Example sentences of "[vb pp] be the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Being excavated are the seventeenth-century summer palace of Alexis Michailovich , father of Czar Peter the Great , and a medieval site nearby the Kremlin . |
| 2 | Also listed are the various plastic Hurricane and Spitfire replicas that now replace the real thing at several RAF stations . |
| 3 | Only after a web of intrigue has been broken are the true culprits revealed . |
| 4 | Also given are the dividing factors at each step . |
| 5 | Included are the large parrots such as the hyacinth macaw , canidi macaw and palm cockatoo and 87 of the 287 species of birds of prey . |
| 6 | ( Also included are the National Girobank , the discount houses and the banking department at the Bank of England . ) |
| 7 | Among the points considered are the following : |
| 8 | The first of the few blocks that can be used in competition to be considered are the slapping blocks . |
| 9 | Also to be considered are the many strange accounts of werewolves , vampires , apart from ghosts and ghouls . |
| 10 | Among the topics to be considered are the cultural and social bases of class conflict , the politics of honour in the class struggle , symbolic action in class confrontations , millenarianism and rationality in the Anarchist Movement , the causes and incidence of violence as distinct from conflict . |
| 11 | Let be the planned rate of money supply growth and be the private sector 's expected rate of planned money supply growth , then the standard form for preferences in this game are : |
| 12 | What he most enjoyed were the historical investigations , the satisfaction of demonstrating , as he had only last month , that a document dated 1872 was printed on paper containing chemical wood-pulp which was first used in 1874 , a discovery which had initiated a fascinating unravelling of complicated documentary fraud . |
| 13 | In an indirect system , the only connection to the rising main usually permitted is the obligatory one going to a drinking water tap in the kitchen ( though some existing houses may have other connections — for a WC , for example ) . |
| 14 | Clearly , one of the invincible conventions of the ‘ Romance ’ label is that desire should not be consummated before at the very least a proposal of marriage has been secured by the heroine — ‘ the only pain permitted is the sweet pain of unfulfilled desire ’ … |
| 15 | What convinces me that this child is deluded is the conflicting reports of the so-called apparition . |
| 16 | Molar loss is the number of places in the mandible where a tooth should be present but is not ; and molars expected is the total number of teeth that should be present in the available sample of mandibles ( mostly this is 3 per mandible ) . |
| 17 | Included is the actual program code for a finished application called Databox . |
| 18 | Included is the devastating Golden Gun , the pieces of which ( five in all ) are scattered around . |
| 19 | As the last record added is the first in the overflow chain , it is helpful if this physical order is also the logical order of the record keys . |
| 20 | If the lecturer to be deleted is the only one that reports to a particular senior lecturer , then the information that the senior lecturer did supervise a lecturer is lost if the lecturer record is deleted . |
| 21 | The line to be edited is the second line in the file E.CLI . |
| 22 | Oh , this is actually from varieties , this extract and erm , I 'm giving it to you , cos varieties here , but because the other element which we have n't considered is the actual appearance on the page of erm , middle English well this is actually early modern English . |
| 23 | What has been rudely shattered is the cosy depiction of British history as the progressive ‘ conquest of violence ’ ( Critchley , 1970 ) which is celebrated in the conventional accounts of the British police ( Reith , 1938 , 1943 , 1956 ; Critchley , 1967 ; Ascoli , 1979 ; Stead , 1985 ) . |
| 24 | The last thing Hazel had expected was the immediate support of a member of the Owsla . |
| 25 | Ian soon learned how to dodge the flying hooves of Boy and remain in control of his bike , but what he had n't expected was the clinging weight and depth of wet Wadhurst clay — somersaulting with a squelch into one of the deepest bogs which appeared regularly between the level stretches of good galloping ground where both could make good speed . |
| 26 | Forgotten was the fearful nail-biting exercise Monaghan Day had always been for the whole house ; with distance it had become large , heroic , blood-mystical , something from which the impossible could be snatched . |
| 27 | The last element to be added was the magnificent triumphal arch at the entrance from the Piazza del Duomo . |
| 28 | When the recipe called for a sprig of ‘ bruised thyme ’ it added a further twenty minutes while he and Kate deliberated as to whether bruised was the same as battered with a knife handle , or meant merely rubbed between the forefinger and thumb . |
| 29 | The readership to be considered was the actual or at least predictable reading public rather than the precocious fourteen-year-old schoolgirl into whose hands it might perchance fall — unless it were in fact aimed at or distributed to fourteen-year-old schoolgirls , by whose vulnerability to corruption it should then be judged . |
| 30 | So impressed was the forward-thinking Murray with the two games against Leeds that he wants to speed up the introduction of a British Cup . |