Example sentences of "[be] [conj] [noun sg] [verb] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The implication is that Saruman has been led from ethically neutral researches into the kind of wanton pollution and love of dirt we see in ‘ The Scouring of the Shire ’ by something corrupting in the love of machines or in the very desire for control over the natural world . |
| 2 | The implication is that ergonomics has been properly applied . |
| 3 | The common view , backed up by hard evidence is that investment has been badly hit by the recession . |
| 4 | It is because trust has been eroded by the long running conflict between central Government and the teaching unions that as a nation we are far from realising the ideal of having our schools staffed by the true professionals that children deserve . |
| 5 | Instead it is because success has been dependent on the ability to win the argument on each individual placement with each head teacher that this investment , as part of the in-service programme , is worthwhile . |
| 6 | The fact was that Algy had been living for the last year with a working-class architect called Len in a basement flat in Maida Vale . |
| 7 | UK Chancellor of the Exchequer Norman Lamont expressed enthusiasm , saying that " the clear view was that recovery had been delayed , not cancelled " . |
| 8 | Though many commentators drew attention to the job-displacing tendencies of microelectronics technology it is likely that the reason their gloomy forecasts were paid so much attention was because unemployment had been rising fairly fast in most industrialised countries following the two oil price hikes in the 1970s and the consequent world economic recession . |
| 9 | The time for examination was after order had been restored and , rightly , she rejected the simplistic connection between high unemployment and rioting . |