Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [be] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The total award made was £54,196 . |
| 2 | Hair has been roller set to give lift to the roots and movement to the ends . |
| 3 | Hair has been roller set to give body and volume . |
| 4 | Since 1985-86 alone , total capital public expenditure on social housing provision has been £18.3 billion . |
| 5 | The second major contextual change has been shifts in government policy , operating in the context of large scale youth unemployment . |
| 6 | The winner has been apathy and the loser democracy . |
| 7 | Most surprising addition has been Lockheed YF–117A stealth fighter 79–10781 , one of the only two YK–117s built , the other was written off in May 1978 . |
| 8 | This latter finding has been point out by some authors , noting that the mean age at the time of the diagnosis of Barrett 's oesophagus was about 55 years , which is the same as the value found in our study . |
| 9 | Despite its success — eight out of 11 young people have got jobs — no definite funding has been body . |
| 10 | During all of that time my greatest ally and adviser in moulding the laws passing through the Parliament has been Nigel G M B's Director of Health , Safety and the Environment . |
| 11 | Absolutely gutted I ca n't believe such a lenient sentence has been given.I do n't know what 's going through the judge 's mind . |
| 12 | A key figure in the development of concepts of the life course has been Tamara Hareven . |
| 13 | Total expenditure in this field has been ECU 0.72 million . |
| 14 | Also singled out for particular censure has been Mozart 's wife Constanze , who has often been accused of hastening her husband 's early death through her sluttishness , extravagance , and inability to keep the household finances in order . |
| 15 | An example of this typecasting has been US alto-saxophonist Lee Konitz , customarily referred to as ‘ Doyen of the Cool School ’ . |
| 16 | Its first post-cold war opportunity has been President Bush 's occupation of Panama in December 1989 . |
| 17 | A further problem with the interpretation of some previous studies of mucosal metabolism has been concern that the procedure used for isolating a pure epithelial cell population from resected bowel specimens may itself have introduced artefacts , and that these artefactual changes might well have been different in the inflamed colitic tissue from those in the histologically normal colon . |
| 18 | Where trade has proved damaging for whatever reason , the result has been estrangement . |
| 19 | The result has been fragmentation in political life . |
| 20 | The reasons for the shift from regarding sign language as one universal form of communication to seeing sign languages as highly different from each other are easy to understand , but the result has been confusion over what questions remain to be asked about the differences between sign languages . |
| 21 | Since 1986 all blood has been heat treated and there have been no cases since then . |
| 22 | A seminal influence in this style of thinking has been Gilbert Ryle 's exposure of the category mistake , which implies that the most logically organized case may crumble because it turns out to depend on unnoticed analogies . |
| 23 | One of the most lovable , if not the most lovable ( apart from Dawn ) , owlets I have ever had the pleasure to meet was Biggles . |
| 24 | Since its inception a major programme has been teacher placements with the partnership becoming host to the teacher placement organiser for Mid Glamorgan . |
| 25 | For more than forty years American football has been symbol of patriotism at the Upper Heyford airbase . |
| 26 | The major area of academic industry has been analysis of central mental concepts such as intention or recklessness . |
| 27 | The criterion used was frequency of occurrence : " the more frequent , the more useful . " |
| 28 | The most important determinant of gall bladder emptying is contraction of gall bladder smooth muscle , although the resistance to bile flow at the cystic duct and sphincter of Oddi may also modulate the process . |
| 29 | The leading exponent of this theoretical approach in relation to the military-industrial complex has been C.W. Mills . |
| 30 | The review has been treasury driven rather than defence driven . |