Example sentences of "[be] [det] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A man 's appetites are half the man , and must be known if you would understand him . ’ |
| 2 | In the Barton pavement this is not so : in sensitive areas , e.g. the face of Orpheus , the tesserae are well selected and are half the size of those in a comparable position in the former . |
| 3 | Autobacs ' batteries are half the price of those sold in an ordinary garage . |
| 4 | They can be used on Sega hardware but are half the price . |
| 5 | Fruit and vegetables are half the price of home and sacks of oranges and lemons are virtually given away . |
| 6 | The technology requires less capital investment and about half the production time , and the panels are half the price , the company claims . |
| 7 | Karrimor is promoting its Adventure Travel range , which includes the excellent Tinamou trousers ( £33 ) , and Rohan has just brought out the tracksuit-style Gobi pants ( £35 ) , which are half the weight of their original Bags . |
| 8 | At only 12″ ( 30cm ) in size the plants are half the height of those from over 100 years ago . |
| 9 | Towards dawn , she said to his sleeping back that he loved his employers more than he loved her and if he had been half the man he thought himself , he would have left them rather than abandon her . |
| 10 | ‘ Ebeneezer Goode ’ would n't have been half the phenomenon it was without that promo vid . |
| 11 | It was an enormously thorough and comprehensive review of the case , running to four volumes and more than 1200 pages , yet it would have been better if it had been half the length and taken half the time . |
| 12 | I 've wanted you all the time , that 's what 's been half the trouble , thinking I was never going to have you again . " |
| 13 | Are this the lot with the doughnuts ? |
| 14 | They 're half the price of hanging basket |
| 15 | And on that argument sir , the figures would be wrong whatever they are , whether they 're half the amount the County Council put forward or twice . |
| 16 | Well if you see how many pallets they got and you see the trouble is the metal ones are so slippery they 're all the while dropping meat all over the floor . |
| 17 | Frankly , until somebody finds a better way to build a GTi , we 're all the competition we need . |
| 18 | Well if you 're all the way over there and I 'm talking to you I can hear my voice more . |
| 19 | AND SUDDENLY , they 're all the rage . |
| 20 | That 's not true , they 're all the God books up there . |
| 21 | They 're all the picture of health . |
| 22 | The Bomb Circle , my dad 's leg and his stick , his reluctance to get me a motorbike perhaps , the candles in the skull , the legions of dead mice and hamsters — they 're all the fault of Agnes , my father 's second wife and my mother . |
| 23 | and you miss bits out , you 're all the information and you have n't probed properly , you have n't disturbed and a weak first is a weak second etcetera etcetera etcetera . |
| 24 | I think it 's possible to make a bit of money but at at at the rate you know I feel we 're all the time putting the cart before the horse . |
| 25 | I say it , we 're we 're all the time , we 're we 're mixing up justice and law and all kinds of things . |
| 26 | And they 're all the time are they ? |
| 27 | Are these the garden parsnips ? |
| 28 | ‘ Are these the research students ? ’ demanded the professor . |
| 29 | Are these the vintage re-issues ? |
| 30 | Are these the sort of the like to the end of bus stops ? |