Example sentences of "[be] the [noun] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is also believed to have been the word used by Romans when they were attempting to describe the giraffe . |
| 2 | Even more important in the context of this book , however , have been the changes wrought by migration . |
| 3 | The tent is warm , and I have taken everything off , even though it has been the norm to sleep in our thermals and a pile fibre hood . |
| 4 | Although evidence that Sheffield did any work appears lacking , his might well have been the activity reported by Dickson . |
| 5 | In addition , from the Soviet point of view , ‘ Within the whole spectrum of measures taken to promote trade between the USSR and Latin America , of greatest importance have been the agreements reached between the USSR Chamber of Commerce and Industry and the Chambers of Commerce in some Latin American countries including Argentina , Brazil , Peru , Colombia and Mexico ’ ( Zinoviev : 1981 , pp. 101–2 ) . |
| 6 | Oct. 1 had been the date set for signature of the accord , the main points of which had been agreed on Aug. 7 [ see p. 39039 ] , but on Sept. 29 Dhlakama announced that he would not sign as a number of issues remained to be resolved to his satisfaction . |
| 7 | Another ticket perhaps unique to the Bishop 's Castle Railway may have been the Golf returns from Craven Arms to Plowden issued in First Class at 1/6d , Second Class 1/- and Third Class 9d . |
| 8 | A second theme evident in biogeography has been the progress made towards cultural biogeography and historical ecology . |
| 9 | Perhaps the most positive outcome , on a personal basis , has been the opportunity to participate in discussion and share ideas on an area of my work which I have not previously discussed in depth . |
| 10 | The other stand-by has been the money earned by Greece 's merchant navy . |
| 11 | And there 'll also be at the club tomorrow morning an antiquarian bookseller , a dealer in manuscripts , and an expert in drawings , to see if there 's been the hanky-panky suggested by those few notes about Fishbane . ’ |
| 12 | One reason for this has been the deference shown by the Court of Appeal to the expertise of the Commissioners , a deference which appears to be justified by the thoroughness of the re-examination of the cases by the Commissioners . |
| 13 | ( The fact that this might have been the case seems to be beyond the imagination of many even of liberal disposition in the church . ) |
| 14 | A major worry has been the threat posed by groundwater pollution and some research has been conducted on using GIS to monitor this ( Merchant et al. 1987 ; Barringer et al. 1987 ; von Braun 1988 ) . |
| 15 | From Wyeth 's description this seems to have been the approach followed in the PET case . |
| 16 | Cod , plaice , sole and turbot have long been the chief catches in the deep-sea fishing grounds of the North Sea , and the trawler , with which Grimsby 's name is synonymous , was introduced in the nineteenth century to drag a wide-mouthed net along the sea floor , to catch these so-called ‘ ground fish ’ . |
| 17 | This has been the procedure followed by the Yugoslav statisticians for many years . |
| 18 | Could this have been the method used in Upper Halling ? |
| 19 | This has been the method used by all the great melody-writers over several centuries . |
| 20 | This has been the method used by the most successful interactive video systems of recent years . |
| 21 | There was evidence of rivets in it and an X-ray revealed traces of a metal covering , which confirmed to experts that it might well have come from the gable end of just such a shrine , and that it could well have been the piece described by the father of Welsh historical research . |
| 22 | ( 6 ) An empathetic question asks the pupil to become involved personally with the evidence , e.g. " If you had been the soldier standing behind Harold , say what you might have thought , felt and done at the moment the arrow hit him in the eye . " |
| 23 | ‘ Then it must have been the stream running over the rocks , ’ said Betty . |
| 24 | The second special factor has been the role played by the Murid Brotherhood , an Islamic movement founded in the first decade of the twentieth century by Amadu Bamba , which has played a key political role in delivering support first for the French colonial authorities and later for the governments of independent Senegal . |
| 25 | Indeed , this has in effect been the argument made by many international lawyers in the years after Hiroshima . |
| 26 | It 's about a decade since the launch of the Karrimor K-SB3 , which brought about the so called lightweight boot revolution , and the last ten years have been the ideas evolve in a very effective manner . |
| 27 | Most significant for them has been the need to adapt to the much greater degree of bureaucratic organization which has followed the 1973 Act , the great landmark in their careers . |
| 28 | This has been the practice followed on the eastern side of the county at Adamthwaite in the Howgills and is explained in the INTRODUCTION . |
| 29 | Apparently , it has never been the practice to submit to justices a proposed draft order reflecting the terms that have been agreed between the parties . |
| 30 | This appears to have been the conclusion reached by the Israeli government when it launched its air attack on Iraq 's French-built research-scale Osiris reactor at Tuweithah near Ctesiphon in June 1981 . |