Example sentences of "[noun prp] [be] [adv] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | TEENS THUNDERBIRDS are definitely the go . |
| 2 | The stations of South America and the Caribbean are mainly the products of the great building-boom era between 1890 and the 1920s . |
| 3 | Needless to say , though , drawings which bear a good provenance are usually of good quality : the drawings collected by such a fine connoisseur as the seventeenth-century English painter Peter Lely are now the pride of the world 's greatest museums . |
| 4 | The Feeleys are just the sort of family William Beveridge was trying to proivide for when , exactly fifty years ago , he presented the Governemnt with a report that laid the foundations of the welfare state . |
| 5 | Unlike their children , Nicolae and Elena Ceauşescu were not the subject of much trivial gossip . |
| 6 | He reminded himself again that he was dealing with premeditated murder and the Glynns were not the sort to resort deliberately to force except in dire circumstances . |
| 7 | Rank and ABPC were still the powers in the land but , when it came |
| 8 | Did n't you say that those youths who got their friend drunk the other Saturday were not the kind of visitors you liked here ? ’ |
| 9 | There are tales from James Reeves , Margaret Mahy , Mary Calvert ( The Biggest Cream Bun In The World , baked by Big Fat Rosie , the farmer 's wife , with important sound effects ) among others , cheek by jowl with Kipling 's How The Rhinoceros Got His Skin and a story by the Brothers Grimm warning children not to trust anyone . |
| 10 | Brunei is also the world 's wealthiest country , with a GNP per inhabitant of $21,000 , half as much again as that of the United States . ) |
| 11 | His old house on College Hill is now the Clive Museum.Behind the beautiful Georgian brick exterior lie remains of 15th- and 16th-century buildings . |
| 12 | And Grob 's just the man for the job |
| 13 | Or , if it 's a terrifically hot day and you do n't feel like burning out a gasket on the tops , Malham is just the place for an easy stroll , going " just steady on " , as they say in the Dales . |
| 14 | Promoter Dan Duva , Lou 's son , said : ‘ It has to be in Las Vegas , not here , because Vegas is where the money is — and if you win you can come back and defend it in front of your own fans . ’ |
| 15 | Fortunately the Count of Nordland is also the Prince of Salzenmund , where he has an imposing and comfortable fortress . |
| 16 | Another potential problem for Marlow is how the public reacts to the idea of Quorn . |
| 17 | From West End Girls to the camp reworking of U2 's Where the streets have no name , this band has had the smash hits Neil Tennant used to write about when he was an anonymous music journalist . |
| 18 | Hungary is less the exception to this rule than is often made out . |
| 19 | Down there , of course , Kylie is just the Superstar Next Door . |
| 20 | Okay , but Ingleston 's not the answer . |
| 21 | In 1631 it was granted afresh to his widow , Prudence , by King Charles I with the stipulation that a free market was to be held in the district weekly ‘ on the Sabbath day ’ ( ie on Saturdays ) — and Saturday is still the market day . |
| 22 | Mexico is now the star economy in Latin America . |
| 23 | Since it is to the west , and the world turns to the east , Tafahi is thus the place which greets the world 's new day first ; it is the island where the day begins . |
| 24 | Nikolai Demidenko is certainly the name on everyone 's lips these days — his extensive marketing and publicity has paid dividends — so it is refreshing to see him tackling repertoire which deserves to be recorded properly . |
| 25 | Also Bach 's Magnificat is clearly the work of a genius at white-heat , whilst Kuhnau 's score(s) , if lacking nothing in sheer inspiration , exhibit nothing like the extraordinary level of Bach 's individuality and imagination . |
| 26 | There sprang into existence a new kind of book of which Cyril Burt 's How the Mind Works is a good example , despite the cloud under which some of his own work has recently fallen . |
| 27 | Really , thought Liz , really : Deirdre was exactly the kind of neurotic that she did her best , professionally , to avoid — narcissistic , exhibitionistic , selfish , manipulative , childish , unreliable , unpunctual , self-satisfied even in the depths of self-reproach , and yet there she somehow managed to stand , in the middle of Liz 's own kitchen , brandishing a pie knife . |
| 28 | The last time I travelled from Wick to Dingwall was when the railway only reached as far north as Golspie ; the other portion of the road was an overnight stage-coach journey ; and to accommodate some ladies I took a seat on the top : it was a clear cold night , and the air was keen indeed . |
| 29 | Edward Adeane was not the man for the job . |
| 30 | El Alamein was really the beginning of the end of the desert campaign . |