Example sentences of "[be] [adv] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pension arrangements will be wholly in the private sector . |
| 2 | They are likely to be somewhere on the following continuum |
| 3 | We aimed to be somewhere between the Daily Mirror and the Daily Mail . |
| 4 | Redpath was puzzled for the body seemed to him to be rather on the slight side . |
| 5 | The covenant must benefit the land and not be merely for the personal benefit of the person claiming the benefit of the covenant . |
| 6 | ‘ I could score on Wednesday and become a national hero , but a week after I could get into a little incident and it would be all over the back pages again and I 'm a villain . |
| 7 | Thus for example , the proportion of total social service department expenditure upon elderly people increased from 38.1 to 45 per cent between 1973 to 1979 but the percentage of expenditure on community services remained the same and continued to be so into the mid 1980s ( Parker , 1990 ) . |
| 8 | It is , then , unsafe to generalise as Lyons does that : ‘ until modern methods of sound recording were developed ( a ) the inscription of language utterances on durable materials provided a more reliable means of transmission than memory and oral reproduction ’ and ( b ) that this was ‘ recognised to be so in the western tradition in which literacy developed in the first instance for this purpose ’ ( 1982 ) . |
| 9 | This may be so in the individual case but the effect is outweighed by the cumulative effect on company results when the whole is considered . |
| 10 | The problem arises : why is religion so widespread in the evolution of humanity , and still continues to be so in the modern world ? |
| 11 | I mean that 's the som that 's er an issue that er has been dealt with I think it 's policy resources can continue to be so in the coming years . |
| 12 | They got on the bus puffing and blowing but happy to be inside in the warm , and sat in their own special places . |
| 13 | Indeed , to many thinkers such explanations seem to be obviously of the right kind ( cf. |
| 14 | This initial thickness allows the final 30 µm section to be entirely in the undamaged layer . |
| 15 | It would not be long before the English were at Dunbar , now that Southern Scotland lay wide open to their advance . |
| 16 | You will find that two to four teaspoonfuls of oil will be enough for the average back . |
| 17 | That may not , however , be enough for the offended partner . |
| 18 | According to calculations carried out on her data , Cohen estimated the duration of the icon to be longer in the left ( 57 msec. ) than the right ( 34 msec. ) visual field . |
| 19 | He might be downstairs in the plush lounge , or in his own room talking to Lee . |
| 20 | Consequently , they argue , the effects of changes in the money supply will be largely on the general price level ( P ) rather than on real output ( Y ) . |
| 21 | NCD 's base is believed to be largely in the technical arena . |
| 22 | Paris fashions may be just for the rich , but the rest of us can enjoy beauty products from the designers . |
| 23 | It will be for him to decide , in the light of all the evidence , whether in respect of the relief claimed Hambros Jersey has a sufficient connection with England for it to be just for the English court to grant such relief . |
| 24 | Unless they are pre-mensile eyes you know , they sort of they come out , sort of go down together and be just above the actual eyelid . |
| 25 | Go out into town and be just like the other men , I 'm tired of monkeying around . |
| 26 | But with the VR system , images are so realistic explicit sex and graphic violence will be just like the real thing , scientists say . |
| 27 | That would be just like the old days . |
| 28 | They do n't know how useful it would be but anyway , they said there , there 's , it 's a slightly odd event because it 's actually going to be just in the Civic Centre , and er , and kind of tacking on some workshops and things , so I 'm going to help her with workshops and have a display stand and so on but other than that , we 've not really got any direct input into it , because it is very much , sort of , you know , this is how you do business in France , these are the financial problems , type of thing . |
| 29 | It had previously been decided that the first landing should be away on the metalled runway of Duxford or Cambridge . |
| 30 | The rich tend to want to be away from the poor , but the poor want to be in the same jurisdiction as the rich . |