . |
| 10 | While it is important to know that your sample size is big enough for safe conclusions to be drawn ( that effects are ‘ statistically significant ’ ) , this is secondary in comparison with the issue of whether a relationship can be given a causal interpretation or is merely the spurious result of the operation of third factors ; the relationship between the number of fire engines and the amount of damage caused could be derived from a sample size of ten thousand and still utterly mislead if taken at face value . |
| 11 | The image may have softened somewhat " or is less the subject of common gossip , but the old picture remains in the public mind and some of the derelictions continue but with more discretion . |
| 12 | It was as if he had mounted the wrong protest in the wrong place , or was simply the wrong person to do it . |
| 13 | This is very important since lines that are either the wrong length or not balanced can provoke a string of problems including tired arms , aching backs , bad posture and catapult falls . |
| 14 | With pants , as with many clothes , she has to know the difference between things that are nearly the same — like large waist holes and smaller leg holes — and then match them to her body . |
| 15 | 4 Danny packs oranges that are just the right size so he can get 38 in a box . |
| 16 | On this form , the applicant signs a declaration that , to the best of his knowledge , the sire and dam do not suffer from hip dysplasia , entropion , undershot or overshot jaw , wrymouth , incomplete dentition , extreme shyness of or viciousness towards people , total absence of tan marking , yellow bird-of-prey eyes or eyes that are not the same colour , white markings . |
| 17 | That are not the standard English shall we say something like that . |
| 18 | She wanted to see me grow up , it was as simple as that , but it 's those simple things that are sometimes the hardest to accept . ’ |
| 19 | It may be noticed also , first , that no actual misrepresentation seems to have been made by Duval to his wife , notwithstanding that he had concealed from her material facts and , second , that the pressure he exerted on her to persuade her to sign does not seem to have been excessively overbearing or to have been accompanied by the threats or false promises or intimidation that are sometimes the hall marks of undue influence . |
| 20 | And , beyond that , we ought to see that some of the latest European music is only ‘ fascistic ’ in ways that are almost the opposite of male triumpalism . |
| 21 | The document is likely to be wreathed in legal safety clauses because the Government can not take decisions that are legally the responsibility of British Coal , which is a private company . |
| 22 | Racing against other horses is an entirely different thing from riding horses in their work and it is not always the ones who work the best that are necessarily the winners . |
| 23 | NT will operate not only on powerful PCs but also on the Risc machines that are currently the preserve of Unix . |
| 24 | The concept of ideology here signifies the collection of ideas that are merely the product of thought and that have no material basis . |
| 25 | well that 's how these places are any way , all you do , disco 's and that are always the same , you got women dancing round their handbags , Tracy and Stacy and all those |
| 26 | The service elements of the job fall into two categories — those that are routine and mundane and do not need a doctor to carry them out , and those that are essentially the front line services for health delivery in our hospitals . |
| 27 | that were n't the impression that I got . |
| 28 | It was in the summer holidays and Matthew was going to start school , so he he 's just had his fourth birthday just had his fourth birthday when he moved in here , the twins that were coming up to their second yeah Matthew like , like Gemma , Gemma yeah and by the time I knew you that were n't the summer after |
| 29 | That were just the temporary passes for the motorway that we had to return to department . |
| 30 | On the other hand , the smallest dinosaur known — of the type that were probably the immediate ancestors of modern birds — was no bigger than a mistlethrush weighing only a few grammes . |