Example sentences of "[vb past] be the [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Other skills involved were the planning of time , the allocation of tasks , drawing up a questionnaire to be used to cover local facilities , telephoning and interviewing local licensees and decision-making in relation to the selection , organization and editing of information gathered . |
| 2 | She had never been exposed to anything like it before , and initially she found being the centre of attention quite amusing . |
| 3 | What was also disturbing was that I found being the centre of attention quite attractive . |
| 4 | There was never a dull moment and among the places I visited were the Statue of Liberty , Central Park , the World Trade Centre , the Empire State Building , Wall Street and Chinatown . |
| 5 | The fourth point , Chairman , er is the new settlement issue , and while that 's due for discussion on policy H Two , that issue does shall I suggest invade policy H One , because an appropriate form of words has to be agreed in policy H One to reflect the new settlement issue and as you 'll be aware the County Council is about a step by step approach towards the finalization of the new settlement erm strategy for Greater York , and then finally , a specific issue that you mentioned is the distribution of developments between the Greater York districts er within Greater York , now as you 'll be aware Chairman , that has been done informally , following the original structure plan in nineteen eighty the County and the Districts got together and agreed the distribution of housing and employment land in Greater York . |
| 6 | The subject proposed was The Problem of Pain . |
| 7 | Alexei knelt was the middle of the morning , and the red ball of the sun was already high in the awful blue of the sky . |
| 8 | For example , in a case — Sex slur drove man to lash out at bully who mocked him : Killer stepson 's years of torment — where a bullying stepfather was killed by the stepson he had tormented for years , one of the taunts mentioned was the mocking of his desires to get on at college , calling him a ‘ funny boy ’ . |
| 9 | ( 2 ) Granting the application , that the central objective of the category of public interest immunity involved was the maintenance of an honourable , disciplined , law-abiding and uncorrupt police force ; that therefore , in view of the public disquiet understandably aroused by proven malpractice of some members of the disbanded West Midlands Serious Crime Squad , and of the extensive publicity already attaching to the authority 's documents following B. 's successful appeal , it could not be said that those who had co-operated in the authority 's investigation would regret that co-operation , or that future generations of potential witnesses would withhold it , if the court were to release the documents to the applicants to enable them to defeat if they could an allegedly corrupt claim in damages ; that the imperative public interest in the case was that the applicants had a proper opportunity of obtaining the evidence they sought so that the grave allegations which they made , and were the same allegations that had troubled the Court of Appeal sufficiently to allow B. 's appeal , could be properly tested in the courts ; and that , accordingly , B. 's undertaking would be varied to allow him to hand over to the applicants those of the authority 's documents which were incorporated in his appeal bundle , the applicants for their part undertaking to use those documents only for the purposes of defending the present libel proceedings pursued against them ( post , pp. 927G — 928A , B ) . |
| 10 | This is admittedly a rather crude distinction , but one which could be justified by the very uneven break — some 80 per cent of establishments were " non-users " for each category — which it produced ; For experimental purposes we also separated out " high user establishments where the number of fixed-term contract or agency workers used was the equivalent of five per cent or more of the labour force but the results thereby obtained were not more instructive than those obtained by the initial classification and so are reported upon only in a limited fashion . |
| 11 | On investigation all the shepherd found was the remnants of a hare 's carcase . |
| 12 | They chunk it up into pairs or groups of three or something like that so four groups of three or two groups of six or whatever , because what Miller actually found was the span of conception was and is seven plus or minus two . |
| 13 | The greatest impediment we encountered was the lack of a ‘ trigger ’ in Eileen 's case . |
| 14 | Obviously one of the determining factors in the enterprises pursued was the make-up of the land and in most areas hill ground predominated . |
| 15 | The only common characteristic of all the schools visited was the willingness of the people interviewed to be involved in the research . |
| 16 | Because I 'd been the butt of her wit she remembered me . |
| 17 | Heaven knew she 'd been the subject of enough prurient curiosity in the few short weeks she 'd been running the club . |
| 18 | Some of his anecdotes from his student days were hilariously funny , featuring enough females in them to convince his listener that he 'd been the object of female adulation all his life until very recently . |
| 19 | In their dealings in the office they 'd worked well together , achieved an excellent rapport regarding the PR for the business fair , but somehow he 'd been the model of teasing aloofness , apparently with more time for Stephanie Marsa than for Caroline . |
| 20 | What 's more , the girl in question was the Spanish girl who 'd been the cause of his being sacked by the Shakespeare School . |
| 21 | And once their physical usefulness was at an end , the Robemaker tore out the souls of his slaves and carried them to the Soul Eaters in the Cruachan Cavern , which some believed were the Gates of Hell . |
| 22 | Perhaps because of its success , it has been held as a model of scholarly inquiry ; social scientists have tried to emulate what they believed were the methods of physics : formulating a testable hypothesis , setting up an experiment which could be replicated , carefully observing and measuring the results , and proving or disproving the hypothesis . |
| 23 | Among the subjects he detailed were the attempts of U.S. insurance companies and the { Mediaid } system to pass much of the burden of care onto families ; the great strain placed on family and personal relationships ; hardships in adjusting to residential situations ; and medical difficulties with such things as bladder and bowel management , skin diseases , constant pain , spastic muscle movement , regulating body temperature and resistance to respiratory complications . |
| 24 | The place looked heart-wrenchingly familiar , yet in several respects changed too , for as they pulled up below the main steps the first things she noticed were the banks of geraniums and polyanthus cascading over the balconies and frothing down either side of the entrance . |
| 25 | So despite the yellow scarf strangling my balls , the brown make-up , and even the accent , I relished being the pivot of the production . |
| 26 | And these wishy-washy types celebrated what they believed was the end of a bothersome cult . ’ |
| 27 | In one photograph , which featured the juxtaposition of two O'Keeffe works , rather than O'Keeffe herself , Stieglitz confirmed what he believed was the meaning of her art . |
| 28 | What they resurrected was the idea of orgiastic music , a feast of sound — something that contravened both punk 's parsimonious and anorexic tenets of economy and tightness , and pop soul 's belief that The Song is best served by understated , deferential ‘ backing ’ . |
| 29 | What the planners ignored was the effect of competition on profitability . |
| 30 | The second thing I noticed was the friendliness of the people , the spontaneity of their welcome and their kindness to all the athletes who gathered there . |