Example sentences of "[be] a [adj] [conj] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Taplow was supposed to be a Lutheran but the prisoner said he believed in Purgatory . |
| 2 | The letter may well be a fake but the worrying fact is that it proves there is a dirty tricks campaign designed to blacken the name of the Princess . |
| 3 | It 's a secret that the man who led a double life has taken with his to the grave . |
| 4 | For individual A , her own income is a good but the other person 's income is a bad , reflecting the presence of malice towards B. ( Envy is increasing marginal disutility of the other person 's income . ) |
| 5 | There are one or two clerks , er that have male , purely because it 's , it 's their job anyway , and er the chief clerk headquarters is a male but the majority of them now are women yep , and they do well er , headquarters staff do it very well I think , that side of it . |
| 6 | Whether we think the high price P M charged by a monopolist is a rip-off or the just reflection of what consumers are prepared to pay is a pure value judgement about equity . |
| 7 | A solution of the Ernst equation ( 11.17 ) is then given by ( 12.56 ) where α is a constant and the functions and are obtained by integrating the equations ( 12.57 ) The boundary conditions then have to be applied . |
| 8 | Chris explained : ‘ James here is our scorer and Mr Marshall signalled four wides when there was a wide and the ball went to the boundary , but the other side 's scorer says you ca n't have four wides at once , only one , and the other three must count as byes . |
| 9 | It was n't a bad meal , but it was a rip-off and the service was appalling . |
| 10 | But he was a Moslem and the crowd would be Copt . |