Example sentences of "be [adj] [verb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has been iced to resemble the cover of the guide . |
| 2 | But not all are sorry to see the squadron go . |
| 3 | I also believe that the manner of Senor di Meana 's intervention demonstrated to the full that the Government are right to stress the principle of subsidiarity which holds that the Commission should not become involved in matters that can more effectively be dealt with by member states . |
| 4 | You are right to rebuke the Master when he forgets himself so . ’ |
| 5 | Of course the authors are right to list the goals — from equal pay and opportunities to equal political and civil rights — that have not been reached , but I also think that many feminist ideas have entered the mainstream . |
| 6 | Those poor Dutch people , it must have been awful having the Germans right on their border and no English Channel to keep them out . |
| 7 | It had not been pleasant to leave the Mallorys under a cloud . |
| 8 | The arguments that Freud advanced are unnecessary to establish the conceptualization of the death instincts , and their eternal struggle with the sexual instincts , in the unconscious life of humanity . |
| 9 | Nearly all the readings of the printed version are either musically superior to those in the theatre score , or result from octave transposition — necessary at one point to avoid an unplayable bottom B' B♭ occasioned by downward transposition from G to F. ( A change would have been unnecessary had the transposition gone the other way . ) |
| 10 | This is the reason why many ethologists are hesitant to apply the insights of the theory of natural selection , which have been gained for the social behaviour of animals with only rudimentary cultures , to the behaviour of our own species . |
| 11 | Examination papers should be approved four months before students are due to sit the examination and centres should allow three months for the moderation process ( to allow for any resubmission ) . |
| 12 | The leading crews are due to reach the end of their voyage at Southampton on Sunday . |
| 13 | Globe-trotting Ray and Mark Hanna are due to attend the November airshow at Auckland , New Zealand , where they will fly some NZ-based warbirds . |
| 14 | We are due to review the morning service pattern at the church meeting on December 9th , although it is difficult to imagine how we could ever revert to a single service since already we have about 500 adults and children attending the two services ! |
| 15 | They are due to face the court again on Wednesday , 3 March . |
| 16 | Take whatever steps are possible to cool the body below 102°F ( 38.9°C ) as quickly as possible whilst awaiting expert help . |
| 17 | Programmable movements on a given slide are possible using the Olympus microscope controller with appropriate software . |
| 18 | Held , dismissing the appeal , that , if there had been a contravention of section 3 of the Act of 1986 , an order could be made under section 6(2) against both the contravener and persons knowingly concerned in that contravention provided that such order was intended to restore all the parties to specific transactions to their respective former positions and that the steps ordered to be taken were reasonably capable of achieving that object ; that , on a contravention of one of the provisions of section 6(1) ( a ) , an order could be made under the subsection against persons knowingly concerned in the contravention provided that the steps ordered to be taken were reasonably capable of remedying the contravention ; that such restitutionary orders could be made notwithstanding that the persons knowingly concerned had received nothing under the impugned transactions , there being no distinction between the type of order that could be made under the subsections against a contravener and a person knowingly concerned ; and that , accordingly , the judge had been right to dismiss the solicitors ' summons to strike out the S.I.B . 's claims against them ( post , pp. 907C–D , F–G , G–H , 909D–G , G–H , 910D , 913D–G , H — 914A , 915C–D ) . |
| 19 | Li Shai Tung had been right to sign the boy 's death warrant . |
| 20 | The story , which mentioned Puddephat by name , should have appeared in his file , but she had been right to doubt the efficiency of the Herald 's library staff . |
| 21 | We are grateful to escape the alternative . |
| 22 | Wordsworth probably never knew how his walks with Dorothy and Coleridge had been misrepresented by the garrulous old man , and would have been sorry to discover the truth . |
| 23 | This was a sensible and useful method of reference ; one which would have been invaluable to the gatherers of simples , who must have been grateful to find the information in a reasonably priced book . |
| 24 | The Russian 's group arrived in Iraq about the same time as a team of 13 inspectors , which had been due to leave the country yesterday , announced it was staying on . |
| 25 | The Government had been due to confirm the route on Wednesday but postponed the details until next week . |
| 26 | Denzil Kobbekaduwa , who had been due to assume the post was killed in August after being ambushed by LTTE forces off the Jaffna Peninsula [ see p. 39053 ] . |
| 27 | David , who had to leave Tyneside after telling his parents last year that he was transexual , had been due to become the North 's first female master chef . |
| 28 | Boban also took control of the ruling Croatian Democratic Union ( HDZ ) in the republic , ousting the moderate Stjepan Kljujic who had been due to become the republic 's next president . |
| 29 | I am grateful to have the opportunity to raise the subject of the Maidenhead , Windsor and Eton flood alleviation scheme . |
| 30 | I am grateful to have the opportunity to do so . |