Example sentences of "be [adv] [conj] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Large chunks of the course are downhill and the course record is held by Luton 's Neil Tennant at 1:02:39 , set in 1988 . |
| 2 | In Baroness Lemberg 's creepily ornate fortune-telling parlor the lights are on and the baroness ( Miss Page ) is supposedly tuned in to the truth . |
| 3 | Withdrawal of labour , in the literal sense , would have been impractical and , more importantly , would have caused further destruction to my self-esteem in that without work ( schoolwork ) I should have had and have been less than the nothing I already felt myself to have and to be . |
| 4 | Also , the pressure on interest rates has been down and the balance of trade has shifted into surplus . |
| 5 | Now if , if you accept the ten percent owning the eighty percent , there must 've been enough but the poor are not getting it . |
| 6 | The girls who had been in since the start of the war had cornered the market in stripes . |
| 7 | Maxim drove it slowly , en-joying the first real countryside he had been in since the hot weather began . |
| 8 | I 'd been in and the east fields at . |
| 9 | But he had not been in and the note was as she had left it . |
| 10 | It 's unfair for another reason : most of the walkers , climbers and cavers that come to the Dales , the Lakes and the mountains come because they love them , because they respect them and care for them and want to keep them the way they are so that the people of the future can enjoy the wildness and the greatness of the earth . |
| 11 | But as Ivan Nagy says , ‘ The barriers are down and the world is becoming — in a civilised way — polluted with Russian dancers , and the myth will tone down . |
| 12 | ‘ He 'll get stuck in against him and we all know if the chips are down when the seamers are on , Robin is the one . |
| 13 | Work is ‘ split off ’ very often from the rest of life and it has been so since the beginnings of industrialisation . |
| 14 | It is interesting to trace the way in which the times of meals have changed over the centuries , particularly because in everyday life it is not just the clock which tells us which part of the day we are in but the meals that we eat . |
| 15 | Rather the objectives/skills analysis curriculum actually teaches dependence , in that it does not teach the children to challenge the system they are in and the places they will graduate to . |
| 16 | ‘ It depends entirely where you live whether it 's down to the school you are in or the local education authority . |
| 17 | For example , when the forty days of mourning a death are over and the women in the family who have foregone food or combing their hair can start a normal life again , it is their female friends and sisters who cook for them and comb and oil their hair . |
| 18 | It possesses no clear Coda , no signal that the events of the narrative are over and the narrator is , so to speak , giving up the floor . |
| 19 | The lists are outside and the the venues , and please take the opportunity during the lunch-break to make contact with your , to make contact with your Chair of Electoral Colleges , your Chairs , er , especially those perhaps , who are new members , the Chairs on their name-tag have a red star , and I think you will all know from the resolution this morning , who are the new Chairs , if they , if they have changed . |
| 20 | The London dealers have just been through and the carefully arranged display is now a scene of devastation . |
| 21 | The cat may have been away but the mice certainly did not play in this TNT Gold Cup game at sunny Windsor . |
| 22 | The airmen who they belonged to , is believed to have been away when the things were taken . |
| 23 | If you have been away and the grass is long , just tip the grass in the first mowing , and lower the subsequent cuts gradually . |
| 24 | In reality , they are not and the camera is lying . |
| 25 | ‘ The best referees ought to be here , but some of them are not because the SRA is cutting back on everything , ’ said Davies . |
| 26 | They are exactly as the computer drew them when they evolved inside it . |
| 27 | erm Because the loggers have been , as I said earlier , logging 24 hours around the clock , and they 're supposed to be logging over a 70 year cycle , and they 're not because the companies have only got three year licenses , and basically the indigenous people have just had enough , so they started to block the logging roads . |
| 28 | Never went out till Friday because it was , they went walking but it was so windy cos they 're here and the garden 's sort of down to a field and then it 's all fields and fields and fields and the wind just comes across like gales all the time . |
| 29 | And erm on a job er on on an English railway starting with starting a factory out there and they are going to manage it she 's worried stiff you see because she says now er , Germany and Holland are starting to move in the recession and once they 're there if the recession comes they 'll tack up her husband immediately |
| 30 | It would do yes , but w , wo , imagine that they 're there because the team 's now for solving problems . |