Example sentences of "[ex0] [vb mod] be [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 So far as I know there is no definition of what constitutes a Cabinet Committee and , as the practice has grown , I believe there may be among the 70-odd Committees in the book some with less title to be treated as Cabinet Committees than some of the 700-odd interdepartmental committees of which we have no detailed information at all .
2 Whatever ‘ security ’ there may be in the working for the Church of England has been lost .
3 If there is ever a shadow of self pity , as I think there may be in the final verse of ‘ The Missing ’ , it is completely overshadowed by the cruel indifference and bleakness of Gunn 's other description .
4 For example , if the entire coding for the strength of the response depended on Kandel 's single synapse , there should be in the intact animal a direct correlation between the frequency or amount of firing of that specific motor neuron and the strength of the withdrawal reflex .
5 It was hard to see what future there could be for the embittered and ranting Nazi or his new and pretty wife , other than a steady descent into the poverty of hired rooms and unpaid bills .
6 They erm there 's , there 's less , there 's less a feeling of community in there than there would be on the average street .
7 Find out how much shelf metreage or footage there will be in the following units :
8 We can expect with certainty that there will be in the near future an unprecedented worldwide demand for the development of IT systems such as those listed below : Robots , manufacturing cells , driverless tractors , computer-based controllers , computers , computer terminals .
9 If the Legal Aid Board , as the only party adversely affected by the proposed order , has the opportunity to challenge it but decides not to do so , one may ask rhetorically what possible objection of substance there can be to the existing practice .
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