Example sentences of "[noun sg] [det] be [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I expect some people watching might think that wo wo football is a boy 's game , rather than a girl 's game , but of course that is n't the tradition is it ? |
| 2 | Of course that is not the case : we have not even reached the Committee stage , so the guillotine motion can not have been introduced on those grounds . |
| 3 | ( The ‘ Golden Disc ’ of The Beatles ' 'Sergeant Pepper' was auctioned in 1982 for £14,300 , but of course that was n't the only copy of the recording in existence ) . |
| 4 | I 've found that when the water is heavily coloured after a rain storm this is often the case and fish will be caught in bursts as they pass up and down the swim . |
| 5 | In large fleets where there is so much dirty wind on the layline this is often the best tactic . |
| 6 | I think if that were the case , you would have far fewer problems , but er , of course this is n't the position . |
| 7 | The input hypothesis This is probably the core of the whole theory . |
| 8 | By some kind of irony this was exactly the reverse of the trouble with masonry cathedrals which fell down because they turned out to be in tension when the builders held that they were in compression . |
| 9 | However , in the long term this is not the case , because of the extent of the power that can be gained by patrons . |
| 10 | Alternatively , he might prefer to hold the other party to the contract but would like some compensation for the breach and if the breach concerns a minor term this is usually the better solution . |
| 11 | In practice this is never the case . |
| 12 | If this were the case one would also expect to find increased basal secretion in smokers — in our study this was not the case . |
| 13 | As a rule this is not the case and grave confusions can result . |
| 14 | However , since we are keyed up for decisive physical action this is still the best way of working it off . |
| 15 | In essence this is still the procedure used today . |
| 16 | In the control condition this was not the case . |
| 17 | At the time of the Council this was surely the characteristically conciliar expression which mattered most to the majority of people throughout the Church . |
| 18 | In some of the larger and older predator fish concentrations of methyl mercury can be very high need , and of course these are precisely the fish that are most sort after by the fishermen and by their customers . |
| 19 | that there is that fear , that is because that is the second World War this is why the erm the er late thirties , early forties was never gon na succeed , because they had two completely different archaeologist , plus now in their purest form their not that but in the they were , they were never going to work , I mean that is the fact that their communists , the sole reason they 've been against each other for a hundred and fifty years there is no other reason |
| 20 | has n't any proper name like this cos these are private houses and estate are council houses but the built at top of was called the Old Plantation and the Old Plantation that 's when the first houses were built then of course when you er find the company first started which er Old Plantation is right opposite erm and when you came along past you then branched off to that 's all fields and you came down as far as and then you branched off to . |
| 21 | I must have been mad on the strength of one fish , going all out boilies but it was a double and I just had a feeling this was how the better fish might fall . |
| 22 | I 've not , Alastair accused me of being topical because of a member of the royal family this week this is not the reason but I 've gone for Leotard in the one twenty five at Cheltenham . |
| 23 | The author has asked us to point out that it is a desire of his to see opinions of restorations expressed by speakers at conferences thrown open to the floor for immediate debate this is not the prevailing state of affairs . |
| 24 | Even back at the estuary all is not the sweetness and light that events like this week 's launch suggests . |
| 25 | In 20 years as headmaster this is only the second time something like this has happened and the previous incident was even smaller . ’ |
| 26 | Although we might expect bedrock mineralogy to exert a pervasive control over the products of chemical weathering this is not the case , at least at the broad scale , both because the rocks and minerals exposed at the Earth 's surface are dominated by just two or three types ( Table 6.5 ) , and because prolonged weathering tends to lead to a convergence of secondary mineral types irrespective of parent material mineralogy . |
| 27 | So in real life this is not the end of the world for the Labour Party . |
| 28 | The departures from a spherically symmetrical gravitational field are so big that J 2 is large enough to have been measured very accurately , and for the same reason this is also the case for the next gravitational coefficient in the series , J 4 ( jay-four ) . |
| 29 | Of course , in reality this is not the case . |
| 30 | But in reality this is precisely the approach that is most likely to set Europe aflame and leave it a burning ruin . |