Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] be [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The easiest definitions to provide are those of North Shields and Cramlington . |
| 2 | ON the basis that ‘ forewarned is forearmed ’ the fundamental principle underlying the Companies Acts has been that of disclosure . |
| 3 | The basic premise of the meetings has been that ‘ co-operation between the various agencies which comprise the criminal justice system is crucial to the successful operation of the system as a whole ’ . |
| 4 | Perhaps the most important ground rules to establish are those about silence and stopping work . |
| 5 | Indeed , the internal acrimony levelled against him at times has been such that , when his departure was announced , the best that some figures within the health network could say was ‘ we 'll be very happy to wish him goodbye ’ . |
| 6 | Well some of the football Leicester have played in this opening twenty o twenty minutes has been some of the best I 've seen them . |
| 7 | However , in both these instances the commercial pressure of the campaigning groups has been enough to effect change . |
| 8 | The standard of the candidates interviewed were all of a very high quality and the final choice was extremely difficult . |
| 9 | The New Right emphasis on adversary politics and an overload of demands has been more of a critique of democracy in Britain than it has ever been a rigorous description of , and explanation for , British politics . |
| 10 | The personal characteristics included are those relevant to the chances of obtaining a given vacancy : age , marital status , race , individual 's labour market history , etc . |
| 11 | The key change that could be identified in all the schools visited was that of a rethink about departmental allocation , As a result of devolution , capitation seemed to be allocated to departments using criteria that were more public and in most cases fairer ; for example , a formula based on pupil and subject weightings , or a system of bidding or , inevitably , the use of last year 's figures plus an allowance for inflation . |
| 12 | The running of multiple sessions has been another means of saving which , though not always a problem , has led to truncated teaching sessions , late-coming and absenteeism on the part of teachers and pupils . |
| 13 | First , the solutions adopted are all from the same stable , that of semi-traditional , soft , road engineering such as mini roundabouts , turning bans and the like . |
| 14 | Elaine Smith was very warm and moving as Josie Riley who at thirty-eight with the kids grown is all energy for the community and conceives a very requited fancy for Bazz Blacker , the well-meaning social worker downstairs . |
| 15 | What the shift over the last twelve months confirms is this : there 's no point in sitting around and moaning . |
| 16 | The methods employed are those familiar to historians and political analysts , being based principally on key printed and manuscript sources of the period . |
| 17 | And it did seem to me that in the light of , erm , of the single regeneration budget , on the light of the need to be developing a regeneration strategy for Shropshire , perhaps the role of the County Council in this affair should actually be , er , as , as the local government for the county , should be to look at preparing a , a regeneration strategy for the whole county , at which the work that we do to economic development is one of the pillars of support as is the work that the districts do is another pillar of support , as is the work of the R D C and the objective five programme , and all the various other bodies that are involved in , in economic development and similar activities in . |
| 18 | The frame of reference within which the authors write is that of the linguist . |
| 19 | Mandru had been away on business for much of the time since Lucien had arrived , so performances had been few . |
| 20 | Then the doctrine common to all ages and nations had been that insolvency was a crime , and that the debtor might be properly made to pay in person the penalty for his offence . |
| 21 | After all that toil and trouble , the outcome was the same as it is more often than not in a constituency of the Republic — the same , that is to say , as if not a single vote had been transferred : the candidates elected were those who , on the showing of the very first count , had the greatest number of first-preference votes . |
| 22 | The Greeks and the Jews have been such peoples and produced such thinkers . |
| 23 | The Secretary of State has pretensions as a political heavyweight , but his performances have been more of a light banterweight . |
| 24 | And the repetitions have been many . |
| 25 | He says the last few months have been some of the driest since records began . |
| 26 | What these Discourses show is that ‘ science ’ still meant something wider than it does in the twentieth century ; what the lecturers were encouraging was realistic assessment and sound judgement . |
| 27 | Among the sites listed are that of the 1956 crash of a nuclear-armed bomber aircraft at Albuquerque , New Mexico , and the Agriculture Research Center at Beltsville , Maryland , where scientists used radioactive matter to test the effects of fall-out on crops in the 50s and 60s . |
| 28 | Perhaps one of the most creative and imaginative responses has been that of the Lucas Workers with their corporate plan for socially useful production . |
| 29 | ‘ The argument for the reformers has been that punishment simply does not work . |
| 30 | An aim of educational policy in this and many other countries has been that of enhancing equality of opportunity . |