Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] be [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the problems with traditional remedial teaching has been that spelling and neatness are fetishes . |
| 2 | The result has been that discount deals have proliferated . |
| 3 | The result has been that sea walls have had to take the brunt of the power of waves and currents at high tide , which erodes them and requires rebuilding on an ever larger scale . |
| 4 | The result has been that sterling has become very expensive to borrow , but there is still far too much of it , and the supply is still increasing too fast . |
| 5 | The result has been some unbundling , loosening and decentralizing of control in some societies and in some organizations on some tasks . |
| 6 | A recurring complaint from industry has been that pension funds are too short-term orientated , to the detriment of the companies in whose shares they deal . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The Greeks and the Jews have been such peoples and produced such thinkers . |
| 12 | The truth of the object is immaterial , what the sonnet argues is that truth is created by distilling ( transforming ) the youth 's beauty into poetry . |
| 13 | What the exercise revealed was that ageism is a phenomenon shared and indulged by older people themselves . |
| 14 | A second point Velikovsky made was that evidence of such catastrophes could be deduced from ancient writings , oral legends and the like . |
| 15 | ‘ The argument for the reformers has been that punishment simply does not work . |
| 16 | The effect of falling school rolls and DES cuts in teacher-training quotas has been some reduction in the numbers of students on courses ; however , recruitment in 1981 was still considerable and , in 1981 , the polytechnics had 1,300 students enrolled on to teacher-training courses . |
| 17 | The problem which the Chancellor faced was that failure to tackle the fiscal deficit could not only leave him having to borrow nearly £1 billion a week in the coming year . |
| 18 | The problem which the Chancellor faced was that failure to tackle the fiscal deficit could not only leave him having to borrow nearly £1 billion a week in the coming year . |
| 19 | Mr George Henry Quarry , a Belfast solicitor was then applied to for some land at the top of Carrickblacker Road but initially there was no response from him and other possible sites investigated were some ground opposite where James 's Street now stands and land behind where the little Roman Catholic church was later built ( now Pritchard 's Motors ) and near the site of Edenderry Orange Hall . |
| 20 | Doctors have had dozens of enquiries for what family planners claim is another step forward in a woman 's right to choose . |
| 21 | Heather had been this way before him , had seen and understood what he would shortly see and might yet understand . |
| 22 | " This would have been a much larger sum if the salesmen had been any good . " |
| 23 | What the child learns is that might is right . |
| 24 | What pupils and parents require is some notion of progress in relation to other people , that is norm-referenced data ; in relation to mathematical objectives , that is criterion-referenced data ; and in relation to pupils ' own earlier performances . |
| 25 | The areas chosen are all areas where the bilateral relationship is strongly apparent , and where the impact of bilateral action upon third parties may provoke a third party response : treaty law , international judicial and arbitral procedure , and responsibility for an international wrong , with particular reference to armed conflict . |
| 26 | Not only does this mean that science is handled by a senior member of the Canadian cabinet — a tax lawyer who once said that the last thing that Canada needs is more tax lawyers — but also it means that science and technology are seen as a part of the process of economic development . |
| 27 | ‘ But if the lad has been any sort of problem in the past I still believe United will get the best out of him and put an end to his wandering . |
| 28 | Like the other playwrights whose response to Thatcherism and brutality has been some hand-wringing of their own , Barker is too infatuated by his heroine 's strength to humanise her withe vulnerability and too in awe of her for a passionate or coolly detached opposition . |
| 29 | One of the sad side-effects of industrial action during the early years of the implementation of ISS has been that work on improving the teacher-parent partnership has been more neglected by teachers than anyone initially expected . |
| 30 | Judge John Curran QC said the weapon used was some form of cap-firing pistol . |