Example sentences of "[prep] the [adj] be [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The problem for the British was that they had seriously miscalculated their own positions . |
| 2 | The classic phrase which describes the plight of the transsexual is that ‘ he feels he is a woman locked in a man 's body ’ . |
| 3 | Perhaps one of the reasons why we are faced with the menace of increasing savagery among a minority of the young is that they fail to realise that TV is not a ‘ window on the world ’ , but a structure of small , angled , mirrors reflecting different viewpoints . |
| 4 | The result of the above is that in one case costs are so high as to detract from its use , whereas the other positively attracts business . |
| 5 | More surprising than any of the above is that not only outside directors but also chief executives strongly supported rewriting company law to enforce some of the Cadbury recommendations . |
| 6 | The implication of the foregoing is that the right to own property , a contentious subject even in this late twentieth century , could , subject to agreed rules and conditions , be raised to an important place in human affairs and be established as a Godly institution . |
| 7 | The joy of the Christian is that when we express our sorrow and our anxiety we shall receive God 's peace and we shall receive God 's joy . |
| 8 | One of the fantasies of the envious is that the other has everything . |
| 9 | The ‘ educational ’ problems of the unemployed are but one dimension of a range of negative factors — psychological , economic , environmental , and so on . |
| 10 | The conclusion to be derived from the above is that the overdevelopment of the bureaucracy in the post-colonial state can only be explained by reference to factors which render other political institutions impotent . |
| 11 | The only way this impinged on the message Macmillan had been taking up to the generals in the front-line was that they might now have to prepare even more urgently for military operations to reinforce allied policy . |
| 12 | Its alarming feature to the orthodox was that it might make Christianity seem simply one faith among others , rather than simply truth . |
| 13 | Second , the presumption made by the healthy is that no one really wants to die . |