Example sentences of "[noun] [modal v] be [adv] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So although th th the equality of opportunity may be there the attitudes maybe have n't changed that much , or have they ? |
| 2 | The title of Willie van Peer 's The taming of the text is intentionally and instructively ambiguous , since , as the editor himself points out in the introduction , " the text may be either the subject or the object of the " " taming " ( p. 7 ) . |
| 3 | Pugh may be nearer the truth . |
| 4 | ECCENTRIC MEYERSON MAY BE JUST THE CURE |
| 5 | WHETHER he 's a scratch player or just learning to tee off , My Golfing Record by Studio Designs could be just the thing for any dad this Father 's Day . |
| 6 | Ironically , Ernst & Young chose almost the same moment to issue a plea for a simplification of the rules governing disclosures in company accounts — if this ASB warning is not acted on , the result could be exactly the opposite . |
| 7 | If you have a space problem , then the loft could be just the place to put to good use . |
| 8 | A mild , wet spring would be just the ticket for Stowmarket-based lawnmower maker Atco Qualcast , whose management team has just bought the firm from cement group Blue Circle Industries . |
| 9 | A Hollywood blue movie would be just the kind of bonus to keep his agents sweet . |
| 10 | The only exceptions to this rule will be where the circumflex indicates a change of meaning as in jeûne ( fast ) as opposed to jeune ( young ) , or in mûr ( ripe ) as opposed to mur ( wall ) . |
| 11 | Starry eyed lovers , spoilt brats and feuding parents may be just the ticket for the maiden aunt but what the old fashioned bit of Victorian nonsense is doing surfacing in the West End in recession-hit 1992 is a mystery . |
| 12 | I thought to myself , Computers are in danger of making people furious , but the theatre as a job of work might be just the meat . ’ |
| 13 | Officers took turns in conducting the Sunday morning service but every Sunday evening Eva would be up the front conducting the soldiers ' meeting . |
| 14 | A beautiful diamond necklace which recently fetched £11,000 at Bonhams would be twice the price in an ordinary jewellers . |
| 15 | Whether you break down , have your car stolen , or need the police or an ambulance , help will be only the press of a few buttons away — without leaving the car . |
| 16 | Anthony will be just the man for it , the Bishop said . |
| 17 | As has been seen clearly from the English and Welsh experience , the initial sales of subsidiaries of the Scottish Bus Group may be only the beginning of a long and complicated saga . |
| 18 | According to consultant Samantha Vandertoorn from The South London Natural Health Centre , the knowledge that you 're about to forget all your troubles in flotation could be just the incentive your body needs to get you to Westminster Bridge . |
| 19 | More important ideas will be nearer the centre and less important ideas will be near the edge . |
| 20 | Such desire for the other may be less the result of a desublimation of repressed desire than a consequence of desire itself being structured by social repression generally : thus the other may be cathected as ( an ) other beyond repression . |
| 21 | The distance between the horizontal rows of rings should be twice the depth of the bottom pelmet to make a pleat the same size as the pelmet . |
| 22 | He is still cautious about forecasting what will happen over the next two months , but reckons that Tie Rack 's low-priced , high value ranges should be just the thing to tempt recession-bashed Christmas shoppers . |
| 23 | It is safest to assume , therefore , that whereas the Lion and Stag mosaic might be predominantly the work of a craftsmen who was also present at North Leigh , the same proximity of relationship can not be postulated for the Oceanus mosaic . |
| 24 | Now Eurotunnel says that £7bn could be nearer the mark , while the banks and the consortium involved in the construction work believe that far bigger sums will be necessary . |
| 25 | With home recording equipment so comparatively cheap these days ( you can buy quite a workmanlike setup for the cost of a decent guitar ) these video manuals could be just the answer to a layman 's prayer . |
| 26 | A surprise attack at midnight would be just the sort of thing he might try . |
| 27 | The delay would be twice the duration of the original journey time . |
| 28 | In general , as already described , corrections will be twice the number of degrees that the aircraft is off the desired track . |
| 29 | The part of the foot used in the strike can be either the edge or the heel . |
| 30 | If this is what was happening in Marslen-Wilson 's experiment , the really important variable should be where the target occurred relative to the recognition point , rather than where the target occurred within the word . |