Example sentences of "[adv] be the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What matters most are the attitudes of teachers to parents and parents to teachers — whether there is genuine mutual respect , whether the parents understand what the schools are doing for individual children and ( whether ) teachers realise how dependent they are upon parental support . |
| 2 | I find that the , the people who waffle the most are the people who know least . |
| 3 | Secondly , admission to a psychiatric unit has presumably been the result of distress which in many cases will persist after admission . |
| 4 | However , the inequalities in higher education have rarely been the subject of close and critical attention ; far from arguing that higher education serves to reproduce inequalities , commentators ( e.g. Wolpe 1977 ) have argued merely that higher education functions to train middle-class students to take up positions of status and responsibility in society , such as civil servants , managers , teachers and doctors . |
| 5 | Although it has rarely been the subject of judicial pronouncement the conceptual basis of the " conventional " sums awarded by the courts in respect of non-pecuniary losses appears to be that such sums are what are considered fair and reasonable compensation in the social , economic and industrial conditions which prevail in England and Wales . |
| 6 | Furthermore , industrialization has rarely been the panacea for rural development that had been hoped . |
| 7 | National practices in the definition and classification of enterprises vary widely ( Pathirane and Blades 1982 : 28–91 ) and rarely are the criteria made fully explicit in national accounts ( 263 ) . |
| 8 | Fourthly are the fragments of evidence that allow relative and absolute dating to be undertaken by an increasingly varied range of techniques . |
| 9 | Right are the hens , oh the hens are alright . |
| 10 | How right are the comments made by John Stewart about the current crop of Gaelic television programmes . |
| 11 | Erm ironically after I wrote erm the letter was typed on Monday erm to Mr Mr the only lights that have been fixed since are the ones at the end of my street and the next street not as I complained about ones on the main road erm there 's an example that 's been going on for many months where a problem , an acknowledged problem of access existed which was the reason for delay but that as I understand it has been overcome some time ago now and it 's still there , this is a group of seven lights together , the lot , erm these lights are still out , they 're not in my ward in fact , they 're just . |
| 12 | Such an interpretation is not inconsistent with Katib Celebi 's brief account , particularly if it is remembered that by his time the Seyhulislam had long since been the Mufti of Istanbul and that he may therefore have concerned himself with trying to sketch the history of the office only in so far as it related to that city . |
| 13 | IT 'S long since been the woman 's domain . |
| 14 | IT 'S long since been the woman 's domain . |
| 15 | IT 'S long since been the woman 's domain . |
| 16 | In terms of performance , the main facets to concentrate on are the feel and the overall sense of dynamics . |
| 17 | The only animals I have n't been able to check on are the sheep . ’ |
| 18 | But however that may be , we take it as axiomatic that unless it can be established to the contrary , the best authorities as to what went on are the actors themselves . |
| 19 | Less remarked on are the inadequacies and crudity of language when faced with objects in everyday interaction . |
| 20 | Find out what it is used for ( eg are the apples for eating or cooking with ? ) . |
| 21 | an education of this kind is the greatest benefit which could be conferred upon any citizen of a great state , and … the common right to it , the common discipline and enjoyment of it , the common possession of the tastes and association connected with it , would form a new element of national unity , linking together the mental life of all classes by experiences which have hitherto been the privilege of a limited section . |
| 22 | In its document Partnership in Validation , it declared its intention of granting approval to ‘ well established courses ’ for indefinite periods , instead of for five years as had hitherto been the case . |
| 23 | During the eighteenth century diplomats were less irregularly paid than had hitherto been the case and there can be seen the first efforts , though very limited and ineffective ones , to provide them with some systematic professional training . |
| 24 | Perhaps development of nursery education on a much greater scale , bigger scale than has hitherto been the case |
| 25 | Perhaps a development of nursery education on a much greater scale , bigger scale than has hitherto been the case |
| 26 | Character dance like demi-caractère dance had its beginnings in La Fille Mal Gardée when farmers and peasants were first allowed to set foot on the Royal and Imperial stages , which had hitherto been the home of gods and goddesses or noble and well-born heroes and heroines . |
| 27 | But the meeting understood that " It has hitherto been the policy of this HQ and remains ( it is understood ) the advice of the British Resident Minister and the US Political Adviser that all classes and types of dissident and anti-Tito Jugoslavs who fall into the hands of Allied Forces either in Italy or in Austria should not be forced to return to Jugoslavia … " |
| 28 | It is reasonable to suppose that these language users might ( even accidentally ) hit on new combinations of phrases to produce slightly longer sentences than had hitherto been the rule : sentences , moreover , whose newly-coined significance derived from both the context of their first use and the pre-established significance of their components . |
| 29 | One might say that the architect 's or engineer 's conception of a model replaced what had hitherto been the accountant 's model — C6H6 , the mere counting of atoms — in the chemical formula . |
| 30 | Transitions within a game to a different stage or to another game entirely are the moments of maximum vulnerability : from look to touch ; from touch to speech — speech the most difficult of all . |