Example sentences of "[be] [adj] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | This view is summarized in a memorandum sent to embassies abroad by the Foreign Office early in 1945 , arguing for a necessary linkage of diplomatic commitments to economic strength , but going on to state that Britain 's looming economic problems were likely to be temporary : ‘ It must , however , be stressed that , given skill and good fortune , our financial difficulties will be acute only during the immediate post-war years . |
| 2 | This finding suggests , that high infant mortality of first order births in populations characterized by early marriage may be attributable mostly to the very young age of mothers at first birth . |
| 3 | Very few features appear to be attributable solely to the action of wind-driven sand and Cotton ( 1942 ) mentions only yardangs as likely to be caused solely by wind action . |
| 4 | It seems to be that only during the period of very rapid growth . |
| 5 | For others , recovery may be possible simply through the appropriate Anonymous Fellowship , with or without some specialist counselling and therapeutic group sessions , or through a 12 Step treatment centre . |
| 6 | Acceptance of these presuppositions would seem to be possible only on the basis of faith , and this point is made by Gandhi when he says |
| 7 | Hostile bids would be possible only at the five-yearly meetings . |
| 8 | Even a decentralised arrangement , it says , would fail to provide the kind of accountable local government that would be possible only by the provision of smaller unitary authorities . |
| 9 | Comfort foods are those which soothe us and make us glad to be alive even on the most miserable of days . |
| 10 | If that were so , one accused might be guilty on the basis of concert but the other could be guilty also on the basis only of his own actings . |
| 11 | Where marine action is relatively stronger deltas tend to be cuspate with concave outlines in plan , for example the Tiber , though one wonders whether these differences in plan might not be due primarily to the frequency and location of distributaries : the Tiber has only one . |
| 12 | This variation seemed to be due both to the severity of the impairment and to personality factors ; it would therefore be simplistic and unwise to make generalisations based entirely on impairment . |
| 13 | Any increase in the ratio of shares and physical assets in people 's portfolios will be due simply to the new lower interest rates on bonds . |
| 14 | Group formation may be due here to the collaboration of males in defence against rivals , so that male relationships become the main factor influencing the dispersion of females . |
| 15 | Its apparent unpredictability might be due just to the operation of undisclosed effects-hidden variables they were called . |
| 16 | This could be due either to the failure of these methods to elevate Ca 2+ in the appropriate manner ( presumably what is needed is a large transient within spines ) or to the need for additional pre- and/or postsynaptic signals . |
| 17 | This may be due either to the covalently but reversibly crosslinked intermediate formed prior to methyltransfer ( Figure 1 , structure 2 ) or to an unspecific side-reaction ( e.g. presence in the synthetic oligonucleotides of trace quantities of reactive molecular species of unknown structure and capable of unspecific crosslinking can not strictly be ruled out ) . |
| 18 | This may be due partly to the need consciously to establish common cultural references in a pluralistic society , whereas the historically narrow class base of British higher education meant that a lot of the cultural references could be taken for granted ; the Robbins ( 1963 , p. 7 ) reference to the ‘ transmission of a common culture and common standards of citizenship ’ was perhaps a sign that this cultural assumption was finally breaking down under the pressure of expansion and democratization . |
| 19 | This may be due partly to the fact that , compared to the University of Wales , the Polytechnic is a relatively new arrival on the higher education scene , and partly because of the Welsh tendency , even more marked than in the rest of the country , to regard technological education as less prestigious than that in pure science and humanities . |
| 20 | They will be very serviceable , and needs must bring their tools with them insofar as these be scant indeed on the island . |
| 21 | This does n't mean that you have to spend a fortune on tools , but beware of cheap spanners and screwdrivers which may not be strong enough for the job or of cheap hammers which may lose their heads . |
| 22 | Hence , speculating against ERM parities can be profitable even in the absence of fundamental competitiveness problems , a fact illustrated most recently by Spain . |
| 23 | For many of the poor , the novelty of electricity was a symbol of access to a new postwar affluence , though consumption by such consumers typically remained small , and the Boards reckoned that many of these connections would be economic only in the longer run . |
| 24 | They are not considered to be non-viable either on the grounds of their isolation and remoteness from the communities they serve , or on the grounds that they are physically falling into a state of dilapidation . |
| 25 | Second , there is the possibility ( which , according to the Marxist model of capitalist liberal democracies , will become a certainty ) that the bureaucracy will be responsive primarily to the interests of a particular class in society . |
| 26 | Government actions may be responsive mainly to the interests of the capitalist class or the interests of a political class dependent on popular or sectional support to maintain its position of power . |
| 27 | Tunnels and bridges must be high enough for the train to go under . |
| 28 | The top shelf needs to be high enough for the monitor to be seen from the back of the room over rows of heads . |
| 29 | This is why thresholds are needed : when cat is presented , numerous logogens will be excited , but in every case the excitation will not be high enough for the threshold level to be reached — except for the logogen for cat , which will receive so much evidence that its threshold will be reached . |
| 30 | ‘ I can be free only to the extent that others are forbidden to profit from their physical , economic , or other superiority to the detriment of my liberty . ’ |