Example sentences of "be the [adj] [noun] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is certainly true , but it underlines what many consider has been the undue emphasis placed on the PSBR in the government 's policy making . |
| 2 | I wondered if this had been the right place to come at all . |
| 3 | The public road to Killilan has for long been the usual route taken by motorists wishing to see the Falls of Glomach , permission to use a private road continuing into Glen Elchaig being a formality . |
| 4 | The causes of the unions ' fading influence are complex , but one of the most potent has undoubtedly been the participatory methods adopted by American managers in imitation of Japanese practice . |
| 5 | 1792 It being Represented to this Meeting that their is unlawful combinations and Meetings held by the Weavers in the Island , particularly in the Parish of Kilchoman , for the purpose of shortening or cutting off the usual measure called the Islay Ell , which has for time Immemorial been the Standard Measure given by the Weavers with every Species of their Manufacture , and for reducing the measure to the English yard , and for continueing the prices for the English yard as high as that for the Islay Ell |
| 6 | The LOB corpus has been the principal corpus used throughout the current project . |
| 7 | An integral component of restructuring has been the increased focus given to the Johnson Brothers ' brand . |
| 8 | ‘ I could have been the only Irishman to play for both Billy Bingham and Jack Charlton , ’ he said . |
| 9 | In this sense , all the diverse myths of classical tragedy are equally Dionysiac , and the same applies to the tragic heroes : for a long time , Dionysus had been the only character represented in the early drama , its only hero , and , until Euripides , all the different suffering heroes of tragedy were still " mere masks of this original hero " . |
| 10 | The football authorities have not been the only ones to agonize over the impact of television on sport . |
| 11 | Irons and radios had been the only appliances owned by the majority of consumers before the War and they were joined by electric fires at the end of it . |
| 12 | She had been the only passenger to alight from the two carriage train which she could still hear dimly in the distance , chuffing its way over the Severn Bridge on its way to Lydney . |
| 13 | She was highly delighted , especially when she learned that she had been the only woman called for interview ; she had been certain that the job would go to one of the male applicants . |
| 14 | She felt she was honour bound , as hostess , to keep the conversation going , and the mention of the poor man who had had to endure Harry Burrows moaning in a sheet beneath his windows had been the only topic to cling to her memory . |
| 15 | As affectivity is the most obscure side of man , there has been the constant temptation to resort to it , forgetting that what is refractory to explanation ipso facto unsuitable for use in explanation . |
| 16 | Again falling household size has played an important role here in reducing the capacity of these areas , but equally significant have been the tight planning controls on urban development , particularly the wide Green Belts round most of the larger cities . |
| 17 | But the revelation of the Big Man 's round features above us might have been the full moon appearing to a pack of wolves , for the bolder souls watching started to bay abuse in Danuese . |
| 18 | Part of the impetus had been the growing frustration felt by women in the voluntary work committees that they and the issues which concerned them tended to be elbowed aside by men . |
| 19 | Hidden in the sentences below are the following words related to night-time and beds . |
| 20 | What are the following Corydoras named after : C. coppenamensis , C. metae and C. napoensis ? |
| 21 | how far are the specific behaviours associated with particular leadership styles the same in each country ? |
| 22 | In principle the tensors P1 and Q1 can be calculated for any shape but spheres and ellipsoids are the usual shapes used with cylinders and discs as the limiting cases . |
| 23 | The conditional instructions are the standard set used in the VAX . |
| 24 | Similarly the social benefits of an activity are the private benefits accruing to the agent engaged in the activity plus any external benefits . |
| 25 | Note that the greatest losses are through roof and walls , so these are the major areas to deal with . |
| 26 | The discharge of secretory proteins into the interstitial space because of excessive pancreatic stimulation and resulting oedema with accumulation of leukocytes are the major changes described in the caerulein induced pancreatitis . |
| 27 | There are little stations threaded on the lines like beads on a rosary ; they stand in the solitude like places of pilgrimage , far from the profane noises of the world ; they are the real chapels dedicated to the silent ceremony of Waiting . |
| 28 | ‘ You , me and my son are the only ones working for Midwinter . |
| 29 | The status labels of ‘ ruwang ’ and ‘ ruwahu ’ are the only ones used in reference by the Piaroa outside of kinship terms to think about and to classify social relationships . |
| 30 | They also need careful attention because they are the only cases brought by business clients in which the client 's objective was not unequivocally adopted by the lawyer . |