Example sentences of "be [adj] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | It must have been eleven o'clock by the time we sat down to eat . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 ) . |
| 6 | Some of the attractions are due simply to the landforms and some due to the features made by people . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | ‘ Subscriptions are due annually by the end of January . ’ |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The fluctuations between weather regimes are due solely to the intrinsic variability of the model atmosphere itself . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . ’ |
| 14 | This has been due largely to the growth of council housing and perhaps to the improvement grants policy of successive governments particularly since 1969 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . ’ |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | ‘ 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Wedgwood would have been interested even without the special needs of his product . |
| 24 | I mean part of it is what I think and part of it is that I think that I like it because it works , that these things — I basically am unconvinced much of the modern tradition . |
| 25 | Although particulate traps can be made to work effectively for short periods under favourable conditions there is some way to go before they are reliable enough for the rough and tumble of ordinary operating conditions . |
| 26 | in real terms , whereas in the past 12 years the 2 million pensioners who are dependent entirely on the basic pension or on income support have had a zilch increase in their standard of living . |
| 27 | The investigators are interested both in the impact a nation 's economic performance has on the economies of other nations ( ‘ spillover effects ' and in the ‘ strategic ’ policy responses which such spillovers may induce . ) |
| 28 | Sankoff and Laberge are interested principally in the alternation between on on the one hand , and tu/vous on the other in their function as indefinite personal pronouns ( cf. 7.4.3 ) . |
| 29 | The very fact that you are interested enough in the possibility to be reading this book makes it so . |
| 30 | Instead of chewing into or biting off the leaves and shoots , the suckers are interested only in the liquid sap , which they obtain by probing a very fine tubular proboscis into the surface tissue cells . |