Example sentences of "be [adj] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When Chancellor Kohl said he would prefer the December inter-governmental conference to be held after the West German election , Mrs Thatcher intervened and said : ‘ But Mr Chancellor , my elections are due the following year . ’ |
| 2 | When Chancellor Kohl said he would prefer the inter-governmental conference to be held after the West German election , Mrs Thatcher said : ‘ But Mr Chancellor , my elections are due the following year . ’ |
| 3 | Though the weapons and equipment are constantly modernised ( the Micks got the new design of helmets two years ago , the new rifles last year , and we are due the new webbing next year ) , Napoleon 's generals would still have recognised the discipline and aggression , as would the Kaiser 's , and Hitler 's . |
| 4 | Nor would the expedition have been possible the next winter . |
| 5 | I am afraid the latter-day Pop artists think of themselves as being a culmination of the expression of cultural realism and they regard what happened in the Sixties as a primitive expression of their more developed ideas , which seems to me far from the truth . |
| 6 | And what you do is you do it , and you get it wrong , and you , you miss it , and then you do it again and you 're better the next time and you get in . |
| 7 | They 're all the same size . |
| 8 | They 're all the same size they 're just different colours , so whenever |
| 9 | They 've done it very successfully in Cherwell , no cost to the ratepayer , no cost to the government , functioning perfectly well , no trouble to anybody because they 're all the same type of people . |
| 10 | ‘ Remember , ’ he went on , ‘ we 're all the same kind . |
| 11 | Because they 're all the same rate . |
| 12 | They 're all the same age . |
| 13 | ‘ We 're all different in ourselves , but we 're all the same family . |
| 14 | And they 're all the same sort of punters anyway , sort |
| 15 | Now we used to clean the bottom up cos used to be a big boiler in the dredger and erm we used to close down every six weeks , which they used to call blow the boiler down , that mean that they open the valve and the heat used to take all the water into the river , so er , that used to be blown down Friday night , come Saturday morning we 'd start at six o'clock and chip all the fur off inside the boiler , cos the boiler was made with all and what we call the crown , that used to be the two furnaces , cos they 're double the big boiler were a double furnace and we had to chip all that fur off them , well it used to take us now from six o'clock in the morning or say seven when we got there had to go down the tug and er go down the tug and erm , then we go aboard and strip off . |
| 16 | However I think erm y you 're one the right track erm picking white out |
| 17 | They 're both the same angle for a start , because we 've got an isosceles triangle , and forty five plus two X must add up to a hundred and eighty . |
| 18 | I say , they 're both the same board . |
| 19 | They 're both the same footprint , those two |
| 20 | We 're both doing the same job , we 're both the same function , which is , find the next prime number up , from whatever number you 're given . |
| 21 | and they 're both the same thing . |
| 22 | Tell her you 're scared the same thing 'll happen to her . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ Are these the best lamb chops you could get ? |
| 24 | ‘ Are these the right size ? ’ he asked innocently . |
| 25 | When in July , for example , he was asked to testify for the London Library against a rating valuation , he was visibly nervous before giving his testimony ( it seems , according to Rupert Hart-Davis , that he had been awake the whole night before ) . |
| 26 | Africa is just one of many causes in need of cash … but charity leaders are confident the British public still have money to give . |
| 27 | Additionally , there are all the possible emergency situations , such as your health , for which , if this ever were to become a problem , you might want to make special provision . |
| 28 | The Elan 's bodywork is of glass-reinforced polymer , as are all the Norfolk-based company 's cars . |
| 29 | The Listed Intellectual Property Rights are all the Intellectual Property Rights owned , used or required by the Vendor in connection with the Business . |
| 30 | Er the second initiative was to form industry groups , er textiles , retail , er automotive erm chemicals and plastics , none of those industry groups will be surprising to you since those are all the predominant industry groups in the region but again forming groups , three , four , five people again across practice areas to get to know about that particular industry group so that they can focus on er er companies that are operating in that group er put on seminars er and have small workshops , they would attract those sort of people , those sort of businesses in and in that way penetrate the er companies . |