Example sentences of "[noun sg] be [vb pp] [verb] [pron] the " in BNC.

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1 A sequel to Marshall Aid was needed to consolidate what the latter had begun .
2 The campaign is needed to fight what the People 's Daily says is ‘ a struggle between socialist and capitalist ideologies ’ .
3 It would have been better if the programmer 's skill was recognized making him the author or joint author of " computer-generated " works .
4 A staff meeting is held to clarify what the plan is for and to outline the procedures to be adopted .
5 It was such an important discovery that the Mayor and Corporation were persuaded to inspect it the following afternoon and the whole village turned out to wait for them .
6 The tiny Regency houses had no doubt been listed to spare them the attentions of developers ; from the state of the paving stones and the grass-studded cracks in the roadway , it seemed that the town council too had passed them by .
7 A team of researchers from Bristol University was commissioned to examine what the YTS had to offer young black people and to indicate how they got on during the first six months of the scheme ( S. Fenton , Ethnic Minorities and the Youth Training Scheme Research and Development Series , no. 20 , MSC , 1984 ) .
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