Example sentences of "[be] [art] [adj] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Has the British embassy in Germany made it clear to the German authorities how deeply shocking and despicable have been the racist attacks by Nazi thugs there ? |
| 2 | For over three decades these two countries have been the unwilling recipients of acid rain ‘ export ’ on a massive scale . |
| 3 | He was referring to that curious mixture of kings , lords and commons which have been the essential elements of Britain 's unwritten — and until now unchallenged — constitution . |
| 4 | The most heavily affected during the barometer 's six-year life , had been the financial institutions with reported frauds totalling £490 million . |
| 5 | ‘ Oh yes , there have n't been the spectacular rises of the first few years , but we could guarantee a growth figure which more than copes with inflation . |
| 6 | If the Jesuits had been the greatest implementers of post-conciliar renewal in the Pauline era , Opus Dei would shortly become John Paul 's most reliable institutional arm . |
| 7 | Even as the people run away in terror , the fire of God 's anger , which destroyed parts of the camp in Numbers 11 , now consumes the 250 men who had been the closest supporters of Korah in his bid for power . |
| 8 | Yet he sensed that those next few minutes , after Ashenden had finished speaking with Kemp , might well have been the crucial ones in that concatenation of events which had finally led to murder ; and he questioned Ashenden further . |
| 9 | The second symptom of change following his long residence at Lyons is this : in later years , but never earlier , Anselm occasionally used the phrase Libertas Ecclesiae , of which Hugh and Gregory VII had been the chief advocates for the last twenty years . |
| 10 | Poor folk had long been the chief sufferers from the raids of the body-snatchers , because of the flimsy coffins and shallow graves to which their corpses were consigned . |
| 11 | Quick reflexes , intuition and mobility have been the chief assets of Achille Prospero Rosario Maria Giovanni Carlo Bonito Oliva . |
| 12 | Sawle acknowledged this on the eve of the final Test when , asked to defend the dumping of Marsh , he made the point that it had been the bowlers — Craig McDermott ( whose 31 wickets made him the highest Australian wicket-taker in a series against India ) , Bruce Reid ( a wrecker in the second Test before breaking down again ) and Merv Hughes — who had been the key figures throughout the series . |
| 13 | ‘ Germany , ’ he said , ‘ has been the spiritus agens of the whole development of Middle-Europe — from Hitler to the collapse of the Berlin Wall , which encouraged and prompted our own transformation . |
| 14 | An added burden throughout this period has been the additional costs of routing the bulk of Zambian exports and imports through South Africa . |
| 15 | But then they had a habit of melting into society , and in the meantime many had been the expensive guests of the German taxpayer . |
| 16 | Although , as we shall see , many varied and lengthy accounts of what may have been the distinguishing characteristics of the fabliaux have been produced , the short definition given by Bédier in 1893 still attracts support : the fabliaux , he declared , are " " contes à rire en vers " " . |
| 17 | And er there was very little money spent on the roads at that time , the , the railways had been the great carriers of everything and the motorcars were just coming in . |
| 18 | Although collectors have been the traditional mainstays of this market , they had been largely absent for several seasons . |
| 19 | All through this Cruickshank has carefully sought not to be the outsider caught between what could have been the conflicting demands of minister-in-government and workers and patients in the field , ‘ by brining in the ministers and whoever and getting that shared view . |
| 20 | Only when that has been fully experienced can the bereaved person take what had been the good parts of the lost relationship and find a new relationship into which those positive feelings can be renewed . |
| 21 | In the West at least people have identified with a threatened world and the pressure groups have been the first instruments of that identification . |
| 22 | They 'll not have been the first tourists to be fed to the sharks and they wo n't be the last . ’ |
| 23 | In the context of the current study the relevant distractor items are likely to have been the other exemplars of a particular junction . |
| 24 | Yet a further central measure would have been the average numbers of citations in the period since the year of deposit of the thesis . |
| 25 | Giving further solidity to the PTGI set-up have been the recent moves into the fields of distribution and having a wider portfolio of products with the United Distillers range of spirits brands . |
| 26 | They 've hardly been the best parents in the world , have they ? |
| 27 | Many newspapers compile lists of what they consider to have been the best novels of the previous year — a useful guide to what readers might try to get hold of . |
| 28 | Many of the journalists felt they 'd been the innocent victims of a political decision . |
| 29 | The crawling and wriggling carcasses had been the innocent victims of the chaos taking possession of their world . |
| 30 | Whoever they were , Ulf and Eglaf are unlikely to have been the prime movers in the attack on Cnut . |