Example sentences of "[be] the [adv] [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The familiar scheme numbers for food preparation and food service — originally City and Guilds 147 , 151 and 152 in cookery and now City and Guilds 706 and 707 part 1 and 2 — have been the easily understood shorthand for hotel and catering qualifications acquired by a combination of on the job training and college tuition . |
| 2 | He had been the newly appointed Head of the Fiana , eighteen years old , heady with the power of it . |
| 3 | 's major customers have always been the well known supermarket chains , but we are now also selling to regional supermarkets under 's generic brands and to cash and carry 's . |
| 4 | Certainly , it is unlikely to have been the only figured panel in the mosaic . |
| 5 | There are the carefully packaged documents prepared by marketing , PR and advertising companies on behalf of their clients . |
| 6 | Trifling though they may appear , these are the conventionally cited points of contention between the Celtic and Roman churches . |
| 7 | The oldest fossil fish , which are the earliest known vertebrates , lack jaws — the mouth is a simple opening — and are covered on the outside with bony skeleton . |
| 8 | On Kenya 's border with Tanzania are the internationally known Serengeti and Maasai Mara reserves , where the annual migration of millions of wildebeeste and zebras to warmer northern parts forms a wondrous spectacle straight out of the pages of ‘ Out of Africa ’ . |
| 9 | The question now arises : just what are the consciously functioning parts of the world capitalist economy ? |
| 10 | Chartered secretaries are the professionally trained administrators and managers , who occupy a variety of senior organisational positions . |
| 11 | This expression covers emotivism , of which C.L. Stevenson and A.J. Ayer are the best known exponents , and the prescriptivism of R.M. Hare . |
| 12 | Bishop Auckland are the best known team of all , of course , but they 're now in Another League and doing badly . |
| 13 | The Soil Association and the UK Register of Organic Food Standards ( UKROFS ) are the best known organisations covering organic produce int his country . |
| 14 | The only things that unite this class are the slowly conducting axons , the large receptive field sizes , and their poor sensitivity and resolution . |
| 15 | Transverse tubular invaginations from it form the so-called T-system , while close to these are the longitudinally arranged cisternae of a separate membrane system , the sarcoplasmic reticulum . |
| 16 | Among the 360 objects coming to Canada are the remarkably preserved gold , pottery and armour from the tomb of Philip of Macedon , usually displayed in the Archaeological Museum of Thessaloniki , the capital of the northern-most region of Greece , Macedonia , and the city scheduled to be the European Cultural Capital in 1997 . |
| 17 | These are the finely tuned footballers who beat Barnsley on Saturday ! |
| 18 | The two processes are , so to speak , symbiotically related ; they are the mutually reinforcing determinants of development . |
| 19 | Vacuum cleaners and electric blankets are the lowest identified users ( one per cent each ) . |
| 20 | On the one hand there are the superbly modelled animal studies in ceramic by Jeremy James . |
| 21 | For despite their numerical majority farm workers are the least considered section of the farming population . |
| 22 | but they were enormous , they were , they were very substantial , but , erm , well I , I think that the point here is that one can have a minimum requirement , but depending upon the facts and the circumstances and the nature of the market , so on and so forth , well they have , the commission said , you can have no restrictions at all cos we 're not going to give you exemption , so you 'd better make sure that they are the absolutely bear minimum that are necessary to ensure that every person capable of competing can get into the market . |
| 23 | Addressed here are the socially organized ways in which dirty water comes to be noticed and defined as a pollution , thereby creating a case about which an enforcement agent has to take some action . |
| 24 | Other ideas are the rapidly developing Llangollen Railway , Telford or Ironbridge , or a steam trip on the Cambrian , if , as rumoured , BR runs these again this year . |
| 25 | as are the recently appointed O.B.E. 's : namely Ann Gray ( 1953 ) Deputy Head Teacher of Wakefield Girls ' High School , Mrs Mary Lobel ( Librarian 1946–8 ) for her work on the Victoria County History and Esther Rantzen ( 1959 ) for her remarkable work for children . |
| 26 | ‘ I mean , do n't let the fact I 'm the longest serving flat-dweller put you off ; the last thing I want to do is embarrass you , Gav , ’ I said ( just a tad tetchily ) . |
| 27 | It is said to be the most photographed village in Norway . |
| 28 | ‘ You 're gon na be the best lookin' cowboy in the whole parade , ’ his bible-bashing granny tells him when he is a child . |
| 29 | After Marilyn , she 'd be the best dressed woman at the wedding , blonde , shapely , in the green dress Marilyn had got so superstitious about . |
| 30 | As it will be the best remembered part of your presentation , your parting shot needs to be powerful . |