Example sentences of "be [det] [conj] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To accept that whatever she had done or promised or performed to maintain her position in Market Square then her choice could only have been that or the workhouse . |
| 2 | The worst of the teaching offered in theological colleges occurs because the staff are few and the ground to be covered enormous . |
| 3 | Manometric studies in patients with Barrett 's oesophagus are few and the comparison with patients with gastrooesophageal reflux are less frequent . |
| 4 | The taxing code works without difficulty and the trustees would be assessed jointly — Lord Keith in Dawson v IRC referred to the fact that if all the trustees " had been resident in the United Kingdom application of the enactment would have been such that the income would have been treated as arising or accruing to all three , and all three would have been jointly assessable to tax " . |
| 5 | In a small number of cases the JMU 's evidence has been such that the committee has decided the firm should not be registered , or that registration should be granted , but with restrictive conditions ( where , for example , a partner may be precluded from acting as a ‘ responsible individual ’ ) . |
| 6 | If the circumstances are such that the likelihood of a breach of the peace is obvious , there need be no direct evidence on the matter . |
| 7 | In general , the opposite is the case : the scale of the research and the kind of expertise required to assess the scientific , and therefore the ethical , validity are such that the research is best considered centrally . |
| 8 | Initially the activities are such that the validity of the idea was questioned , and this was checked by activities taking place in the scheming and analysis phases . |
| 9 | On the other hand , where circumstances are such that the employee has been put in a position of acquiring special intimate knowledge of the clients of his employer or the means of influence over them there exists subject matter which is entitled to the court 's protection . |
| 10 | Her Cloaths are fewer than the Time before . |
| 11 | For , plainly , such a procedure and the acknowledgement of either authoritative text or persons involve the existence of rules of a type different from the rules of obligation or duty which ex hypothesi are all that the group has . |
| 12 | In some cases they accrue entitlements to holiday pay which they receive as a lump sum on the termination of their employment , although in the holiday camps sector these accrued holiday entitlements are less than the holiday entitlements of comparable regular staff . |
| 13 | For most purposes it is enough to know that an enterprise makes losses — that its revenues are less than the sum of its wages , its cost of capital and its cost of material inputs ( raw materials , components , energy and so on ) . |
| 14 | Following heavy rationalisation , it generated £200m turnover last year , and has turned around from being loss-making to earning ‘ profits that are less than the industry average ’ . |
| 15 | The survey tells us that the chances of being burgled are less than the risk of domestic fire and that the chances of robbery are smaller than those of being admitted to a psychiatric hospital — not that such statistics will be a lot of consolation to those who are burgled or robbed . |
| 16 | A man 's wife , his child , these things are more than the world to him . |
| 17 | Possible tests of success in this facet of the changes is whether non-executives are clear about their contribution and whether decisions are more than the sum of executive preferences . |
| 18 | Good learning environments are more than the sum of their parts ; they are exciting , attractive , motivating and challenging for those within them . |
| 19 | The object must be such that the subject 's senses are acute enough to pick it out . |
| 20 | This will wire the windings in series , but there phasing will be such that the output of one winding will cancel out the output from the other . |
| 21 | The structure of courses should be such that the majority would require a form of integrated study such as that described in the Grouped Course Scheme within existing TEC policy . |
| 22 | It will then be the responsibility of the Department of Social Security to take out a maintainance order against the father , although the form of the order should be such that the order continues to operate when the mother leaves welfare . |
| 23 | Second , the circumstances of the illegal venture must be such that the court can not determine the standard of care to be observed . |
| 24 | In some research and development contracts the degree of technical uncertainty may be such that the requirement can not reasonably be specified in terms of an end result . |
| 25 | The phasor potential difference across the capacitance C lags 90° behind the phasor potential difference VR across the resistance R , assuming negligible loading of the output taken between terminals P and O , while All of these aspects are maintained in the phasor diagram of figure 8.12(b) and its geometry is seen to be such that the point P moves over a circle , centre O , as the resistance R is varied . |
| 26 | There are areas of the knitting where only the main bed is knitting , so the yarn and tension need to be such that the fabric has sufficient body . |
| 27 | In a similar way the layout of the type and the distribution of print and space should be such that the reader reads easily but is not made aware of the amount of ‘ leading ’ ( the white between the lines of type ) or the spacing of the words . |
| 28 | A job franchise in the haulage industry would typically be such that the franchise would invest in a lorry and anticipate an income closely allied to driving hours undertaken . |
| 29 | If not the damages will be such that the plaintiff can make reasonable recompense to the relative or friend for " the proper and reasonable " cost of their services . |
| 30 | For a tax to be regarded as progressive , its rate structure must be such that the tax takes a rising proportion of total income as income increases ; a proportional tax takes a constant proportion , whilst a regressive tax takes a declining proportion . |