Example sentences of "[prep] [be] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As Afshan Begum explains in her thesis ‘ In many cases parents expect that the girl will , whenever they demand , give up everything ( e.g. a course in further education or training or a career ) and submit without question to a marriage they have arranged for her … these hidden cases which no one gets to hear about are the real tragedies . ’ |
| 2 | What you 're aiming for are the receding depths of the river concealing its greater mysteries , while your fish flirt unawares in the foreground … |
| 3 | Some good ones to look out for are the 1940's style Retro Dryer from Clairol , £24.95 . |
| 4 | But because they have to leave by 10pm , all they have time for are the basic tasks , such as cooking dinner , feeding Elaine , taking off her make-up and getting her ready for bed . |
| 5 | is a filter function representing smearing due to a finite beam size , and is the conformal time , where a(t) is the cosmological scale factor . |
| 6 | What we are slowly making our way towards are the pictorial consequences of Rosenberg 's nothingness and the fatality . |
| 7 | I think that must of been the old boy over the road you know |
| 8 | No they were , that 's what they were were n't it when it all happened , the old Revered somebody or other , they wilful murder but erm yeah basically it does n't seem like , there was no real evidence as to who erm fired first and there was no conclusion that the about that , but they were certainly I R A gunmen , para 's , its like without a doubt if you know some people , but like with those high powered weapons they may , alright its unfortunately that somebody may have got shot , but it may not of been the main shot , that may , may of been a ricochet or , or anything like that , both their they 've got a killing range of up to three mile so one mate come round , he says he 's gon na come round again tomorrow and have a look at it |
| 9 | Historically the Blackburn Perth has the distinction of being the largest flying-boat of the biplane era to serve with the RAF . |
| 10 | At the time of construction the bridge had the distinction of being the largest swing bridge in the United Kingdom . |
| 11 | Greenpeace has accused British industry of being the largest polluter of the north-east Atlantic region , and the UK government of licensing the destruction of rivers and seas . |
| 12 | However , the marked path is still the highest scoring of the paths considered , and it can be shown that , if all the paths had been considered , it would still have a high probability of being the highest scoring . |
| 13 | But , although they nearly ran out of steam and were forced to settle for a less than emphatic 27–24 margin of victory as the ‘ Boks came back at them , Sean Fitzpatrick 's side — with the Jones boys Ian and Michael , Zinzan Brooke and Frank Bunce outstanding alongside their skipper — were worthy of being the only New Zealand side ever to go through South Africa undefeated , albeit on an abbreviated tour . |
| 14 | While the politics of the time may have been sterile , it does appear to have had more than its share of colourful characters ; bogus radicals like A.P.T.James and Chanka Maharaj ; the legendary and fabulously wealthy Bhadase Maraj , who was an American-style ward boss ; Norman Tang , whose mastery of the ‘ art ’ of inscrutability made it possible for him to ‘ develop the reputation of being the only minister never accused by the Civil Service of political interference ’ . |
| 15 | Southport Railway Centre also ran its usual trains , again using the LMS Brakevans , over the Spring Bank Holiday , and thus had the unusual , possibly unique distinction of being the only preservation organisation running trains on its own lines and also on another , privately owned line at the same time . |
| 16 | The author ( front row , third from right ) in charge of the Southern Command cricket team , which he captained by virtue of being the only officer who played cricket . |
| 17 | As both a stimulus and ready source of energy , honey also has the distinction of being the only food made by insects that 's eaten by man . |
| 18 | Ireland prepared to face Cuba today ( 11.00 BST ) with the unenviable record of being the only side not to have scored a goal in the 12-team tournament . |
| 19 | It has the dubious distinction of being the only constellation with no star as bright as the fifth magnitude ; its main star , Alpha ( 5.2 ) , lies between Volans and Gamma Hydri . |
| 20 | And since the unconscious can be approached most nearly through unmeasurable , unrepeatable events in the analytic situation , psychoanalysts , even more than other psychologists , retain for themselves the power of being the only subjects able to explain subjectivity . |
| 21 | Although Stan was older and previously dominant , by virtue of being the only dog , he had not turned out to be the natural leader of he pair . |
| 22 | THE International Cricket Council stand accused today of being the International Cock-up Council . |
| 23 | Men tend to put greater store by their work once there are children ( perhaps because of the burden of being the sole earner , and perhaps because their place at work is not unchallenged in the way it may be at home ) and housework , which before may have been shared equally , often now falls to the woman . |
| 24 | But the association has tired of being the sole supporter and other sponsors are needed . |
| 25 | All in all , this is a most effective collaboration even if the innocent eyed Sunday painter W. Littlefair has to carry the burden of being the sole representative of the newly formed one-year-old Yarm Art Society which boasts 18 members on his shoulders . |
| 26 | I have most of them already and besides I enjoy the reputation of being the best teacher . |
| 27 | Unlike Beatty , who always had the advantage of being the living image of the role-model Hollywood leading man with dark , mysterious eyes , classic features and a huge mop of hair , Nicholson is the unlikely romantic hero . |
| 28 | The alternative candidate for the honour of being the liberal theory of contracts insists that obligations should only arise in order to discourage and compensate harm to the interests of others . |
| 29 | He knew that he should discuss her grandfather with Mariana but remained frightened of hurting her , or of being the immediate instrument of her hurt . |
| 30 | Under the influence of Cézanne , Picasso 's work becomes once again more purely painterly , and these figures , though still simple and often clumsy and awkward in appearance , never give the impression , as did so many of the paintings of the Negroid phase , of being the pictorial counterparts of wooden sculptures . |