Example sentences of "[adv] [be] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Going home to Europe , Mr Eliot has had to understand Europe ; he could not quite sufficiently be the European simply to feel that he was there ; he has been forced to envisage it with a reminiscent philosophy . |
| 2 | If anyone was going to give Mother Teresa a run for her money , they thought , it had better be the president . |
| 3 | Like others of your Lordships , I am concerned about the unsatisfactory state of the law on this subject , and I trust that it can before long be the subject of review and , hopefully , reform . |
| 4 | This would especially be the case , it would seem , if a company were contemplating a move to total quality control for the first time . |
| 5 | This will especially be the case should it not be possible to agree terms with the preferred bidder , as it may then be necessary to open negotiations with another party before all the indicative offerers become aware of the initial set back . |
| 6 | There will obviously be the opportunity to catch sight of head office yeah ? |
| 7 | The researcher who ‘ attacks ’ a social situation would be the prosecution , the researcher who ‘ defends ’ would obviously be the defence counsel . |
| 8 | Maintenance of order would henceforth be the responsibility of the Interior Ministry and the police . |
| 9 | Vogel 's book entitled Japan As Number One ( 1979 ) is the epitome of this trend , as he sets a scenario in which he not only predicts that the Japanese economy will be the biggest in the world before the end of the century , but also that Japanese society should henceforth be the model for post-industrial societies . |
| 10 | Not only so be the monitor progress in the work so we do n't get ourselves bogged down as we have done before and not managing to carry out the work that 's needed . |
| 11 | The test of the ‘ fictions ’ in a model can not merely be the success of prediction . |
| 12 | His hope was that he would be able to spend the Easter weekend in peaceful anonymity away from the media , not foreseeing that the press conference would merely be the beginning to a story that grew and grew . |
| 13 | ‘ Only be the brightness of what you are ’ . |
| 14 | The ‘ party ’ of the future could only be the mass of the labouring population , for as he wrote in 1950 , in his self- proclaimed masterpiece : ‘ State Capitalism and World Revolution . ’ |
| 15 | To walkers and climbers the price of continued access to the hills need only be the cost of MCofS membership . |
| 16 | And the chip will still only be the size of a centimetre or two . |
| 17 | If it 's inherited from an estate that of itself er attracts no tax , so there tax position would only be the income that they received from it would be subject to income tax and it would be added to their own assets so that when they die in due course then they 've inheritance payable there . |
| 18 | But the irregular payments for which Stan Flashman 's club were punished may only be the tip of the iceberg . |
| 19 | These figures can only be the tip of the iceberg when we see the low rates of eligibility for maternity benefits and full time participation in the paid labour market for mothers with young children ( S. McRae , Maternity Rights in Britain , 1991 PSI ) . |
| 20 | Greenpeace say that this can only be the tip of the iceberg , as far more arrives clandestinely . |
| 21 | He was right , she thought , gazing into the distance , there were lights everywhere , some from passing ships and others which could only be the shoreline . |
| 22 | my Lord that , that must be right because that would only be the way in which they could give negative clearance , because the clause or the membership rules were inappreciable |
| 23 | Thus , while they should be drafted , so far as possible , to withstand judicial scrutiny , they will only be the subject of litigation in exceptional cases . |
| 24 | It should be remembered that a company can only be the firm 's appointed representative if the firm accepts responsibility for the whole of the investment business it carries on on the firm 's behalf . |
| 25 | This would only be the case if the latter entitled the individual to look to the government for the provision of certain welfare benefits . |
| 26 | Clearly this would only be the case if the company was perceived as an entity distinct from its shareholders so that it followed that the company and not the shareholders would be liable for any debts . |
| 27 | But this will only be the case if the debt continues to be remembered as an unrequited obligation by both parties to the transaction . |
| 28 | It would appear that an obligation of confidence may arise in relation to information which is overheard but it seems that this will only be the case where the recipient has used surreptitious means to put himself in a position to overhear the information . |
| 29 | In the county court , apart from the judge 's own note , there will only be the lawyer 's notes of the decision , and there will also be a written decision from the first instance tribunal . |
| 30 | Rounding the mysteriously named ‘ Kitchen Corner ’ , all thoughts of worms and dragons were blown away , not only be the wind but more by magnificent sweep of Rhosili Bay . |