Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] be the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | UnivEd Technologies Limited is the one-stop entry to the University of Edinburgh 's core industrial liaison activities . |
| 2 | Their main resource and support has been the voluntary work of bodies like the National Council for Mother Tongue Teaching , the National Association for Multiracial Education ( now the National Anti-Racist Movement in Education ) and the various grouping of teachers and activists promoting the cause of one particular language . |
| 3 | Perhaps the most obvious feature of this change has been the widespread development of out-of-town superstores and retail parks . |
| 4 | Of course walking is the chief activity . |
| 5 | A superbly organised defence has been the key factor so far and even now at the zero hour , the men at the back are steeling themselves for a final defiant gesture . |
| 6 | The defence has been the strong point of the side recently . |
| 7 | The existence of this funding has been the key factor in LEAs ' development of specialist appointments and experimental initiatives . |
| 8 | The most extraordinary feature of the Opposition 's response has been the deafening silence of their principal spokesman in relation to the proposals . |
| 9 | Pilkingtons ' marketing response has been the rapid renewal of this technological lead in its basic products and diversification through speciality , high value-added products . |
| 10 | Not least among its star performers has been the British arm , Vauxhall , which last year achieved record net profits of £152m and record car sales . |
| 11 | ‘ ICI has been the first in the field with major products , such as polyester fibre and polythene . |
| 12 | Its traditional power base has been the rural cattle-owning sector . |
| 13 | And ‘ knowledge ’ is not restricted to facts and logical rules ; reasoning with the hunches and educated guesses of human expertise has been the key idea behind expert systems . |
| 14 | What has really unnerved the once dominant majority has been the decade-long fight by immigrant groups to have their languages taught in the schools . |
| 15 | The women 's game is much more open today and Gabriela Sabatini has been the best player on the women 's tour this year . |
| 16 | iii ) The most recent pilot course has been the first Post-Graduate Diploma course in Interpreting Training Techniques , funded , like the other pilots , by the Nuffield Foundation and held at the Polytechnic of Central London in 1989 . |
| 17 | The bridgehead has been the small Western community , which now has the use of a state-of-the-art office services joint venture to be found at 50 Gorky Street in central Moscow , as well as ‘ Reprotsentr ’ , in which Rank Xerox is a partner . |
| 18 | The strategic need for diversity and ultimately for the replacement of fossil fuels has been the driving force for the development of nuclear power in the U.K. In turn — since uranium reserves are finite — the efficient exploitation of nuclear power itself ultimately depends on the fast reactor . |
| 19 | For many years the standard IR spectrometer has been the dispersive scanning spectrophotometer . |
| 20 | The price which has been paid for the lower rate of tax on income has been the additional National Insurance charge and also the locking up of the profits in excess of the salary of £43,500 as retained profit in the company . |
| 21 | The only method previously applied to quantify the abnormal bowel uptake on abdominal scans obtained using either Indium-111 or Tc-99m HMPAO lavelled leucocytes has been the visual comparison of the intensity of bowel uptake with that of liver , spleen and bone marrow . |
| 22 | One brighter aspect of the unemployment figures in Shrewsbury has been the steady and sustained drop in long-term unemployment . |
| 23 | Electronics has been the fastest growing sector of the Scottish economy in recent years , but it is dominated by externally-controlled multi-nationals . |
| 24 | Dick Hobbs ( 1988 ) lived with thieves and detectives as they set out to ‘ do the business ’ , and perhaps one of the most effective pieces of participant observation in recent times has been the four-volume Policy Studies Institute work on the police in London ( 1983 ) . |
| 25 | What Mr Rowland wants is the early publication of this report . |
| 26 | What Mr Rowland wants is the early publication of this report . |
| 27 | The overall result has been the successful promotion of a positive attitude in relation to bicycle use in general , a result which in space and time has impacts beyond the immediate locality of the routes . |
| 28 | The result has been the ultimate short-term short-life celluloid product , the generic mishmash hung round a gimmick . |
| 29 | The prohibition can be contested in the Court , but the overall result has been the widespread abandonment of resale price maintenance and a fundamental change in the pattern of retail distribution , as new types of outlet developed and replaced the older , small , independent , specialist stores . |
| 30 | The result has been the same each time . |