Example sentences of "[be] [art] [noun sg] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Which would have Previously would have been the preserve only of papers like the Independent or the Times or the or the Guardian . |
| 2 | A woman who fought her way to the top of a liberation movement which traditionally had been the preserve mainly of men . |
| 3 | Alexei held to the opinion that they could not be naturally evolved , and thought that the single horn which projected from the forehead of each had been the whim probably of some Second Empire geneticist . |
| 4 | The big thermometer on the refuge wall read zero degrees C , and I recalled how cold it had been the night before during our four hour drive from Madrid . |
| 5 | In practice , as Halsey , Heath and Ridge ( 1980 ) have recently shown , this has not been the case even for working-class boys . |
| 6 | This has been the case both in the British-occupied north and in the south , though the projects in both states have shown differences related to the local economic situation and ideologies . |
| 7 | This has been the case particularly for Marxist and neo-Marxist sociologists , since the growth of the middle class has often been cited as evidence against Marx 's theory . |
| 8 | This happy coincidence — happy , that is , for all those visionaries and seers who speak in sonorous phrases about the ‘ New Pacific Century ’ and the ‘ Grand Pacific Age ’ , and find such a discovery a perfect symbol of what they 're talking about — has been the case ever since 22 October 1884 , when a group of scientists and politicians met in a hotel in Washington DC and set down the rules by which the planet was henceforth to organize the keeping of its time . |
| 9 | More recent works have been called in aid on those occasions when jurists and others have sought to delineate features of the contemporary Constitution ; this has been the case especially in determining the existence or otherwise of conventions . |
| 10 | Erm I 've mentioned accessibility , I would raise that again , I 'm a non-driver erm it 's easy to hop in a car and get from here to Chelmsford , if you want to do it by public transport it is a nightmare erm the meeting here on , on Monday which was very poorly attended , and I understand that 's been the pattern right across the area , and I do n't think the health authority is that interested in finding out what people have thought to be honest ! |
| 11 | erm I 'm very much aware that the challenges are ahead of us , both in terms of erm dealing with a difficult financial situation , which has been the pattern now for three or four years , but also in entering certain fields and approaches to arts activity that perhaps require more of the central staff than previously . |
| 12 | This has been the result partly of monetary deflation , but also of a muddle-headed confusion about the meaning of economy — namely . |
| 13 | This must have been the result partly of the astonishing scale of the royal demand and partly of the absence of any prior diocesan discussion . |
| 14 | Nevertheless , by the early 1950s the extremes of difference between working and middle class women 's experiences , which had been the result chiefly of poverty on the one hand , and a cloistered existence in a home where at least the heavy chores were performed by domestic servants on the other , had disappeared . |
| 15 | ‘ I take it Maria 's been the housekeeper here for years … |
| 16 | I knew she had been the housekeeper there since Hindley 's death . |
| 17 | To claim that the government 's record since 1979 has been the product only of instinct or opportunism , displaying no coherence , is , I would suggest , to carry scepticism too far . |
| 18 | This has been the practice certainly since 1787 when the American Constitution was drafted , and as the years passed no doubt imitation and the force of example have led all countries to think it necessary to have a Constitution . |
| 19 | Nevertheless , we have seen earlier that homeothermy is a form of temperature regulation in tachymetabolic creatures , and imprecision in terminology has not been the prerogative solely of Bakker . |
| 20 | Subsequently Hare ( 1966 ) suggested that the outstanding change in climatology in the post-1945 years has been the shift away from parameters such as temperature and relative humidity and towards the measurement of fluxes . |
| 21 | That has been the cry recently from some traders in Lurgan as reported in Sunday Life two weeks ago . |
| 22 | Above : These three are the ferry best of friends . |
| 23 | Effective regional policies — not regional government — are the way forward for England . |
| 24 | Women themselves feel they are the group most at the mercy of current development strategies and are willing and keen to create their own people-centred , self-sufficient development schemes . |
| 25 | Well you see we 're a bit further from home now and if we can do it for five days , great , we have n't |
| 26 | I forgot you 're a day late with your information . |
| 27 | Both Kosi and Lars figure that we 're a lot closer to Moloch than to Belial , but we 're going to have to get there under our own steam . |
| 28 | Sometimes you 're a week away from the last performance you gave and then find yourself out there — so that the voice and understanding of the part does need constant refreshing . |
| 29 | ‘ Ach , you 're a racist just like all your sort , ’ Rory replied . |
| 30 | If you 're an hour late for an important meeting … a small amount of compensation is neither here nor their |