Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [pers pn] [be] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the answer is , each one secretly thinks he 's the best . |
| 2 | Will the right hon. Gentleman , in his swan song at the Dispatch Box , admit that not only has he been the most expensive Minister of Agriculture , Fisheries and Food , supporting an increase in CAP spending of 55 per cent. , but that , by his failure to get meaningful reform of the CAP , he has been the most unsuccessful one , as well ? |
| 3 | I says , ‘ You 'd better believe it 's the wrong club . ’ |
| 4 | The established , and now publicized , fact that women 's sexual capacity increases with age , at least until the late twenties , and stays at this peak for decades , while men 's is already declining , came as a shock both to men , who suddenly discovered they were the unlucky sex , and to women who had not realized what they had been missing . |
| 5 | ‘ Ipswich and Leicester lead the promotion race but this does not necessarily mean they are the best teams . |
| 6 | If a cheque is wrongly processed it is the collecting bank and not the customer who will be liable . ’ |
| 7 | More importantly , the better informed you are the better your interview performance will be . |
| 8 | It 's not only woman who need to be better informed it 's the doctors as well ! |
| 9 | ‘ So how long have you been the plant 's senior technician ? ’ |
| 10 | How long have you been the new director ? |
| 11 | That 's right , just say it 's the thirty one one ninety four . |
| 12 | it 's easy , you just say I 'm the Government , give me your money , |
| 13 | His about-face once in office pleased economists , but robbed him of his mandate : the voters no longer believed he was the man they had elected . |
| 14 | We are no longer convinced it is the job of local planning authorities to ‘ balance ’ competing demands in relation to land use . |
| 15 | She reached out and turned the clock towards her , blinking at the small ornate face , attempting to focus on the figures , trying to work out if it was twenty past twelve or twenty past one , finally deciding it was the earlier hour . |
| 16 | Generally speaking they are the ones who do not wear suits — or look rather uncomfortable when they do . |
| 17 | Whether strictly order twenty eight , er order sixty , rule twenty eight for erm applies in this case is not amount entirely clear to me because the obligation to lodge a bill of taxation under rule twenty nine provides that he must begin proceedings for the taxation either within three months after the judgement direction or order of the terminations enter sides are otherwise perfected , and that is presently on it 's face which seemed to be debited May of nineteen ninety three and er accordingly that is right , it 's not in fact been any failure to comply with order tw order sixty two , rule twenty nine , one , and that has n't been disregarded , it 's not entirely clear to me that erm there is any matter come from paragraph sub paragraph A of rule twenty eight , four , it may already require , still nevertheless erm fall within paragraph B of rule fo , erm there has in fact been a delay in lodging the bill of costs for taxation , the delay being really and truly , the delay in having the order of Mr Justice perfected and it seems to me that although in chasing matters generally speaking it is the court will itself draw the order , nevertheless where er it seems to be clearly in this case would contemplate it that counsel would sign a minute erm that counsel do sign a minute and that minute has been signed having forwarded by the defendants solicitors to the defendants solicitors seems to me it must be the case that erm the obligation to , as it were , forward that minute to the court , it is an obligation which would lie upon the plaintiffs solicitors and it maybe said that erm there has been delay and erm on the best it should be lodged with the court sealed , er shortly after it was received and that therefore on that footing there has been delay lodging the bill of costs for concession , er Mr , doctor does n't seemed to be take any point in relation to that er because it 's not in his interest to do so , it seems to be that he does have to say if it has been delayed , with an order of twenty eight rule four that 's a rule , rule , rule twenty eight er four if he is to have interest disbarred and er Mr er he 'll apparently have the matter of read before the taxing master , it seems that the taxing master did not chew any sympathy with that er suggestion , that er there was in fact no breach of the requirement rule twenty , four , Mr he said , very probably , that erm , look on text upon it , he really is concerned to erm have this case dealt with as you put it on the merits , it seems to me it 's in the interest of all parties that erm I should deal with the case on merits have on the assumption erm that er , that that was lodged properly I think , I ca I , a matter of which found within rule twenty eight , four and that the taxing officer give our interest under that rule . |
| 18 | With the dreams of 1945 's Labour victory long gone , and the pretensions of the Conservatives painfully exposed it was the hour for the group of young meritocrats who had done well out of the peace , the Angry Young Men . |
| 19 | She seemed very nice and I thought she could act and we had a nice rapport , but I said to Sam , ‘ I just feel she 's the wrong type for a guy who 's a teacher in college . |
| 20 | With a career as an actress already established it was the success of Lynda La Plante 's 12 part series for Euston Films , WIDOWS , ( 1982 ) , which enabled her to concentrate full time on writing . |
| 21 | No I think he generally thought they were the same thing , I think I would of done if I was n't an educationalist , but I mean it 's his business to know really is n't it ? |
| 22 | Goodman incorrectly thought he was the man to go off but Sunderland fans were soon relieved when he stayed on the pitch . |
| 23 | I think they just thought I 'm the type of person who 'd go too far and you know do a joke like that , but I 'm not . |
| 24 | What finally undermined him was the arrest , in April 1849 , of a group of St Petersburg intellectuals associated with Mikhail Petrashevskii . |
| 25 | I walked alongside the men at the head of the column and soon learned they were the Black Watch , a well-known Scottish regiment . |
| 26 | Just Do It is the first long climb to reach the ranks of the modern desperate . |
| 27 | I have never said that Just Do It was the hardest route in the world — it 's one of the most difficult , and certainly the hardest of its type — that 's all . |
| 28 | Well no it 's not that I just think it 's the I do n't know you can see through it more . |
| 29 | Just said he was the brother of one of the French officers killed in the brawl in the Leopoldstadt . ’ |
| 30 | But what most angered me was the last-minute timing of the intervention . |