Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] be the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But good planning and advance preparation are the best way to ensure the move is as efficient and trouble-free as possible . |
| 2 | The most striking instance was the 1976 Soweto uprising which was sparked off by secondary school pupils ' opposition to the authorities ' insistence that they learn certain subjects in Afrikaans , viewed by most black people as the language of the oppressor . |
| 3 | I love to play Shadows and Ventures instrumental music , and , as you know , rhythmic and melodic expertise is the absolute essence of this type of playing . |
| 4 | Low tide is the best time to see birds from a boat — and low tide , especially the very low tide of early spring , is the best time to get stuck on a sandbank ! |
| 5 | The historic award was the first fatal accident claim to be started after the MoD lost its immunity from law suits in 1987 . |
| 6 | In some organisations , like government for instance , pre-meeting lobbying is the expected norm . |
| 7 | It is believed the open-entry course is the first of its kind in Northern Ireland . |
| 8 | It is clear that the main , though not only , point of reference for the professional course is the external profession or occupation which absorbs the majority of its graduates . |
| 9 | Another possible measure was the average number of citations within the citation period . |
| 10 | For the twentieth-century facts were that they were a small , oppressed , poor and exploited people , in thrall to the then all-mighty English , and their sole singularity was the Welsh language and only a quarter of them spoke that . |
| 11 | The triple shell was the traditional coffin for the burial vault and brick-lined grave . |
| 12 | The political response is the necessary and inevitable accompaniment to the metaphysical dilemma . |
| 13 | The above pattern may be correct for very slow speech , but we must now look at what happens to the rhythm in normal speech : many English speakers would feel that , although in ‘ twenty places ’ the right-hand foot is the stronger , the word ‘ twenty ’ is stronger than ‘ places ’ in ‘ twenty places further back ’ when spoken in conversational style . |
| 14 | This is also true of so-called ‘ simple ’ schizophrenia , where poverty of speech and thought , apathy , and flat emotional response are the predominant features . |
| 15 | A second criticism is that the theory assumes that all emotional response is the same . |
| 16 | The classic case is the famous opening scene of Le bourgeois gentilhomme , in which a hopelessly inept student , singing soprano , attempts to perform a languorous love song . |
| 17 | The most striking finding is the enormous range of social and economic circumstances in which children are brought up ( Osborn , Butler , and Morris 1984 ; Osborn and Milbank 1988 ) . |
| 18 | Stable differentiation is the normal state of affairs , and the existence of this variation is one of the things that makes linguistic change possible , in that the different variants can be latched on to by different groups and for different social functions : thus , the patterns of consensus can change in the course of time . |
| 19 | Normally , only a few hours will be spent each day at classes , and private study is the major element in the student 's timetable . |
| 20 | Added to the peculiarities of its india-rubber action are the allied quirks of a non-standard spacing and a fiendishly complicated system of Shifts and Symbol Shifts to access the various keywords and punctuation symbols littered around the keyboard . |
| 21 | The economic situation and the persistence of unemployment did help but the most obvious factor pushing Labour forward was the General Strike , which occurred between 3–12 May 1926 . |
| 22 | Readers interested in social policy should not be put off by the disciplinary context of geography : in many respects present-day geography is the next-door neighbour of social policy studies . |
| 23 | Sometimes a comparatively-small apparent amount of media has a large surface area ( foam , sintered glass ) ; in other cases an apparently large amount of media has a small effective surface area ( under-maintained clogged gravel is the best example ) . |
| 24 | WHAT a mixed-up lover was the tawny owl which broke into a nature park night after night to pay court to a wooden model of a female owl . |
| 25 | The result of this injection of European blood was the original full-tabby cat . |
| 26 | The clash came as Mr Kinnock exploited the apparent contradiction between Mrs Thatcher 's claim that she did not know why Mr Lawson resigned and the former Chancellor 's assertion in last Sunday 's Walden interview that he had made it quite clear to the Prime Minister that Sir Alan Walter 's continued presence as her economic adviser was the only issue . |
| 27 | Matching the model club conditions in its advanced thinking was the first-class training headed by Chapman 's right-hand man Tom Whittaker . |
| 28 | Professional football is the obvious case . |
| 29 | It would seem therefore that low osmolality is the dominant factor rather than glucose transport when it comes to promoting net water absorption and this contention is supported by the higher water absorption from the WHO-ORS compared to UK-ORS in secreting intestine , despite their similar glucose absorption . |
| 30 | Assuming , however , that since the highest-ranked journal for the publication of Scottish geological research is the Scottish Journal of Geology ( SJG ) , then that journal 's rejected papers do contain some derived from thesis research . |