Example sentences of "[conj] [det] [noun sg] [be] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is not because it can be proved one way or the other that either or neither version is the type of play that Marlowe would have written . |
| 2 | Those characteristics were known to that keeper or were at any time known to a person who at that time had charge of the animal as that keeper 's servant or , where that keeper is the head of a household , were known to another keeper of the animal who is a member of that household and under the age of sixteen . ’ |
| 3 | Group members will tend to conform to group standards or norms , especially where such conformity is the result of a general acceptance of the basic beliefs , attitudes and values of the group . |
| 4 | thus one can and must say … that each fight is the singularisation of all the circumstances of the social whole in movement and that by this singularisation , it incarnates the enveloping totalization which the historical process is . |
| 5 | In my judgment the basic answer which any real property lawyer would give to a question about an assignee 's power to deal with a tenancy interest is that each assignee is the owner of the whole estate and can deal with it so as to alter it or its terms . |
| 6 | That developing process is itself totalized through Sartre 's assertion that each totalization is the totalization of all struggles , as it must be if the singular is to incarnate the universal . |
| 7 | Although this region was the nation 's first to identify the cause of smog and to make pioneering strides towards curbing air pollution , population growth keeps overwhelming its efforts . |
| 8 | Although it is not explicitly stated that this sea-monster was the father of eponymous founder of the Merovingian dynasty , that is clearly the impression which Fredegar intended to give . |
| 9 | If again we talk about the locality where thinking takes place we have a right to say that this locality is the paper on which we write or the mouth which speaks . |
| 10 | It would be nice to think that this presentation is the end of it and that the client says " Go ahead " , and the agency produces the campaign . |
| 11 | For the moment , what concerns us is that this government is the product of change extending over several centuries , coming to fruition only in the past century . |
| 12 | It may well be that this building was the Quartermasters Stores originally . |
| 13 | The fact that this country is the No. 1 location for inward investment in Europe shows that the international business community has confidence in our policies . |
| 14 | Without line B , we might reasonably conclude that this evaluation is the poet 's judgment , just as we would suppose for the preceding verses , 15–16 ( though the presence of ) in v. 15 may give us second thoughts ) . |
| 15 | Some years later , Muriel admits that this conversation was the making of her . |
| 16 | I also told David that I think there is a substantial difference between my vision of the Library and that of some other staff , and that this factor is the cause of much of the perceived difficulty between myself and others . |
| 17 | As another pseudo-emblema of the later second century , therefore , it appears that this panel was the work of a mosaicist employed on the Lion and Stag and , perhaps , on the Cupids mosaic . |
| 18 | The seven points relevant to the Godhead are that he is true ; that he is everlasting truth — " stedefast & sothefast " ; that Jesus is God 's Son and equal with his Father ; that the Holy Ghost came from both of them and is equal with them so that in God there are three aspects or powers ; that this Trinity is the source of all creativity : that all believers share in the sacraments and are the Church within which lies salvation ; that at judgement day all will rise up , body and soul together , and go either to hell or heaven depending on whether they have done evil or good . |
| 19 | ‘ I am familiar with the darker view which encompasses bestiality , incest , parricide , rustling , infanticide and the murderous rivalry within the Women 's Institute , but I had imagined that this view was the product of a warped approach to life and greatly exaggerated . ’ |
| 20 | An announcement informed the vacant platform and Rachaela that this train was the London via somewhere , calling at something and elsewhere and who cared at all ? |
| 21 | Twelve , douse is that this week is the week after that ? |
| 22 | On the basis of its much smaller jaws and teeth and enlarged cranial cavity , scientists have assumed that this being was the tool-maker . |
| 23 | Not that this miracle was the end of the tale . |
| 24 | In fact , it seems that this chintz was the product of a relationship rather than a society . |
| 25 | The most usual method of calculation is to determine the net profit of the business ensuring that this amount is the amount of pre-tax and pre proprietor drawings and pre interest charges . |
| 26 | We all knew that this carnage was the work of Unionist Fascists bent on teaching the Republic a lesson — stay out of our affairs . |
| 27 | Envoys of Offa , however , had arrived at the court of Charlemagne affirming that this rumour was the work of men who were enemies of both Charlemagne and Offa , and had gone on their way to Rome , accompanied by Frankish envoys , to reiterate Offa 's denial of a plot against Hadrian before the pope himself . |
| 28 | There seems little doubt that such variation is the rule rather than the exception : the meaning of any word form is in some sense different in every distinct context in which it occurs . |
| 29 | This seems eminently reasonable , quite apart from its association with the Spinozist idea that all motivation is the attempt of a personal essence to keep itself in actuality in the fullest possible way . |
| 30 | Whilst not suggesting that more machinery is the answer , concentrating and adapting the farm to one enterprise was well worth consideration . |