Example sentences of "be [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | These are mainly confined to Afghanistan and north-east Persia , although some genuine Russian tribal items may also be found , and are predominantly the work of the Tekke , Yamut , Ersari , Chodor , Saryk and Salor tribes ( pl. 7 ) . |
| 2 | Out-migrants from rural areas are predominantly the younger members of the adult population . |
| 3 | To air : are predominantly the volatile organic compounds [ ie , those which evaporate in air at normal temperatures ] . |
| 4 | They are not there apart from an observer , they are rather the tendency of objects to produce certain sensations in one . |
| 5 | If , as we believe to be the case , the unconscious activity of the mind consists in imposing forms upon content , and if these forms are fundamentally the same for all minds — ancient and modern , primitive and civilized |
| 6 | The amphibian 's eyes are fundamentally the same in structure as those of their fish ancestors . |
| 7 | The principles set by the schools on both sides of the Atlantic are effectively the same ; they are vocational training centres which make use of speed-learning techniques in a high-energy learning environment . |
| 8 | Now , if B-1 is the same as R1 , unc so that the methods are effectively the same . |
| 9 | But asking bureaucrats to try to separate out the factual premises of decisions from the ethical premises which are properly the reserve of politicians is still desirable . |
| 10 | It seems to me that formulation of the precise grounds upon which overpayments of tax ought to be recoverable and of any exceptions to the right of recovery , may involve nice considerations of policy which are properly the province of Parliament and are not suitable for consideration by the courts . |
| 11 | They are numerically the largest group of people at risk , they present the most complex problems and their needs have the most impact on families and communities . |
| 12 | looks at its long history , in which the last five years have been arguably the most dramatic , part of a transformation which is by no means over . |
| 13 | These commodities are arguably the primitive valuables of early Anglo-Saxon society , used to oil the wheels of social and political activities ( Huggett 1982 and forthcoming ) . |
| 14 | The sermons in which it is presented are arguably the finest contribution to moral philosophy in English . |
| 15 | The last two jobs are arguably the most important , the finish on the runners to make the sled slide , and the brake to make it stop . |
| 16 | But the extended sets of variations usually on popular songs , but sometimes on dance-tunes or the notes of the hexachord , generally increasing in complication and technical difficulty toward the end , which are arguably the chief glory of virginal music , have been plausibly derived from the diferencias of Cabezon ( see pp. 236–7 ) . |
| 17 | In this season 's semi-finals at Wishaw Sports Centre on Saturday , Coatbridge face Su Ragazzi , who have never appeared in a final before , but are arguably the favourites . |
| 18 | There is n't work for everybody , so people who work are mostly the lucky ones . |
| 19 | A farce , you may say , since the vast majority of such cases result in an out of court settlement by a wealthy defendant ( poor or uninsured persons are rarely the subject of such actions ) . |
| 20 | Japanese universities are rarely the home of world-class R&D , though this is changing slowly . |
| 21 | He had been right the first time . |
| 22 | And that the business has been predominantly the nature of business has been predominantly manufacturing . |
| 23 | For centuries the practice of philosophy has been overwhelmingly the prerogative of men but it is only recently that feminist analysis has made it possible to see the distorting effect of this historical fact . |
| 24 | The birds arrive on the cliffs in January and February and stay until June or July , and what are presumably the same birds are recorded right along the coast . |
| 25 | In this instance the directors are presumably the same as the shareholders , and the intention was , undoubtedly , to effect the motor vehicles ' transfer and payment of the dividend on exactly the same date to avoid a loan account debit and a s 419 assessment . |
| 26 | There is a problem about investigating the first of these hypotheses in that the dreams that are remembered are presumably the ones that have more logical structure . |
| 27 | First-preference votes are presumably the votes that have been most seriously considered . |
| 28 | If initial position is reserved for theme and if topic always occurs in initial position , then theme and topic are presumably the same thing . |
| 29 | The selection factors are presumably the same , crabs will always take wide-mouthed shells first and elongated shells must always be more vulnerable to wave action : selection produces different results because it is operating on genetically different populations . |
| 30 | But you see , the trouble with polio is that once the muscles are dead the nerves which serve them are useless . ’ |