Example sentences of "be the [adj] [noun] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is certainly true , but it underlines what many consider has been the undue emphasis placed on the PSBR in the government 's policy making . |
| 2 | However , at district health authority and hospital level there have not been the practical measures needed to achieve that . |
| 3 | Now that has clearly been the right choice given that I think Motif has clearly achieved the ascendant over open look . |
| 4 | Surely somewhere in the world there would have been the right facies preserved to provide the immediate ancestors of Peregrinella or Iguanodon ? |
| 5 | The public road to Killilan has for long been the usual route taken by motorists wishing to see the Falls of Glomach , permission to use a private road continuing into Glen Elchaig being a formality . |
| 6 | The causes of the unions ' fading influence are complex , but one of the most potent has undoubtedly been the participatory methods adopted by American managers in imitation of Japanese practice . |
| 7 | 1792 It being Represented to this Meeting that their is unlawful combinations and Meetings held by the Weavers in the Island , particularly in the Parish of Kilchoman , for the purpose of shortening or cutting off the usual measure called the Islay Ell , which has for time Immemorial been the Standard Measure given by the Weavers with every Species of their Manufacture , and for reducing the measure to the English yard , and for continueing the prices for the English yard as high as that for the Islay Ell |
| 8 | The LOB corpus has been the principal corpus used throughout the current project . |
| 9 | An integral component of restructuring has been the increased focus given to the Johnson Brothers ' brand . |
| 10 | In this sense , all the diverse myths of classical tragedy are equally Dionysiac , and the same applies to the tragic heroes : for a long time , Dionysus had been the only character represented in the early drama , its only hero , and , until Euripides , all the different suffering heroes of tragedy were still " mere masks of this original hero " . |
| 11 | Irons and radios had been the only appliances owned by the majority of consumers before the War and they were joined by electric fires at the end of it . |
| 12 | She was highly delighted , especially when she learned that she had been the only woman called for interview ; she had been certain that the job would go to one of the male applicants . |
| 13 | Under the previous rules fourteen hours had been the maximum shift allowed . |
| 14 | The smell , coming from the rear of a building , might easily have been the unpleasant odour given off by a dustbin in need of emptying . |
| 15 | The major impetus for this work have been the national surveys carried out by the Home Office , the British Crime Surveys of 1982 , 1984 and 1988 . |
| 16 | Moggach 's last three books have been the social dramas Stolen and To Have and To Hold ( adapted from her own television scripts ) , and the thriller The Stand-In . |
| 17 | Hidden in the sentences below are the following words related to night-time and beds . |
| 18 | how far are the specific behaviours associated with particular leadership styles the same in each country ? |
| 19 | How are the roast potatoes done ? |
| 20 | In principle the tensors P1 and Q1 can be calculated for any shape but spheres and ellipsoids are the usual shapes used with cylinders and discs as the limiting cases . |
| 21 | The conditional instructions are the standard set used in the VAX . |
| 22 | The discharge of secretory proteins into the interstitial space because of excessive pancreatic stimulation and resulting oedema with accumulation of leukocytes are the major changes described in the caerulein induced pancreatitis . |
| 23 | There are little stations threaded on the lines like beads on a rosary ; they stand in the solitude like places of pilgrimage , far from the profane noises of the world ; they are the real chapels dedicated to the silent ceremony of Waiting . |
| 24 | The status labels of ‘ ruwang ’ and ‘ ruwahu ’ are the only ones used in reference by the Piaroa outside of kinship terms to think about and to classify social relationships . |
| 25 | They also need careful attention because they are the only cases brought by business clients in which the client 's objective was not unequivocally adopted by the lawyer . |
| 26 | Hosts : Domestic fowl and game birds such as pheasants and partridges Site : Trachea Species : Syngamus trachea Distribution : Worldwide Gross : The reddish , large female ( up to 2.0 cm ) and small male ( up to 0.5 cm ) worms , are permanently in copular forming a Y shape : they are the only parasites found in the trachea of domestic birds ( P1.IV ) . |
| 27 | In Germany Universal banks are the only institutions allowed to conduct securities business , whereas in France only stock exchange members are able to , and the UK is somewhere in between , with both banks and non-bank institutions able to compete for security business . |
| 28 | Yet they are the only animal known in whose bloodstream the AIDS virus survives for any length of time . |
| 29 | There you can also find the ‘ Long John Silver ’ collection of original ships ' figure-heads , which are the only parts left of many sailing ships . |
| 30 | At present , we are the only party prepared to grasp the nettle and to recognise that consumers ' interests require both effective competition in the marketplace — the Government have a long way to go before they create that — and effective regulation where the market can not produce a solution . |