Example sentences of "[art] [adj] [verb] be the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With real reverberation the sounds that take the longest to arrive are the weakest . |
| 2 | Such a theme was , and still is , at the centre of debate throughout all Western societies , but what was really surprising for the Japanese to read was the clear attribution , from a Westerner , that a limited state role was one of the most important reasons why Japanese was destined to be the ‘ Number One ’ . |
| 3 | The second has been the sheer number of institutions calling themselves tribunals . |
| 4 | Children and the elderly have been the main victims . |
| 5 | The latter has been the main advocate of the project , which would greatly improve the republic 's electricity supply . |
| 6 | The latter has been the chosen course , with the Federal government establishing welfare programmes , and guidelines for their operation , whereby part ( if not all ) of the costs of programme implementation are met from Federal money , and allocated to the State governments to be used for the defined purposes . |
| 7 | The lives of the great had been the main subject of their stories , in romance , in drama , and subsequently in the novel . |
| 8 | The first has been the slow change-over from travel by train to travel by car . |
| 9 | In chronological order , the first to appear was the fenced fin , on which horizontal fences around the foil aimed to prevent the offending air bubbles from working down the fin . |
| 10 | When there is a severe food shortage , the first to suffer are the larger animals . |
| 11 | The ruling People 's Democratic Party of Afghanistan ( PDPA ) held its second congress on June 27-29 ( the first having been the founding congress in January 1965 ; for national conferences in 1982 and 1987 see pp. 31541 ; 35783-84 ) . |
| 12 | Among the former have been the national trends towards acceptance of credit accumulation and transfer and all that they imply ; among the latter have been the effect of a tightening national steer on undergraduate student numbers in particular subjects . |
| 13 | Compaq Computer Corp says that the restructuring of its field and reseller support operations in the US to increase interaction with its broadened customer base and provide enhanced support to its resellers ( CI No 2,148 ) , will cost about 150 field employees their jobs , but the loss will be partially offset by an as-yet-undetermined number of employees to be hired at the company 's Houston headquarters as part of the reorganisation ; the 150 to go are the last of the 1,000 jobs that it said it planned to cut in October . |
| 14 | The United Kingdom Meteorological Office announced at the end of November 1989 that the 1980s had been the warmest decade worldwide since records had been kept , with six out of 10 of the warmest years since the mid-19th century having occurred during this period . |
| 15 | A major change in the 1980s has been the huge increase in both the choice of lenders and the range of products . |
| 16 | The main sources of regional tension in the 1980s have been the civil war in El Salvador , where the United States has provided ever-increasing amounts of military aid to a succession of right-wing governments , and the role of the United States and the US-backed Contras in undermining the Sandinista government in Nicaragua . |