Example sentences of "be the [adj] [noun sg] of [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As he can see , I am the only Member of Parliament from the northern region who is here apart from , I think , one Labour Member of Parliament who is a Whip . |
| 2 | I am the political equivalent of curry . |
| 3 | I am the ultimate source of meaning of all " existential facts " ; all such facts , in the final analysis , turn out to be explicable in terms of facts about my own existence . |
| 4 | Although , in referring to the possibility that serfdom might " abolish itself from below " , the tsar seemed to be responding to the rural disturbances which had resulted from Nicholas 's militia creations , in all probability he simply lifted the phrase from a Third Department report of 1839 whose purpose , though reformist , had hardly been the complete transformation of government policy . |
| 5 | This was particularly evident in space heating : coal had been the normal method of heating for British householders , but with a low coal ration now applied in order to conserve coal for industry , they still had the option of switching on electric fires . |
| 6 | As Bacci emerged through the blue fog that had collected near the door it occurred to the Captain that if Fusarri had been the normal sort of Substitute he would have had to go and report to him at his office , leaving his own smoke-free . |
| 7 | But in the folklore of Liverpool Police it was the ‘ bucks ’ who had always been the primary object of street powers . |
| 8 | The embodiment of such interactions , though not necessary to the understanding of the morning peak hour movements to work or education which have often been the primary focus of transport planning , is important to the understanding of other less straight-forward parts of the daily pattern of travel , which are important both to the travellers themselves and also to those concerned with the planning and provision of transport . |
| 9 | Of course the phenomenological approach has been with us for a long time , and has been the primary source of evidence in the psychoanalytic tradition . |
| 10 | In recent decades the most important factors have probably been the increasing number of home owners and rises in house prices . |
| 11 | His particular research interest has been the subtle interplay of structure and soil , the total behaviour of the designed building and the soil on which it rests . |
| 12 | Beethoven may have been the greatest genius of repetition in the history of music . |
| 13 | Historically , clinical evidence has been the greatest source of research into differences between the hemispheres . |
| 14 | Historically , clinical evidence has been the greatest source of research into differences between the hemispheres . |
| 15 | GOLD HAS always been the ultimate store of value — and so it is proving here today . |
| 16 | For Cobden , capitalism had been the chief agency of peace between nations . |
| 17 | Over the past few years , AZT has been the chief source of optimism about the company 's fortunes . |
| 18 | Car sales had been the one area of consumer spending undented by the Chancellor 's high interest rates strategy . |
| 19 | Iraq , a signatory to the non-proliferation treaty , appears to have managed to divert nuclear materials to bomb-making despite regular safeguard inspections , but the treaty has been a success on the whole — as indeed has been the complex structure of hot-line , surveillance and negotiation which has ensured that the East-West ‘ balance of terror ’ never tipped over into nuclear war : |
| 20 | I mean there have been the usual number of pollution incidents and they seem to increase every year , er and a lot of those to deal with er as you say , I think one of the things which is , which is good is that public consciousness has been raised and people are much more aware of what they drink and what 's in their rivers . |
| 21 | I suppose there must have been the usual quota of cold , wet and windy days but I ca n't remember them . |
| 22 | On the other hand , without the gay community there would not have been the collective response of support which has made it possible for many gay men to live with AIDS or the fear of AIDS . |
| 23 | Around the turn of the century there had been the great triumvirate of Braid , Vardon , and Taylor but American dominance was established between the wars in the shape of Walter Hagen , who won the Open four times , and Gene Sarazen . |
| 24 | This has been the traditional field of communication ethics . |
| 25 | Landfill has been the traditional method of catalyst disposal . |
| 26 | The Source — Building societies have always been the traditional source of mortgage finance , however , banks finance companies and specialist lenders have also moved into the market and now provide major competition to the building societies . |
| 27 | United Newspapers has been the proud owner of Punch since 1969 . |
| 28 | He must have been the first cousin of Man . |
| 29 | It was Canning , after all , who had been the first virtuoso of diplomacy by public opinion . |
| 30 | A personal hate of mine has always been the general level of noise which distortion sounds seem to produce , no matter what precautions you take . |