Example sentences of "of [noun sg] be the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The default value of HIMEM is the highest memory address available for use by BBCBASIC(Z80) . |
| 2 | In spite of all that has been said by popular moralists , along the lines of honesty being the best policy , everyone really knows implicitly that it is by this test of universalisability that one should determine what one ought to do . |
| 3 | 4.4 As has been stated , the principles of assessment are the same for both categories . |
| 4 | Another kind of support are the various care attendant schemes coming into operation . |
| 5 | The more difficult decisions under times of change are the longer-term or strategic decisions for the corporation rather than the shorter-term , mainly operational , decisions . |
| 6 | The age of hair was the first ⅗ of the 70s . |
| 7 | Another ray of hope is the International Tropical Timber Organisation ( ITTO ) which was established in 1986 . |
| 8 | There remains truth in the adage , ’ The devil makes work for idle hands ’ ; and I assert that lack of hope is the greatest recruiting officer for all criminal activity . |
| 9 | However , the most grotesque and bizarre feature of communism is the systematic use of political terror . |
| 10 | The most recent studies suggest that more than a third of employers discriminate against black applicants for jobs , and that levels of discrimination are the same for Asian and Afro-Caribbean applicants , for men and women , and vary little between job categories , although previous studies have documented higher levels of racial discrimination in relation to unskilled manual jobs ( Brown and Gay , 1985 ; Smith , 1977 ) . |
| 11 | Luke could scarcely underline more strongly that the supreme object of prayer is the Holy Spirit of God . |
| 12 | ‘ The management of complexity is the key problem of our era , ’ Lucky said , ‘ and the people who will benefit from the computer revolution are those who are comfortable with complexity . |
| 13 | The procedure for the obtaining and giving of further particulars of defence is the same as appertains in relation to further particulars of claim . |
| 14 | The reasons are simple : Quisling , a former army officer , diplomat , and minister of defence was the first of his kind ; and his bid for power , though his own idea , by coinciding with the German takeover was assumed to be part of it . |
| 15 | Normally they were military officers , partly because the army provided a supply of trained talent , partly because they were likely to pay attention to orders from London , and mainly because the organization of defence was the crucial part of their work . |
| 16 | According to functionalism , it turns out that the appropriate level of description is the same as that which characterizes folk psychology , the psychological theory that ordinary people use when predicting and explaining the behaviour of their fellow human beings in the course of their everyday lives . |
| 17 | Unfortunately , the very fact that the study of inequality is the central issue means that there have been a great variety of competing theories and concepts attempting to describe and explain it . |
| 18 | The Commissariat of Agriculture was the key element within Pomgol . |
| 19 | The basic form of eurobond is the straight fixed rate bond , having bullet repayment . |
| 20 | The main advantage of this method of printing is the high speed , long run capability . |
| 21 | The basis of settlement is the same as for Part B of the policy . |
| 22 | If the contractual measure of damage was the only measure to be applied the Vendor could argue that the value of the Business was not necessarily reduced by the full amount of the undisclosed liability . |
| 23 | National laws hold only within one country , but the laws of physics are the same in Britain , the United States , and Japan . |
| 24 | I suggested earlier that one element in the construction of physics was the useful/useless duality . |
| 25 | A sense of smell is the first and primary thing for the animal because it gives it its sense of direction and it 's very important and it goes gently cold , delicately as the dark snow . |
| 26 | In that refusal of personhood to moments of partiality is the hidden root of fascism . |
| 27 | The priests of course are the academic painters . |
| 28 | There of course are the obvious ones : — |
| 29 | and the other of course is the eight eighty ammonia which is only half of five mil , two and a half mil teaspoon . |
| 30 | One of the advantages of using a person-in-role over inanimate objects is that the ‘ passive ’ stage of watching and listening can gradually change to a more active involvement , as and when the class seems ready , but more important of course is the extra dynamic edge that is brought to the whole occasion by having present someone real and breathing and tangible instead of just a photograph . |