Example sentences of "[noun] of [noun] be [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | To the north , where Poitou borders on the Vendee , shapely clumps of trees are almost the only punctuation marks on widespreading marshy landscapes ; to the south it bubbles with little rolling hills . |
| 2 | Even now we do have the problem that our perception of schools is largely the contact we have had with the librarians or some of the staff . |
| 3 | When the direct collection of primary data is used in marketing research , the methods of survey ( interview , questionnaire , observation ) and the methods of sampling are broadly the same as for any ‘ domestic ’ marketing research exercise . |
| 4 | However , the speed of light is roughly the same in the cornea as in water , and so a fish 's cornea simply protects the eye without bending the light . |
| 5 | An example of this was the Michelson-Morley experiment , performed in 1887 , which showed that the speed of light was always the same , no matter how the source or the observer was moving . |
| 6 | However , in 1887 a careful experiment carried out by Michelson and Morley showed that the speed of light was always the same . |
| 7 | It is sometimes argued that the loss of lambs is partly the shepherd 's fault : that greater care for the flock would cut down losses to predators . |
| 8 | ‘ I feel that he would be extremely uncomfortable looking back at me , holding my gaze and him trying to tell me that the loss of Tim was merely the unfortunate by-product of a war against Britain . |
| 9 | ‘ I feel that he would be extremely uncomfortable looking back at me , holding my gaze and trying to tell me that the loss of Tim was merely the unfortunate by-product of a war against Britain . |
| 10 | ‘ I feel that he would be extremely uncomfortable looking back at me , holding my gaze and trying to tell me that the loss of Tim was merely the unfortunate by-product of a war against Britain . |
| 11 | In short , the loss of children is often the major adjustment of middle age for women , equivalent in its impact to the loss of employment for men . |
| 12 | Yet a loss of jobs was often the pre-condition of restored viability . |
| 13 | Delayed gastric emptying as a result of gastroparesis is probably the best known and most extensively evaluated motor disturbance of the gastrointestinal tract in diabetic patients . |
| 14 | The difference in technique between all styles of grafting is simply the shape in which both the rootstocks and the vinestocks are cut , the prime purpose being to present the largest possible growing surface between the two canes . |
| 15 | These are more than coincidences : there was much that Greek Sicily and Greek Cyrene had in common , patronage of Pindar being only the most obvious and symbolic link . |
| 16 | When rubbish pits are excavated , sherds of pottery and fragments of bone are frequently the only visible remains , because much of the refuse put into pits was the remnants of food preparation which have since decayed . |
| 17 | Superficially , the act of controlling for a variable which intervenes between the two original variables of interest is much the same . |
| 18 | The pleasure of eating is largely the pleasure of taste . |
| 19 | And although the basic conception of song-treatment is generally the same as in Walter 's collection ( four or five parts , melody usually in the tenor ) there is much more imitative polyphony and higher technical accomplishment . |
| 20 | These are the exceptions , the rare exceptions , for the contract of marriage is still the passport to distaff power and still greatly desired . |
| 21 | As Table 3.9 shows , while the largest category of owners was still the independents , the number of weeklies taken into the provincial and national chains increased enormously . |
| 22 | And the thing about it is such as erm well not only Tanys Dell that biggest part of school is here the population has decreased so much in the last ten years that we having now to close schools |
| 23 | This last-minute change of dates is only the latest in a long line of difficulties we 've had to overcome . ’ |
| 24 | The backbone of France is naturally the squad that toured Argentina . |
| 25 | The Houses of Parliament are also the final arbiters of the tenure of office of judges of the Supreme Court . |
| 26 | However , this level of unreasonableness is hardly the norm , and even if it does exist would be difficult to prove . |
| 27 | There is no suggestion that passengers are or were more at risk on buses in Lothian than elsewhere : the level of casualties was simply the result of more bus trips being made . |
| 28 | These five groups of cases are perhaps the most important . |
| 29 | The courts of law are undoubtedly the chief repository of the judicial power notwithstanding that they no longer exercise a monopoly in this respect . |
| 30 | The second kind of interpretation is perhaps the extreme of the position that Wolfensberger espouses . |