Example sentences of "[noun sg] the [noun sg] [verb] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | The only responsibility the writer has is to get his words right and that takes care of everything else that the novel , or short story is capable of . |
| 2 | But in her case the technique employed is a great deal less attractive — it is to blame everyone but herself when things are going wrong and to make scapegoats out of able colleagues . |
| 3 | In this case the disapproval has been registered with a $100 billion fall in the stockmarket value of healthcare companies since last summer — even as markets have headed towards new records . |
| 4 | In each case the land has been exploited far beyond its true potential — out of dire necessity during the Wars , and now for blind greed and short-term gain resulting in vast surpluses which can not be eaten or sold . |
| 5 | In past battles Steam Tanks have exploded with spectacular results , but in each case the machine has been meticulously rebuilt . |
| 6 | But in each case the decision has been ours , not theirs . |
| 7 | In each case the appellant has been found guilty of contempt of court and has been sentenced to a term of imprisonment . |
| 8 | Just how these habitual patterns are to be internalized for easy access is another matter : direct inducement by repetitive drill may well not be the best way , in which case the thing to do is to think of other techniques . |
| 9 | Hon. Members told us that rural services , emergency services , call boxes and provision for the blind and disabled would all have an uncertain future under privatisation , yet in each case the future has been better , thanks to the privatised industry and the regulatory world that we have created . |
| 10 | Some newcomers have been indifferent to the sensibilities of the local population ; others , as we shall see , have been oversensitive to what they believe the needs of the village to be-In each case the effect has been the same : members of the former occupational community , faced with an invasion of ‘ their ’ village by outsiders , have tended to retreat in upon themselves and form a community within a community , cutting themselves off from the separate world of the newcomers . |
| 11 | Publicity will inevitably be a challenge when a new post or system is established , and in this case the challenge has been dealt with effectively . |
| 12 | It is a matter for speculation whether or not this would have been enough to cut the ground from underneath the feet of the DHAC , but in any case the situation had been radically transformed by the 5 October march and by the prorogation of Londonderry Corporation announced on 22 November 1968 by the O'Neill government . |
| 13 | In addition , in their case the car had been stolen . |
| 14 | In that case the plaintiff had been involved in a car accident . |
| 15 | This is similar to the way in which the causal theory worked , but in that case the relation required was specifically a causal relation . |
| 16 | ‘ The only direction the Government gives is that BR should operate their passenger railway system so as to provide a public service which is comparable generally with that operated at April 1 1988 , ’ he wrote . |
| 17 | And you measure the angle through which you 've had to turn to get to that position , and which direction you 've had to turn it through or rather , which direction the light had been rotated through . |
| 18 | Part of our reaction to that situation has been negative , especially the behaviourist interlude that sought to define out of existence many of the issues that confront us , but for the most part the approach has been a steady accumulation of experimental data in anticipation of the day when meaningful theories could be developed . |
| 19 | In part the debate has been presented as an opposition between a broadly liberal programme — multiculturalism — and an antiracism which claimed for itself the mantle of left radicalism ( Dodgson and Stewart , 1981 ; Mullard , 1984 ; Troyna , 1987a ; Gill and Singh , 1987 ) . |
| 20 | In the planning sphere it has been used to invalidate conditions attached to planning permission such as that the developer should construct an ancillary road over the frontage of the site at his own expense to which rights of passage should be given to others , and that a property developer should allow those on a council housing list to occupy the houses with security of tenure for 10 years.u The test has also been adopted in the context of industrial relations , though in this instance the decision attacked was upheld . |
| 21 | Another advantage the Discovery has is permanent , rather than part-time , four-wheel drive . |
| 22 | ( 3 ) That since it could not be said that the jury would inevitably have convicted the defendant if before the trial the defence had been given the statement of the deceased 's husband and the two statements of her sister , if the jury had properly been directed with regard to evidence as to the defendant 's previous good character , and if they had received guidance from the judge on their problem concerning the evidence , the proviso to section 14(1) of the Judicature ( Appellate Jurisdiction ) Act could not be applied to uphold the conviction ; and that , accordingly , the case would be remitted to the Court of Appeal of Jamaica with the direction that it should quash the conviction and either enter a verdict of acquittal or order a new trial , whichever it considered proper in the interests of justice ( post , p. 169C–D , G–H ) . |
| 23 | The advocate depute submitted that at the trial the view had been taken by the advocate depute and counsel for the defence that there was sufficient evidence to support the view that the two appellants were acting in concert . |
| 24 | Due to lack of response the event has been cancelled . |
| 25 | In fact , on one level the racism has been reversed . |
| 26 | All she had wanted to do was make sure her followers knew she was back on the road to recovery and fit enough to joke " the Scottish people have so amazingly walked into my heart the impact has been far more powerful than I could have imagined " . |
| 27 | When they 'd first re-entered the apartment the place had been crawling with a crowd of men who were mending the air-conditioning , installing a computer and modem to a fresh telephone line , and plugging in the dreaded fax machine . |
| 28 | They differ in that in the case of prepayments the exact amount is known and has been paid although the services have yet to be received whereas in the case of an accrual the service has been received but has not been paid for and we have to estimate the amount due . |
| 29 | Reputedly in poor condition when it surfaced last year ‘ glossed and cleaned up ’ was one description the painting has been consigned from the Wernher Collection at Luton Hoo , Bedfordshire . |
| 30 | Of course the swell has been gathering force for a century or more , since Joseph Thompson first saw ‘ the most peculiar band of men to be found in Africa ‘ . |