Example sentences of "[be] [noun] [conj] [pron] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But they 're idols because they take the place of God . |
| 2 | Obviously the Aussies are favourites but we pose the biggest threat . |
| 3 | You see , before that , that land behind us , before it was all built on , it used to be plots and you know the man coming up with the |
| 4 | The firm reckons it will be years before it finds the system 's limits . |
| 5 | The men chose me to be captain after you deserted the ship . |
| 6 | it would be sacrilege if he gets the vacant No 4 shirt , they may not be allowed to do that anyway . |
| 7 | The restriction of membership to regular workers means that less than one in seven private sector union members are women and the bulk of these will cease to be members when they follow the convention of ‘ retirement ’ to child raising by the age of 30 . |
| 8 | However , boys will be boys and they enjoyed the fresh air and the sport of fishing , in fact the boys had been known to fish after dark at the newty pond which was very illegal ! |
| 9 | She was a bit careless at adding drops — a kind of baker 's dozen approach - but she knew the answer would be salt and she identified the right one . |
| 10 | Home watch schemes are not much good when many of the neighbours are criminals and they terrorize the rest . |
| 11 | There were roads but they skirted the mountains and looked dangerous even from this height . |
| 12 | Well , see these are the ones that I sent in and I did n't think they would , they would agree with because they were duplicates unless they found the original . |
| 13 | Never any argument — well , there were arguments but you knew the answers to them . |
| 14 | After seeing thousands pour through his doors , Tony Dyer , of Debenhams in Bristol , said : ‘ It 's chaos and it started the moment we opened . |
| 15 | Cos it 's months before I had the time . |
| 16 | There is evidence that they damage the immune system and cause cancer in animals ; the effects on humans are disputed . |
| 17 | There is evidence that it became the practice for individuals to be named after the day on which they were born and that couples were not allowed to marry if their birthdays had the same numeral . |
| 18 | Well today is Wednesday and we start the day with a thrilling lesson on |
| 19 | I 'm , my name 's Steve and I chair the Save Campaign . |
| 20 | So what you 're doing is making assumptions about the population from which your samples were drawn , so therefore this is known as a parametric technique Nearly there Now , another interpretation of Pearson 's R , or the correlation coefficient generally , is variants If you square the correlation coefficient it equally the proportion of variants in X accounted for by Y. Now that is actually a very good measure of how good a correlation is . |
| 21 | The idea that an accountant is examining only one set of accounts , of many , is anathema because it carries the implication that unwanted debits and credits might have been secreted away in these other accounts . |
| 22 | ‘ Ironically by the time we came to do the first episode again , my hair had grown a little longer , so it was n't quite as eye-catching , but even so I think it 's a very unrecognised feather in Doctor Who 's cap that we created the look which launched Vidal Sassoon on his road to fame and fortune . ’ |
| 23 | He showed me £15 and said his train ticket was £16 and he needed the £1 to get home to his wife and child . |
| 24 | So remorseful was Shiva that he took the head of the first creature he encountered and placed it on the boy 's shoulders . |
| 25 | One of the things that I used to do was train and I know the feeling , I know the excitement , I know the adrenalin that pumps round the body , when you go in for the kill . |
| 26 | All re even the engine room was steam cos you had the bucket depth of dredging on that ladder was thirty six feet that 's what dredger can go down so far with the buckets going round and they used to dredge about thirty six feet . |
| 27 | has played for the Sudbury team for many years and was vice-captain when they took the Anglo Two Counties League Championship . |
| 28 | The nearest town was Burlington and he travelled the five miles there each Monday morning in his battered white ‘ 78 Ford pick-up to collect enough supplies to last him through the week . |
| 29 | His excuse was forgetfulness but I expect the real reason was lack of funds . |