Example sentences of "[noun pl] be [conj] [adj] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | and the gulls be as neat on the pond |
| 2 | One thing which has struck me very forcibly through the years is that most of the classic evolutionary lineages of my student days , such as Ostrea-Gryphaea and Zaphrentis delanouei , have long since lost their scientific respectability , and in spite of the plethora of palaeontological information we now have available , there seems to be very little to put in their place . |
| 3 | What is not clearly stated in the text but is easily deduced from the tables is that most of the proposed ‘ preventive ’ measures in these 39 cases/ 1000 are not really preventive at all but , rather , treatments carried out after birth : 15.7 are neonatal surgical procedures for congenital heart defects , pyloric stenosis , and inguinal hernia ; 15.4 are standard orthopaedic procedures for congenital hip dislocation and club foot ; and 1.8 are postnatal treatments for a variety of other conditions . |
| 4 | The aversion argument was extracted from its literary context and elevated into a full-blown defence of crudity in the Oz case : " One of the arguments was that many of the illustrations in Oz were so grossly lewd and unpleasant that they would shock in the first instance and then would tend to repel . |
| 5 | Another advantage of growing tropical waterlilies is that some of the varieties open their blooms after dark , and these night bloomers are normally far more fragrant than the day blooming varieties . |
| 6 | What is even more significant for wage profiles is that all of the figures quoted for average tenure are well below the 25–30 years that it takes to reach the peak of the earnings profile . |
| 7 | The best that can be said about marriage laws is that some of the variation may be explained along the lines proposed here . |
| 8 | ‘ The difficulty for so many people in towns is that most of the information about the countryside is in the country . |
| 9 | ‘ The sandwiches are and one of the mugs of coffee . |