Example sentences of "[pron] be [conj] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | JUST THOUGHT I 'd write to say how surprised and disappointed I am that the 10,000 Maniacs have decided ( at the time of writing ) to play only three live dates in the UK this year , all of which are in London . |
| 2 | JUST THOUGHT I 'd write to say how surprised and disappointed I am that the 10,000 Maniacs have decided ( at the time of writing ) to play only three live dates in the UK this year , all of which are in London . |
| 3 | I am sure that he was as pleased as I was that the Parliamentary Secretary , my hon. Friend the Member for Skipton and Ripon ( Mr. Curry ) , spent some time last week promoting British lamb in the middle of France . |
| 4 | Seeing the shortness of the crossing , the frequency of fog in the Channel , the length of the October and November nights , and the species of calm that characterizes this narrow sea for more than six weeks of December and January , I deemed the obstacles by no means insuperable , especially for partial ‘ diversions ’ and in the winter of 1777–81 laid before the ministry the plans of an expedition against the Isle of Wight which were but the preliminary of a great project of descent . |
| 5 | Quicker thinking readers will probably have noticed what I did n't , which is that the first appearance of ‘ adverb ’ is a mistaken correction by a typesetter or proofreader of the correctly wrong ‘ abverb ’ . |
| 6 | Are not we entitled to be told the whole truth , as revealed by Greenpeace , which is that the total lifetime cost of Trident will be more than £23 billion ? |
| 7 | There is something more important , which is that the essential idea of the background view does not in itself conflict with our necessitation view . |
| 8 | ‘ I want to want ’ , the underground man 's lonely cry , is also his though he does n't utter it , and biting the governor 's car , like sticking the tongue out , is a one-against-all drumming of the heels of consciousness — but again with a difference which is that the biting extends beyond the notional ; it happens and it hurts , though it 's a minor foray compared with Raskolnikov 's spectacular eruption into actuality with the murder . |
| 9 | Such interrogatories shall bear a note at the end setting out the effect of RSC Ord 26 , r 3(2) , which is that the opposing party may within 14 days apply to vary , or have withdrawn , the interrogatories . |
| 10 | This is due to many factors , one of the more obvious of which is that the cumulative physical demands of manual work may well affect the worker 's health . |
| 11 | Hence fair play , one of the rules of which is that the eventual murderer shall be one of a small group , delimited in some way . |
| 12 | But then he embarked on his main thesis , which was that the entire Western intelligence system in Britain , France , Germany and America had been deeply penetrated by the KGB and systematically manipulated with clever disinformation put out by Moscow . |
| 13 | My suggestion to you is that the only connection between them is basic human nature itself , namely that the heart of man is incurably evil . |
| 14 | One point that may help you is that the lower the potency the more frequently it is likely to need repeating . |
| 15 | Liza was unaware that she was but the female counterpart of her father ; for Harriet , resolute and loyal to the last , had managed to keep any knowledge of Tom 's countless affairs from his daughter . |
| 16 | Only someone who was after the maximum deterrent effect would have ensured that each shot hit a rock and caused that terrible screech of ricochet . |
| 17 | In all this , we 've discovered a definite link between what has made us what we are and the unsettling elements which we now bring as responses or even confrontations when conflict arises . |
| 18 | ‘ A number of people remarked to me how lucky we were that the first Green Shopping Day coincided with publication of the Green Consumer Guide , ’ she says with amusement . |
| 19 | And I can always remember it was in the middle of winter and put on the , the four that bit circular bit put it into the four wheel drive and it came up there wonderful and the , yet er going in we were and the other car was swaying all over the place . |
| 20 | One is that the small river or stream was low one night as it was a particularly dry period , the innkeeper deposited the body as per usual , but by the morning it had not drifted away . |
| 21 | The difference between a direct hot water cylinder and an indirect one is that the latter has a heat exchanger , often in the form of a coiled pipe , which takes the hot water from the boiler and passes its heat to the domestic hot water in the cylinder , the two never mixing . |
| 22 | An important one is that the possible substitutes for man ( preserving grammaticality , but not necessarily semantic normality ) are virtually identical in the two positions . |
| 23 | Psychological research on human thinking suggests two alternative views of the machinery of the mind ; one is that the mental representations and cognitive processes are abstract , language-like forms manipulated by rules , and an alternative is that they are mental models whose structure corresponds not to language but to states of affairs in the world . |
| 24 | One is that the present level of unemployment must concern the health service ( and 1 have said nothing about other social problems ! ) . |
| 25 | One is that the bigger the event ( up to about 3,000 people ) the more it costs proportionally . |
| 26 | One is that the light-sensitive pigments of the eye could also act as magnetic sense organs . |
| 27 | One is that the statutory services are not uniformly ideal and beyond reproach and those of us who have worked in and with them would acknowledge that . |
| 28 | Of ‘ all the oppositions that furrow Freudian thought ’ it can be said that ‘ one is but the other different and deferred , one differing and deferring the other ’ ( Margins of Philosophy , 17 — 18 ) . |
| 29 | One was that the principal Atra artist , Keith Hudson , began to express a wish privately to sign to Virgin direct , thereby increasing his own percentage . |
| 30 | Four categories exist , the more stars there are and the higher the SPF the better the UVA and UVB protection . |