Example sentences of "[verb] be its [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Apart from this attractive coloration , part of this species ' desirability has been its rarity , while another factor is its reputation as an extremely difficult fish to work with . |
| 2 | Yet , according to Structuralists who adopt a historical approach , notably those associated with the world-system approach of Immanuel Wallerstein , the central feature of the international capitalist system has been its capacity to maintain patterns of economic domination . |
| 3 | One of the achievements of the British ruling class historically has been its capacity to deflect opposition and resistance by calculated philanthropy and by the concentration on individualism as an explanation of success and failure . |
| 4 | Having successfully struck out on his own in 1962 , he has since been involved with the South East London Society , and has been its treasurer for the past two years . |
| 5 | A clear characteristic of the English public education service has been its dislocation and separation from the business community . |
| 6 | Former County Donegal coach No. 28 leaves the caravan site that has been its home for 30 years to return to the railway . |
| 7 | Up to now , Mitsubishi Electric 's only widely-reported involvement in microprocessors has been its tie-up with Fujitsu Ltd and Hitachi Ltd on the G-micro family of chips that are optimised to run Japan 's Tron real-time nucleus . |
| 8 | One of the most important features of the British outlook of the last hundred years has been its revelry in nostalgia and dislike of change . |
| 9 | Apart from problems inherent to plastic ( it is not as fast or manoeuvrable through the water as glassfibre ) a major weakness of the plastic used so far in sea kayaks has been its lack of rigidity . |
| 10 | And her dispatches indeed reveal a bombshell : that despite protestations to the contrary in white American fiction , race has been its subject matter all the time . |
| 11 | Matching the Government 's economic achievement has been its attempts to change the way Britons collectively think about work . |
| 12 | One such area has been its library services which until now , maintains Mathews , were regarded simply as a programming resource . |
| 13 | The more animals a household is obliged to sacrifice , the greater has been its misfortune . |
| 14 | One of the main complaints levelled against the Act has been its failure to eliminate , or even significantly reduce , the arbitrary exercise of discretion by magistrates . |
| 15 | The single most important aspect of the policy has been its introduction of training and enterprise councils — TECs , in the acronym-speak that clogs up all talk of the labour market . |
| 16 | Perhaps its remoteness has been its saving grace , coupled with the fact that by the nineteenth century the Pinney family who had built it deemed it too small and dim to live in and moved to their other house of Racedown , a mile up the road . |
| 17 | But the shows triumph has been its appeal not just to the unaddressed , naff masses , but also to a fashionable audience of discerning clubbers who never set foot in the kind of clubs the programme broadcasts from , and to the extremist yuppie subgroup that reads both the Sunday Times and the Sunday Sport . |
| 18 | The sooner the potential customer selects a particular product or brand as meeting his or her purchase needs , the more successful has been its marketing . |
| 19 | Liverpool has been its stronghold . |
| 20 | Not only had many esoterics died there ( and he did n't enjoy the proximity of death unless he 'd been its bringer ) , but the Retreat was a passing place between the Fifth Dominion and the other four , including , of course , the home from which he was in permanent exile . |
| 21 | As your article ( 6 October ) says , the award challenges Peking to honour what it says is its willingness to open a dialogue with the Dalai Lama . |
| 22 | While the award of the Nobel Prize will , if anything , only strengthen Peking 's resolve over Tibet , it challenges Peking to honour what it says is its readiness to open dialogue with the Dalai Lama . |
| 23 | All I noticed was its eyes . ’ |
| 24 | In nature , of course , the first moving , honking thing that a gosling sees is its parent , and it will normally become imprinted on , and follow , its mother . |
| 25 | Yeo has written to the department criticising what he claimed was its decision to ‘ down-grade ’ the level of security on the girl . |
| 26 | I would have been its curator , and would have had the top floor to myself ’ . |
| 27 | In that sense , the sectoral approach was already being rejected : ECSC might well have been its end rather than its beginning . |
| 28 | The yardstick by which each proposal is judged is its potential for success within C&P ; , or it may be passed on elsewhere in the group . |
| 29 | One of the strongest selling points of factoring is its simplicity : it provides cash in advance against invoices . |
| 30 | The new government , with strong Tsarist influence , is pretending to fight a war to defend the republic when all it is really defending is its aim of conquest and profit . |