Example sentences of "[be] [conj] [adv] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So there you are and then the driver board goes on here |
| 2 | It was still as mellow and welcoming as it ever had been but now the pine panelling was softly golden , gleaming with wax polish . |
| 3 | It involves not only a judgment about the way things are but also the way things ought to be . |
| 4 | So what 's the what 's the average gon na be or even the mean ? |
| 5 | Could the implication be that today the Christian at work is quietly to put up with any kind of abuse or ill-treatment ? |
| 6 | It was not yet dark but soon it would be and then the town would come alive . |
| 7 | Well I think I , I mean I do agree and I think that the that er that pressure is now getting on to these , these city institutions , but erm , but I still come back to the basic thing that , that really , you know what appears to me is happening is we 've we 're having literally millions of pounds taken out in , in issuing these massive massive writs you know , a hundred and seventy eight page writs are sort of being and really the money for those is coming out of the remaining money in our pension funds and really I feel that what wou what is happening is this , as far as I 'm concerned , is all due to the self-regulatory body being set under the Financial Services Act , and in a way I feel that you know we 're being made to pay for sorting out a mess that somebody else is making . |
| 8 | That group is nor only the group which has supported the US-led intervention against Iraq , it is also the group which effectively controls Gulf oil production and Opec . |
| 9 | A further possibility is that either the prestige or the style of the journals has altered over the study period , thus encouraging submission ( or acceptance ) of larger studies . |
| 10 | My respectful view , for reasons which your Lordships will have noted , is that both the contention of the defence and the court 's refutation of it were misconceived : the absence of consent on the part of the owner is already inherent in the word ‘ appropriates , ’ properly understood , and therefore the argument for the defence got off on the wrong foot and the counter-argument that the words specified by the defence can not be read into section 1(1) did not assist the prosecution . |
| 11 | The trouble is that both the product and the claims made for it are so unusual that it is impossible to predict whether it will disappear , never to be seen again , or become the biggest thing since MS-DOS . |
| 12 | The trouble is that both the product and the claims made for it are so unusual that it is impossible to predict whether it will disappear , never to be seen again , or become the biggest thing since MS-DOS . |
| 13 | He concluded : ‘ the cardinal rule of library stock control is that both the loan period and the duplication policy should be related to the level of demand for the title and to each other . ’ |
| 14 | The drawback is that both the sender and the recipient , if living outside the US , are at the mercy of prevailing exchange rates and foreign banks may charge a commission . |
| 15 | The drawback is that both the sender and the recipient , if living outside the US , are at the mercy of prevailing exchange rates and foreign banks may charge a commission . |
| 16 | The drawback is that both the sender and the recipient , if living outside the US , are at the mercy of prevailing exchange rates and foreign banks may charge a commission . |
| 17 | My contention is that both the justice and inhumanity of capitalist societies result inevitably from the failure to assert certain absolutes and so place proper limits on the use of freedom . |
| 18 | One of the advantages of using drama in this way ( when the narrative continues over a period of several weeks ) is that both the teacher and the children can change roles , enabling us to look at any given topic from different points of view . |
| 19 | The reason is that otherwise the surface charges would be in motion contrary to the assumption that a static equilibrium exists . |
| 20 | advertisement , and do they actually sit down in an interview or is that simply the way that the advertisement is projected |
| 21 | The difference between this and Helby v. Matthews is that here the customer was committed to making all the payments and therefore to acquiring ownership of the goods . |
| 22 | The important point about the example , though , is that neither the instructor 's action nor the pupil 's action was required for the stopping . |
| 23 | There 's lots of myths about Rachmanite landlords — is that really the case or is it one huge myth ? |
| 24 | One politically unfortunate aspect of the problem is that often the generator of the pollution is not the country suffering it . |
| 25 | His only explanation is that possibly the gentleman had travelled on the line for many years in the past and that his ghost fitted into a well-worn slot in time . |
| 26 | But actually it does n't tell you anything about the quality of the care which they 're purchasing and the evidence that we are getting increasingly from the community health council is the experience of people of the health service is that actually the quality of the care is getting worse and this is not due to the staff in the health ee the more detailed plans coming to the next meeting of the e the more detailed plans coming to the next meeting of the for an operation er , four years , it should to be said er , she 's been waiting despite the government 's claim that all operations are done within two years er for very severe varicose veins and surprisingly enough she got them because of course most varicose have been removed her , the north-east Thames region erm , and er she turned up on the Wednesday and the operation had been postponed twice previously er , she was er gone through all the er , various tests which took her four hours cos she had to find all the places herself , there was nobody to show her to X-ray and various other places erm she was prepared for the op and then was sent home because there was n't a bed available ! |
| 27 | And the reason for this is that usually the male has a vast number of sex cells and consequently can afford to compete er for er female cells to fertilize . |
| 28 | The big change is that literally the market place is now global . |
| 29 | My own view is that perhaps the concept of normality is inappropriate here , since doubtless much of the hostility and prejudice which exists towards homosexuality is a product of this notion . |
| 30 | The fundamental difference between the traditional novel and this the new novel is that now the style is analytical and psychological . |