Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv] [be] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What matters most is the total time spent running , not the distance covered . |
| 2 | On European monetary union , it seems to me that it has long been the cherished aim of Conservative Governments to find a means by which we could control the value of our currency — to make it predictable in its exchange rate , as it was for much of the 19th century . |
| 3 | Portree has long been the commercial centre of the Isle of Skye . |
| 4 | It has long been the French preference to maintain the Council as the primary decision-making body of the Community , and indeed to reinforce its role ; the Germans want greater powers for the Parliament in Strasbourg . |
| 5 | To be able to sell every vehicle that lands at a UK port and , as a result , to enjoy buoyant prices for used models , has long been the happy position for Mitsubishi 's UK importer , Colt Cars . |
| 6 | The Spanish Civil War has thus been the real focus of recent debate surrounding the British reaction to European fascism . |
| 7 | The revived concern for retributive justice has not been the only response to the failure of the rehabilitative ideal . |
| 8 | Of course , she has not been the only case . |
| 9 | MARTIN EDWARDS has not been the only man in Manchester trying to sell something of a sporting nature . |
| 10 | Since the Second World War , however , the political control of rural councils has not been the only factor influencing the rate of rural house-building . |
| 11 | Statistical computing has not been the only impact of modern technology on epidemiology since 1965 . |
| 12 | As we shall see in the following chapter , mechanization has not been the only process responsible for this , but by enabling the farmer to de-bureaucratize his farm and place greater emphasis on developing the personal loyalty of his workforce rather than relying upon regulations and sanctions , it has been an important contributory factor . |
| 13 | Yet in Japan this has not been the only reason for being able to use less energy to do the same job . |
| 14 | Curiously enough , though , this has not been the major concern of feminist work in the social science disciplines of linguistics and speech communication . |
| 15 | The 1974 World Population Plan of Action has not been the final word in the ongoing debate on this particular problem . |
| 16 | The fact that the UK government has done none of these things , leads one to suppose that a genuine improvement in the co-ordination of health and welfare services for the most vulnerable and disabled groups in society has not been the real objective . |
| 17 | My contention is that the main cause of the British predicament has not been the British economy but rather the decline of sterling and the failure of British policy to adapt to that decline … . |
| 18 | Short term this has enabled the UK to maintain a state-of-the-art capability , although there has not been the desired reduction in the total percentage of the defence budget committed R&D . |
| 19 | Though there is a case to be made for its use as an educational medium — and the BBC 's contribution to the Open University at Milton Keynes has been considerable , if politically questionable , and will continue despite the closure of their studios in a fine example of accountant 's false logic — this has not been the main area of impact . |
| 20 | What has been the subject of radical , almost revolutionary , change over the past decade or so has not been the civic culture but the perceptions of that culture . |
| 21 | The modifications to the original drawing referred to in the article were mainly concerned with an increase in the size of the tunnels to incorporate larger propellers , the design of which has not be the direct responsibility of G.L. Watson and Company . |
| 22 | ‘ BY DAYLIGHT , the bower of Oak 's newfound mistress Bathsheba Everdene presented itself as a hoary building of the Jacobean stage of Classical Renaissance as regards its architecture , and of a proportion which tells at a glance that , as is frequently the case , it has once been the manorial hall on a small estate … |
| 23 | Corduroy has always been the poor man 's velvet ; its pile is made of cotton , rather than silk or satin , and by the eighteenth century it was being worn all over Europe , not by kings , but by working men . |
| 24 | This has always been the only way in which future interests in personal property can be created . |
| 25 | Of course , what applies to animals applies equally to people : indeed , it has always been the declared aim of the behaviourists to understand and to control human behaviour . |
| 26 | A personal hate of mine has always been the general level of noise which distortion sounds seem to produce , no matter what precautions you take . |
| 27 | Lord Callaghan , the last Labour prime minister , said : ‘ What happened in the 1980s was a temporary aberration from what has always been the real position of the Labour Party , and Neil Kinnock has recaptured the traditional position . ’ |
| 28 | GOLD HAS always been the ultimate store of value — and so it is proving here today . |
| 29 | And this , of course , has always been the central dilemma and one that the critics of TNC practices in the Third World can not escape . |
| 30 | ‘ Participant observation ’ has always been the central method of ethnographers . |