Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb -s] be [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Another difficulty has been that such councils are attuned to providing finance for the creation of specific works , while the need for support in popular music is not at the point of creation , but for help in reaching audiences . |
| 2 | My experience has been that for many people there is not all that difference between bringing ‘ God ’ in and touching wood . |
| 3 | Dutch experience has been that close cooperation is needed between planners and all of these groups as well as others such as the police , mandating a cautious , incremental , flexible and thus costly style of planning . |
| 4 | Our experience has been that to create a new expression of the body of Christ has been to create a new possibility of conversion for many such people . |
| 5 | Yes it is , er I mean , what we tried to do was to write er a comedy on a big scale that was n't a marshmallow , er in fact it er the , the comedy deepens and it gets pretty sour , and I think some of the criticism of the play has been that ‘ is it a comedy , or is it a serious play ’ . |
| 6 | One of the problems with traditional remedial teaching has been that spelling and neatness are fetishes . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The result has been that ‘ investment at the highest levels ever ’ has come from fares , not from any public purse , and that an ‘ economic ’ system has become unsafe as BR and LRT weigh up commercial investment needs against the cost of safety measures and the cost of paying wages sufficient to maintain a safe level of staffing . |
| 9 | The result has been that recent chancellors have been able to give free rein to their tax-reforming ambitions . |
| 10 | The result has been that major reforms are completely avoided and every minor reform is weakened or sabotaged . |
| 11 | The result has been that discount deals have proliferated . |
| 12 | The result has been that solar panels are now comparable in price to wind generators . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The result has been some unbundling , loosening and decentralizing of control in some societies and in some organizations on some tasks . |
| 15 | That Darren 's car has been such a loyal servant is all the more surprising when you consider that it spent its first 50,000 miles in the hands of a company rep and was then driven for 22,000 miles by a builder — two occupations hardly renowned for lavishing care and attention on cars . |
| 16 | If that programme has been such a failure , why do we now have 30 programmes targeting support for identifiable industrial priority areas , and why are there almost 200 collaborative research programmes ? |
| 17 | In the twentieth century the most dramatic political collapse has been that of the Liberal Party . |
| 18 | A recurring complaint from industry has been that pension funds are too short-term orientated , to the detriment of the companies in whose shares they deal . |
| 19 | He adds : ‘ It has been a good few years since the snow has been this hard which means a lot of walkers are n't used to it . |
| 20 | The effect has been that for most of this century Britain has had to hold interest rates higher than has been necessary or desirable . |
| 21 | ‘ The very last thing my Department wants is any overt scandal with a CIA connection . ’ |
| 22 | The rule has been that young people intending to study medicine must forsake the humanities and social sciences for physics , chemistry and biology . |
| 23 | But in many cases the threat of legal action has been enough to stop those few shopkeepers who attempt to profit from glue and solvent sales to solvent misusers . |
| 24 | The most comprehensive research has been that carried out by Dingwall , Eekelaar and Murray ( 1983 ) , based on participant observation in social services departments , NHS child health services and casualty departments , and juvenile courts . |
| 25 | Another rare loss has been that of Mark Weedon , the Managing Director in London until the autumn of 1988 , now at Heidrick and Struggles . |
| 26 | A property which light possesses is that of polarisation . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | What the Oxford team 's research suggests is this : |
| 29 | Over the past two years , she pointed out , Saatchi had purchased major works by many of those British painters whose rise to prominence has been such a striking feature of recent years : Saatchi has bought work by , among others , Frank Auerbach , Lucian Freud , Leon Kossoff and Howard Hodgkin . |
| 30 | In more recent times , the most highly developed exposition has been that of Wilhelm Reich ( 1897–1957 ) . |