Example sentences of "[be] [art] [adj] [conj] the " in BNC.

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1 The enthusiasm for canal stock in the 1790s may have been the greater because the yield on Consols had not been very gratifying between 1784 and 1792 .
2 I wonder whether the umpire 's attitude would have been the same if the offender had been his opponent , the comparatively unknown Grant Connell .
3 This conclusion is devoid of party political implication ; the situation might easily have been the same if the parties in opposition and government had been transposed .
4 Would the result have been the same if the original agreed price for the carpentry had been a fair price ?
5 If its percentage of second votes had been the same as the overall percentage of the constituency votes it then received , it would in 1983 have been guaranteed 165 seats instead of the 23 it actually won , and 147 instead of 22 in 1987 .
6 But since then our calendar year has been the same as the solar year .
7 They had three hundred and seventy three live children between them and on average they should of had twenty seven children with birth defects if they 'd been the same as the rest of the population , the non-criminal , non-prison erm erm erm non-prison population .
8 Care in the community has been the dominant and the predominant mode of care for centuries .
9 ‘ The key problems for Hungary now , ’ he said , ‘ are the economic and the national questions .
10 ‘ The 1992 figures are the highest since the survey began in 1989 , and are in marked contrast to 1991 's figures , which were the lowest ’ , says Bryan Smithm of ICI engineering , and chairman of the CBI 's research and innovation committee .
11 By a similar slip of logic it is sometimes presumed in such discussions that voluntary bodies are the only or the main beneficiaries of voluntary help and cash aid .
12 Weekend conference and seminar and study group , doctoral dissertations , and communally compiled working papers toward another Annotated Index — we may agree , as I do , that in present historical conditions these are the best or the only ways of responding to the achievement of a very great , though of course imperfect , poet .
13 Now what we have to know is whether or not they are in fact getting these contracts because they are the best and the cheapest , or whether they are getting it because they have the best connections and they are paying the most money .
14 Well I want to talk much more about what I think are the unconscious and the not deliberate sources of bias .
15 The whole irony of war lies in the fact that the persons who get hurt most are the inoffensive and the helpless .
16 It is a member of the multivibrator family the other two of which are the monostable and the astable .
17 In fact , our two great historical ages are the 1950s and the 1970s .
18 It does n't happen , and students are the poorer because the compounds that I see as old friends are more like enemies to them .
19 The white areas are the brightest and the red the dimmest .
20 The two dominant models in discussion of the relationship are the presidential and the parliamentary .
21 The ranking produced by the NPV 30 per cent and the yield tables are the same since the rates found in the latter are of the order of the 30 per cent applied in the former .
22 The ranking produced by the NPV 30 per cent and the yield tables are the same since the rates found in the latter are of the order of the 30 per cent applied in the former .
23 Although automatic edit controllers can be included in the set-up to simplify and speed up the process , the basic essentials are the same whether the job is done automatically or manually .
24 However , he held that the criteria of unfairness are the same whether the trial judge is exercising his discretion at common law or under the statute .
25 The issues accountants have to decide are the same whether the vendors are entitled to their deferred consideration or the purchasers are entitled to repayment of part of the purchase price because of breach of warranty .
26 The materials used are the same but the weaving methods are completely different :
27 If is the efficient quantity of public good provided , then this indicates where is simply the budget expenditure on G. Here the marginal utilities of the public good are the same but the marginal utilities of income are different .
28 There is no problem with the calculation and both answers are the same because the maximal precision of any of the numbers involved is two , i.e. well within the capabilities of the machine .
29 You know so make sure the units are the same and the scale is the same so you 're using the same number of squares for each one .
30 The normal rims are the same as SIII LWB , the heavy duty are the same as the old IIA and IIB forward controls and odd military fire engines , etc .
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