Example sentences of "[noun] [vb base] be the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The loss of Batty was a big blow to the midfield but the injuries to both Wallace and Speed have been the big set back this season . |
| 2 | Kurdish journalists , local politicians and members of the Turkish Human Rights Association have been the principal victims of extra-judicial executions . |
| 3 | Among the most frequently condemned aspects have been the following : |
| 4 | Moggach 's last three books have been the social dramas Stolen and To Have and To Hold ( adapted from her own television scripts ) , and the thriller The Stand-In . |
| 5 | At several sites , the last six months have been the driest for over a century . |
| 6 | How much longer moderator can we in the Welsh provence accept being the poor relationship within the denominations ? |
| 7 | Now this week 's Friday Feature takes us appropriately enough to church , to see what enthusiasts claim is the fastest growing sport around . |
| 8 | The major impetus for this work have been the national surveys carried out by the Home Office , the British Crime Surveys of 1982 , 1984 and 1988 . |
| 9 | The main producing areas have been the Northern ( Dunham , 1948 and Dunham and Wilson , 1985 ) and Southern ( Ford , 1976 ) Pennine orefields , North Wales ( Earp , 1958 ) and the Mendips ( Green , 1958 ; Ford , 1976 ) . |
| 10 | For over three decades these two countries have been the unwilling recipients of acid rain ‘ export ’ on a massive scale . |
| 11 | While the institutions rushing for the exit have been the small British firms , the institutions entering these markets — in addition to a number of major British banks — have been the comparatively enormous foreign houses . |
| 12 | Concerns have been the small number of inter-disciplinary and student-led projects put up for funding . |
| 13 | Quick reflexes , intuition and mobility have been the chief assets of Achille Prospero Rosario Maria Giovanni Carlo Bonito Oliva . |
| 14 | Green belts have been the major instrument of planning in fringe areas , having long been advocated by leading planning theorists such as Unwin and Howard . |
| 15 | Until this year , massive and painful jabs of immunoglobulin in the bottom have been the only short-term chance of protection . |
| 16 | The Prince and Princess 's grandmothers have been the best of friends for most of their lives . |
| 17 | Our lives have been the same as our fathers ' and their fathers ' before them . |
| 18 | The issue raised by these developments is whether the principle of orality upon which English trials and appeals proceed is the best way of dealing with appeals . |
| 19 | He can do no better than argue that it involves apprehending things simultaneously rather than in succession though he does not explain how the successful mystic can transcend the limits of the magic number seven , which most psychologists agree is the maximum number of entities that can simultaneously be held before the mind . |
| 20 | So far , the most successful renewable energy plants have been the ten hydro electric stations in Scotland providing around 2 per cent of the country 's electricity . |
| 21 | The last few days have been the worst of my life so far . |
| 22 | Current trading is erm current trading is improving and I would say that er that the last three weeks have been the strongest weeks this year . |
| 23 | What over the years have been the main disadvantages for textile manufacturers ? |
| 24 | We have already noted that two key ingredients contributing to this crisis have been the burgeoning remand population during the 1990s and , closely linked with and contributing to this , the explosion in the number of committals for trial to the Crown Court . |
| 25 | The E. Walters clothing factories have been the second biggest employers in the north Herefordshire town of Kington for the past thirty years . |
| 26 | Christians involved in the relief of poverty have been the first to point this out . |
| 27 | Although the Student Tutoring Scheme and the Enterprise Studentships have been the main focus of Student Enterprise activities within Napier over the last year , students have been involved in ‘ enterprising ’ activities elsewhere : |
| 28 | Traditionally , individuals have been the central feature of attempts to understand corporate crime , but unfortunately for criminology , it was their pathological characteristics which were advanced as the cause of their deviations . |
| 29 | Traditionally the merchant banks have been the main financial advisers in a merger or acquisition deal — they traded very much on their reputation for knowing all the right people and being able to approach them at any time . |
| 30 | Does em does empirical evidence , well I think you probably say generally that there is some economic factors and there is some non economic factors , which of those two does er empirical evidence suggest is the main driving force behind migration ? |