Example sentences of "[be] [adv] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These are mainly confined to Afghanistan and north-east Persia , although some genuine Russian tribal items may also be found , and are predominantly the work of the Tekke , Yamut , Ersari , Chodor , Saryk and Salor tribes ( pl. 7 ) . |
| 2 | They are not there apart from an observer , they are rather the tendency of objects to produce certain sensations in one . |
| 3 | But asking bureaucrats to try to separate out the factual premises of decisions from the ethical premises which are properly the reserve of politicians is still desirable . |
| 4 | It seems to me that formulation of the precise grounds upon which overpayments of tax ought to be recoverable and of any exceptions to the right of recovery , may involve nice considerations of policy which are properly the province of Parliament and are not suitable for consideration by the courts . |
| 5 | In this season 's semi-finals at Wishaw Sports Centre on Saturday , Coatbridge face Su Ragazzi , who have never appeared in a final before , but are arguably the favourites . |
| 6 | Japanese universities are rarely the home of world-class R&D , though this is changing slowly . |
| 7 | A farce , you may say , since the vast majority of such cases result in an out of court settlement by a wealthy defendant ( poor or uninsured persons are rarely the subject of such actions ) . |
| 8 | And that the business has been predominantly the nature of business has been predominantly manufacturing . |
| 9 | For centuries the practice of philosophy has been overwhelmingly the prerogative of men but it is only recently that feminist analysis has made it possible to see the distorting effect of this historical fact . |
| 10 | There is a problem about investigating the first of these hypotheses in that the dreams that are remembered are presumably the ones that have more logical structure . |
| 11 | First-preference votes are presumably the votes that have been most seriously considered . |
| 12 | But you see , the trouble with polio is that once the muscles are dead the nerves which serve them are useless . ’ |
| 13 | George did n't bother to explain the process by which he had deflected the first demand — that Maxim go round to Century House by himself — by a counter-offer of Number 10 ( ‘ As it 's a Saturday , we could use the Cabinet Room ; think how that would look in your memoirs ’ ) — or one of his clubs , naming the one that had been effectively the HQ of the Intelligence Service in the heady days of World War II , and finally agreeing on this no-man's-land . |
| 14 | It is said , in effect , that their acts are necessarily the company 's acts ; that their will , knowledge , and belief are those of the company , and that their consent necessarily implies consent by the company . |
| 15 | Racing against other horses is an entirely different thing from riding horses in their work and it is not always the ones who work the best that are necessarily the winners . |
| 16 | Sociologists have also strongly questioned the fallacy that social problems are necessarily the product of ‘ bad ’ things . |
| 17 | Though the races are obviously the centre point of the tour , Lanzarote 's Club La Santa offers much more besides . |
| 18 | These are obviously the ones that do n't fly anyway |
| 19 | All of these procedures are routine with animals , but are obviously the exception rather than the rule in studies of human neuropsychology , when all concerned fervently hope that the subjects will survive . |
| 20 | They are obviously the remains of some kind of animal , but the problem is to decide what kind . |
| 21 | And now I see girls women who are obviously the daughters who er of girls who were at school with me . |
| 22 | They are obviously the result of a modern design , not revived technology . |
| 23 | Dr McNab shrugged negligently and said : " These symptoms are obviously the result of the diminished volume of the blood … |
| 24 | I could n't give him cover because the see shield is is quite a heavy cumbers cumbersome thing and it has two handles behind it erm and they are obviously the means of holding it up and f for directing it wherever you want so I 'm holding this all the time so he ca n't pass his weapon to me and he ca n't put his weapon in my holster because my gun was in the holster . |
| 25 | But that , unusual though it was , had been only the outline , the skeletal framework of the man . |
| 26 | This seemed to strike and sober them … a thing which to all of them was so familiar , and to many had been only the subject of coarse jest . |
| 27 | Had it been only the interests of traders that were being considered , there would have been no need for Britain to have responded to the competitive challenge of other European states by formalizing and expanding her own empire , with all that this entailed in provoking international tensions , arms expenditures , and general insecurity . |
| 28 | But that had been only the start : a test of the young man 's potential . |
| 29 | It had been an uncomfortable and disturbing sensation and he was still wondering whether it had n't been only the incense , the spring evening , and nostalgia for his boyhood . |
| 30 | If it had been only the Empress and a Court clique who desired war , things might have turned out differently , but given the wave of bellicosity which swept the entire nation , it would have required a miracle to produce a peaceful end to the crisis . |