Example sentences of "[be] [conj] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What is more , because people 's short-term and long-term memories operate rather differently , they may well remember something quite different three days later : and the chances are that in the real marketplace it is the longer memory that matters . |
| 2 | And I think that the argument has been that on the whole discipline the use of discipline simply to punish drinking is n't going to be appropriate , although there may be forms of behaviour produced by excessive drinking that it 's appropriate to act against . |
| 3 | A practical consequence of this relationship has been that from the late nineteenth century onwards managerially and technically trained personnel have been well represented on the boards of major German companies . |
| 4 | Finally , it may have been that before the Pleistocene , with its powerful glacial and periglacial denudation , the amount of gravel transferred to the sea by the rivers was much less , so that there was far less material from which the sea could build beaches . |
| 5 | The result has been that within the legal framework , policies have been chosen on an ad hoc basis . |
| 6 | Mrs. Browne could n't account for that , unless it had been because of the wet weather . |
| 7 | Over the last twenty years or so , one of the things that 's slipped has been those kind of things and I believe and Peter may disagree with me , but a lot of the have been because of the commercial fact that the thing that is now driving the newspapers more than anything else is , is the advertising and advertising revenues and that drives the style of newspapers and stories that are written . |
| 8 | The analogous distinction in fiction would be that between the conscious and the reluctant narrator — the sad , the unwitting narrator . |
| 9 | It may be that at the national political level in the late twentieth century it is harder to identify discrete instrumentalist land interests than it is when looking at specific places , although even at the national level it is easy enough in 1988 . |
| 10 | The use of marked language is a familiar enough device of modern television comedy or stage farce to raise a laugh , be that in the mild form of so-called " family entertainment " — words like knickers , pratt , plonker , etc. — or in the form of more marked terms used in later night viewing on the supposedly more serious channels . |
| 11 | Or to reverse it , could it be that in the deepening turbulence of our generation God is not only judging a culture which has abandoned him but also , as it were , shaking up the bag and testing the foundations to see if we Christians are as ready as we think for the critical years ahead ? |
| 12 | The truth may be that in the long run , as Lincoln thought , people are not fooled . |
| 13 | A and the , the justification for doing this would be that in the long term we will need the coal therefore it 's ne it 's necessary to keep er a viable coal industry going . |
| 14 | But it may also be that in the bourgeois family the essential inegalitarianism on which capitalism rested found a necessary expression . |
| 15 | Take us and Europe now , is n't it odd that , after two world wars , in which our men who died , our nations sacrificed themselves in fighting what was thought to be the great German danger , we now find ourselves at least as much hostile to our allies in both of those wars — the French — as we do to the Germans , and if one could measure this sort of thing it might well be that in the British public at large you would find more sympathy towards the Germans than the French . |
| 16 | The penalty for not entering an accurate record in the new Domesday Book would be that after the new vesting day for the exercise , all that wealth in Britain not entered in the record would become available for redistribution by the Government . |
| 17 | It may be that like the other NCT groups people do not feel the need to attend for more than a few months ( ca n't stay a New Mum for ever ! ! ! ) and at the moment no one needs the MiE group I do not know and I would like to find out . |
| 18 | It is perhaps noteworthy that two chroniclers refer to the plague of 1361 as the pestis puerorum , the plague of the children , and if it is true that children in particular had perished in that outbreak , it could be that by the early 1370s the supply of labour was being reduced by a shortage of new recruits , particularly as the survivors of 1361 would also have been attacked by another outbreak in 1369 . |
| 19 | The relative narrowness of focus of particular modules , and the way this corresponds with the need for cross-reference to make explicit the common denominator of principle , are matters which can not be determined in advance but depend on what teachers conceive their problems to be and on the actual experience of designing and using such modules . |
| 20 | This may be because of the built-in didactic nature of any story written specifically for the young . |
| 21 | This may be because of the perceived risk to children , or an attempt by the authority to minimise risks to itself . |
| 22 | This seems to be because of the small size of the owl in relation to its prey , so that it can not swallow the prey whole but tears it up as do the diurnal raptors ( see Appendix for details of little owl biology ) . |
| 23 | This could be because of the small number of patients studied , but it is in agreement with the results of Hopman et al , who measured postprandial gall bladder contraction in patients on long term ( six months ) intermittent injection treatment . |
| 24 | ‘ If sitcom dies , it 'll be because of the changed nature of television , ’ he asserts . |
| 25 | This may be because of the different types and doses of cholecystokinin used . |
| 26 | The required options for a full investigation were seen at this stage to be as in the following list : — |
| 27 | The object sought to be achieved in construing any commercial contract is to ascertain what the mutual intentions of the parties were as to the legal obligations each assumed by the contractual words in which they chose to express them ( Pioneer Shipping Ltd v BTP Tioxide Ltd [ 1981 ] 2 All ER 1030 ) . |
| 28 | Above : The great thing about this indoor pool by Cascade is that during the warm summer months the doors slide open to give you the best of both worlds . |
| 29 | In the case of a bridal couple the ideology is that during the initiatory phase of their marriage the groom and his bride are playing out the roles of a god and a goddess ; when they resume their life as ordinary mortals their dangerous divinity must be removed . ) |
| 30 | The answer is that during the past 200 years or more a dynamic change has taken place . |