Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] [be] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And the most Anglophobe of Pound 's books is , appropriately , the one that is most full of shoptalk — though of shoptalk of a special kind , the talk of the master to his apprentices in the shop that is a workshop , the atelier where the talk that goes on is the vehicle by which an artistic tradition is transmitted , not in conceptualizing , and tendentious readings of history , but where it is concrete , in tricks of the trade and rules of thumb and words to the wise . |
| 2 | What passed on were the gold frame and certain historic jewels from earlier dynasties . |
| 3 | In the end , all I had to go on was the gallery itself . |
| 4 | In terms of performance , the main facets to concentrate on are the feel and the overall sense of dynamics . |
| 5 | The signal that is picked up is the difference in potential between the two electrode positions . |
| 6 | One Character in this chapter which really stands out is the Queen of Hearts . |
| 7 | But what stands out is the price of progress . |
| 8 | What I should like to find out is the effect of an intenser blue in the sky . |
| 9 | The one thing you ca n't quibble about is the voice . |
| 10 | Then , all you will have to worry about is the width of your trouser legs . |
| 11 | A Royal source said : ‘ It is quite lucky really that the only thing to worry about are the weekend breaks and holidays from school . |
| 12 | There may be an element of revolutionary wishful thinking here : if all the system had to worry about was the minority of people who seriously call for the abolition of prisons or the prospect of the imminent overthrow of capitalism there would not be much of a crisis . |
| 13 | In my experience , the only thing Liverpool players ever used to worry about was the game in hand . |
| 14 | The other aspect Mr Mayor that I , that I want t to dwell on is the thing about housing benefits themselves , there 's been a lot of talk by a lot of speakers about benefits and er means testing in the years gone by and well okay I 'll give councillor a few more years than I have , I do n't remember the forties because I was born towards the end of them but , y'know , maybe that happened . |
| 15 | And er after er my grandfather made that bike , after he started business on his own , he had , well the next thing came in was the penny farthing bicycle . |
| 16 | Funny how turning points can visit in plain clothing and only on looking back is the impression found , an impression made by the weight of a moment so apparently modest it 's hard to recall . |
| 17 | All that can be made out is the letter ‘ S ’ , then possible an ‘ E ’ followed by another letter . |
| 18 | Another danger Haslam warns about is the complacency that comes from being a successful innovator . |
| 19 | I know but what all going on is the history , that fact is since the mid-fifties we , we have had dealings cos they 've been one of the stronger of the world |
| 20 | " We are convinced that what is going on is the beginning of Renamo in South Africa , " said Mandela on Sept. 14 , in a reference to the actions of white-backed rebels in Mozambique . |
| 21 | The important point to focus on is the relationship between the modern economic sector and the informal sector which is clearly not as negative as the formal/informal dichotomy would imply . |
| 22 | There is one community that is chortling to itself over IBM Corp 's worldwide shredding of its mainframe price list , and that is the big leasing companies : while any prudent data processing manager has to call in Amdahl Corp , Hitachi Data Systems Ltd and Comparex Informationssysteme GmbH to be sure that the bid is n't a rip-off , there is still the nagging doubt that other people may be getting much better deals from IBM , and the only community that sees a wide variety of deals going down is the leasing fraternity , and the big ones say their people have n't been so busy in ages ; the effect of all this is to stretch out the buying process by weeks , to the likely detriment of the IBM first quarter figures . |
| 23 | It is on the way to being as reasonable as refusing to say about the see-saw that one end 's going down is the effect of the other end 's going up . |
| 24 | As the picture shows , Mrs Perdigao ( right , with the wife of President Mario Soares , left , at the prize-winning ceremony ) took the view that turning up is the key to victory . |
| 25 | What a man had done before he joined up was the past , and the past was unconnected with the Legion , and therefore irrelevant . |
| 26 | ‘ In a dependent society the media demonstrate the imperialist system 's concept of change — a conception which in fact ends up being the denial of change . ’ |
| 27 | The way it turned out was the way young Niccolò wanted it . |
| 28 | What makes Cerebral Fix — ex-Sounds EP stars — stand out is the way they 're busy twisting things around in the Death/Doom category . |
| 29 | What makes Cerebral Fix — ex-Sounds EP stars — stand out is the way they 're busy twisting things around in the Death/Doom category . |
| 30 | If you 're familiar with Ventura Publisher , the first thing you 'll notice when you load up is the absence of an icon-based toolbar . |