Example sentences of "the [noun] be the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 the basis of the defence is the absence of any control by the defendant over the acts of a stranger on his land and therefore the nature of the stranger 's conduct is irrelevant .
2 The most significant feature of the response is the existence of a critical pulsatance which marks the end of an ideal pass band and the beginning of attenuation .
3 Steam-heated hauled stock was also eradicated , and the response was the reclassification of more Class 31/4s and 47/4s , plus the first Class 37/4s .
4 Under general rules the income is the income of Mr B ( as trustee ) .
5 er , if you just to avoid doubt , it looks as though , as we presume we go back to one , three , four that 's less than the income was the revenue from things like the guest room and er the lounge and so on , you see ?
6 From afar , the two most striking buildings in the park are the Observatory and the replica Eiffel Tower .
7 The cost of choice for the majority is the absence of choice for the minority who will never afford to buy , … ‘ the Right to Buy ’ and growth of owner-occupation are effectively carried out on the backs of poor people .
8 Making its debut and dominating the stand was the brand new First 53f5 , born of a collaboration between naval architect Bruce Farr , and stylist Pininfarina , with Bénéteau themselves contributing a considerable amount of production engineering technology .
9 The eye is like a camera : the glass on the camera lens is the cornea ; the aperture is the pupil ; and the shutter is the beautifully coloured iris , which contracts and relaxes to let in more or less light .
10 The Acts is the story of that moving out .
11 The Acts were the subject of repeated Parliamentary enquiries , while the repeal organisations alone published at least 520 books and pamphlets on venereal disease and prostitution .
12 The remainder is the amount of fabric which will be fitted into the pleats .
13 The remainder was the yield on various customs and excise duties levied primarily on beer , spirits , wines , tobacco , cocoa and other ‘ luxury ’ items which varied a little from budget to budget .
14 The only hope for the suite is the rescue plan put forward by Bart 's to turn the site , in central London , into a specialist referral unit and health centre for the City .
15 The buraq is the steed on which Mohammed rode to heaven .
16 One development of the link is the pivot .
17 The base was the size of a cheese plate .
18 One of the many attractive features of the Manor is the garden .
19 Halling fell into this pattern , for after the Charter the Lord of the Manor was the Bishop of Rochester , for whom a bailiff or reeve controlled his lands .
20 The resulting b coefficient from the regression is the value of b needed to determine the learning rate , which , by rearrangement of formula 5.2 is Traditionally , cost-accounting texts have described learning curves , but have not adequately emphasized their strategic importance .
21 If you see that they cease rolling and then begin rolling again some yards away in a different direction , then the area between the change is the turning point .
22 Far from being a conclusion of the ‘ consumer-led ’ revolution beloved of propagandists , the change is the child of a retail revolution which , for the consumer , constitutes only a re-arrangement of his or her individual powerlessness . ’
23 But the crux of the change is the end of the grade C , generally accepted as a pass rate .
24 The change is the result of the 1989 Water Act which privatised the water industry and make it illegal for water companies to continue using ratable value as the basis for charging for water after March 2000 .
25 The principal factors giving rise to the change are the reduction in the workforce and revised pension arrangements agreed with Waterford Crystal employees .
26 The essence of the change was the removal of sin from the ambit of the law .
27 This does not necessarily mean that the cholesterol is the cause , or certainly not the sole cause , of heart attacks .
28 Baseball may have become a parks game in Britian in recent years but now in Gloucestershire there 's a new name to put alongside the Chicago Whitesox and the Los Angeles Dodgers … the name on the shirt is the Gloster Meteors .
29 The definition of " reasonableness " applied by the UCTA is the key to understanding its approach to exemption clauses in general .
30 By the Adoption Act 1958 , property of adopter and adoptee is to devolve in all respects as if the adoptee were the child of the adopter , born in lawful wedlock .
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