Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [prep] [noun] be the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The poem is defined , technically , as the ‘ experience of the right kind of reader has when he peruses the verses ’ ( Richards 1926 : 10 ) ) , and the right kind of reader is the one who manages to recreate in himself more or less completely the collection of impulses which the poet expressed in the poem or , more exactly , the ‘ relevant experience of the poet when contemplating the completed composition ’ ( Richards 1967 : 178 ) . |
| 2 | Among other outstanding houses at Pompeii are the House of Menander , the House of Pansa and the House of the Vettii . |
| 3 | Quite simply , Political Change in Britain is the landmark text in the field of voting behaviour research . |
| 4 | Although nineteenth century whalers discovered that many Of the strange calls at sea were the voices of whales , only recently have the songs Of cetaceans become familiar to the rest of the world . |
| 5 | The Declaration states that the attainment of the highest possible level of health is the most important social goal . |
| 6 | This tertiary level of care is the most highly skilled and complex to provide ; residents are very vulnerable when so much of their daily lives is out of their hands ( Richards , M. 1987 , p. 8 ) . |
| 7 | On checking through the Division list , I found that among the Members who sadly threw out that advanced piece of legislation were the right hon. Member for Norfolk , South ( Mr. MacGregor ) and other interesting names . |
| 8 | Another commonly-accepted indication of intelligence is the way animals deal with the unpredictable contingencies of their world through learning ; and it is here that our intuition tells us that we must be dealing with something very like intellect . |
| 9 | A private club in Scotland is the unlikely ruler of a global golfing empire |
| 10 | The only really solid piece of evidence is the fact that Thatcher made no mention of her mother in her Who 's Who entry . |
| 11 | The clearest example of law as mediator of political religion in Ireland is the Irish constitution of 1937 and its subsequent interpretation . |
| 12 | A recommended course for beginners is the RYA Competent Crew Certificate , which can be taken over three sailing weekends ( £110 per weekend ) or a full five-day course ( £215 ) . |
| 13 | The notion of art upon which the Report draws is at once so general as to be almost unspecifiable , and so pragmatic as to offer a highly potent means of making practical and discursive links between English and education : " The writing of English is essentially an art , and the effect of English literature in education is the effect of an art upon the development of human character " . |
| 14 | Apart from Brooke , an obscure little house , all that survived of the medieval foundations of Rutland was the hospital , or almshouse , at Oakham , which only had goods worth 40s. : clearly its income of 20 marks only just sufficed to maintain the twelve poor inmates : Warden Gunby was no Septimus Harding . |
| 15 | It was held that the proper measure of damages was the husband 's actual loss ( ie his loss of earnings ) , which was in fact less than the cost of employing a housekeeper . |
| 16 | I often hear from friends in the military business , because that 's near my own sort of work , that the German part of NATO is the only really big and solid part of NATO , as if that military tradition has revived , found itself again . |
| 17 | Legislation might be defined as the making of general rules to govern future conduct ; under this definition , Public Acts of Parliament are the central case of legislation . |
| 18 | To Socrates , the only acceptable kind of literature was the fable — a straight-forward medium for conveying necessary truths . |
| 19 | The vehicle for cultural change in RX is the Leadership Through Quality ( LTQ ) programme initiated in 1983 to transform every aspect of the company 's routine business processes . |
| 20 | An increasingly popular measure of effect is the difference not in proportions but in log odds between two categories . |
| 21 | Some of the excellent contemporary work included reminds us that the historical Orientalism on display is the basis of our current society 's attitude to the east . |
| 22 | Bateson now argued that the direct study of variation was the only way of trying to understand how evolution actually works . |
| 23 | Recent molecular studies with cDNA probes have provided evidence that PGA haplotypes containing different combinations of genes are the major contributing factor in the observed protein heterogeneity . |
| 24 | Walker 's most liberating pictures of femininity are the many watercolours of groups of women sometimes with children gathered by the sea . |
| 25 | More helpful , perhaps , for both native and foreign speakers of French is the decision to make accents correspond to the way words should be pronounced . |
| 26 | A lack of response would suggest that the high concentration of alcohol is the principal factor . |
| 27 | There may be occasional discussion of calming principles in the literature and appraisals of such designs in practice , but the lasting impression provided by an examination of residential areas in Britain is the exceptionally slow pace of change by comparison with that on the Continent in general and Holland and West Germany in particular . |
| 28 | Riding and windsurfing are both available nearby , and in the nearby village of Biberwier is the Tyrol 's longest summer toboggan run . |
| 29 | ‘ A high degree of professionalism is the key to success in today 's complex and competitive world . ’ |
| 30 | The most impressive and the greatest example of secular Medieval architecture in Europe was the Cloth Hall at Ypres , built 1200–1304 . |