Example sentences of "[noun pl] [be] [pron] the " in BNC.
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| 31 | The most obvious is that he felt it himself : to him his fictions were what the Silmarils were to Fëanor or their ships to the Teleri , ‘ the work of our hearts , whose like we shall not make again' . |
| 32 | The , the U K pension charge will er er er go up to the extent that pensionable salaries go up , there 's a standard surplus being amortized au fait gently rising pension , I mean there 's obviously there 's an X percent of pensionable salaries is what the will tell you will have to provide and er er not much more at the moment er therefore the charge will go up a little bit but not , not gradually and it 's not much . |
| 33 | Laughing off such narrow escapes is what the chair-men do best . |
| 34 | Noise from vehicles is something the Government has been trying to tackle for more than 20 years . |
| 35 | So , they need more adults around to talk to : one grown-up to every 13 children is what the Government 's nursery guidelines recommend . |
| 36 | The chances and not the probabilities are what the judge has to evaluate in any given case . |
| 37 | From this point of view , societal characteristics can not be explained as the product of actors ' choices , since these choices are themselves the product of socialisation . |
| 38 | It would be better to say perhaps that electoral systems reinforce existing tendencies , because such systems are themselves the product of diverse constellations of political interests and parties , and of changes in those constellations . |
| 39 | To them , prejudices are what the C2s have . |
| 40 | Societies of boys were what the public schools essentially remained , with the masters forming no more than a thin crust of adult authority . |
| 41 | With high land values and the lowest UK unemployment , almost 50 per cent of the very small holdings were what the survey classed as ‘ amenity farming ’ , in which land and buildings are acquired with ‘ a desirable residence and the agricultural activities carried out largely for pleasure ’ . |
| 42 | But writing screenplays is something the British do very badly indeed . |
| 43 | A WOMAN who has spent her life caring for others was herself the centre of attention at the weekend . |
| 44 | For some members of staff , study skills was what the ESSE/L Project was really all about . |