Example sentences of "[prep] be [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The last time they played at Worthing — when Alton were in Division II South — the then skipper Alan Fleetwood broke an ankle and after being easily the better side , Alton lost by just one point . |
| 2 | After being virtually the first dealer at his firm to pass the Registered Representatives ' and Traders ' examination , he was applauded by his colleagues only to be shunted off the sales desk into the back office . |
| 3 | ‘ I tell you flatly , the sort of scientists you should be frightened of are n't the ones like Dr. Briant , who … well , opt out of the ethical questions . |
| 4 | In JC , stay [ sti ] is used as a copular verb instead of be where the state is ongoing or permanent . |
| 5 | It is now out in paperback ( WHAllen ) and deserves the accolade of being both the easiest to read and the most informative book about the Hollywood of the 1920s , written by a real enthusiast . |
| 6 | The Department of the Environment ( DoE , the central government department with overall responsibility for local government in England ) was , he says , trapped into the position of being both the advocate of local services within the centre and the guardian of the purse-strings as far as local government was concerned ( in that respect the Secretary of State acted as a sort of ‘ mini chancellor ’ ) ( Rhodes , 1986 , p. 238 ) . |
| 7 | What they can not be sure of is how the atmosphere will react , and if it will reach a point of no return . |
| 8 | No I thought to myself you do not deserve this death and the you I was thinking of was not the fish itself but all those people standing on the bank . |
| 9 | Because what you 're thinking it 's going to be like is completely the opposite of what is happening . |
| 10 | But , says Hall modestly and realistically , ‘ Drilling has taught us that the first models we worked with were only the simplest of a large number of possibilities that were consistent with the observations . |
| 11 | The 16-member Mainland Affairs Council had itself come formally into being only the previous month , when the Executive Yuan on Oct. 18 approved its constitution . |
| 12 | ( Bridget , aged sixteen ) I feel personally that the most difficult thing to cope with is not the physical and emotional changes I am going through but the attitudes of people around me . |
| 13 | The simplest situation to deal with is where the benefit of the vendor 's contracts is freely assignable . |
| 14 | My comments are not meant to seek to prescribe to others how they should go about things , nor are they written in the belief that the ways that I have so painfully worked upon are necessarily the best , or the only ways of doing things . |
| 15 | Far from being just the confluence of two solitary corporeal entities , sex represents a state of the deepest , most needed fusion in which the whole being can realize itself . |
| 16 | What I am interested in is not the forms they construct , but how they construct them ; I am concerned with identifying the graphological constants . |
| 17 | This one however , the union she 's in is not the union which is pulling out . |
| 18 | The Sister tried to tell her that all new mothers went through something of this sort for a short time after childbirth ; but Harriet knew , when she fetched Liza and her baby back to Four Winds at the end of the week , that what her daughter was suffering from was not the ordinary ‘ blues ’ which she herself had experienced after Liza was born . |
| 19 | Well , not exactly , because what my spade jarred upon was obviously the ‘ shallow end ’ . |
| 20 | ‘ I think it 's high time you stopped making snap judgements , Mr Bryce , especially as the conclusions you leap to are invariably the wrong ones . ’ |
| 21 | But this left unresolved the basic problem that " those who take the decisions about what to spend money on are not the same people who have to account for it " ( Gretton and Harrison 1988 ) . |
| 22 | The explanation , as I shall argue , is likely to be broadly the same for complicated things everywhere in the universe ; the same for us , for chimpanzees , worms , oak trees and monsters from outer space . |
| 23 | It turned out to be nearly the opposite ( laughs ) . |
| 24 | This error proved to be nearly the last straw needed to break his credit , since he had raised every cent he could in order to invest in land for building . |
| 25 | A particular , one normally assumes , can change its place without ceasing to be numerically the same particular . |
| 26 | In short , nothing that is in the process of development or change , strictly speaking , can be claimed to be numerically the same as long as this process lasts , for existents are individuated only by their full life-cycles . |
| 27 | It appears to be increasingly the case that there are two major traditions of identity perception among protestant loyalists . |
| 28 | In a market where speed is everything , as seems to be increasingly the case these days , ultimate speed brings mucho kudos . |
| 29 | Older people tend to be nearer the upper limit of any range than do younger people , but some combination of the factors mentioned can help individuals approach the lower limits . |
| 30 | But if one looks for Britain 's centre of gravity , it is found to be nearer the first in each pair of choices above . |