Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] be the [noun sg] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Implicit in this emotional narrative is the assumption that their academic success of the time would serve as the platform for future literary achievements , and would lead inevitably to public recognition of their undoubted talents . |
| 2 | ‘ An odd coincidence is the fact that Franklin D. Hauser , chief executive of INCUBUS , has his English home in a mansion not two miles from that bell tower . ’ |
| 3 | But that debate should not obscure the fact that private investment was the key that unlocked the Channel Tunnel door . |
| 4 | If the epitomist added the two letters to his summary of the history of Jason , his epitome must be dated after 124 B.C. The only possible alternative is the assumption that a later interpolator added the two letters to the epitome of Jason . |
| 5 | The only other external modifying force is the fact that extremely intricate designs tend to become unclear if the pile is too long , which is why most finely-knotted items are close-cropped . |
| 6 | The only problem I 've to tell you about from British Rail is the fact that the London Paddington to Liverpool train service which is due at Oxford at six fifty-five , is starting from Reading tonight instead of er London Paddington , otherwise no problems on the buses or trains . |
| 7 | Few would deny that a critical factor for the success of British industry is the amount and quality of training received by our managers . |
| 8 | The free child is the part that feels , wants , needs and expresses intuition , emotion and creativity . |
| 9 | Of particular importance for the residential sector was the fact that 75 per cent of the children admitted compulsorily were placed first in some form of residential care , with half of them in observation and assessment centres or in reception homes ( p. 162 ) . |
| 10 | The reference to a French captivity was the occasion when Walton Butterworth , the Department 's Director of Far Eastern Affairs , had , in Acheson 's absence , attempted something in the nature of a diplomatic coup . |
| 11 | Its articulation is easier and hence its flexibility is greater than that of the trumpet , but its proper place is the brass or wind band and it has not succeeded in establishing itself permanently in the orchestra . |
| 12 | I 've encountered Arena -reading Young Conservatives who get off on The Smiths and Sex Pistols : I knew a girl whose favourite group is The Jam but who claims to be apolitical and whose one great desire in life is a Mercedes . |
| 13 | A symbol of lesser importance was the cross and its variants such as the star , wheel and swastika . |
| 14 | No farther into France than 30 miles from the German border is the directive and , luckily for us , this law permits the Riesling to flourish in Alsace . |
| 15 | Perhaps a more interesting development is the likelihood that Pyramid will now recast its image as a supplier only of high-end transaction systems . |
| 16 | One sad aspect of the sexual revolution is the fact that by and large the churches have had little to contribute that is positive and constructive . |
| 17 | What is concerning the right hon. Gentleman is the fact that the economy is moving back into growth and he does not like it . |
| 18 | Another favourite argument was the fact that the girls received training . |
| 19 | The formal expression of a social policy is the legislation that creates services to tackle social problems . |
| 20 | As part of his investigation into the extent of racial disadvantage in Britain , Smith set up an experiment in which the independent variable was race and the dependent variable was the success or otherwise of applications for a broad range of jobs . |
| 21 | Funny Man is the competition and we have a new pre-release video as a prize and there 's a phone-in and you can take part and have a chat on the air Afternoon Special this afternoon just after the two o'clock news . |
| 22 | And there is another reason that would favour it : the language of free choice is the language that is used in everyday life by the people it purports to describe . |
| 23 | A measure of the extent to which évolués were drawn into French life was the fact that President Houphouet-Boigny of the Ivory Coast was previously a member of five successive French cabinets during the 1950s . |
| 24 | And cultural determinism is the idea that they way people think and act , is largely determined by their culture , their upbringing , their socialization , their home environment , peer group pressure , this kind of thing , and is not to be looked for in natural causes , in their genes , for example , or in individual psychological experience , as was the prime focus of Freud in psychoanalysis . |
| 25 | Of comfort to those of lesser virtue is the fact that pub drinkers , guided only by guesswork , tend to overestimate the calories provided by alcoholic drinks , while innocent orange-juice drinkers , or saintly souls who will ‘ just stick to a bitter lemon , thanks ’ , often underestimate the number of calories they are consuming . |
| 26 | Basic to all operant conditioning is the principle that the response must occur before it can be reinforced ( Rivers 1964 , p32 ) . |
| 27 | Possibly even more damaging to the potential of the Light Rifle is the fact that Stack do n't provide any driver routines for programmers . |
| 28 | When this happens , the social opportunity cost of the resources tied up in the public project is the return that households could have obtained on the same resources . |
| 29 | Likewise , the verb drink in a verb-object construction is the selector since it presupposes that its direct object bears the trait ‘ liquid ’ . |
| 30 | ROS : ( Cutting his fingernails ) Another curious scientific phenomenon is the fact that the fingernails grow after death , as does the beard . |