Example sentences of "[adv] [be] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | What matters most are the attitudes of teachers to parents and parents to teachers — whether there is genuine mutual respect , whether the parents understand what the schools are doing for individual children and ( whether ) teachers realise how dependent they are upon parental support . |
| 2 | I find that the , the people who waffle the most are the people who know least . |
| 3 | Secondly , admission to a psychiatric unit has presumably been the result of distress which in many cases will persist after admission . |
| 4 | Finniston is in no doubt that making decisions and seeing them implemented properly are the most important aspects of a chairman 's job . |
| 5 | However , the inequalities in higher education have rarely been the subject of close and critical attention ; far from arguing that higher education serves to reproduce inequalities , commentators ( e.g. Wolpe 1977 ) have argued merely that higher education functions to train middle-class students to take up positions of status and responsibility in society , such as civil servants , managers , teachers and doctors . |
| 6 | Furthermore , industrialization has rarely been the panacea for rural development that had been hoped . |
| 7 | Although it has rarely been the subject of judicial pronouncement the conceptual basis of the " conventional " sums awarded by the courts in respect of non-pecuniary losses appears to be that such sums are what are considered fair and reasonable compensation in the social , economic and industrial conditions which prevail in England and Wales . |
| 8 | National practices in the definition and classification of enterprises vary widely ( Pathirane and Blades 1982 : 28–91 ) and rarely are the criteria made fully explicit in national accounts ( 263 ) . |
| 9 | However , the main causes of parcels becoming damaged or going astray are the following : |
| 10 | Some children tend to insist that their models , cars , towers , etc. are the biggest , fastest or tallest and it is not always kind to suggest otherwise . |
| 11 | Fourthly are the fragments of evidence that allow relative and absolute dating to be undertaken by an increasingly varied range of techniques . |
| 12 | How right are the comments made by John Stewart about the current crop of Gaelic television programmes . |
| 13 | Right are the hens , oh the hens are alright . |
| 14 | Erm ironically after I wrote erm the letter was typed on Monday erm to Mr Mr the only lights that have been fixed since are the ones at the end of my street and the next street not as I complained about ones on the main road erm there 's an example that 's been going on for many months where a problem , an acknowledged problem of access existed which was the reason for delay but that as I understand it has been overcome some time ago now and it 's still there , this is a group of seven lights together , the lot , erm these lights are still out , they 're not in my ward in fact , they 're just . |
| 15 | Possibly intending a pun on the word ‘ horary ’ , he named it an ‘ orrery ’ ; and this has since been the usual English word for a mechanical planetarium . |
| 16 | Such an interpretation is not inconsistent with Katib Celebi 's brief account , particularly if it is remembered that by his time the Seyhulislam had long since been the Mufti of Istanbul and that he may therefore have concerned himself with trying to sketch the history of the office only in so far as it related to that city . |
| 17 | IT 'S long since been the woman 's domain . |
| 18 | IT 'S long since been the woman 's domain . |
| 19 | IT 'S long since been the woman 's domain . |
| 20 | AILING firms most in need of technological investment in order to compete more effectively are the least likely to innovate , and many small businesses are lagging behind in the technological revolution , writes Clive Woodcock . |
| 21 | In terms of performance , the main facets to concentrate on are the feel and the overall sense of dynamics . |
| 22 | But however that may be , we take it as axiomatic that unless it can be established to the contrary , the best authorities as to what went on are the actors themselves . |
| 23 | Less remarked on are the inadequacies and crudity of language when faced with objects in everyday interaction . |
| 24 | The only animals I have n't been able to check on are the sheep . ’ |
| 25 | Far from being the concrete , it has always rather been the theoretical problem . |
| 26 | Find out what it is used for ( eg are the apples for eating or cooking with ? ) . |
| 27 | On the one hand lay those who had trained in or followed the European tradition of independence and free investigative journalism ; on the other lay a tradition that was also important and which has perhaps been the more lasting . |
| 28 | The next pair of readings are concerned with what has perhaps been the single most salient political issue in British education in the twentieth century : the issue of inequality of opportunity and inequality of outcome between social classes — particularly between middle and working class children . |
| 29 | The numbers that I have given publicly hitherto are the best estimate that the senior chief inspector and I can make — about 175 at the end of the transitional period . |
| 30 | Character dance like demi-caractère dance had its beginnings in La Fille Mal Gardée when farmers and peasants were first allowed to set foot on the Royal and Imperial stages , which had hitherto been the home of gods and goddesses or noble and well-born heroes and heroines . |