Example sentences of "the [noun pl] be [adj] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet somehow the galleries were open again and doing a brisk trade , and publishers could not remember when they had sold so many books . |
| 2 | Brian Williams and Ken Brierley got late goals for Liverpool at Charlton , but by then the Reds were three down and lost 3-2 . |
| 3 | While no one objects to him chasing the girls a bit ( the roads are safe enough and drivers know him and avoid him ) , he stays away for days on end and is obviously getting into scraps with other dogs — presumably male rivals who 've beaten the same path to the bitches ' doors ! |
| 4 | Owen could take over the transcendentalists ' search for underlying patterns , but , since the relationships were ideal rather than physical , he could follow Cuvier 's refutation of transmutation by emphasizing the gaps between the different forms of vertebrate life . |
| 5 | the books are available separately or in sets with two audio cassettes . |
| 6 | The Renegades were 6–5 ahead and looking good , but Robert Hunter was the Kop 's saviour by taking the last game . |
| 7 | The risks are all ahead and I do n't give a damn ! |
| 8 | Certainly , dislike or suspicion of the Jews was widespread even before Hitler took power . |
| 9 | Once again , this approach to involving disabled people in the arts is flawed primarily because disabled people have not been consulted about what is wanted . |
| 10 | You could n't edit the preview display , of course , and the typefaces were generic rather than accurate representations but things were , it seemed , moving in the right direction . |
| 11 | In ewes it seems likely that the parasites are present largely as hypobiotic larvae in the lungs during each winter and mature in the spring . |
| 12 | Where the jurisdictional fact is framed in open textured subjective terms , as in the above example , that is not possible ; the court can not say openly ‘ we think the circumstances were fit even though you , the Minister , did not . ’ |
| 13 | Coetzee checked to see that the pockets were empty so that nothing could be lost at the scene of the crime . |
| 14 | Essentially the same structures are found among the Thysanura in the Lepismatidae , though the coxites are unmodified there and bear styles . |
| 15 | The models are available immediately and start at $92,000 for the 887S and $112,000 for the 897S . |
| 16 | First , the models are one-dimensional only and can not be applied to a real solid . |
| 17 | Count 1 alleged the obtaining of property by deception contrary to section 15(1) of the Theft Act 1968 , the particulars being that on or about 16 March 1988 the appellant dishonestly obtained from the Halifax Building Society a cheque for £150,000 by falsely representing ( a ) that his basic annual income was £90,000 , ( b ) that he had never been bankrupt and did not have any judgment or proceedings for debt outstanding and ( c ) that he did not have any bank or other loans or charge/credit card debts . |
| 18 | The weapons are expensive partly because they are made of expensive components , but also because they are time-consuming to develop . |
| 19 | The boats are diesel-powered rather than sailing cobles , but the fleet is small and scarcely serves its local market , let alone an important part of what is in any event a diminishing national fleet . |
| 20 | Fortunately most of the corridors were bright enough and only in a few of the darker , damper ones did he need his torch to see where he was going . |
| 21 | The machines that keep us alive , and the machines that make the machines are all directly or indirectly dependent upon coal . |
| 22 | The lights were all out and Edward in bed . |
| 23 | The suffragettes were weak physically and numerically , without franchise , and had resorted to passive resistance as the only weapon at their disposal . |
| 24 | But the tables were good then but erm too much time involved in them , in in sawing with in them . |
| 25 | Hewlett-Packard is anxious to stress though that the printers are multi-system rather than simply personal computer-based products . |
| 26 | Then the breakers were all astern and Terrie was coming round to starboard to motor up the back of the reef . |
| 27 | The various sections of the school function as effective teams and the objectives are clear so that they know what is required of them . |
| 28 | The demonstrations were important too because they included sets with 28in. screens . |
| 29 | The leaders are important also because they are an essential factor in making effective political forces in this way out of more general group interests , referred to by Schumpeter as group-wise volitions ' . |
| 30 | If the cross-section happens to be smaller at a certain place , then the forces are larger there than at the neighbouring cross-sections , so the beam will be further constricted , etc. , leading to the so-called sausage instability ( Fig. 3.3(a) ) . |