Example sentences of "[ex0] be the [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At one end there are the primarily technological approaches , whereby hardware and software are used to aid already established methods of decision making : examples are financial planning and Executive Information Systems . |
| 2 | ‘ But immediately over its borders there are the most frightful neighbourhoods , where poverty is endemic . |
| 3 | Sometimes there are the most startling surprises when we come to realise how someone else is looking at a situation which , to us , could only be perceived in one way . |
| 4 | Zips There are the most common way of fastening sleeping bags . |
| 5 | Quite apart from the leisurely beginnings and ends of terms , the examination time , unexpected holidays , and festivals , requests for children to parade or sing or help with community work , there are the apparently inevitable absences of teachers : the headmaster to collect salaries , the senior teachers to mark and supervise examinations or attend panels , the married ladies to nurse sick children or to have babies . |
| 6 | In addition there are the more general , personal responsibilities to pupils and to colleagues , and the implicit expectations that they will keep up with their subject and methods of teaching it . |
| 7 | Or , in great contrast , there are the more modern abstract designs that might not look out of place displayed on a wall . |
| 8 | There are the more restricted duties of juvenile liaison , which deals with young offenders and their families , and the general community relations work amongst juveniles and community groups connected with the young , such as schools and youth clubs ( with the exception of the ubiquitous Christmas party for old folks ) . |
| 9 | Then there are the more daring exploratory fantasies that dwell on ideas such as orgies ; homosexual encounters ; mixed race sex ; and being seduced . |
| 10 | Thirdly , there are the relatively few institutions which have remained very largely monotechnic , concentrating on teacher education . |
| 11 | There are already the olive oil and the garlic and the aromatic herbs of Provence ; there are the cream and the cheeses of the Dauphine ; there are the sumptuously cooked duck and chicken dishes of the Ardè ; che side of the Rhone . |
| 12 | On the one hand , there are the ideologically correct venues . |
| 13 | There are the almost commercial songs ‘ Stone Man ’ and ‘ Let's Fall Out ’ . |
| 14 | There are the almost commercial songs ‘ Stone Man ’ and ‘ Let's Fall Out ’ . |
| 15 | So , of course , it was worth considerably more than I 'd been offered , and there were the most unpleasant suggestions flying around . |
| 16 | Finally there 's the ultra slim Ibanez FGM 100 Frank Gambale Signature model , which turns from a lightweight jazz/fusion guitar into a heavyweight rock monster at the tweak of a pot . |
| 17 | There 's the firstly that of young children , and it 's something that I remember putting a motion to in the last administration about a creche or whatever or looking into this facility , in the fact of erm , trying to encourage more people with young families to erm , actually get involved in local government and politics . |
| 18 | There 's the most beautiful little owl too , look ! |
| 19 | where the villa is there 's the most beautiful restaurant you 've ever seen |
| 20 | There 's the percentage game of wage slavery , mortgage and pension plans , and then there 's the less predictable option of throwing yourself to the fates and seeing what happens . |
| 21 | Alternatively , there is the softly-softly Unionist strategy , based on finding more common ground at district council level time for such an interim stage , many would ask . |
| 22 | In support of a view that hearers behave as if speakers ' presuppositions are to be accepted , there is the rather disturbing evidence from Loftus ' study ( 1975 ) of answers to leading questions . |
| 23 | Second , there is the wholly unsustainable assumption that constitutional change was the motivating factor in all , or even most , of these votes . |
| 24 | First , there is the most peripheral category , composed of persons to whom the user organisation has the lowest degree of commitment . |
| 25 | And finally there is the most skilled job of all that requires the most experience and judgment , the ambusher . |
| 26 | Life itself added the boldest brush strokes and when , finally , he , Jack Nicholson in person , confronts the world , there is the most awesome feeling of encountering a man of unquestionable charm , intelligence and friendship , yet who possesses an indefinable menace that can only be compared with some of the roles he has acted . |
| 27 | Many of the records of insects represent an extension of the known range of the particular species : three species of bees , five of aculeate wasps and 20 of hoverflies are among many new records for Leicestershire ; the cuckoo wasp , Vespula austriaca , is new to central England ; there is the most southerly record of a calliphorid fly , which is common in Scotland ; at least eight species of Ichneumonidae and five of Serphidae are new to Britain ; and two ichneumonids are probably new to science . |
| 28 | In addition , there is the most important demand-side pressure — namely , changes in the demand for labour locally and nationally , the effects of which have been largely overlooked in previous research . |
| 29 | Is it not extraordinary therefore that in the United States where there is the most rapid growth of technology and of productivity , there are no government training schemes and does this not make a nonsense of the opposition 's repeated claim that government training schemes are the way forward ? |
| 30 | Inside there is the most beautiful and elaborate plasterwork ceiling in the parlour , where huge intersecting stars contain smaller designs . |