Example sentences of "[conj] [art] [noun] be the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Asserting , what was palpably untrue , that ‘ There are probably few people in India who do not sincerely regret that you should have made it impossible for any government to leave you at liberty ’ , he handed down a sentence of six years ' simple imprisonment , pointing out — the crowning touch-that the sentence was the same as that given to the nationalist hero Bal Gangadhar Tilak , twelve years before . |
| 2 | The agricultural future lay with cattle-raising ( the cow or the pig was the only cash product of the small farmer and was sold , to pay his taxes , in the markets that were the centre of Galician social intercourse ) , and this could not develop until railways brought the market centre of Lugo into contact with the mass consumption of Madrid and Barcelona . |
| 3 | Domestic service or the mills were the main openings for single women of the working-class ; if they married and outlived their husbands , there were no old age pensions available . |
| 4 | Of course , like thousands of others around the world , I felt I ‘ knew ’ him from the wireless and his writings on the game ; but the training of binoculars on him in the commentary-box at Lord 's or The Oval was the nearest to physical contact . |
| 5 | This parallels the trampling experiment described above where the skulls were the first element to be broken . |
| 6 | The outcome fuelled speculation about possible realignments on the left in Greek politics , where the KKE was the major element in the Coalition of the Left and Progress ( Synaspismos , of which Florakis was president ) since its formation in 1989 , and had been part of the two government coalitions in power from July 1989 until February 1990 [ see pp. 36738-39 ; 37050-51 ; 37263-64 ] . |
| 7 | It was noted in the Faroes ( where the oystercatcher is the national bird ) , in Scotland , where the birds began to penetrate inland up the river valleys , and in Shetland , where they forsook the shingle beaches and moved to fields and even up on the heather hills . |
| 8 | Under the one the greatest benefits must be given where the merits are the smallest , under the other the benefits must be proportioned to the merits ’ . |
| 9 | Where the wife was the erring partner , the husband could seek freedom from the obligation to provide such support . |
| 10 | In the US , where the government is the only major backer , research has limped along at about half a million dollars a year . |
| 11 | The plaintiff claimed that the nationality of the successor in title was irrelevant where the claimant was the original owner . |
| 12 | ( These types of calculation arise in project appraisal in developing countries introduced in chapter 6 , where the question is the intra-temporal equity one of weighing income/consumption gains for individuals at different points in the income distribution . ) |
| 13 | This deliberately throwaway remark hints at the paranoia within the ranks of Rough Trade where The Smiths are the only band of stature that they had managed to retain . |
| 14 | Erm thank you Mr Chairman , high up in the Cardiganshire coast near , on the trunk road between and where the population is the sparsest in Wales and certainly a . |
| 15 | In the case of Archer-Shee v Baker ( 1927 ) 11 TC 749 , it was held that income arising to a beneficiary from a non-resident trust where the beneficiary was the sole life tenant resident in the United Kingdom was income receivable by the beneficiary from the specific securities stocks , shares , rents or other property which constituted the trust fund . |
| 16 | The jurist could consider holding a trust to be valid where the beneficiary was the same , although the trustee liable had in fact changed . |
| 17 | Amsterdam attendance figures were higher , at 445,000 , while for Berlin 's Gemäldegalerie , where the exhibition was the first major show to be held in a united Germany , visitors reached 330,000 in two months . |
| 18 | Gilbert and Specht show that project workers used client participation effectively in the planning stage , where the process was the main consideration , work was non-directive , and the major skills needed of the worker were interactional in nature . |
| 19 | 25% to 50%When there is also a majority shareholder , has ‘ negative ’ influence which may give bargaining power through the ability to block special resolutions ; where the holding is the single largest shareholding may have a considerable degree of control |
| 20 | If , on a sale of unregistered land , there is any personal obligation on the part of a seller-client to observe restrictions ( as , for example , where the seller is the original covenantor or has given a personal covenant to observe these ) , it is desirable to provide in the contract for a similar covenant indemnifying the seller against any future breach . |
| 21 | This is confirmed by more detailed research evidence , for example Wenger 's ( 1984 ) study of elderly people living in rural North Wales , where she found that married and infirm people had distinctive patterns of personal support , where the spouse was the main helper for every task mentioned . |
| 22 | This alters the previous law , where it was held in effect that where a policeman was the only witness to what had occurred , no offence was committed . |
| 23 | ‘ A nice restaurant or a settee is the best place to spend an evening . ’ |
| 24 | They duly applauded when he quantified electrochemistry in his famous laws of electrolysis , and when he proved experimentally that electricity from a condenser , a battery or an eel was the same . |
| 25 | But neither the car nor the team was the real problem . |
| 26 | My Lord point eight , erm , the evidence it all goes to insurance points , solvency and protection of policy holders and in that regard two points , first of all why one can simply say V D S , secondly all their justifications , even if it 's true , the answer is V D S , but in any event they must sure even if , even if V D S was wrong in some way , they would have to show that the restrictions were the minimum necessary in order to achieve those legitimate policy objectives |
| 27 | Gordon Woodroffe , a zoologist who has studied the water voles of the North York Moors , does not consider that the mink is the total rogue it is held out to be in some quarters , but it certainly appears to have caused the vole 's extinction on the Moors . |
| 28 | this meant that the mercury was the first newspaper to be published outside those places . |
| 29 | All in all , he still believes that the mainframe is the only choice for big companies . |
| 30 | But as the full measure of SR and Menshevik subordination to the bourgeoisie was revealed , the overwhelming majority of workers recognized that the Bolsheviks were the true spokesmen of their interests . |