Example sentences of "be [adv] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Out-migrants from rural areas are predominantly the younger members of the adult population . |
| 2 | They are numerically the largest group of people at risk , they present the most complex problems and their needs have the most impact on families and communities . |
| 3 | But the extended sets of variations usually on popular songs , but sometimes on dance-tunes or the notes of the hexachord , generally increasing in complication and technical difficulty toward the end , which are arguably the chief glory of virginal music , have been plausibly derived from the diferencias of Cabezon ( see pp. 236–7 ) . |
| 4 | The sermons in which it is presented are arguably the finest contribution to moral philosophy in English . |
| 5 | These commodities are arguably the primitive valuables of early Anglo-Saxon society , used to oil the wheels of social and political activities ( Huggett 1982 and forthcoming ) . |
| 6 | There is n't work for everybody , so people who work are mostly the lucky ones . |
| 7 | He had been right the first time . |
| 8 | The birds arrive on the cliffs in January and February and stay until June or July , and what are presumably the same birds are recorded right along the coast . |
| 9 | If initial position is reserved for theme and if topic always occurs in initial position , then theme and topic are presumably the same thing . |
| 10 | For three centuries , however , an incident of landownership has been effectively the sole right to shoot deer on that land , either for sport or to prevent damage . |
| 11 | So it is misleading to suggest , as many psychologists and sociobiologists are prone to do , that these mechanisms are necessarily the prime mechanism affecting awareness and action . |
| 12 | The first concerns the continuing insistence that class and class-based processes are necessarily the principal mechanisms underlying uneven development and social change . |
| 13 | Third , they are suddenly the good guys . |
| 14 | Bus and train are much the same price at the moment though it 's quicker to take the bus . |
| 15 | Especially since the ‘ efficiency savings ’ from 10 years of government cuts are much the same size . |
| 16 | In the nests of the few species that feed exclusively on carrion , the queen cells and food storage cells are much the same size . |
| 17 | Sara and Patsy are much the same age and are very fond of each other . |
| 18 | Socially , though , he and Karen , who taught part-time at a girls ' school in Headington , were both from a lower-middle-class , comp/tech background , and it may not have been only the fearsome price of property in the North Oxford heartlands which had put them off moving there . |
| 19 | The others went in the car and when I arrived on the bike a little later they 'd been down the 51 steps to the house and found it like the Marie Celeste , everything open , radio playing but no-one around . |
| 20 | Does my right hon. Friend agree that the reasons why we are updating Trident are basically the same reasons as caused the Labour Government to update our nuclear deterrent by bringing in Chevaline , the difference being that we are doing it openly and they did it under wraps ? |
| 21 | I hope I have made it clear now that although ( 1 ) to ( 5 ) are basically the same structure , each modification is itself a sufficient change to make it a different kind of game — and thus the experience is a different one according to which is chosen ( either by the teacher or the participants themselves ) . |
| 22 | As a composer and a soloist Bach did much to champion the pianoforte , an instrument then being developed in London by German immigrant craftsmen : the sonatas Op. 5 are apparently the first works published in England to include the piano on the title-page , and Bach is credited with performing the first solo on the instrument in public in London in 1768 . |
| 23 | ‘ The conduct of the workers is deplorable , ’ wrote a French mining manager in 1869 , in the process of ferociously repressing the sort of strike of which Zola 's Germinal has given us a vivid picture , ‘ but one must recognise that they have been merely the savage instruments of agitators ’ . |
| 24 | Z Z Top are perhaps the only boogie band with a sense of irony , and their Greatest Hits package shows how brilliantly they combine John Lee Hooker with T-Rex . |
| 25 | If one excludes cooking utensils , rugs are perhaps the only form of furnishing conducive to this nomadic way of life , because , when spread on the floor , they provide both a comfortable place to sit and a sanitary surface from which to eat food . |
| 26 | They are perhaps the perfect mix for America : a friendly logo , a psychedelic edge , a great show and an Englishness guaranteed to stir the Anglophile lurking in every American . |
| 27 | Laws are perhaps the best example of written , formal rules . |
| 28 | Early 2.8-litre cars are perhaps the best value around , particularly those with high mileage . |
| 29 | Orange and either ginger or cinnamon are perhaps the nicest flavours to combine with rhubarb , and they work especially well as a compote . |
| 30 | The quite extraordinarily polarised assessments of his life and work are perhaps the ultimate tribute to the enduring potency of his political and literary activities . |