Example sentences of "[vb -s] [be] [art] [noun] [that] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The currency convertability restrictions threaten to wipe out the country 's domestic base of small resellers unless suppliers opt to extend credit facilities further , but to date there has been no indication that suppliers are prepared to take such steps . |
| 2 | There has been a promise that prosperity will be permanent . |
| 3 | There has been a suggestion that Aethelburh , kinswoman of Ealdred , sub-king of the Hwicce , and abbess of Fladbury in Worcestershire ( CS 238 : S 62 ) , was Offa 's daughter of the same name who was also an abbess ( CS 251 : S 127 ) , but there were clearly several prominent women of this name . |
| 4 | As for minorities and boundaries between Croatia and Serbia , however , there has been a suggestion that President Tudjman of Croatia and President Milosevic of Serbia would agree to a peacekeeping force . |
| 5 | I think that one important strand in the rejection of feminism by many women has been a feeling that feminists are saying that their lives have been of no value , and that their activities and concerns have been trivial . |
| 6 | Underlying Mr Singh 's campaign has been an implication that boys receiving awards and honours have not really been deserving of them . |
| 7 | In the past there has been an assumption that pupils ' attainment will dip as a result of transfer and a settling period will be needed . |
| 8 | An important factor in achieving this success has been the requirement that management should report progress against financial targets on a monthly basis to a Committee which I chair and also at regular meetings of the Board . |
| 9 | One aspect that has been somewhat modified by further curriculum development projects , has been the implication that pupils were not receptive to certain ways of thinking until certain stages in their development . |
| 10 | One of these promising directions has been the realisation that conservation is as much about social processes as physical ones , and that the major constraints are not technical ( in the agricultural engineering sense ) , but social . |
| 11 | A prime theme has been the argument that group formation is often of survival value to individuals in gaining a social cover from predation ( p. 52 ) . |
| 12 | A major problem for climatologists has been the fact that temperatures in the southern hemisphere have risen more than in the northern hemisphere . |
| 13 | Moderator in the course of my lifetime I believe one of the big changes within a family has been the fact that grace is no longer said at meal times . |
| 14 | A representative assessment is that given by the library manager : I would say that one of the biggest advantages was the fact that senior management … from the Head down , from the very word go , were after making it a success … one thing we have got is a greater awareness from a greater number of staff , because they come in here to supervise and help [ and ] get involved … but I think the biggest advantage has been the fact that time devoted to … library skills for all the first year … [ has ] been extended to an hour a week … |
| 15 | One of the major reasons , however , for the interest in resource-based learning has been the recognition that children must learn , during the course of their schooling , to be increasingly self-sufficient in learning , to become the " independent autonomous learners " most fitted to survive in a society undergoing constant change , and in the context of the knowledge explosion . |
| 16 | Built into most policy development over the past four decades , even anti-sexist and anti-racist initiatives , has been the assumption that girls and black pupils are ‘ problems ’ ; that they either have problems or pose problems that are different from other groups of pupils . |
| 17 | A more significant objection has been the charge that leys involve marker sites that vary tremendously in age . |
| 18 | And this in turn suggests its own moral , which is a constant theme of structuralist poetics : The primacy of the system over what it represents is a conclusion that poetics derives from the extension of the Saussurean model to the sphere of the grammar of literature ; and now we find literature itself endorsing these conclusions . |
| 19 | The choices she faces are the choices that India itself was making at the time . ’ |
| 20 | 55 B.C. as every school boy knows was the year that Caesar invaded Britain . |