Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [pron] [be] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the answer is , each one secretly thinks he 's the best . |
| 2 | ‘ They said there was nothing wrong with her , but they were concerned about marks on her hips and would keep her in to see what was the cause , ’ he said . |
| 3 | Maurice Johnson obviously realised who were the real patients in the house . |
| 4 | What happened was I happened to be in the corridors there and the gentleman came in , that 's on the Friday afternoon , gentleman came in and asked to see the Headmaster , so I took him along to see who was the Headmaster then , and erm shortly after that I was called up to see and erm asked me if I 'd like to apply for this job because had seen me erm bringing me up to , bringing him up to see and he said erm , well what about that young fella who brought me up there and would he like to apply . |
| 5 | Will the right hon. Gentleman , in his swan song at the Dispatch Box , admit that not only has he been the most expensive Minister of Agriculture , Fisheries and Food , supporting an increase in CAP spending of 55 per cent. , but that , by his failure to get meaningful reform of the CAP , he has been the most unsuccessful one , as well ? |
| 6 | I says , ‘ You 'd better believe it 's the wrong club . ’ |
| 7 | The established , and now publicized , fact that women 's sexual capacity increases with age , at least until the late twenties , and stays at this peak for decades , while men 's is already declining , came as a shock both to men , who suddenly discovered they were the unlucky sex , and to women who had not realized what they had been missing . |
| 8 | ‘ Ipswich and Leicester lead the promotion race but this does not necessarily mean they are the best teams . |
| 9 | If certiorari only declares what is the case anyway , why would a person bother to seek such an order ? |
| 10 | If a cheque is wrongly processed it is the collecting bank and not the customer who will be liable . ’ |
| 11 | I do n't think so love there 's the first of the money lender so only a big one , once |
| 12 | More importantly , the better informed you are the better your interview performance will be . |
| 13 | It 's not only woman who need to be better informed it 's the doctors as well ! |
| 14 | ‘ So how long have you been the plant 's senior technician ? ’ |
| 15 | How long have you been the new director ? |
| 16 | It is not difficult to adopt an academic approach and say glibly , ‘ You merely establish what was the pilot 's intention , then identify where the flight deviated from that intention ’ . |
| 17 | Having sung the praises of swimfeeders I must point out that I do not think they are the be-all and end-all of barbel fishing , specially for the very big ones . |
| 18 | Mr. Browne did not think it was the job of councils to provide housing , but Mr. Barron was quick to counter that point . |
| 19 | The row was like an earthquake but I did not think it was the end for us , ’ she said . |
| 20 | But as the London Food Commission points out : ‘ The problem for consumers at the moment is that they do not know which are the PVC clingfilms . |
| 21 | There were two bridges over the R. Dovey ; I do not know which was the one whose state of disrepair forced the closure . |
| 22 | Employment and exposure records date from before the occurrence of leukaemia in the children , and the link to industry files was done by industry staff who did not know who were the parents of cases and who were the parents of controls . |
| 23 | We do not know who were the owners , nor what the objects meant to the owners . |
| 24 | That 's right , just say it 's the thirty one one ninety four . |
| 25 | it 's easy , you just say I 'm the Government , give me your money , |
| 26 | ‘ If the Prince of Wales does not succeed she 's the one person people would feel would be acceptable . |
| 27 | His about-face once in office pleased economists , but robbed him of his mandate : the voters no longer believed he was the man they had elected . |
| 28 | Honestly , Henry , when I think back to when I first saw Andrew Jones in that mucky room , the thin weed of a lad with nothing about him , I can not believe he 's the same person represented by Mr Andrew Jones , not only head of the showrooms , but … |
| 29 | He added : ‘ I believe Manchester is an injured party — I do not believe it is the fault of the city . |
| 30 | Police do not believe it was the work of Colombian drug lords Photograph ( omitted ) : |