Example sentences of "be [conj] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The only real grumbles are that the tagging system does n't go far enough , a column and page breaking tag is essential , and that the keyboard shortcuts for the PC version seem to have been changed from the earlier version . |
| 2 | But the signs are that the upward curve is levelling out . |
| 3 | The odds are that the young man would not have laid a finger on her , but what if … ? |
| 4 | The indications are that the Muslim Brotherhood and its more liberal independent Islamic allies , who jointly control more than one-third of the 80 seats in the lower house , will make further gains in next year 's general election . |
| 5 | The facts as related by the Rose-Noelle 's crew are that the 41-foot trimaran left Picton , on New Zealand 's South Island , for Tonga on 1 June and capsized in a storm about 125 miles off the North Island on 4 June . |
| 6 | The disadvantages are that the single battery has less stamina than a pod of AAs giving the same voltage , and the female terminal can splay ( or the segments fold under if the battery is installed carelessly ) . |
| 7 | Analysts ' best guesses are that the underlying operating profits of the big city banks will be down by as much as 30% for the financial year now ending . |
| 8 | And er the result of all of that has been that the current development programme scheduled which we have supplied to the committee is probably about as fast as the programme is capable of running . |
| 9 | Secondly the deliveries of the equipment from the equipment suppliers who had been selected er generally fell behind the promises which they had made , so the main reason for the technical delays has been lack of equipment of the correct standard to proceed with the integration programme erm the erm the problems which beset the programme in nineteen ninety two after the German minister started questioning its future clearly had a direct bearing on that because many of the equipment suppliers , particularly those in Germany , suddenly began to think hey this programme is not going anywhere , why should we invest a lot of effort and and money into it and they slowed down so that has had a knock on effect in in terms of delaying the total programme and erm the result of all of that has been that the current development programme schedule which we have supplied to the committee is probably about as fast as the programme is capable of running . |
| 10 | Another suggestion has been that the only solution would be the fitting of a Rover SDI engine which I understand would also give much better mpg . |
| 11 | The most fundamental difference to me has always been that the private sector is so much more dynamic — the rate of change is so great . |
| 12 | Although occasionally Dutch finance companies with Antillean parents ( taxed at a turn on the interest in the Netherlands ) are still seen , for the past few years the perceived wisdom has been that the Swiss finance branch structure is superior . |
| 13 | But it could have been that the whole truck was a set-up : corral the gringos then fleece them . |
| 14 | The common view has been that the Conservative party 's structure is so rigidly hierarchical that there is little scope for initiatives from the party members . |
| 15 | In fact a common complaint over the past decade has been that the high level of data content included in entries for the benefit of cataloguing records has been achieved at the cost of timeliness , and the BNB has certainly lost ground as a selection source for this reason . |
| 16 | It depends on the local growth rate , which is partly a function of family size , but one of the great features has been that the high fertility areas , with the exception perhaps of Northern Ireland , which is a rather special case , these tended to have become closer together . |
| 17 | This document accepts that the traditional trade union approach to employee representation has been that the single channel for th for the representation should be through trade union membership now just listen to this colleagues . |
| 18 | Yet the officially measured real consumption in the past two years has been stronger than it should have been if the official measurement of GDP were accurate . |
| 19 | How minor would it have been if the poor man had died ? |
| 20 | the structural reform will create 3,650,000 losers ( i.e. their income will be lower than it would have been if the old system had continued and been up-rated in the normal way , and there had been no transitional protection ) compared with 3,190,000 gainers ( the Government claims that 5,000,070 gained ) while 1,680,000 people remain unaffected . |
| 21 | The direct tax take is now more than £30 billion below what it would have been if the old system had remained in place and indexed . |
| 22 | No-one knows where the paintings are and the Philippine Government does not have the funds to continue the search . |
| 23 | Often this has been because THE new housing market has been buoyant and it has been acknowledged that this market can not be missed as , at best , it is lost for a CONSIDERABLE time . |
| 24 | Since , however , the House in Reg. v. Morris considered that there had plainly been an appropriation in Reg. v. Lawrence [ 1972 ] A.C. 626 , this must ( I think ) have been because the Italian student , although he had permitted or allowed his money to be taken , had not in truth consented to the taxi driver taking anything in excess of the correct fare . |
| 25 | Since , however , the House in Reg. v. Morris considered that there had plainly been an appropriation in Reg. v. Lawrence [ 1972 ] A.C. 626 , this must ( I think ) have been because the Italian student , although he had permitted or allowed his money to be taken , had not in truth consented to the taxi driver taking anything in excess of the correct fare . |
| 26 | The clear inference must be that the average knight was expected to have at least the £120 a year postulated by Smith , and indeed the median of twenty-three in Buckinghamshire , Suffolk and Sussex in 1524–5 lay between £120 and £160 , while nationally the median of eighteen feodary surveys works out at £204 . |
| 27 | It may well be that the overall shape of income distributions is roughly constant , but that is not to say there is not much movement within it intra-and intergenerationally . |
| 28 | The general conclusion , therefore must be that the overall effect , whether negative or positive , of existing taxation rates on the work effort , and hence on economic growth , is negligible in spite of the apocalyptic assertions and rhetoric from various quarters . |
| 29 | This might , for example , be that the overall drama is about the making of a television documentary ( with a real video camera or an imagined one ) , in which people are being canvassed for their opinions about a new relief road . |
| 30 | The guiding principle must be that the overall value or interest of the essay lies in how its combination of observation and argument leads towards more general statements , and so away from the particularity of autobiography and personal impression . |