Example sentences of "[det] [be] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Over and above that are the various assurance schemes designed to offer as near as possible a guarantee of quality , safety , wholesomeness and implied animal welfare in the whole process in much the same way as the lion 's stamp once guaranteed eggs in the pre-Edwina Currie days . |
| 2 | There you go , only flaw is that s the only bit of the tune I can get into my head right now … that does nt matter though — any tune is extravagant these days ! ! |
| 3 | Still it was appreciated and that s the main thing . |
| 4 | Had that been the giant eel ? |
| 5 | Among the reasons for this are the continued creation of neologisms , the introduction of foreign words and the vast array of proper nouns that exist . |
| 6 | Examples of this are the phonetic information and the etymological descriptions of words . |
| 7 | One might alternatively suggest that a single standard driving schema exists and deviations from this are the appropriate measure rather than deviations from junction specific expectations . |
| 8 | There are times when understated architectural solutions like this are the right ones . |
| 9 | Examples of this are the brief discussion of Free Indirect Speech , and the extensive investigation of turn-taking in popfiction in a vein similar to that of Conversation Analysis . |
| 10 | Exceptions to this are the Linguistic String Project ( Sager , 1981 ) which had a lexical coverage of about 10,000 words ( although many of these are specialist medical terms ) ; the CLAWS system ( Leech et al , 1983 ) ( Atwell , 1983 ) ( Atwell et al 1984 ) used to tag the LOB corpus had a lexicon of approximately 7,200 words plus a 670 SUFFIXLIST which added word-tags to most other words ; IBM 's CRITIQUE ( formerly EPISTLE ) system ( Heidorn et al , 1982 ) with a lexicon of approximately 100,000 words and the Alvey Natural Language Tools ( ANLT ) ( Carroll & Grover , 1989 ) , an early version of which contained a lexicon of nearly 7,000 morphemes ( probably about 20,000 words ) . |
| 11 | The only people who really benefit from this are the larger companies that enjoy the benefits of both an informal workforce and government grants , loans and subsidies . |
| 12 | Added to this are the high repetition and drop-out rates . |
| 13 | In English , the most obvious examples of this are the cliched openings of jokes like ‘ Have you heard the one about the … ? ’ or personal anecdotes : ‘ Listen ! |
| 14 | Witness to this are the large numbers worldwide who came to Glasgow to work with him and who are now distinguished practitioners in their own right . |
| 15 | Had this been the only evidence of any religious aspect of Chedworth , one could have considered the nymphaeum merely as an unusual feature . |
| 16 | Had this been the only ground of complaint , their Lordships might have reached a different conclusion on the appeal . |
| 17 | Some are the familiar ones that we have all seen many times , but most will be new to the majority of readers . |
| 18 | A tiny alarm bell rang at the back of my head : could this be the classic distraction trick that comes just before a robbery ? |
| 19 | Why should the working-class housewife say she ‘ likes ’ or ‘ does n't mind ’ housework — why should this be the typical response ? |
| 20 | ‘ Will this be the first time you 've worked in theatre ? ’ |
| 21 | Would this be the worst case scenario or the best case scenario ? |
| 22 | Can this be the same company whose scientist 's opinion was only 2 years ago that ‘ … native structure is required for an HIV-1 envelope glycoprotein to be a successful vaccine antigen ’ ? |
| 23 | So will this be the last re-organisation ? |
| 24 | ‘ Well , let this be the last time . |
| 25 | Could this be the secret passageway to the Litani , groined by the forces of Christendom to escape from their ancient predicament ? |
| 26 | The seaman — Gustave continued as if this were the best story he had heard for many years — apparently claimed that he had no notion of how the section of mast had reached the position in which it was found . |
| 27 | The three best known examples of this were the sacred bulls : Apis , herald of Ptah at Memphis ; Mnevis , herald of Re at Heliopolis ; and Buchis , herald of Monthu at Armant . |
| 28 | After a while the whistle is repeated — by the same blackbird or by its mate — but always as if this were the first time it had occurred to him to whistle ; if this is a dialogue , each remark is uttered after long reflection . |
| 29 | She had clearly been a very good-looking woman when younger , and even now was handsome ; paradoxically , the artifices she employed to emphasise this were the very features to strike a false note . |
| 30 | Here the Inverness-Wick rail way , which mainly follows the east coast , makes a great loop inland to Lairg Station , this being the nearest point of the line to the coastal villages of the west and north , and here the incoming mail for the whole area is deposited for distribution and the outgoing mail collected for transport on the trains . |