Example sentences of "be [conj] [pron] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 31 | Sir Denis he may be but I fancy the measures being poured in the big rooms have been even more liberal ( small ‘ l ’ , of course ) than before . |
| 32 | If you get a correlation between two variables it may be because one causes the other , or directly influences it , or it may be that it 's just cha it 's just a chance fluctuation and the two have occurred together , or it may be a combination of the two . |
| 33 | ‘ But if I take the job , ’ she blurted , goaded by the idea that he found her lack of sophistication amusing , ‘ it wo n't be because I like the house . |
| 34 | Yeah but how stupid can they be because I mean the less of you are you , I mean you ca n't serve as many as it 's , it 's stupid in n it ? |
| 35 | An important question in our interpretation of the moral structure of the tale must , however , be whether we regard the " swyving " of the two women as the visitation of some form of punishment upon them . |
| 36 | It does n't though , and the photocopiers are good enough to pass official muster , how long can it be before we have the sort of crisis of confidence in our physical currency not seen since the days of the coin-clipping Tudors ? |
| 37 | How much further would it be before she reached the main road ? |
| 38 | They represent enemy ships sunk by torpedoes , and the crossed guns on the left means they 've been in a surface action — that 'd be when they got the German destroyer — and the dagger below is a special operation . ’ |
| 39 | They are more or less in the position that teachers will be when they receive the published item . |
| 40 | ‘ Apart from the storm , we do n't know what the road is like , how bad it will be when we reach the pass . ’ |
| 41 | It will be when it suits the MOI , Charity 's lot . ’ |
| 42 | Ashton described the innocence , piety and wonder of the Bride at the event to be when he created the exquisitely detailed hand movements in The Wise Virgins , as he did for La Péri and Madame Chrysanthème . |
| 43 | It will only be when you see the results of your actions that you realize how effective they have been . |
| 44 | Has my right honourable friend had an opportunity to see the report from three I s , investors in industry , in which they have surveyed five hundred of the companies in which they invest and the confidence factor of those businesses is higher now than it 's ever been since they started the surveys in nineteen eighty eight . |
| 45 | The crucial weaknesses of the South Korean army on the eve of the Korean War were that it lacked the range and quality of the equipment possessed by the North Korean forces and that the leadership of the North Korean army was inspired by a fanaticism unequalled by those fighting for Syngman Rhee . |
| 46 | Its fundamental differences to the original Illustrator product were that it simplified the user interface both by the introduction of a freehand tool and the classification of anchor points into line , corner and curve types while simultaneously introducing the benefits of colour . |
| 47 | Not on the amount were if you think the health 's , I mean the Health Service buy sort of forty at a time , erm , so , you never know . |
| 48 | He conceded that his preferred solution of involving the Soviet Union in a guarantee was impracticable for the time being but it remained the most satisfactory long-term solution . |
| 49 | Now , I have put down reports about the finance committee er as it were but I think the responses from the churches and districts sort of calculator will be there , we think that it would seem as though we should only offer the same amount as last year . |
| 50 | Not only do a greater proportion of phone boxes work , but there are more boxes today than there were before we introduced the privatised control system . |
| 51 | Athelstan sensed that , if he had known who they were before he answered the door , he would never have let them inside , or else would have taken measures to hide whatever he had in the house . |
| 52 | But it did n't prevent her struggling , and he noticed how tiny her wrists were as he tightened the cord until it bit deep into her thin flesh . |
| 53 | so that 's how close we were when we had the blow out thing . |
| 54 | You know sometimes the way forward is backward , there are no short cuts with god , if he 's leading along a certain path and were disobedient , there 's no way we can opt out of it and join the trail further along , he does n't allow it , its back to where we left it , that 's were we 've got ta get back to , we ca n't skip an experience , we ca n't miss any thing out , we 've got to go back to where we start , where we were when we left the trail and Naomi has to do just that to go back to Bethlehem , that 's the way forward for her , and you see because we all , we always find this if we are really children of god , then we can never ever be satisfied away from the will of god , there 's nothing else that meets our need , its god will or nothing , you know , when we know frustration in our lives , when we know sort of the , these annoyances and , and , and , and er sense of frustration there , its not because god is leaving us that way its invariably cos we have actually gone out of gods will because he 's will is not frustrated , its satisfying , can I just , it will only really be headings this morning , just leave us with three brief headings in this little incident that we 'll read or we , we wo n't read the whole passage but its , er in the remainder of the , or more or less the whole of the remainder of the first chapter tha that the cost was involved and then the choices that were made and then the commitment , the cost that was involved Naomi had to pay something , you see before she could return to Naomi she had to con , before Naomi sorry could return er to , to Bethlehem , she had to acknowledge she 'd done wrong , she had failed , she had sinned , she had to acknowledge she had made a mistake now in fairness to Naomi she did it and she excepted her responsibility , she did n't try and shift the blame on |
| 55 | All I knew about her was that she was a schoolteacher , as Tom had been before he joined the organisation . |
| 56 | Compania de Telefonos de Chile SA 's $182.6m proposed convertible bond issue won ratings of triple-B-minus rating from Standard & Poor 's Corp , and Baa-3 from Moody 's Investors Service Inc ; Standard & Poor 's said its rating reflects the company 's dominant position in local telephone services , growth prospects , and favourable regulatory framework ; Moody 's that it believes the company will continue to be the largest telecommunications company in Chile and will benefit from a supportive regulator . |
| 57 | What we will say , if we keep clearly in mind that everything might have been the same up to the instant when the bar came out , and no bar might have come out is that nothing caused the bar to come out . |
| 58 | But the weird thing about this supposedly ‘ shock admission ’ is that everyone made the most dreadful fuss when she said she intended to ‘ go on and on and on ’ . |
| 59 | But if as a Westerner you can not read the abacus , or the scales , it is bad luck , because the assumption is that everyone shares the skills that enable them to do this . |
| 60 | For instance , part of the trouble in the clean-air example is that nobody owns the air ; if somebody did , polluters would not be able to dirty it with impunity . |