Example sentences of "be [verb] [adv] [subord] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Between this line and the basin margin the formation comprises mainly platform carbonates , whereas basinwards it consists entirely of slope and basin plain deposits and submarine fans are developed only where the Z2 Carbonate reaches exceptional thickness . |
| 2 | Erm it has been altered somewhat since the original er railway days , but nevertheless it retains quite a bit of the old character erm and er the high pitched roofs erm and the . |
| 3 | Over one million pounds has been given away since the series began and audience figures last year topped 14 million . |
| 4 | Over one million pounds has been given away since the series began and audience figures last year topped 14 million . |
| 5 | Weaker areas are exposed dramatically when the market turns down as it did during 1992 . |
| 6 | Black holes would have been formed only if the early universe had not been perfectly smooth and uniform , because only a small region that was denser than average could be compressed in this way to form a black hole . |
| 7 | The mothers had been interviewed periodically since the children were two or three months old about such characteristics as the child 's activity level , adaptability , distractability , persistence and quality of mood . |
| 8 | This last item had caused them some concern when the bag had been unzipped just after the plane landed , but Grandson Richard had thrust the book among the papers without glancing inside . |
| 9 | THE RE-OPENING of the line to Welshpool in 1981 was an achievement which had been awaited ever since the line was taken over in 1960 . |
| 10 | Figures with several parts are to be avoided and are permitted only if the parts are closely related , either experimentally or logically . |
| 11 | These categories are grouped together because the selling approach to each is similar and the behavioural patterns exhibited by each conforms to organisational buyer behaviour ( discussed in Chapter 2 ) . |
| 12 | He should not be named , but he begged me to tell the outside world of the appalling situation where the wounded are dying unnecessarily because the UN are refusing to transport the wounded out of the city . ’ |
| 13 | In earlier times the former had been underachieving educationally whereas the latter are now near the peak of their attainment level . |
| 14 | Those who break their word are considered lower than the dust . |
| 15 | That could have been done anyway if the disposition were in a will , but it may well be that it is in a codicil or other document to which the nuncupatio did not apply . |
| 16 | The stable block had been built later than the house , in the mid-eighteenth century . |
| 17 | Because agents are seen merely as the supports of this structure , their intentional properties do not enter into social explanation ; and because its various components are interdetermined , the economic sphere does not have the straightforward primacy that economism requires . |
| 18 | Denning J. hints that Foakes v. Beer ( 1884 ) might have been decided differently if the fusion of law and equity by the Judicature Acts 1873–1875 had been considered . |
| 19 | To the extent that a given CR , separately acquired to each of two CSs , is likely to be evoked with particular vigour when the two CSs are presented together so the conditioned response of inattention will be especially strong when A and B have separately undergone latent inhibition training . |
| 20 | In R. v. Monopolies and Mergers Commission , ex parte Argyll Group plc Lord Donaldson MR said that courts must show ‘ a proper awareness of the needs of public administration ’ : a court should be wary of striking down a decision if it is clear that the same decision would have been made even if the decision-maker had not acted unlawfully ; or if doing so would unduly delay the conduct of government business ; or if members of the public are likely already to have relied on the challenged decision ; or if the court thinks that the applicant 's motivation in making the application was improper or vexatious or frivolous . |
| 21 | In many cases , these are the earliest references to trading at the places concerned ; and in some , the record has been made precisely because the king is granting the right to run a market . |
| 22 | We have been warning ever since the company was formed of the accident at the heart of the company waiting to happen : now IBM 's signalling of the death of the mainframe coincides with the German economy heading into the same kind of structural — rather than cyclical — recession that is busy laying waste to IBM itself . |
| 23 | Substantial changes to the original draft of the bill , notably the extension of all its provisions to cover Pomaks , had been secured partly as the result of agitation by several thousand Turks and Pomaks who demonstrated outside the National Assembly during the March 5 session . |
| 24 | Frequently they are relevant and will be followed on appeal — but during the six months to a year it takes for an appeal to come to a hearing the minister could have changed , while the current appeals will have been lodged long before the words have been spoken . |
| 25 | All the same , Glyn 's advice was hard to dismiss , and as Jenna got ready for bed in the silent house she reached the conclusion she had been pushing aside since the shock of the letter had settled . |
| 26 | However , this procedure was not explicit to the readership , and only by adding an acknowledgement to the article could we make clear that the article had not been accepted just because the editor was an author . |
| 27 | Of course , the ( conditional ) expected price on sales differs from the ( unconditional ) mean price because sales are made only when the price is sufficiently high . |
| 28 | The intuition is straightforward : optimal output is a decreasing function of time since the expected price on sales is a decreasing function of time ; optimal output is an increasing function of σ since the more variation there is in output price the higher is the expected price on sales ( recall that sales are made only when the price is sufficiently high ) ; optimal output is a decreasing function of the ( per unit ) storage cost since the more expensive it is to store the less attractive is storing . |
| 29 | Increases are made only when the patient manages to complete each meal . |
| 30 | Erm now okay I accept that erm what you 're getting now or starting to get through in some areas is a higher degree of expectation , but if we 're not achieving that then I think it 's something to do with what we 're , the way in which we 're , we 're operating rather than the fact that it is n't achievable . |