Example sentences of "[noun sg] to [noun sg] be [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Probably his greatest claim to fame is as the inventor of microphotography , his earliest successful results , based on the newly introduced wet collodion process , dating from February 1852 . |
| 2 | But the Supreme Court decided that only questions of safety or public exposure to radiation are within the federal government 's domain . |
| 3 | It tasted good , but the only resemblance to tea was in the tealeaves floating on the top of the liquid . |
| 4 | The fact of class conflict is not denied , but is seen as only one of several sources of conflict within society ; and perhaps most crucially of all , the stratificationalist approach to class is unlike the Marxist approach in that it is used in a fairly ad hoc way as an analytic tool , rather than as part of an integrated sociohistorical theory . |
| 5 | An example of such pressure involving an attempt to change an inequitable system that appears to bear no relation to wartime was on the Isle of Ely . |
| 6 | For Behaviouralists , the path to knowledge was via the collection of observable data ; regularities within the data were to lead to the framing and testing of hypotheses , from which theories would be constructed . |
| 7 | Now , when the transition to socialism was on the agenda , the issues of the national question were no longer relevant . |
| 8 | These men tend to be more confident that they can make their desires known to their partners , whereas those who did n't enjoy their introduction to sex are among the most likely to say that they ca n't express what they want . |
| 9 | As Dicey says , ‘ the appeal to precedent is in the law courts merely a useful fiction by which judicial decision conceals its transformation into judicial legislation ’ . |