Example sentences of "be [verb] [conj] the [noun sg] is " in BNC.
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| 1 | The airport 's opening has been delayed because the island is subsiding . |
| 2 | All madeiras are blended and the blender is an artist , giving the blend its distinctive characteristics . |
| 3 | More than 450 eyes have so far been treated but the study is based on 79 patients with the longest experience of the treatment . |
| 4 | ( All leading spaces are stripped when the line is originally entered . ) |
| 5 | A Science Group staff meeting has been arranged and the date is to be announced shortly [ September ‘ ] . |
| 6 | Results of searches are normally dispatched by first-class mail the day they are received if the application is received by first post . |
| 7 | Some of the most important features of the remedies are highlighted and the information is presented in an easy-to-use tabular form . |
| 8 | Stage : All consultations have been completed and the plan is likely to be adopted later this year . |
| 9 | Some two-thirds of the contract has been completed and the MoD is keen to see production continue . |
| 10 | The data collection has been completed and the material is , at the moment , being analysed . |
| 11 | Unfortunately the meetings are happening when the shop is open . |
| 12 | Owner of a Cheltenham haulage firm , Ralph Davis , says his drivers are trapped and the situation is nasty . |
| 13 | Some ethnic foods have been included but the book is week on snack foods which now form a common part of our diet . |
| 14 | A year and several headaches later — like the waiting list that developed rapidly for places for the under twos — the number of children has increased to 15 ( total capacity 30 ) , more are expected and the nursery is operating to plan . |
| 15 | The layers are repaired and the skin is sutured . |
| 16 | Hops are added and the mixture is boiled . |
| 17 | Cleaned fittings , after disinfection , are re-assembled and the whole is left to air dry for a short period before the empty cabinet is brought down to working temperature and re-filled . |
| 18 | It has sometimes been claimed that the village is a peculiarly English invention . |
| 19 | This gave rise to the ‘ fine-tuning hypothesis ’ which suggested that learning opportunities are maximised if the adult is able to ‘ fine tune ’ her speech so that its structural complexity is always slightly in advance of that of the child . |
| 20 | A catalogue with a celebratory essay by Judith Goldman has been prepared and the show is on view from 9 January until 6 February . |
| 21 | Even when this has been done and the test is in progress , there should be sufficient flexibility to modify the test plan ( e.g. , by changing examination schedules ) in the light of information that becomes available as the test progresses . |
| 22 | Ownership would not have been transferred where the mistake is so fundamental that the transaction is void such as when there is a mistake as to the relevant identity of the recipient . |
| 23 | However , expectations of three-cornered comparisons are dashed because the work is arranged in a straightforwardly linear and chronological fashion , and the same issues are not necessarily addressed in each of the three separate discussions on the three rooms . |
| 24 | . A group set up not too far away from here in Newark said that the erm , It has been said that the river is worse now than it 's ever been in history . |
| 25 | It has always been said that the House is concerned with the rights of individuals and that any injustice , or possible injustice , to an individual is as much the concern of the House of Commons as is injustice to a large number of people . |
| 26 | Many poor harmonizations are written because the student is trying to think of melody and harmony together , and inevitably both suffer in consequence . |
| 27 | The Cattle of the Cottagers are impounded when the Forest is driven by the Keepers , as all other Cattle are ; and when the Owners take them from the Pound ( paying the usual Fees to the Keepers ) they turn them again into the Forest , having no other Means of maintaining them … the Cottagers … are detrimental to the Forest , by cutting Wood for Fuel , and for building Huts , and making Fences to the Patches which they inclose from the Forest ; by keeping Pigs , Sheep etc. in the Forest all the Year ; and by stealing Timber . |
| 28 | Particularly since the Second World War and the advent of television , with its concentration on individuals and the personalization of political issues , it has been argued that the system is becoming increasingly presidential . |
| 29 | On such grounds it has been argued that the novel is not authentic communication , notably by the Marxist critic Walter Benjamin . |
| 30 | Indeed , it has been argued that the government is the most likely source of excess demand inflation : through its policy measures , it can finance its own spending by raising taxes , by borrowing or by printing money . |