Example sentences of "[noun prp] be [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The royalty was first introduced in France in order to assist widows of artists who were killed in World War I. Although France and Germany are now the main countries where this royalty operates , it is on the statute books of another eight European countries within the EC at present ; only the UK , Ireland , the Netherlands and Greece do not have laws relating to a resale royalty . |
| 2 | Thus according to 1.7.2 the units in Q[x] are precisely the non-zero constant polynomials — and there are infinitely many of them . |
| 3 | Palafox and Romana are thus the first of a long succession of generals who claimed that the army officers embodied the general will of the nation , perverted by a selfish clique of unpopular politicians . |
| 4 | Frankfurters are the most widely known of all the scalded sausages , and many other varieties such as Bockwurst , Knackwurst and Weinerwurst are really the same thing but in different sizes . |
| 5 | The key battle is likely to be between brilliant Torino player Enzo Scifo and Welsh skipper Barry Horne , who said : ‘ Schifo and Hagi of Romania are probably the best two midfield players in the world . |
| 6 | English Rugby are not the only ones concerned with events in South Africa . |
| 7 | TEENS THUNDERBIRDS are definitely the go . |
| 8 | The stations of South America and the Caribbean are mainly the products of the great building-boom era between 1890 and the 1920s . |
| 9 | Needless to say , though , drawings which bear a good provenance are usually of good quality : the drawings collected by such a fine connoisseur as the seventeenth-century English painter Peter Lely are now the pride of the world 's greatest museums . |
| 10 | The best song here is still ‘ Are Friends Electric ’ and Icehouse are still the worst band in the world . |
| 11 | Their models are their own or each others ' motets and chansons and the chansons of such Parisian colleagues as Claudin de Sermisy , and they make fuller use of the whole polyphonic complex of the model than their predecessors had done : how flexibly may be seen by comparing the opening of the Kyrie of Clemens 's already mentioned Mass ‘ Misericorde ’ : with that of his chanson ‘ Misericorde au martir amoureulx ’ : Bars 3–5 of the Kyrie are not the extraneous interpolation they seem to be ; they come from bars 18–20 of the chanson : |
| 12 | The Feeleys are just the sort of family William Beveridge was trying to proivide for when , exactly fifty years ago , he presented the Governemnt with a report that laid the foundations of the welfare state . |
| 13 | The gigantic Tertiary boulder beds of Ecuador are perhaps the best-known example . |
| 14 | Moreton and Furley are not the first men to die of redundancy . |
| 15 | But the particular circumstances of Corbett are not the only , or the real , problem . |
| 16 | Richard Tonks and John Brockbank are now the only directors at Feethams following his departure . |
| 17 | Gough thought that the Lloyds were possibly the most ancient family in Myddle village . |
| 18 | His three fours in an over from Gladstone Small were perhaps the statistical highlight , but it was his running between the wickets that really caught the eye . |
| 19 | Marx and Engels were probably the first to demonstrate this so emphatically . |
| 20 | Protheroe and Latimer were n't the only people who had trouble tracking Culley down . |
| 21 | Unlike their children , Nicolae and Elena Ceauşescu were not the subject of much trivial gossip . |
| 22 | Beyond doubt the Maldive Islands in the Bay of Bengal were much the richest source in southern Asia at the time of the Arab and Portuguese domination of the Indian Ocean . |
| 23 | He reminded himself again that he was dealing with premeditated murder and the Glynns were not the sort to resort deliberately to force except in dire circumstances . |
| 24 | Rank and ABPC were still the powers in the land but , when it came |
| 25 | Did n't you say that those youths who got their friend drunk the other Saturday were not the kind of visitors you liked here ? ’ |
| 26 | But a central conclusion of Tuttle , that the creatures of Laetoli were not the same species as ‘ Lucy ’ and the ‘ first family ’ of Ethiopia , was challenged immediately . |
| 27 | The latest stage in the Guinness growth story has come from TV advertising , with the Guinness commercial in Indonesia being perhaps the most unusual in the group . |
| 28 | In the ‘ sting ’ ( never easily seen from England and the northern United States , and not at all from Scotland ) Lesath and Shaula give the impression of being a very wide pair , but they are not associated ; of the two Lesath is much the more luminous and remote . |
| 29 | It might be argued that historically the Maronite Christians have done much to bring this near calamity on themselves , that Gen Aoun is only the latest , probably the last , in a long line of revolts against an Arab and Mulsim environment to which this most stiff-necked of Arab minorities refuses to adapt itself . |
| 30 | There are tales from James Reeves , Margaret Mahy , Mary Calvert ( The Biggest Cream Bun In The World , baked by Big Fat Rosie , the farmer 's wife , with important sound effects ) among others , cheek by jowl with Kipling 's How The Rhinoceros Got His Skin and a story by the Brothers Grimm warning children not to trust anyone . |