Example sentences of "[be] [adv] [pron] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We can sum up the thread of the argument here by saying that binary oppositions , such as masculine/feminine , are not themselves the first principles of semantics and human cognition , they are a system grafted on in the attempt to analyse those things . |
| 2 | Apparently topics like these are just what the teenage television-viewing public want . |
| 3 | And , not being from Kirkby , I am still none the wiser about the meaning of the word ‘ scut ’ . |
| 4 | Akitas here are now what the Japanese would call the ‘ old ’ type , with more variety in colour than would be accepted in its homeland . |
| 5 | Tallboy knew just enough of the probable training of youth workers to feel this might not be quite what the social studies lecturer had said . |
| 6 | ‘ But are n't they the Seven Names of God ? ’ he asks . |
| 7 | ‘ Are n't they the giddy limit ! ’ , |
| 8 | ‘ Are n't we the early bird ? ’ said Tommy , as he turned over . |
| 9 | ‘ Well , well , ’ Feargal drawled from the doorway , ‘ are n't we the clever one . ’ |
| 10 | Are n't we the lucky ones today . |
| 11 | ‘ Well , are n't I the clever one , getting you first time ? ’ |
| 12 | ‘ Are n't you the young man who spent some weeks with the research unit at the National Hospital for Nervous Diseases ? ’ |
| 13 | Are n't you the lucky one ! |
| 14 | These results suggest that , although very high or very low poll tax demands could affect the performance of either party , levels of community charge were not themselves the prime determinant of electoral behaviour . |
| 15 | US President Ronald Reagan 's visit to the military cemetery at Bitburg in 1985 , and the subsequent Historian 's Debate , for example , were exactly what the new right thinkers had in mind . |
| 16 | H This is presumably what the poorer countries expect to get . |
| 17 | ‘ That should change , but it is only what the Japanese have been successfully doing for years . ’ |
| 18 | Ah oh that 's exactly what the other one said . |
| 19 | Frankly nobody knows if the stuff is going to work when tens of thousands or even a million nodes are involved and that 's exactly what the large accounts are really interested in . |
| 20 | I mean I think that erm you 're quite right , the biggest stopping point for women is the erm selection committee , but that 's exactly what the Three Hundred group is working for . |
| 21 | It 's exactly what the old chap wants . ’ |
| 22 | That is exactly what the standard spending assessment system has been designed to do . |
| 23 | But that is exactly what the other members — led by France and Germany — plan to do if the Danes do reject Maastricht . |
| 24 | Yet that is exactly what the educational department of the Eritrean People 's Liberation Front ( EPLF ) is trying to do . |
| 25 | The increased recent trend of more adults studying in their own community is greatly welcomed and is exactly what the White Paper seeks to underline . |
| 26 | That is exactly what the local statutory inquiry must get to the bottom of . |
| 27 | Living and working separately from men , on our own , or with other women and children , as a conscious political choice and labelled separatism is not something the vast majority of women would identify as a possibility . |
| 28 | In an evident effort to convince the West once again that military might is not what the Soviet Union is all about , the imposing array of missiles , rocket-launchers , self-propelled guns , and armoured vehicles were all ‘ long in the tooth , ’ according to a Western diplomatic source . |
| 29 | If you are , that is not what the technical term repression means in psychoanalysis . |
| 30 | That is not what the right hon. Gentleman said to Walden . |