Example sentences of "the [noun] is [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | John Suhr is so talented , and the guitar is just the last word as far as I 'm concerned . |
| 2 | The guitar is still the one that could never be replaced by anything digital because you would never be able to get the same sound and feel on a computer . |
| 3 | Well the funding is either the initial funding was a fairly brave thing by the Archaeological Trust from its own funds . |
| 4 | The base is also the home of the pioneers who left here in October in 1990 for the War . |
| 5 | The T-shirt is even the right way round ! |
| 6 | The EEC is probably the best single indicator of cortical arousal at low levels . |
| 7 | And , certainly , no can argue that the Amstel is not the last word in luxury . |
| 8 | The chairman of the board is usually the parish priest or his curate . |
| 9 | If the cinema is right the film need hardly matter . |
| 10 | It is a device for securing a make-believe absolute majority where no genuine absolute majority exists , and the winner is not the candidate most voters want but the candidate most voters are willing to accept . |
| 11 | However , there are good reasons for not limiting a discussion of language processing to sentences , since in many ways the sentence is not the most appropriate psychological unit — and , indeed , some authors have argued that it is not the most appropriate unit for linguistic analysis . |
| 12 | The verb is equally the semantic head in a verb-object construction . |
| 13 | If a boat heeled right over it 's not good for the boat and it slows you down , it is far better to reef , the technique is just the same afloat as it was ashore . |
| 14 | college is adult education , and the fact that you 're all adults the relationship between you and the lecturers is not the same between you and teachers . |
| 15 | To the western world , however , the Swastika is probably the most disturbing image that has ever been associated with a political regime . |
| 16 | The goldfish is deservedly the most popular species of fish kept in garden ponds and few , if any , ponds in this country will not have had goldfish in them at some time . |
| 17 | But the lubricator is not the largest missing item the company has to contend with — there is no tender ! |
| 18 | Within the terms of the ethic the individual 's action is rational ; the ethic is therefore the logical explanation for the action , in a limited sense . |
| 19 | The only time when this is not the case is when the ferret is introduced into an area where there are likely to be a number of rats . |
| 20 | The propagandist view of literature , literature as illustration , tendentiousness , are denounced on the grounds that the desire to illustrate one particular ideological viewpoint at the expense of all else , has disastrous consequences at the artistic level since such an approach is at odds with any attempt to display the inherent contradictions and complexities within a given historical situation ; indeed , the case is quite the reverse : it actually masks such contradictions . |
| 21 | The essay-text is not the same , then , as ‘ literacy ’ . |
| 22 | The endowment is not the loan for everyone — elderly borrowers or people with a serious medical condition , such as diabetes , would be charged too high premiums to make this type of mortgage worthwhile . |
| 23 | The goal of history for the Christian is therefore the restitution of all things . |
| 24 | Hitler 's image , however , stood apart from this : ‘ For many of these young ones , the Führer is not the representative of the Party , but in the first instance Führer of the State and above all Supreme Commander of the Wehrmacht . ’ |
| 25 | The buyer is now the drawee/acceptor of the bill , who then returns it to the seller . |
| 26 | The crux of the experience is where the couple 's source of self-esteem lies : this is crucial to how the powerful parent-child attachments are managed . |
| 27 | It 's common sense to keep the dust down , as the kitchen is probably the most difficult place to clean up properly . |
| 28 | ‘ The condom is not the devil 's raincoat , ’ he declares . |
| 29 | Where any form in Schedule 4 to the rules is substantially the same as a form used under the corresponding old law and rules , it can continue to be used with the necessary modifications until the Lord Chancellor directs otherwise ( r 12.7(3) ) . |
| 30 | One of the reasons is clearly the cloying sentimentality with which all things Irish are viewed by so many Americans : DEC after all is a Boston company , and Boston has a large population that traces its roots back to Ireland . |