Example sentences of "[det] be [adj] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But some are welcoming the change . |
| 2 | If this were correct the experimenters studying the data from the salt mine should have already discovered seven proton decays . |
| 3 | And he dight himself full gallantly and well , and took with him many knights , both his own and of his kindred and of his friends , and he took also many new arms , and came to Valencia to the King with two hundred of his peers in arms , in festival guise ; and the King went out to meet him , and received him right well , and did him honour ; and at this were all the Counts displeased . |
| 4 | Of course , if this is correct the chronicle presumably reached St Augustine 's by way of the Cathedral , Christ Church . |
| 5 | This is all the ice creams . |
| 6 | We 've suffered the shame of your mother 's whoring and this is all the thanks we get . " |
| 7 | This is all the time there is for Private Members ' Bills unless , as occasionally happens , the government takes them over and allots some of its own time to them . |
| 8 | This is all the college buildings is n't it ? |
| 9 | No , thought you were going through the erm , plans , this is all the background history to the er , house . |
| 10 | This is all the apparatus that goes up to drive it . |
| 11 | this is all the children watching the pictures |
| 12 | The problem for the layman consumer is how to interpret the label when this is all the information he is given . |
| 13 | yes , it 's tonight , it 's filling in the application form , but we 're asking you to read the scenario so you know a little bit about the people , and then this is all the information that 's been gathered . |
| 14 | This is all the truth . |
| 15 | But any truly individual room has to evolve slowly ; this is half the fun and certainly half the charm . |
| 16 | This is half the estimate for 1901 . |
| 17 | So I think this is half the reason why I 'm not that . |
| 18 | If this is high the layers deform quasi-uniformly though with high shear stresses at the interfaces . |
| 19 | This was all the education that he had . |
| 20 | By now I had almost convinced Rick to change to the boilie when I had another take on the Tropicana ; this was all the convincing he needed as I landed a nice mirror around the 12lb mark . |
| 21 | Now he was trying to get something done in this nightmare , and this was all the thanks he got . |
| 22 | On Saturday night , they had worked hard on their holiday for the sake of the Prince of Wales , and this was all the thanks they got . |
| 23 | She lifted a hand in acknowledgement , and this was all the encouragement he needed to come in . |
| 24 | This fact reminds me of a tale I was told in the States recently whereby President Clinton and his wife Hilary and Major Kay drove into a garage , quite why this was necessary the tale does not relate , as the petrol or gas attendant began to fill up the limousine , Hilary Clinton leaped out of the car and became involved in an animated conversation with the petrol attendant . |
| 25 | This huge increase should have allayed the peasants ' suspicions of the new regime , but this was hot the case . |
| 26 | This was double the deficit forecast by the Socialist government last autumn . |
| 27 | You then say that when the hotelier went to wake up everyone for breakfast he had a big surprise , for in one bed was all the kings , in another was all the queens , in another all the aces and in the other all the jacks . |
| 28 | So much is this the case that , in the mid-seventeenth century , they came together in a formally institutionalized way in the founding of the Royal Society of London for the Improving of Natural Knowledge . |
| 29 | So much is this the case that the best emeralds exceed diamonds of comparable size in value . |
| 30 | This is because ( as we have seen ) registered particulars means the particulars delivered for registration and where these are accurate the chargee will not be prejudiced by any defects arising from transcribing the submitted particulars on to the register . |