Example sentences of "to be the [det] " in BNC.

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1 And I think it 's going to have to be the latter , we are going to have to decide , and the M twenty five enlargement is the critical debate at the moment .
2 IN THE words of the Gaullist leader , Jacques Chirac , France 's eagerly awaited new government has turned out to be the former Rocard government minus Michel Rocard .
3 He tried to be the former and his Notebooks show his struggle : the latter he knew he could never be but always revered .
4 Without records management skills and principles it has been and could continue to be the former .
5 Ernie Simmons , of Tillsonburg , Ontario , acquired seven Swordfish from a base ( believed to be the former 16 Service Flying Training School at Hagersville ) in southern Ontario , shortly after they were removed from RCN strength .
6 So , while regression can not be claimed to be the be-all and end-all of therapeutic treatment , it is certainly an important stage .
7 Just because ‘ levering up standards ’ appears to be the be-all and end-all of the government 's educational philosophy there is no reason why teachers , in their daily interactions with pupils should fall for the poverty and rigidity of this tunnel vision .
8 And I believe them to be the some of the nicest maps I 've ever seen .
9 Not surprisingly , Karrimor were way up front with their new Baltoro range for the mountaineer and backpacker , made in Gore-Tex and a two layer fabric called Ferrara , claimed to be the most tear and abrasion resistant fabric in the Gore-Tex stable .
10 Pseudoaneurysms complicating pancreatitis are thought to be the most life threatening of all splanchnic artery aneurysms with death rate greater than 50% .
11 By repetition , he did not mean that every time a phrase was repeated it had to be the same .
12 The manager 's commission does n't have to be the same on everything , and my initial rates with the straits were set by their lawyer at the beginning of our relationship .
13 Unfortunately , it appeared to be the same half that I had picked to explore .
14 On Wednesday , Paddy Ashdown played the tough talker , the straight man who wo n't soften the harsh realities — though those realities immediately turn out to be the same smooth bribes offered by every other politician .
15 ‘ I expect that to be the same this time , but a fortnight away from Russia is a long time and things change so quickly , ’ said the bespectacled runner .
16 The Kuwaitis certainly did not share their thinking with Sir Peter , but the message from the Gulf seems to be the same as the message from the London market — Lloyds is out of the running .
17 ‘ Carol Barratt is going to be looked after for the rest of her life , and looked after well , whereas life for us is never going to be the same again . ’
18 Miller believed Bartram 's Dwarf Cherry to be the same as he had figured ; he had received the stones via Paris and Canada and , easily propagated , it was now common in gardens .
19 In the UK , GDP fell 2 per cent ( estimate ) in 1991 , against a forecast 0.5 per cent rise — and the figure for Europe is likely to be the same , Dicks reported .
20 Remember that you 're going abroad because it 's different so please do n't expect it to be the same as home !
21 The transfer ratios differ in different applications of what might appear to be the same thing : V8 Ninety — 1.222:1 ; V8 One Ten — 1.410:1 and V8 Range Rover — 1.192:1 .
22 Even where the media report sightings of what are apparently other phenomena , they often turn out to be the same species .
23 The colours used on the façade of the palace are said to be the same as those originally used .
24 The general sequence of operation tends to be the same for all types with a pre-rinse , to purge the food residues , followed by a hot caustic wash and then a highly diluted cold acid rinse .
25 Cancer is not one disease but many , and the answers are unlikely to be the same for all of them .
26 Re-isolation from the baboon showed the organism to be the same one as that originally isolated from a baby 's sticky eye .
27 But politicizing the curriculum is not the same ( and the authors probably would not suppose it to be the same ) as broadening it .
28 He still seems to me to be the same person now as he was when we first started working with them .
29 Bones was fed and happy , and Hoomey wanted to be the same .
30 Agnes watched the young , plump , matronly lady look at the young man , whom she imagined to be the same age as his wife .
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