Example sentences of "be [prep] the [adj] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Today , the wines produced from the slopes below Mutigny and on the spur of the Clos des Goisses are of the highest grand cru quality . |
| 2 | But now we 're in the top erm position , we 've been in the top position for a few weeks now , it obviously erm makes you think that whether it 's a possibility . |
| 3 | Now I 'll put you in these erm particular groups and you each have an allotted task as it were , so group A which is you people there , you will stay here okay and group B and C I 'll put you , that 's what we keep doing with that , so Barry you are in the jurassic er Gareth you are in as well . |
| 4 | Described as ‘ cold , haughty , melancholy and dull ’ , he at least came to life in the splendour of his books , some eight hundred of which are in the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris . |
| 5 | A decision to cut or pass the dividend will be especially painful for Costain because of the blow it will be for the 91 per cent of shareholders who took up last year 's rights issue and because Costain will be only the second major contractor , after John Laing , to cut the pay-out . |
| 6 | You are more likely to be amongst the 35 per cent who only have one preference , or the 24 per cent who have two preferences , of the 20 per cent who have three preferences . |
| 7 | It certainly would n't be against the ideological er ideas of the Party but I mean that it was an ideological , it was more practical cos it was , it was related the purification campaign of the Party , cos we know they 're having these campaigns |
| 8 | Kingfisher claims the combined company would have a market share of 22 per cent , though other estimates are that it would be above the 25 per cent threshold for a reference . |
| 9 | If we looked at erm the week commencing seventh of February as being the two days out that would be from the ninth er that would be the tenth and the eleventh of February . |
| 10 | The companies themselves will be in the modern la Défense development in the west suburbs , or maybe Montparnasse . ’ |
| 11 | The fuel consumption ought to be in the high teens/low twenties . |
| 12 | Stay with that a minute , erm , erm , I mean I would n't have thought we were in a position to give an assurance that er erm , that that no other complaints which appear to be outside the local ombu ombudsman 's restriction will be dealt with by support staff , I mean I should think we 're continuing looking continually looking for ways of dealing with complaints at the most efficient and effective way , and if that |
| 13 | But his workload makes him susceptible to fluid depletion and liable to be among the 35 per cent of marathon runners who suffer knee damage . |
| 14 | Where differences in the patches were observed , the chi-square significance test was applied : a statistically significant result was taken to be at the 95 per cent level of confidence ( p=0.05 ) . |
| 15 | There are vast differences between the two , of course ; but not all of them are to the latter 's credit . |
| 16 | Consequently , LEAs earmarking certain discretionary items in this way would still have to count them in calculating that they were within the 10 per cent limit . |
| 17 | Both were in the Metropolitan 's 1986 exhibition , ‘ Gothic and Renaissance Art in Nuremberg , 1300–1550 ’ . |
| 18 | Erm but in these days erm I think that managements were in the main er fairly well off as far as employees ' attitudes were concerned . |
| 19 | For two years my father-in-law shuffled the money around various building societies , chasing the best interest rates , which at times were around the 20 per cent mark . |
| 20 | When such details are examined it seems that , in spite of all their contrasts , these pavements were by the same craftsman/men . |
| 21 | Note that critical angles for shadowing effects ( A-D ) are at the low α side of the peaks and those for blocking effects ( A'-C' ) are at the high α side of the peaks . |
| 22 | of its payers are at the 20 per cent . |
| 23 | Note that critical angles for shadowing effects ( A-D ) are at the low α side of the peaks and those for blocking effects ( A'-C' ) are at the high α side of the peaks . |
| 24 | There is no requirement that the abstraction is for the accused 's benefit . |
| 25 | But the intention is for the 49 per cent Dutch government shareholding to be reduced later this year through an issue in Amsterdam , London , Frankfurt , Paris and New York . |
| 26 | Looking specifically at our concerns with regard to erm Hambledon , erm in Hambledon the area search would erm extend to about eighty two kilometres , that 's square kilometres , erm and contain six , this contains six villages , er with populations ranging from a hundred and fourteen to nine hundred and seventy one , erm proposed new settlement of fourteen hundred hou erm dwellings , er would be four times erm greater than the largest settlement in this area , Easingwold is the nearest small town , that 's about the equivalent erm equivalent size in terms of number of dwellings , erm we believe that it would er dominate the existing settlement pattern in the area , and would introduce erm a dislocation erm into er a settlement pattern . |
| 27 | Once authority has been delegated , a superior should not expect his subordinate to refer decisions up the chain of command to him for confirmation ( or ratification ) provided that the decision is within the subordinate 's scope of delegated authority . |
| 28 | ‘ Neo-Nazis … it 's in the Prussian 's nature . |
| 29 | Er I was n't eighteen , and er I got er seven and six a week , dole money , that 's in the old cunner currency , which would make er , let's see , er g twelve and twelve and five , about twelve shilling a week . |
| 30 | Today 's sticker is from the French Grand Prix he won to get back on course for the title with his sixth superb victory . |