Example sentences of "of [adj] [verb] be the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A good example of this has been the recent discussion over anti-discriminatory legislation . |
| 2 | One result of this has been the pervasive influence of linguistic methodology upon such studies of objects as have developed in recent decades ; and while the rise of semiotics in the 1960s was advantages in that it provided for the extension of linguistic research into other domains , any of which could be treated as a semiotic system ( e.g. Eco 1976 : 9–14 ) , this extension took place at the expense of subordinating the object qualities of things to their word-like properties . |
| 3 | A further and more complex instance of this has been the National Accelerated Development Programme ( NADP ) . |
| 4 | Least disposed of all to complain were the Vietnamese , who pocket £2.6 million in hard currency from this sale and who in 1991 lifted a second wreck , this one jammed with late Ming Thai ceramics , off Phu Quoc Island . |
| 5 | These loans were much larger than anything known before , running into millions when hundreds of thousands had been the previous limit . |