Example sentences of "be [adj] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the computer graphics of Tron ( 1982 ) we are right down on the board with the players of video games , even if we do n't quite share their viewpoint ; the motorcycle shots , much quoted , show how exhilarating rapid movement along wholly imaginary perspectives can be . |
| 2 | Interestingly , two of the cases were diagnosed within four days of surgery , and both patients had been mobile up to the day of surgery . |
| 3 | This is much easier to follow than text which is long-winded and frequently ambiguous or file designs or programming flowcharts which are understandable only to the computer professional . |
| 4 | He was apparently speaking for George Bush , who had been upset both by the tales of torture in an Amnesty report and by the inadequacy of the Kuwaiti government changes . |
| 5 | It must have been eleven o'clock by the time we sat down to eat . |
| 6 | These differences are due partly to the different periods covered by the various studies , to the different areas covered and to the importance attached to the indirect effects on employment in the non-manufacturing sector that new jobs in the manufacturing sector have . |
| 7 | Manoeuvre-induced errors are due primarily to the following : a ) Short term fluctuations of local pressure at the static vents during any changes of aircraft attitude ( the pressure fluctuations are due largely to variations in the airflow over the static vents , as the angle of attack varies ) . |
| 8 | Some of the attractions are due simply to the landforms and some due to the features made by people . |
| 9 | Subscriptions : All subscriptions are due annually by the end of January of the current year and shall be classed under the following categories : — Individual Members , Overseas Members , Group Members ( subscriptions on a capitation basis ) and Affiliated Clubs and Societies . |
| 10 | a ) Subscriptions : All subscriptions are due annually by the end of January of the current year and shall be classed under the following categories : — Individual Members , Overseas Members , Group Members ( subscriptions on a capitation basis ) and Affiliated Clubs and Societies . |
| 11 | ‘ Subscriptions are due annually by the end of January . ’ |
| 12 | The high level of crime and the resultant number of people in prison are due directly to the policies of the Government , which have created people who are greedy and selfish , a society where people are supposed to be on their own , a society which destroys the morale and the will of people who happen to be on benefits and on the poverty line . |
| 13 | The fluctuations between weather regimes are due solely to the intrinsic variability of the model atmosphere itself . |
| 14 | Because there is no ozone radiative feedback in either simulation , the dynamical evolutions are identical , and therefore differences are due entirely to the changes in chemistry . |
| 15 | Oceanport , New Jersey-based Concurrent Computer Corp has has opted to take Unix System Laboratories Inc 's Unix System V.4.2 MP as the operating system for its next generation of real-time Unix systems , which are due out by the end of this calendar year . |
| 16 | Sparc and MIPS versions are due out by the end of the year . |
| 17 | Be that as it may , plenty of new titles are due out in the next six months . |
| 18 | You know you are due down in the shop . |
| 19 | The costs are low enough for the schemes to be applied to whole towns … it is estimated that the measures will be amortized within three to six years on account of saved accident costs . ’ |
| 20 | This has been due largely to the growth of council housing and perhaps to the improvement grants policy of successive governments particularly since 1969 . |
| 21 | In each case the Canadian fiction of a supposedly identical sovereign was repudiated ; and in each case the continuance of a unity which had been due only to the former British connection was made a prior condition for even pretending to play the Canadian game . |
| 22 | The delay has been due mainly to the need to be absolutely certain about the integrity of the flight control system software before the aircraft takes to the air . |
| 23 | She gladly gave her blood for a substantial blood transfusion , and the patient was told after-wards by the doctor , ‘ You owe the fact that you are alive today to the crossing sweeper who first detected a movement in you when you were in the mortuary and then gave her blood for you . ’ |
| 24 | The main ‘ problem ’ caused by the pesticide that is questioned by Mr Erlichman in his article is that millions of people are alive today throughout the Third World who would otherwise have died from insect-borne diseases or from starvation because insects destroyed their crops . |
| 25 | I am grateful both to the Education spokespersons who put a great deal of time in , in order to carry out erm their preparations towards this report and to and to take part in the consultation exercises and to my own colleagues . |
| 26 | ‘ This is attractive for when the variable premium goes many farmers will look at early lamb production , which has not been profitable enough in the past when the cost of spongeing was included . |
| 27 | If , however , the company or the chargee fails to do so the consequences are grave indeed for the chargee ; in effect , he loses his security . |
| 28 | Er , but I mean clearly the , the debt and the guarantees are paid down first and so for the reason we are high up in the pecking order , because we provided the er , the loans and the guarantees . |
| 29 | This provided a richer and more varied diet and a grander life style for those in the middle and upper ranks of society than would have been possible if they had been dependent only on the products of a self-contained peasant economy . |
| 30 | Wedgwood would have been interested even without the special needs of his product . |