Example sentences of "[conj] the [noun sg] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Asserting , what was palpably untrue , that ‘ There are probably few people in India who do not sincerely regret that you should have made it impossible for any government to leave you at liberty ’ , he handed down a sentence of six years ' simple imprisonment , pointing out — the crowning touch-that the sentence was the same as that given to the nationalist hero Bal Gangadhar Tilak , twelve years before . |
| 2 | We got to 'ave him done away with , afore the licence is due . |
| 3 | ‘ You must have been in a hurry to come out without your coat ; you 'll feel the chill afore the night 's out . ’ |
| 4 | " Like as not we 'll be at war again afore the decade 's out . " |
| 5 | Knowing when to get out is not easy , particularly when the external environment is changing and/or the competition is proving to be more successful . |
| 6 | However , when a full assessment of either a service user and/or the carer is deemed to be warranted , the procedures and the outcome of the assessment process must embody a number of key characteristics . |
| 7 | The people and animals can not live there & the air is too thin — there is not enough oxygen to breathe . |
| 8 | Clive James , whose Observer column had made him the doyen of television critics in the Seventies , wrote ; ‘ One has been kept from previous series of Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em by its awful title , but it is time to say what everybody is saying-that the show is a must . |
| 9 | But the theory is that if we , if we get to know what the , the purpose er o o of the job or , or the assignment is , er then we , we stand a slightly better chance of er getting a satisfied client at the end of the day . |
| 10 | These classes were , by and large , closed ; access to the nobility or the peasantry was determined by birth , though occasionally peasants could escape from feudal bondage to the towns , and rich merchants were sometimes able to purchase titles and estates . |
| 11 | Sorry , my mind 's going or the drink 's getting to me , one of the two . ’ |
| 12 | He quite liked the feeling it gave him , but he did n't know if it was it or the drink was making him feel rather dizzy . |
| 13 | Stimulation , therefore , only provides readily interpretable data when one either knows a lot about the brain , or the brain is organized in a simple way . |
| 14 | How much political and economic activity took place outside the control of the priesthood or the king is unclear . |
| 15 | Measurement and subsequent payment for work executed may take place at weekly , monthly , or at random intervals and therefore may not be related to the date of the main contract valuation or the builder 's costing periods . |
| 16 | If the procedure is long or the dressing is painful analgesia may need to be given by injection ½ — 1 hour before the dressing . |
| 17 | Either the girl or the boy is with them . ’ |
| 18 | It is not often that secateurs or the knife is proven to be the carrier of infection ; of course , if you know you are working on infected wood , it is only common sense to disinfect your tools with Lysol or a similar substance before moving on to plants that are clean . |
| 19 | ‘ The first I learned of either the debt or the judgement was when I got a letter about it this week . |
| 20 | shoe is slightly wrongly balanced , or the foot is slightly wrongly trimmed , then you get these troubles , you |
| 21 | Where was such-and-such street , I asked , or the beautiful shop where my mother regularly bought her hats and gloves , or the church with the gilded domes , or the cake shop which had such a show of delicate confections at Christmas time , or the butcher 's where I could hardly bring myself to look at the great sides of dead meat hanging on hooks , or the musty bookshop , smelling of dust and leather , kept by the bent old man whose white hair seemed to be falling off the back of his head , leaving his bald crown all shiny and hopeful and new ? |
| 22 | A less ominous formulation would be ‘ accountable to the community ’ ; yet , formulate it as we may , the notion can not confidently be said to afford a guarantee of efficiency , if the control or the accountability is to relate to its performance as business in operation . |
| 23 | No one who has worked through this book should come out writing typically vague literary essays where " language flows " or the text is " effective " . |
| 24 | Do n't think that there is anything amateurish in using a putter , particularly if the lie is bare or the ball is sitting awkwardly . |
| 25 | These cases are ones involving insolvency , that is total net indebtedness ; in them we have seen that either the trust was invalid because the testator 's estate was insolvent , or the trust was valid in spite of the fact that the trustee was insolvent . |
| 26 | A commuter on the M8 would encounter a series of messages on the speed of traffic just a few miles ahead and , if that slowed , or the road were blocked , information on the most suitable diversion could be given in plenty of time to allow a driver to leave the motorway and avoid the hold up . |
| 27 | But no daytime cry could be left to die out — it must be investigated immediately or the rage was tremendous . |
| 28 | Highbrow papers like the Guardian or the Telegraph were able to influence their readers at least as much as the tabloids on issues ( like unilateralism or the economy ) but not on voting choice . |
| 29 | law or the treat is concerned |
| 30 | And the assiduity with which Carolingian taxes like the fodrum or the pedagium were revived compensated in some measure . |