Example sentences of "[adj] be the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Europe the three current structures that are probably most used are the Dutch company with a Swiss branch , the Belgian co-ordination centre and — a relative newcomer — the Irish Dublin Docks company . |
| 2 | Enclosed are the following forms which should be completed as follows : 305U Original To be signed by Mr. O'Brien and witnessed by yourselves , Mr. & Mrs. O'Brien to acknowledge receipt of copies at foot of page . |
| 3 | Mr Lawrence chaired the steering group set up to look at life profit reporting and there is no doubt that he and the Prudential are the driving force behind the new proposals . |
| 4 | Perhaps even more revealing are the astonishing carvings which adorn many of the small Romanesque churches of the Saintonge , for whereas the facades of important churches , under the patronage of princes like the Duke of Aquitaine or the Count of Angoulême , may well be the work of internationally famous masters , these village churches make plain the strength of a purely local tradition of superb craftsmanship . |
| 5 | You can use these to move around the spreadsheet and even to select functions using its Function Assistant but even more exciting are the new features that are introduced by icons . |
| 6 | How reliable are the present tests ? |
| 7 | ‘ The British are the only women who know how to wear tweeds , ’ he said , looking me up and down . |
| 8 | Also popular are the solid pine Farmhouse tables in standard designs , or in special sizes to order . |
| 9 | Amongst the most popular are The Three Lakes a circular tour of three of Europe 's most beautiful lakes . |
| 10 | More acceptable are the kentucky mops which have flat , longer stringed heads , clipped rather than screw fixed to a wire frame . |
| 11 | Much more interesting are the larger complexes which occupy the vacant land immediately behind the main frontages . |
| 12 | The French are the undisputed kings of the soft cheese market , but they must fight to keep the unpasteurised , fuller flavour Bries and Camemberts in full and regular production if they are to avoid losing the truly classic cheeses of their country . |
| 13 | It may also be pointed out that Ernst ( 1986 ) has shown that the Nutku-Halil solution can also be obtained using a double-Harrison ( Bäcklund ) transformation , with the seed metric being the isotropic Kasner metric . |
| 14 | So popular were the proscribed celebrations that it proved quite impossible to eradicate them completely . |
| 15 | Second , to obtain recognition , as French Foreign Minister Schuman put it in tripartite talks with the Americans and the British in September , 1949 , that the French were the hard core of resistance to communist attempts to take over , initially , Indo-China and ultimately all of Southeast Asia and that as France was fighting the battle of all the democratic powers she would need help . |
| 16 | Perhaps the unemployed were the only people who did any work these days . |
| 17 | However , even more interesting were the large number of cells which seemed active only when the rat visited a particular place in the maze and/or carried out particular behavioural acts ( food searching , drinking or whatever ) in that place . |
| 18 | ‘ Serbian is the only language with which one can communicate with intelligent beings on other planets , ’ he assured parliament . |
| 19 | Sumptuous is the only word to describe our designer-selected lounge suite . |
| 20 | Perhaps the most conspicuous is the large waggon door . |
| 21 | We suggest that the more a person is in love and the less they are able to define what it is in the other that they love , the less free is the conscious choice and the more it relates to the ‘ me in you ’ and the search for psychological wholeness through another . |
| 22 | If your back gives you trouble , you may already have decided that finding a cure is as elusive as the Holy Grail , and that learning how to prevent back pain , and cope with it when it is unavoidable is the best way of living with it . |
| 23 | While Black Dwarf could trace its roots back , through Trotsky to Marx , or through radicalism to the Chartists , Gandalf 's Garden took as its theoretical base — if theoretical is the right word J. R. R. Tolkien 's Lord of the Rings , and tended to see the unfortunate Peel as its prophet . |
| 24 | One of the most exciting is the happy demise of eleven character file names — the old 8 and 3 construction of filename and extension can be done away with by opting for a 32 bit High Performance Filing System ( HPFS ) which allows long file names — things like ‘ letter to bank manager about my loan ’ which have much more meaning than ‘ Letloan.doc ’ , for instance . |
| 25 | In one way , however , it is misleading to evaluate the significance of their work on these subjects by how right or how wrong is the evolutionary sequence they describe . |
| 26 | ‘ Broken is the Golden Bowl , the spirit flown for ever , let the bell toll , a saintly soul floats on the Stygian river . |
| 27 | How old 's the wee bairn ? |
| 28 | Not all , exactly : getting old is the last display for the bread-and-circuses culture . |
| 29 | But one feature of a catalogue of an exhibition for a living artist which is different is the likely inclusion of reminiscences from colleagues and members of the artist 's family , who may make enlightening comments . |
| 30 | ‘ In terms of my 30 years in stockbroking I think the past three years have been the most interesting , if interesting is the right word . |