Example sentences of "[pron] be the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No , the ones who get me are the purposeful ones who are out to pull you down a peg or two when you were quite happy with the peg you were on . |
| 2 | All around the oval churchyard can be found the sunken tracks that were once the village streets and paths and raised above them are the grassy mounds that cover the foundations of houses and cottages long since gone . |
| 3 | The most powerful ‘ lessons in wizardry ’ are those taken for the learning of shamanic powers , and in the Piaroa theory of knowledge , men who do undergo them are the best hunters in Piaroaland , even if they rarely hunt ( Overing 1988 ) . |
| 4 | Gone too from both of them are the dark circles under the eyes , the complexions grey with tiredness and lined with worry . |
| 5 | Tristan has two near neighbours , both uninhabited , Nightingale and Inaccessible , and a third a couple of hundred kilometres further south , Gough Island ; all of them are the battered remains of extinct volcanoes . |
| 6 | All that 's left for them are the smallest triumphs , revenges or consolations — together with a fascination for the England of 15 or 20 years ago . |
| 7 | Below them are the four archdeacons ( Wiltshire , Sarum , Dorset and Sherborne ) who , Bishop John says , are ‘ key people in the modern church ’ . |
| 8 | The Kuwaiti population is about one point seven million erm about six to seven hundred thousand of them are the Kuwaiti nationals . |
| 9 | Suspensions and the risk of them are the common denominators of today 's European proceedings . |
| 10 | When you awaken in the morning hush I am the uplifting rush Of quiet birds encircled flight I am the soft stars that shine at night . |
| 11 | I am the Special Projects Officer . |
| 12 | This training covers independence , consent , confidentiality , and inhuman treatment , and the importance of total independence and objectivity is accepted and encouraged by the Greater Manchester Police Force , for whom I am the senior police surgeon . |
| 13 | Gwenellen and I were the only members of our set on days . |
| 14 | In fact , Alan and I were the only ones to find the old master and pupil just what the doctor ordered . |
| 15 | So I reached Lochinver in style , had time to look around , and mounted the bus outside the post office : the morning 's collection of mail and I were the only passengers . |
| 16 | In the spring of 1520 Benjamin Daunbey and I were the proud occupants of a large manor house on the outskirts of Ipswich . |
| 17 | John Heminges said I was the best properties man in the city . |
| 18 | Nonetheless , theirs are the coarsest images of the first generation of LC TVs . |
| 19 | These animals were also communicating with each other , but we were only able to catch the deep rumbles which are the upper harmonies of their conversation . |
| 20 | I think the statutory services which are the registering bodies also have a role to play in that . |
| 21 | Which are the key groups that compete for resources in the budgetary process ? |
| 22 | It is one thing to speak of involving the student , " teaching concepts rather than facts " , " practising skills " and all the other catch phrases of educational discourse ; it is quite another thing to put them into practice , to find out how to involve the student , to elucidate which concepts are of most importance and which facts are necessary to their understanding , and particularly to distinguish which are the key skills and how they are to be most usefully practised with these students in this situation . |
| 23 | ‘ Elements ’ are precise descriptions of what people need to be able to do to be considered competent and have associated with them ‘ performance criteria ’ , which are the key indicators used to judge the individual 's level of performance . |
| 24 | all of which are the earliest ancestors of the family . |
| 25 | It governs the behavior of transistors and integrated circuits , which are the essential components of electronic devices such as televisions and computers , and is also the basis of modern chemistry and biology . |
| 26 | ‘ They will have the same powers as the larger UDCs , but above all they will create the business-friendly environment and single minded approach which are the necessary preconditions for regeneration . ’ |
| 27 | Distance and size , says Berkeley , are seen in the way that ‘ we see shame or anger in the looks of a man ’ ; though invisible themselves , these feelings are ‘ let in by the eye along with colours and alteration of countenance , which are the immediate objects of vision ’ . |
| 28 | Then , to each node e , we can associate its set of children which are the far ends of the arcs pointing away from e . |
| 29 | In theory , the shareholders have legal control of the company , but in practice this is most often exercised by the directors who between them may have a small minority of the shares with the acquiescence of the institutions which are the major shareholders . |
| 30 | These latter occasions give rise to highly acidic precipitation episodes ( sometimes producing grey or black snows resulting from the presence of lignite ash ) which are the major contributors to the total annual amount of wet deposition of sulphate in Scandinavia ( Smith and Hunt , 1978 ) and which occasionally even lead to black , acidic snowfalls in Britain . |