Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] be [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He sharply reminded his party that ‘ The Empire of today is not the Empire of the first Jubilee of Queen Victoria ’ ; he had some effective fun at Churchill 's expense ; he strongly defended the ‘ Delhi Pact ’ between Irwin and Gandhi ; and he ended on a note of clear challenge : |
| 2 | The living ‘ opera ’ of today is arguably the musical . |
| 3 | There have been many peace rallies many times before in Northern Ireland , the significance of today 's not the numbers , a thousand or so , but who they were . |
| 4 | Says Dr Graham-Brown : ‘ The brown belles of today are probably the wrinkled prunes of tomorrow . ’ |
| 5 | There , the producers of today are frequently the consumers of yesterday . |
| 6 | I thought erm , oh well cos like , I explained yesterday there was no way we could have them because of there was only the pair . |
| 7 | ‘ They were even asking the manager if he was going to continue paying their bonus for still being down the pit , ’ he said . |
| 8 | And the outlook for tomorrow 's much the same : cloud in the east , sunny spells in the west . |
| 9 | For here was certainly the closest cover on all that path from the ferry down into the Foregate . |
| 10 | For the sort of interaction that we are referring to here is not the planned smashing of things . |
| 11 | it was the secretary on There was only the one secretary in the office when I went in but there are two desks , one on the left and one on the right , and it 's the one at the one on the right . |
| 12 | He had not sought another interview with her , and , as the ladies naturally did not attend at the graveside , the first she had seen of him since then was when the party returned from the funeral . |
| 13 | The ‘ Parliament ’ referred to there is obviously the Westminster Parliament and by implication the ‘ country ’ must be the whole territory legislated for by that Parliament , that is , the UK as a whole including Northern Ireland . |
| 14 | What I think we might with advantage look at now is not the grounds for saying ‘ I 'm happy ’ , but the occasion for saying it . |