Example sentences of "[noun pl] [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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 ) . |
| 6 | Balancing the books has been the toughest part . |
| 7 | In the upper panels , the 32 P-end-labelled fragments used were the 47 bp Mam I- Sfa NI fragment for the wt- , -65 , -68 , -72 and -73 mutant promoters and the 52 bp Mam I- Sau 3A fragment for the -75 mutant promoter . |
| 8 | One of their long term winners has been the thin , lightweight , but very windproof Ultrafleece . |
| 9 | Among the national channels approved were the three owned by Fininvest , the holding company of Silvio Berlusconi , whose influence in media ownership had attracted the opposition of a range of political opinion . |
| 10 | The cat from which our domesticated animals originated was the African wild cat . |
| 11 | Other parties represented were the National Convention of Progressive Patriots-Social Democratic Party ( CNPP-PSD ) , the African Democratic Assembly , the Alliance for Democracy and Federation , the Movement of Social Democrats , the Burkinabe Socialist Party and the Union of Independent Social Democrats . |
| 12 | Among the most frequently condemned aspects have been the following : |
| 13 | Moggach 's last three books have been the social dramas Stolen and To Have and To Hold ( adapted from her own television scripts ) , and the thriller The Stand-In . |
| 14 | At several sites , the last six months have been the driest for over a century . |
| 15 | The size and volume of the contracts secured is the best safeguard for the future of the coal industry . |
| 16 | The three groups rejected were the Jordanian Communist Party ; the Arab Ba'ath Socialist Party ; and the Jordan People 's Democratic Party.The five groups approved were the Jordan National Alliance ( a coalition of central and southern Bedouin tribes ) ; the rightist Pledge ( al-Ahd ) Party ; the Islamic Action Party ( which was backed by the Moslem Brotherhood ) ; and two pan-Arab centrist groups , the Popular Union Party and the Future ( Mustaqbal ) Party . |
| 17 | The most important , at least numerically , of these jurisdictions has been the unfair dismissal jurisdiction , but other employment disputes within their jurisdiction include discrimination and equal pay claims , redundancy payments claims and claims concerning particulars of contracts of employment . |
| 18 | One positive feature of this transfer of world liquidity to the oil exporting countries has been the corresponding increase in demand for the world 's products by these countries . |
| 19 | A sub-theme of many such articles has been the supposed toughness of the British government 's proposals or policies compared with alleged sloppiness or ineffectiveness elsewhere in Europe . |
| 20 | One of the motives mentioned was the actual and expected levels of interest rates . |
| 21 | The effect of Christian Democrat hegemony for four and a half decades has been the perpetual incumbency of a small circle of politicians . |
| 22 | The most striking feature of British economic history over the last two decades has been the stop-go cycle . |
| 23 | Up to the 1970s it was presumed to be proceeding towards the beech high forest which ecologists believed was the stable climax on limestone . |
| 24 | In ( 19 ) and ( 20 ) we have the less common case of a property extended by an entity , E P ; we continue to assume that a qualified property remains a property : Where we are considering some actual form of words with a view to describing their categorizations and relationships , and especially where the phrases are somewhat more complex , it may be appropriate to partly invert the notation , and to omit the separate representation of the word-meaning , as in ( 21 ) which so depicts the intensional structure of ( 18 ) and ( 19 ) : Qualification is clearly an ordered relation and we shall assume that it is a binary relation ; one of the two elements related is the principal element ( on co-ordination , see Section 1.9 and Chapter 8 ) . |
| 25 | We accept that both the Unionist and Nationalist traditions are valid and legitimate ; that Northern Ireland should remain a part of the UK until the free consent of the majority of its people is given to change ; that the Republic of Ireland has a legitimate interest in the future of Northern Ireland ; and that a partnership in government which allows both communities to participate is the only practical way in which to make progress . |
| 26 | Do n't think , for a moment , that giving pet-names to fish is the sole prerogative of pondkeepers . |
| 27 | What is difficult for citizens of relatively civilised countries to understand is the utter , unreasoning hatred and contempt the various racial , religious and political elements feel for each other . |
| 28 | Now this week 's Friday Feature takes us appropriately enough to church , to see what enthusiasts claim is the fastest growing sport around . |
| 29 | In articles in Der Sturm and Lacerbal Boccioni claimed that the Futurists had been the first to introduce the concept of Simultaneity into painting , and that Léger 's article ‘ Les Origines de la Peinture et sa Valeur Représentative ’ was really a Futurist statement . |
| 30 | Before 1920 , writes Charlie Buchan in his autobiography , ‘ the county leagues had been the happy hunting grounds for the professional clubs . |