Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] be the [noun sg] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I ca n't figure out why foreign investment is the battlefield he decided to pick , ’ one official said on Friday . |
| 2 | For John Lawer — three-wheeled and proud of it — being treated like a second-class motorist is the price he pays for the car he drives . |
| 3 | For John Lawer — three-wheeled and proud of it — being treated like a second-class motorist is the price he pays for the car he drives . |
| 4 | Dietary fibre is the substance which makes the waste matter from the food we eat pass through us and out of us at the desirable , speedy , natural rate . |
| 5 | If , however , her main dislike of Ken 's sexual behaviour was the way it coloured his career , then she has perhaps cause for concern . |
| 6 | In the normal case the interfering public authority is the court which entertains the suit for defamation . |
| 7 | The natural prototype for a metric space is the world we live in , where the metric is Euclidean distance which you can measure with a ruler . |
| 8 | The top node is the property which is true of all possible examples . |
| 9 | as if poetic utterance were the thing itself . |
| 10 | In Gandhi 's view , its cardinal sin is the way it tolerates untouchability . |
| 11 | The accusation , ‘ that person has no conscience ’ , carries a condemnation of character , but the real culprit is the society which has failed to raise to a position of the utmost importance in the public mind , the fact that the human conscience is the very rock-bottom foundation on which civilisation rests . |
| 12 | More serious to the surveying practice is the job which has a fixed fee and runs over budgeted time . |
| 13 | The final report on a philosophical inquiry is the inquiry itself . |
| 14 | The golfer who does not suffer some degree of disappointment or annoyance when forced to offer his hand to a victorious opponent is the golfer who will always float in a morass of mediocrity . |
| 15 | The classic example of a possessory security is the pledge which involves the pledgee ( the security holder ) taking possession of the goods of the debtor ( the pledgor ) until the debt is paid or the pledgee takes steps to enforce the pledge . |
| 16 | Civil war was the spectre which haunted much of sixth-century Gaul , or so it seemed to Gregory of Tours as he wrote the preface to the fifth book of his Histories . |
| 17 | In this situation one of the most important dimensions of uneven development was the inequality which resulted from differences between sectors and in particular from the economic fortunes of different sectors . |
| 18 | ‘ The Created God is the name we give to all that is good ’ , is a statement which makes no demand on the credulity of a young mind . |
| 19 | A more contemporary example is the man who finally retires after a lifetime of work , with no new goals or plans . |
| 20 | Although scoring well in competition is very gratifying , improving personal performance is the goal which spurs Andrew Kuttner to higher achievements . |
| 21 | This is one of the many books which address the snobbery of the English , which flash at their readers the lawns of country houses , the baize of gambling-tables , which tell tales of those virtuosos of ostentation and disregard who have in common a contempt for commonness , for the middle class ; and it could be said of such books that their chief resource is the eccentricity which has long amounted to a convention of upper-class life . |
| 22 | At Kylie 's side for that crucial trip was the man her father Ron had chosen to oversee her career . |
| 23 | Even now , gin with ice cold tonic is the spirit I 'd probably choose to take with me to a desert island just so long as there were plenty of lemon groves to hand on my castaway paradise . |
| 24 | A key aspect of the 1977 White Paper was the stress it placed on the wider effects of poverty : that it was not just those with acute needs who suffered . |
| 25 | Quite as remarkable as the original display of ill temper was the graciousness which prompted him to apologize for it . |
| 26 | I suppose that the common denominator in on-the-road campaigning is the commitment it requires , especially from the volunteer workers in the constituencies who make the biggest sacrifice . |
| 27 | Human Touch is the album he has been working on for several years and Lucky Town a set of songs he quickly wrote and recorded at home recently , and though the tone of the two records does n't differ that much , the second set of songs are far better . |
| 28 | An obvious explanation is the patronage which he had at his disposal as chief steward , for although this derived from the crown its exercise was a manifestation of the duke 's own good lordship . |
| 29 | An obvious explanation is the patronage which he had at his disposal as chief steward , for although this derived from the crown its exercise was a manifestation of the duke 's own good lordship . |
| 30 | But the basic , but the basic problem is the way it was set up in the first place , |