Example sentences of "be [conj] [adv] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are n't enough biscuits ; you can have tea and coffee in the morning but only tea in the afternoon ; no-one knows where the switches are or how the equipment works ; and so on . |
| 2 | So there you are and then the driver board goes on here |
| 3 | It was still as mellow and welcoming as it ever had been but now the pine panelling was softly golden , gleaming with wax polish . |
| 4 | It involves not only a judgment about the way things are but also the way things ought to be . |
| 5 | So what 's the what 's the average gon na be or even the mean ? |
| 6 | Could the implication be that today the Christian at work is quietly to put up with any kind of abuse or ill-treatment ? |
| 7 | It was not yet dark but soon it would be and then the town would come alive . |
| 8 | He could be but not the sort of merchant you 're thinking of there were lots of merchants in those days those merchants who build up places like they were Greek merchants , in fact they were called merchant venturers were n't they ? |
| 9 | Well I think I , I mean I do agree and I think that the that er that pressure is now getting on to these , these city institutions , but erm , but I still come back to the basic thing that , that really , you know what appears to me is happening is we 've we 're having literally millions of pounds taken out in , in issuing these massive massive writs you know , a hundred and seventy eight page writs are sort of being and really the money for those is coming out of the remaining money in our pension funds and really I feel that what wou what is happening is this , as far as I 'm concerned , is all due to the self-regulatory body being set under the Financial Services Act , and in a way I feel that you know we 're being made to pay for sorting out a mess that somebody else is making . |
| 10 | That group is nor only the group which has supported the US-led intervention against Iraq , it is also the group which effectively controls Gulf oil production and Opec . |
| 11 | A further possibility is that either the prestige or the style of the journals has altered over the study period , thus encouraging submission ( or acceptance ) of larger studies . |
| 12 | My respectful view , for reasons which your Lordships will have noted , is that both the contention of the defence and the court 's refutation of it were misconceived : the absence of consent on the part of the owner is already inherent in the word ‘ appropriates , ’ properly understood , and therefore the argument for the defence got off on the wrong foot and the counter-argument that the words specified by the defence can not be read into section 1(1) did not assist the prosecution . |
| 13 | The trouble is that both the product and the claims made for it are so unusual that it is impossible to predict whether it will disappear , never to be seen again , or become the biggest thing since MS-DOS . |
| 14 | The trouble is that both the product and the claims made for it are so unusual that it is impossible to predict whether it will disappear , never to be seen again , or become the biggest thing since MS-DOS . |
| 15 | He concluded : ‘ the cardinal rule of library stock control is that both the loan period and the duplication policy should be related to the level of demand for the title and to each other . ’ |
| 16 | The drawback is that both the sender and the recipient , if living outside the US , are at the mercy of prevailing exchange rates and foreign banks may charge a commission . |
| 17 | The drawback is that both the sender and the recipient , if living outside the US , are at the mercy of prevailing exchange rates and foreign banks may charge a commission . |
| 18 | The drawback is that both the sender and the recipient , if living outside the US , are at the mercy of prevailing exchange rates and foreign banks may charge a commission . |
| 19 | My contention is that both the justice and inhumanity of capitalist societies result inevitably from the failure to assert certain absolutes and so place proper limits on the use of freedom . |
| 20 | One of the advantages of using drama in this way ( when the narrative continues over a period of several weeks ) is that both the teacher and the children can change roles , enabling us to look at any given topic from different points of view . |
| 21 | The thinning out process has been a great shock to me , I had a higher opinion of working class thought — but it is that where the weakness lies , not in our efforts of propaganda . |
| 22 | If top panel is without perspective and bottom is nothing but perspective , then is that not the place for a different kind of vision ? |
| 23 | I think that 's is that not the thing that 's worrying you , is that the question mark in your mind as well ? |
| 24 | The reason is that otherwise the surface charges would be in motion contrary to the assumption that a static equilibrium exists . |
| 25 | advertisement , and do they actually sit down in an interview or is that simply the way that the advertisement is projected |
| 26 | The first is that however the decision is presented , one suspects that it represents a reversal of the previous commitment of the government to strengthening competition . |
| 27 | The difference between this and Helby v. Matthews is that here the customer was committed to making all the payments and therefore to acquiring ownership of the goods . |
| 28 | The important point about the example , though , is that neither the instructor 's action nor the pupil 's action was required for the stopping . |
| 29 | There 's lots of myths about Rachmanite landlords — is that really the case or is it one huge myth ? |
| 30 | One politically unfortunate aspect of the problem is that often the generator of the pollution is not the country suffering it . |