Example sentences of "[noun prp] has [be] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The women 's game is much more open today and Gabriela Sabatini has been the best player on the women 's tour this year . |
| 2 | Back in daylight , Vatanen has been the driving force behind the Banbury team today . |
| 3 | For several years Spain has been the biggest source of sales for the majority of ELT publishers ; indeed , it is reported that for one of the smaller players it represents a dangerous 50% of turnover . |
| 4 | The NFC has been the outstanding example where for seven years the company was owned entirely by the workforce . |
| 5 | Deng Xiaoping has been the dominant figure within the upper echelons of the ruling Chinese Communist Party since 1980 . |
| 6 | The main reason for the fall in profits at Sekers has been the unsettling effect on world markets for silk products of the unprecedented 75% retroactive rise in raw silk prices from China since April , as reported at the AGM in September . |
| 7 | Perhaps Brittain has been the chief contributor to his reputation by running horses in events in which they appear out of their depth . |
| 8 | Laporte 's trumping of Wassall on 8 January with a £135m bid for glue maker Evode has been the nearest thing to a typical bid salvo , although there have been some minnow-sized transactions . |
| 9 | Over the past few years , AZT has been the chief source of optimism about the company 's fortunes . |
| 10 | But for Christians Sunday has been the first day of the week ever since the faith came into being . |
| 11 | This is the second year that Guinness has been the chief sponsor of the event , following Murphy 's unsuccessful attempt to gain the right to the event back in 1992 . |
| 12 | Meeting Arnold Palmer has been the greatest thing that has happened to me . |
| 13 | Ernst & Young has been the exclusive distributor for KnowledgeWare in Europe since 1986 , but the company now has direct distribution operations in most European countries including Belgium , Denmark , Finland , France , Germany , Italy , the Netherlands , Norway , Portugal , Spain , Sweden and the UK . |
| 14 | ‘ David McCallen has been the big difference to Bangor . |
| 15 | Smith argues that Britain has been the classic case of this . |
| 16 | At each stage of the story , Britain has been the odd man out . |
| 17 | From the Golden Age of the Renaissance , through the days of the Grand Tour and right up to the present day , Italy has been the Golden Land . |
| 18 | Until now Japan has been the rich world 's youngster : people 65 and over still account for only 11.5% of the population . |
| 19 | The Vietnamese occupation of Kampuchea has been the primary stumbling block . |
| 20 | Until now France has been the principal export outlet . |
| 21 | With Germany , France has been the prime mover behind closer European integration . |
| 22 | ‘ I think Neville Southall has been the best goalkeeper in England for a long time , but now he has been joined by others like David Seaman , Tony Coton and Chris Woods . |
| 23 | Polyurethanes has been the strongest business within the group and has shown continuing profits in spite of the downturn . |
| 24 | Judas has been the big winner lately , now he 'd be cockier than ever , and it was my fault . |
| 25 | It 's been certainly true er , Chair , that America has been the largest source of inward investment in this country consistently . |
| 26 | The highest summit in the world — accorded the status by British surveyors in the 1850s — Everest has been the crowning target for the world 's mountaineers since the first attempt to climb it in 1921 . |
| 27 | CAMBODIA has been the main subject of my mailbag this week . |
| 28 | It does not make it any easier to do what we have to do , but it makes seeing what we have to do much clearer , because it then becomes obvious that Serbia has been the blatant aggressor in the war and that its aggression simply can not be tolerated by the international community . |
| 29 | In the 1970s and 1980s , Otmoor has been the controversial subject of vigorous campaigns fought against both a motorway and an extensive drainage scheme for the river Ray proposed by the Thames Water Authority . |
| 30 | Its functional significance has to be examined in the context of its importance for the ‘ non-organized ’ masses , whose image of Hitler has been the central concern of this work , for the Party faithful , and for the Nazi and non-Nazi élites . |