Example sentences of "the [adj] be [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the bond market , the Bank does not actively try to sell at a time when prices are falling ; indeed its spokesmen have often asserted that it can not sell in such conditions , that the views of investors in the short-term are predominantly extrapolative and that few will wish to buy stock when the price is falling . |
| 2 | The living conditions of the displaced are invariably extremely difficult and many must rely on church and humanitarian organizations for basic assistance . |
| 3 | The majority of the displaced are therefore reluctant to leave the camps and prefer what little protection the church can offer . |
| 4 | The ranks of the discontented were also swelled by returning soldiers who found things less rosy than they had hoped . |
| 5 | Up to 1950 , said the authors of Social Trends 20 , the respectable were never in debt . |
| 6 | Or , thirdly , arrangements whereby the needy are increasingly looked after by voluntary and charitable activities . |
| 7 | I often wonder what I would be able to achieve if , one year , I did train especially for the indoor meetings , but it would be an error to try that because the indoor is just a side-show to the main events , which are the big outdoor meetings in the summer . |
| 8 | Within the ‘ working class ’ zones such as council estates , by contrast , this separation of the personal and the political is less tenable . |
| 9 | Downstairs the ten-year-old and the eight-year-old are quietly occupied in running three of the old dungeons together to make a games room . |
| 10 | I thought the tramway quite remarkable in that the trackbed is sturdily built in stone and still very clear . |
| 11 | The Spanish are now promoting the use of the caper berry , the fruit that is produced after the plant has flowered , as a garnish for both food and drinks . |
| 12 | The Spanish were soon obliging enough to provide tea and chips as well . |
| 13 | Well fortunately the Spanish were even more incompetent than he was and what the Spanish commander , instead of rubbing his hands at the prospect of er the damage they were about to wreak , he discovered that they had the wrong calibre shells for their guns and Roosevelt and the Rough Riders overran the Spanish guns a and Teddy Roosevelt became a war hero and on the strength of becoming a war hero , he become vice president of the United States , got the vice presidential nomination and in good American fashion the president was shot er by an assassin er and Teddy Roosevelt became president , so there you are , there 's a there 's a career plan for you to er to think about . |
| 14 | The Spanish were sometimes justified in thinking that a pirate base was precisely what English companies had in mind ; in the 1630s the providence Island Company was set up by determined Protestants who thought that plundering Catholic ships would be rewarded in this world and the next , though other Englishmen , who settled informally on the east coast of central America , were concerned with felling trees and exporting logwood as a dye-stuff . |
| 15 | again there is no answer to that question , simply because the answer is so horrific , it does n't bear thinking about , but thank God all maybe safe , all will not be safe , but all maybe safe , God has provided a salvation that is available to all and if we are not safe it is because we choose to reject his s , his offers of mercy , so we thank God that all may be safe , but the solemn fact remains is that all will not be saved , well that leads us on to , to this third proposition , not only that the bible teach that all maybe saved , not only does it teach that all will not be saved , but it is quite clear that some will be saved whom we did not expect to be saved , we can be quite sure about that because judgment does n't rest with us , way back Abraham says perhaps one of the most important statements in his life when he said there in , in , in Genesis chapter eighteen and we actually sang the wo tho the quotation in the song we just sang a few moments ago where he says will not the judge of all the earth be right , judgement is not yours and mine , that 's God 's prerogative and the other song that we 've been , the song that we 've been singing , that song by faber there 's a wideness in God 's mercy lets be honest we are so narrow with our mercy , our gra , our expressions of grace is so limited , but there 's a wideness in God 's mercy and faber says it 's got the wideness of the sea , there 's a kindness in his justice , which is more than liberty , David knew all about that when he was given the option , he said oh I 'd rather fall into the hands of God than into the hands of men , I 'd rather that God dealt with me than that my fellow man dealt with me , because with him there 's mercy , with him there 's grace , with him there is , there is long suffering and there 's compa compassion and there 's love , and faber goes on with the love of God is broader than the measure of man 's mind and the heart of the eternal is most wonderfully kind , now that 's all very well for the song writer to say that in a hymn and it sounds nice and it 's , it sounds good but is there a scriptural authority for this , is it really true , or is it just a nice song that we sing with , it does us good because we feel it 's a nice , there nice thoughts , well , surely we have it in the passage we 've been reading that there is there is a mercy with God , there is a kindness with God in ver in verse thirty of that chapter behold some who are last will be first and some who are first will be last it 's quite clear that some will be saved that we did not expect to be saved , and you can find example after example of this , it was a tremendous surprise to the onlookers when a very sinful woman annoyed to the feed of Jesus , it was a tremendous surprise to the Pharisee who rejected God , although he was such a good man , to find that the , er sorry to be rejected by God although he was a good honest upright man , and to find that the sinner was accepted by God , it was a tremendous surprise to the people when Zacchaeus who named you to be a sinner , an open twist there an evil man was saved by the Lord Jesus , you could save salvation has come to this house , it was a tremendous surprise when the law breaker who was dying on the cross beside the law Jesus was saved and went to be with him , with the Lord in paradise , it was a tremendous surprise to the disciples when Jesus preached the gospel and revealed himself to a gentile woman , who was an adulterer seven times over but he did and she was saved , it was a tremendous surprise to Ananias when the Lord revealed himself |
| 16 | Response to pleas for volunteers to carry the wounded was usually poor , and the troops at Verdun came to recognise that their chances of being picked up , let alone brought to medical succour were extremely slim . |
| 17 | The wounded were still in the barn as I entered to get my rucksack . |
| 18 | This last description is often misunderstood : the point is that the economic is never a simple causal function that operates alone : |
| 19 | Directing your critic towards the specific is most useful . |
| 20 | The retired are also important to the economy as suppliers of a wide variety of services and other forms of labour . |
| 21 | On the other hand , the existence of wide discretion in the hands of judges and of the sovereign ( notably in the form of the pardon , which was extensively used ) meant that the guilty were as likely to go un-punished as were the innocent to be wrongly convicted and harshly dealt with . |
| 22 | And I think at the present time , all of us on the right are more concerned about getting the economy right and cutting government expenditure that carrying on with er schemes of a privatization that might or might not succeed . |
| 23 | Such conjunction of the excellent and the awful is never found in any genuine neurological disease . |
| 24 | The locomotive pool for the recently announced steam runs on the Cambrian is now known and consists of GWR 4-6-0 7819 ‘ Hinton Manor ’ , LMS 2-8-0 8233 Black 8 , BR 4-6-0 75069 Standard Class 4 and LNER 2-6-0 3442 ‘ The Great Marquess ’ . |
| 25 | The exact point , which is about ¼ mile south of Myndmill Bridge , is described in the report as 14 miles 10 chains from the intended junction with the Cambrian Railways , north-west of Montgomery , for it is characteristic of the BCR 's unfulfilled ambitions that , although its main line to join the Cambrian was never completed , the railway 's mileposts showed the distance from that non-existent junction . |
| 26 | The situation still exists to-day in the 1980s but there is a more flexible and liberal attitude and deaf teachers of the deaf are once more gaining teaching appointments . |
| 27 | The committee was over-optimistic , as we shall see , particularly as the expectations of the post-war generation of the deaf were considerably higher than they had been pre-war . |
| 28 | In 1872 , the Glasgow Mission for the Deaf was properly reorganised , and Strathern was secretary for them then acted as treasurer for many years until he resigned due to differences with the then committee . |
| 29 | He explained that as vicar of a large parish he had many and constant duties to perform , but that his interest in the deaf was so great that he would find time to advance their interests as far as he could . |
| 30 | The Prudential is also looking for extra Peps money . |