Example sentences of "[prep] [be] the [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What we are looking for are the exceptional unsung heroes and heroines in other walks of life . ’ |
| 2 | By September , the school would be in the awkward position of being the only selective school in Essex not to be GM and it would be one of very few secondary schools generally in north-east Essex not to have opted out , she said . |
| 3 | Bell also had the dubious achievement of being the only non-Royal at the meeting which announced the split of Prince Andrew and the Duchess of York . |
| 4 | Lake Mývatn has the privilege of being the only European breeding station for Barrow 's goldeneye , a duck of American origin , and in the River Laxa which flows from Mývatn to the sea , you are assured of seeing the beautiful Harlequin duck , another New World species which also has its only European outpost here . |
| 5 | Maxton was faced with the prospect of being the only remaining ILP Member if he did not withdraw his continued opposition to re-affiliation . |
| 6 | Snow leopards have the distinction of being the only true big cat of the mountains . |
| 7 | Venezuela too has serious debt problems which were largely caused by OPEC production cuts and falling prices but has the distinction of being the only Latin American country to reschedule its foreign debt without an IMF loan . |
| 8 | Just 19 months later it achieved the dubious distinction of being the only Royal Commission to be wound up without producing a report when it collapsed over internal differences as to the scope of its report and how it should proceed . |
| 9 | Probably this was damned difficult for the people at Ferrari to understand and Niki was always capable of being the supreme turn-off . |
| 10 | But the term " Tithonian " , though not quite so lacking in respectability as the " Urgonian " , is usually reserved for the carbonate facies of alpine Europe , and is still disputing with the " Volgian " the honour of being the accepted international term for the topmost stage of the Jurassic . |
| 11 | He said that until ‘ scandalous ’ loopholes in the extradition laws were blocked , condemnations of terrorism and expressions of condolence for victims of the violence fell short of being the optimum Irish response . |
| 12 | I do get a bit tired of being the permanent Big Bad Wolf . |
| 13 | The only vehicles Irena took any notice of were the thin double trams , locked inscrutably into their own system , clanging their way up and down the narrow streets making unmistakable tram noises . |
| 14 | The PFL had voted against the government over pensions , despite being the leading pro-government party in Congress . |
| 15 | Voting against were the Christian National Union ( ZChN ) , the Centre Alliance ( PC ) , Solidarity , the Peasant Accord ( or Party — PL ) , the Christian Democrat Party ( PChD ) , Christian Democracy ( ChD ) and the Union of Realpolitik ( UPR ) . |
| 16 | Agassi has managed to sign up a licensing deal with Tecmagik and this looks like being the long-awaited definitive tennis game on Sega systems . |
| 17 | The largest homogeneous group voting in favour was the urban middle class and that against was the rural poor . |
| 18 | Conservatives shared the Kirkpatrick view of foreign affairs ; it was the Soviet Union 's will to conquest which had shaped the entire world , plucking into being the entire defensive structure behind which we lived . |
| 19 | Perhaps it 's something to do with being the only civil department still with the power to send in a gunboat . |
| 20 | The magnificent lounge red leather arm chairs , chandeliers , beams , table lamps is named in memory of Bill Oxenham , a remarkable man who combined engine driving at Blackhall pit with being the only Tory councillor in Horden 's history . |
| 21 | which is one of the two that I 've got because the other one I 've got to deal with is the self-employed national insurance contributions |
| 22 | The seat he climbed into was the only empty one in the car . |
| 23 | It must , however , be stressed from the outset that even among the most alienated fascism was far from being the only political response to the continued decline of Britain and the mounting economic problems after the first World War . |
| 24 | Clearly , of course , it was far from being the only political response to the war . |
| 25 | I will not make use of the ransom theory in my retelling of the drama , but I shall cling on to the primitive belief , which I believe to be the correct biblical one , that God 's atonement in incarnation and cross was the crucial victory in the Great Battle not only over sin but also over the Devil and the powers of darkness . |
| 26 | When the above questions concerning the Bromley case have been answered there is still the further crucial question as to how far the authority can deviate from what the court believes to be the correct proportionate balance between the respective interests . |
| 27 | The political violence which became inextricably linked with the BUF proved to be the other great negative factor in its fortunes , despite some temporary gains amongst those who were frightened by working-class and Jewish militancy . |
| 28 | The enclosure movement gave us much of what is said to be the traditional English landscape . |
| 29 | I mean they 're not even three , yet they 're going to be the absolute youngest . |
| 30 | This was particularly so on the Sunday when , in scorching heat , Brazilian fans ‘ danced , sang , shouted and screamed hysterically for every point scored by their players and ever fault by Germany 's Markus Zoecke , standing in for heat-stroke victim Becker , in what proved to be the decisive fourth rubber . |