Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [vb -s] be [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The college has been great offering to find a school for the children , and after school I will be encouraging them to join in the dance and fitness classes for children at the college . ’ |
| 2 | For over 25 years the department has been pioneering AI teaching . |
| 3 | The result has been that sea walls have had to take the brunt of the power of waves and currents at high tide , which erodes them and requires rebuilding on an ever larger scale . |
| 4 | The result has been that discount deals have proliferated . |
| 5 | The result has been that sterling has become very expensive to borrow , but there is still far too much of it , and the supply is still increasing too fast . |
| 6 | For years the result has been frequent power blackouts for Orcadians as the birds ' elaborate home-making habits — incorporating everything from barbed wire and steel mesh to tin cans and nails — caused the electricity supply to short-circuit . |
| 7 | The result has been some unbundling , loosening and decentralizing of control in some societies and in some organizations on some tasks . |
| 8 | But when states have tried an outright ban , as some have , the result has been illicit stills , producing deadly brews that have blinded and killed thousands over the years . |
| 9 | Both sides blame one another and the result has been chaotic sales , at a time when the slack market has been a big enough handicap anyway . |
| 10 | The distinction between ends and means is a useful tactic to disarm critics but not very persuasive in practice since what the DGA does is governmental policy . |
| 11 | The truth of the object is immaterial , what the sonnet argues is that truth is created by distilling ( transforming ) the youth 's beauty into poetry . |
| 12 | What the child learns is that might is right . |
| 13 | So far their reaction to the take-over has been loudly-voiced support , and angrily expressed sentiments of violence , but no violence itself . |
| 14 | ‘ But if the lad has been any sort of problem in the past I still believe United will get the best out of him and put an end to his wandering . |
| 15 | The consequence has been fierce rivalry between the two in all areas . |
| 16 | In many cases the consequence has been large scale redundancy , and a reduction in size , or contraction , of the organisation . |
| 17 | They will not get it into their heads that what the military wants is military information , not the phone number of some general 's girlfriend . |
| 18 | They managed to convince the authorities that the dolphin kills were bad publicity , and that the release of some dolphins would be seen as partial atonement for the brutal killings which had already taken place . |
| 19 | The event has been 9 months in the making . |
| 20 | This has sometimes been justified on security grounds but often the argument has been that disclosure is not in the public interest , that " secrecy is at all times the condition in which the best men make the best decisions . " |
| 21 | The culmination has been this year 's first World Championships in which Andy took 2nd place as well as being co-sponsor with Palm . |
| 22 | the dog has been worrying livestock , has not left the vicinity and is not under the control of any person and there are no practicable means of ascertaining to whom it belongs . |
| 23 | The district has been national finalists in the Britain in Bloom contest in the last four years and this has been achieved by the magnificent floral displays which can be seen throughout the summer months in our area . |
| 24 | The facts on which you must build your argument are scattered throughout the statement of the problem in what the examiner thinks is flowing English , but which is sometimes anything but clear . |
| 25 | The show 's organisers and officials of the Canadian Hellenic Congress , an organisation of Greeks in Canada , say the exhibition has been five years in the making and that it reflects the excellent cultural ties between Greeks and Canadians . |
| 26 | As visitors to Spain this summer will notice , the Government has been encouraging hoteliers to go ‘ up market ’ . |
| 27 | This practice , which is much more common in the United States , has acquired its own descriptive term , ‘ defensive medicine ’ , a term suggestive of the notion that an unnecessary and destructive tension exists between what the doctor thinks is good medicine and what the law requires of him . |
| 28 | The servants say the doctor 's been three times but been forced to leave again without seeing him . |
| 29 | Suspicions have sometimes been voiced that , whenever government has supported civic education , the reason has been that learning of this kind has been interpreted as supportive of a respectful attitude . |
| 30 | However , one thing which the book lacks is any guide to further reading . |