Example sentences of "the [adj] [pers pn] be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Ersatz they were asked to give , and gave , was of low quality . |
| 2 | At some point in the mid-660s he was forbidden by his father to go to Rome with Benedict Biscop , who was later to found the monastery of Wearmouth and Jarrow . |
| 3 | Erm in fact telephones , I mean talking back to nineteen forties and fifties , very few people had telephones , and it was n't uncommon in , in those days on fire engines , where , I know at Salisbury we did this , we took a bike and put it on the back of a fire engine , and if you were the youngest you were told , send the stock message back , or the informative message back , and find the telephone , and you pedalled and find the telephone , and , and you 'd get told off when you came back , why you were n't quicker about taking it . |
| 4 | ‘ Objectives are like targets , ’ says Richmond , ‘ the nearer they are , the easier they are to hit . ’ |
| 5 | The more striking the colours , the easier they are to remember — no predator is likely to forget these particular insects . |
| 6 | And the more information you get about those businesses the easier it 's going to be for you to er to convey to them you know a lot you 've done your research on them . |
| 7 | It is conceivable that a partnership could be used as the buy-out vehicle where the managers wish to acquire the shares in Target rather than its business and assets , on the principle that the fewer the corporate layers in the structure , the easier it is to fund borrowings and extract profits . |
| 8 | The sooner the embalming can take place , the easier it is to carry out . |
| 9 | Generally , the lower the slurry 's dry matter content , the easier it is to move . |
| 10 | The shorter the notation , the easier it is to remember . |
| 11 | The finer the food particles , the easier it is to digest . |
| 12 | The clearer a goal is , the easier it is to decide whether the goal is attainable , and if it is attainable , how you would go about achieving it . |
| 13 | The easier it is to use courts or , even better , private agreements to sort out disputes between creditors and shareholders while the firm continues to operate , the lower the costs will be , and the greater the incentive to skate closer to the edge . |
| 14 | The closer refugees remain to their own countries , the easier it is to organise their return when conditions allow . |
| 15 | ‘ The more anonymous I am as an actor the easier it is to make you believe I 'm someone else . ’ |
| 16 | Er , certainly in sort of , transportation technology , the easier it is to trade , the more trade there will be , and transportation technology has increased dramatically over this year , so we can now ex exploit the comparative advantage that other countries have in particular commodities , whether they be agricultural or manufacturing , quite simply because transport costs are no longer prohibitive . |
| 17 | Paradoxically the more advanced the technology the easier it is to provide good simulation . |
| 18 | All connections in the pipe must be accessible so the fewer there are , the easier it is to cover up the pipework . |
| 19 | The higher the pitch of a sound , the easier it is to locate . |
| 20 | This argument presumed that only one person in the family was capable of cleaning ; furthermore , that the smaller a house is , the easier it is to keep clean . |
| 21 | They are like money ; the more you have the easier it is to get extra . |
| 22 | The easier these objects can be seen and felt , the easier it is to get the meaning across : ( a ) Names of things like pencils , tables and books may be taught by a pointing naming technique , the success of which depends on making clear what is being pointed out . |
| 23 | The more energy you get , the easier it is to beat opponents . |
| 24 | The point I 'm going to make is that erm , if we are n't going to get through the year and we 're all going to have to take a percentage of our March allowances because the money 's run out and we 're cash limited even if we give ourselves five percent extra , erm , could I get an assurance from the officers that the people that have n't put in their forms will get a note to remind them to do so , so that everybody is in there , you wo n't suddenly find that because you have n't had your claim form in by the fourteenth you 're gon na get nothing and everybody else is gon na get something . |
| 25 | He had learned from watching Rupert a few minutes before that the quicker you answered the quicker you were released . |
| 26 | By the 1940's it was becoming more usual to conclude rather that their distinctive role was quite other than that of saying anything factual at all . |
| 27 | Like the British he was fascinated by the thought of obedience willingly given ; hence his belief that satyagraha worked because it changed the opponent 's mind about the issue at stake . |
| 28 | The king , Faud , was an autocratic character determined to exercise power in his own right , and since he had been installed by the British it was felt by Egyptians that Britain effectively underwrote his position . |
| 29 | The emphasis of their tours was on education and recreation for students and by the 1890s they were offering cruises to Norway for eight guineas . |
| 30 | In 1880 a further Education Act made schooling compulsory for children between five and ten , and in the 1890s it was established that most elementary education should be free . |