Example sentences of "the [adj] [pron] be [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The lower one is barrel vaulted ; the upper hall is approached via steps and lofty porches ( the south one is now destroyed ) and these porches gave a cruciform plan to the building . |
| 2 | It was not held at this level ; for most of the 1390s it was 8d. and dropped to 6d. again only in 1398 . |
| 3 | And in the SenFed there were people and governments willing to pay fortunes for the promise of near-perfect security . |
| 4 | By the thirties there were picture-halls galore , over 130 , and with more cinemas than any other city in the world outside the United States , Glasgow was no mean Cinema-City . |
| 5 | The family were to be closely associated with Gloucester in the 1470s , but in the 1460s they were Neville men , and Thomas and his brother William suffered forfeiture in 1470 for their support of Warwick and Clarence . |
| 6 | The family were to be closely associated with Gloucester in the 1470s , but in the 1460s they were Neville men , and Thomas and his brother William suffered forfeiture in 1470 for their support of Warwick and Clarence . |
| 7 | And the medium one is X. |
| 8 | We ran it and he turned round to me and said : ‘ The second one is miles better . ’ |
| 9 | Martin Cruz Smith 's Red Square ( HarperCollins ) stars Renko again ; it is also the first ‘ superlead ’ of the new amalgamated Fontana/Grafton lists , the second one being Clive Barker 's The Thief of Always ( HarperCollins ) , which is a slight work by his standards , illustrated by him and designed , I felt , for children . |
| 10 | And then it did n't start up till then till the second one came the Joseph Jo er The second one was John it was christened . |
| 11 | In the first term , colour is the theme , in the second it 's shape and third texture . |
| 12 | After an even opening session and a terrific toe to toe burst at the start of the second it was Oakes who took a grip with McGrath soaking up a steady stream of hard right-hand shots . |
| 13 | As for the psychological barriers , the chief one is lack of confidence . |
| 14 | Come the Seventies it was time for a rethink . |
| 15 | Even in the seventies there was awareness of a ‘ north — south ’ divide . |
| 16 | John Adron 's ‘ Layer boxes ’ are based on Japanese inro , the smaller oval one is in snakewood ( Piratinera guianensis ) the larger one is lignum vitae ( Guaiacum officinale ) |
| 17 | John remember the importance of winning the seven demands in the pension charter the key one was pensions equal pay , and therefore members need majority control of the trustees that run the scheme . |
| 18 | In the 1970s there were developments that integrated compliance and value for money auditing . |
| 19 | Indeed research from the National Child Development Study clearly identifies public matters where the state could intervene to prevent harm to children : In the 1970s there was concern about the ‘ cycle of deprivation ’ ( Joseph , 1972 ) and the war against poverty ( Jordan , 1974 ) . |
| 20 | For much of the 1970s he was Lloyd 's vice-captain and led the team once , against Australia in the first match after Packer 's ‘ circus ’ had left town . |
| 21 | Mary said it was 20 June because that was the night before the solstice , the longest day , and Rufus said it was the 24th and he , Adam , said it was the 23rd because that was the eve of the 24th which was Midsummer day . |
| 22 | We know that , interactionally , important distinctions are often made between overhearers , unratified vs. ratified participants , those of the latter who are addressees and those who are non-addressed participants , and so on ( see Goffman , 1976 : 260 ; Goodwin , 1979a , 1981 ) . |
| 23 | During the 1780s he was manager and principal promoter , as well as builder and architect , of the Albion flour mill at Blackfriars . |
| 24 | Erm and then the next one after that is is I know is March the fifteenth which is Adrian who 's the er woodworker . |
| 25 | And the short one is X. |
| 26 | ‘ If there is one company that can be said to have influenced British theatre in the eighties it is Cheek by Jowl … the effect of a Cheek by Jowl Shakespeare is to make you think about the play again . |
| 27 | the pink one is mummy |
| 28 | It was his son Harold ( 1897–1987 ) who put the firm on the map , and by the end of the 1920s there were branches in Brussels and New York , and by mid-1931 in Chicago and Paris , as well as a second Brussels gallery . |
| 29 | The Sernf valley , which curves round in the shape of a crook , is served by a postbus service ( Timetable No 902.45 ) to anumber of village resorts , the terminal one being Elm ( at 977m , 3,205ft ) where springs the source of one of Switzerland 's widely distributed natural mineral waters . |
| 30 | The first one are tides . |