Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] be the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the best major centres I have worked or seen is the International Congress Centre in Berlin , which has two auditoria with a stage in the middle . |
| 2 | It will not be as simple as that , but you will have got the idea : one of the most important aspects of the ‘ climate ’ in which a gene is favoured or disfavoured is the other genes that are already numerous in the population ; the other genes , therefore , with which it is likely to have to share bodies . |
| 3 | Nor has being the younger brother of Alfie , the most successful British Open caddie in this era . |
| 4 | For some I know this is simply not enough , but as the years go by I find that Chopin 's ultra-refined eloquence of utterance responds more readily to an unforced , more integrated style than the ferocious changeability that has been the very kernel of Chopin playing for the last twenty or thirty years . |
| 5 | Yet it is migration to and from rural areas that has been the main concern of rural geographers in the last century , and so attention is now turned to the first major theme of this chapter , rural population change . |
| 6 | Because their faith tells to rejoice , but circumstances of life can be such that rejoicing is the one thing that they can not do . |
| 7 | All that mattered was the next time he would see Kate ; beyond that he looked forward with an urgency that hurt to the first time they would make love . |
| 8 | Meantime , all that mattered were the fifteen hundred marching men who , however tired they might be , would still be able to save them . |
| 9 | There was no comfort in that result , a vote against industrial action , even though it confirmed the suspicion that gone are the old ways of fighting the class war that we 've all been raised on and still have the power to excite me . |
| 10 | Typical of the uneasy compromises that resulted was the Ten Articles of Faith laid down by convocation in 1536 . |
| 11 | The fitful progress that resulted was the most the overcrowded state of the narrow roadway allowed . |
| 12 | Now what I 'm wondering is this : instead of thinking that staying put is natural , and then having to introduce a force of gravity — which then mysteriously pulls on everything to make them behave in the same way — why not start out by saying that falling is the natural thing to do ! |
| 13 | In general , those that survive are the fittest — in the sense of most apt , not in the modern sense of healthiest ; in other words , those that are best adapted . |
| 14 | The squad I ran became what can only be described as more ‘ disordered ’ and ‘ polluted ’ than had been the accepted norm , and we exhibited many verbal and nonverbal signals of this divergent nature . |
| 15 | Following the meeting a revised order was issued which , while not complying with all of the islanders ' requests , was considerably more acceptable to them than had been the original directive . |
| 16 | It was ancient , a nest of shining metal that had been the first cis-lunar colony , the first man-made world that orbited around mankind 's ancestral home . |
| 17 | They looked about them a bit hazily and then at the bleeding half-thing that had been the young boy and scuttled into a corner . |
| 18 | It was here , on the ground floor of the east wing , that Louise Taylor had been found , in the same room that had been the royal family 's drawing-room . |
| 19 | The protection suit that had been the sacrificial dummy was no longer that . |
| 20 | Yes , that had been the happiest time of her life . |
| 21 | In this way the autonomy and spontaneity of the individual subject that had been the original goal of enlightenment might be retrieved . |
| 22 | The starting point for the three readings that follow is the increased numbers of children under 5 whose parents both work , and who are cared for outside the family ( whether in a day nursery or with a child minder ) for a major part of the day ( 25 per cent of children under 5 in the United Kingdom had working mothers in 1976 , although only a small proportion of these were working full-time ) . |
| 23 | All that remained was the unpainted framework between the centre of the painting and its decorated edge . |
| 24 | All that remained was the odd burnt-out farmhouse to mark the spot where civilisation had once existed . |
| 25 | Throwing back his head , he looked for the last time at the cloud-torn sky , and begged the Lord to watch over them and keep them safe ; and then he was gone , and all that remained was the surging waves and the cold , white crests of foam . |
| 26 | All that remained was the 18th — and the stone Swilcan Bridge , perhaps the most photographed landmark in golf . |
| 27 | To claim that Britain has nurtured something in a matter ultimately pertaining to worship ( the choral singing of cathedral and chapel ) which is purified and controlled beyond anything possessed by Catholic Europe , which is purged of excessive artifice and rhetoric ( Continental reviewers consistently find English a cappella performances impassive ) and whose excellence gives Britain a mission these are among the ideas that have been the principal source of British national identity since the Act of Union in 1707 and were a foundation stone of English identity long before . |
| 28 | In evaluating these arguments it is relevant to distinguish between regimes that have been the constitutional and established government of a state and a regime which is seeking to achieve that position either displacing a former government or to fill a vacuum . |
| 29 | Among those closed and appropriated was the Premonstratensian house at Bayham in Sussex . |
| 30 | So fascinated , intrigued and frightened were the two men by this unusual experience , that they listened without uttering a word . |