Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [be] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That was the other thing I think about the Festival programme which I think was a bit embarrassed about is the fact that all that information is in such teeny tiny writing |
| 2 | Because I 'm afraid of being the victim I 'll bubble my way up to being either the rescuer or the persecutor . |
| 3 | ‘ What they 're interested in is the cinema of the extreme , ’ says Tarantino . |
| 4 | I suspect all they are interested in is the money . |
| 5 | As a sociologist , what he is interested in is the knowledge of a social group and as a Marxist he is interested in the ‘ maximum potential consciousness ’ of a group or class — what it could know and still remain a coherent group . |
| 6 | What employers will be interested in is the confidence and faith you have in yourself to revise and update your clinical skills in order to place them in a service context . |
| 7 | What Foucault is interested in is the complex of ‘ power-knowledge ’ , the way in which power operates through the construction of particular knowledges . |
| 8 | The only monetary target he should be interested in was the price of his memoirs . |
| 9 | The other thing I was interested in was the increase of ele of occupational therapists and I just wondered what the realistic expectation was of being able to recruit them because as far as I know they are a scarce resource er and not easy to find . |
| 10 | But the cinema Americans were interested in was the antithesis of the Free Cinema mode . |
| 11 | Mr Chairman , I I welcome this opportunity er of of saying just a very brief word about fire service because as a new member I think one of the services that this county has er er is top in is the fire service . |
| 12 | Now the government has declared this to be the Year of Food . |
| 13 | The Russian greybeards were quite beside themselves with glee , considering this to be the find of the century . |
| 14 | I found this to be the case when trying to replace a ballcock valve washer in a hot water tank in a very narrow airing cupboard . |
| 15 | I would not do it again ; it is too dangerous as things are today ; but the night on which I decided this to be the case was the night on which I leaned enough at my classes to decide me about Bertrand Russell , so it was well worth going . |
| 16 | The care of elderly people will not inevitably deteriorate in the future , but the potential for this to be the case underlines the importance of close monitoring of the impact of Working for Patients on the future quality of the National Health Service . |
| 17 | The point is that the experts were convinced Leakey was wrong when they could not possibly have known this to be the case In his rollicking ‘ Steady-state cosmology revisited ’ , Sir Fred Hoyle recounts what occurred when a paper submitted by his fellow astrophysicist Sir Hermann Bondi was set before that august body , the Royal Astronomical Society . |
| 18 | Should you find this to be the case after trying my simple remedy , take the instrument to your local repairer for assessment of repair costs |
| 19 | Were this to be the case then its limited appeal would be even further reduced . |
| 20 | Although it has confidently been predicted by a number of high-ranking orthodox medical practitioners that any research in homoeopathy would rapidly discredit the whole subject , I have not found this to be the case . |
| 21 | But why should we suppose this to be the case ? |
| 22 | Nesting nearby in holes in the boulder were a colony of puffins , and I probably imagined that these Icelandic birds looked larger than those nesting in Shetland , because I knew that studies had shown this to be the case . |
| 23 | In practice though , as we saw , Beccaria thought that most people had not developed their rational insight sufficiently for this to be the case — full rational insight had only been achieved by ‘ some few thinking men in every nation in every age ’ . |
| 24 | Thinking this to be the case one might infer that pleasure was the only good thing . |
| 25 | A major criticism of the concept is that , in the absence of the express incorporation of international law as the proper law in the contract , the criteria for determining this to be the case are not settled . |
| 26 | Some still think this to be the case . |
| 27 | Some doctors have interpreted this broadly , since an unwanted pregnancy can be catastrophic to the life of a woman , so that abortion is granted to any woman who considers this to be the case . |
| 28 | He found this to be the case . |
| 29 | Were this to be the case then the party would almost certainly adopt the essentials of the Establishment perspective — the more so since this perspective is keenly attentive to many of the contemporary concerns of the New Right . |
| 30 | Moreover , the simplification can not be made , as it can in the terrestrial planets , that the influence of temperature on density is slight compared with the influence of pressure : the temperature change with depth in adiabatic lapse-rate models of Jupiter is much too large for this to be the case . |