Example sentences of "[be] the [noun sg] of [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The great apostle Paul , says I am the chief of sinners ! |
| 2 | ‘ You forget that I am the receiver of confessions . ’ |
| 3 | Since April 1986 , the whole of the twenty-eight weeks of sickness benefit has been the responsibility of employers , and all twenty-eight weeks is taxable . |
| 4 | Those hospitals which formerly had been the responsibility of Boards of Guardians and later of the local authorities , together with the development of those hospitals which the local authorities brought about , including maternity hospitals , passed to the State under the National Health Service Act 1946 , and are now managed by selected and not by elected authorities . |
| 5 | However , 50 million years ago creatures would look much less like they do today : for example horses would have been the size of wolves and have had only three toes . |
| 6 | Drafix CAD is an MS-DOS based CAD drawing package that has long been the choice of users who have been unwilling to pay the price demanded for the industry standard — AutoCad . |
| 7 | The robotic replacement or adaptation of man has been the dream of inventors and film-makers for decades — eg the bionic man and other similar imaginative creations . |
| 8 | Of great significance has been the influence of ideologies of modernization , both liberal and Marxist , which essentially equate progress with Western conceptions of social , political and economic development . |
| 9 | We talked about things going wrong , one of the things that 's disturbed me about the tone of the discussion has been the emphasis of rights . |
| 10 | Animal welfare had been the subject of discussions with several leading UK retailers and the Danish industry had offered assurances about the way in which animals are produced and reared there . |
| 11 | The answer is that the London Rubber Company , Hoffman LaRoche , Kelloggs , the Central Electricity Generating Board , and the National Coal Board have all been the subject of investigations by the Monopolies and Mergers Commission . |
| 12 | When buying extended works , the collector should make sure that they have not been the subject of depredations of this nature . |
| 13 | The coco-de-mer grows only on Praslin and its neighbour Curieuse and has long been the subject of legends and superstitions . |
| 14 | The bill had been the subject of months of debate both inside and outside the National Assembly . |
| 15 | It had then been the subject of negotiations with Palestinian and other militia leaders in the area . |
| 16 | Tomorrow the agenda focuses specifically on violence in prisons , something that 's been a problem at Long Lartin jail in Worcestershire where prison officers have been the subject of attacks by prisoners in recent months . |
| 17 | Malaysian logging policies and practices have been the subject of protests by indigenous peoples as well as environmentalists . |
| 18 | In a move that had been the subject of rumours for many months , Jeffrey Archer has gone from Hodder to HarperCollins in a two-book deal . |
| 19 | Neil had taken their advice , and there had been the exchange of missives which , I gathered , served in Scotland as a binding contract . |
| 20 | Like the siting of settlements , attempts to examine and understand the patterns , and the distribution of settlements across the landscape , have traditionally been the preserve of geographers . |
| 21 | At its most blatant , posts which had once been the preserve of dons from Oxford or Cambridge were now given to businessmen . |
| 22 | What has been the contribution of sociologists to social policy and reform , and what can they realistically expect to do in these areas ? |
| 23 | A further reported development has been the addition of enzymes to slurry . |
| 24 | Second , prices are available that have previously been the privilege of firms with the buying power of the Big Six . |
| 25 | Within the arable area the greatest changes have been the increase of cereals and the decline of the one-year clover ley . |
| 26 | Perhaps the most important commercial change since the invention of incorporation itself has been the rise of groups of companies with interlinking control and ownership . |
| 27 | SUCH has been the scale of reopenings ( not to mention survivals ) of lines and stations in the 1980s that to put matters in perspective it is necessary to go back a bit in history . |
| 28 | He could remember when a barrow , or a donkey and cart , would have been the mark of riches in the Alley and not an imported German car . |
| 29 | In fact , what we have witnessed has been the spectacle of governments running so hard to get away from this concept that they have been unable to hear the voice of the British business community , pleading that the interest it would like the government to show in its affairs is of a different nature altogether . |
| 30 | Indeed , the major underlying concern in debates over pornography , homosexuality , abortion , the age of consent , divorce and drugs during the period under consideration here has been the welfare of children . |