Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] be the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their main resource and support has been the voluntary work of bodies like the National Council for Mother Tongue Teaching , the National Association for Multiracial Education ( now the National Anti-Racist Movement in Education ) and the various grouping of teachers and activists promoting the cause of one particular language . |
| 2 | Perhaps the most obvious feature of this change has been the widespread development of out-of-town superstores and retail parks . |
| 3 | Of course walking is the chief activity . |
| 4 | A superbly organised defence has been the key factor so far and even now at the zero hour , the men at the back are steeling themselves for a final defiant gesture . |
| 5 | The defence has been the strong point of the side recently . |
| 6 | The existence of this funding has been the key factor in LEAs ' development of specialist appointments and experimental initiatives . |
| 7 | The most extraordinary feature of the Opposition 's response has been the deafening silence of their principal spokesman in relation to the proposals . |
| 8 | Pilkingtons ' marketing response has been the rapid renewal of this technological lead in its basic products and diversification through speciality , high value-added products . |
| 9 | Its traditional power base has been the rural cattle-owning sector . |
| 10 | And ‘ knowledge ’ is not restricted to facts and logical rules ; reasoning with the hunches and educated guesses of human expertise has been the key idea behind expert systems . |
| 11 | What has really unnerved the once dominant majority has been the decade-long fight by immigrant groups to have their languages taught in the schools . |
| 12 | iii ) The most recent pilot course has been the first Post-Graduate Diploma course in Interpreting Training Techniques , funded , like the other pilots , by the Nuffield Foundation and held at the Polytechnic of Central London in 1989 . |
| 13 | The bridgehead has been the small Western community , which now has the use of a state-of-the-art office services joint venture to be found at 50 Gorky Street in central Moscow , as well as ‘ Reprotsentr ’ , in which Rank Xerox is a partner . |
| 14 | For many years the standard IR spectrometer has been the dispersive scanning spectrophotometer . |
| 15 | The price which has been paid for the lower rate of tax on income has been the additional National Insurance charge and also the locking up of the profits in excess of the salary of £43,500 as retained profit in the company . |
| 16 | Electronics has been the fastest growing sector of the Scottish economy in recent years , but it is dominated by externally-controlled multi-nationals . |
| 17 | The overall result has been the successful promotion of a positive attitude in relation to bicycle use in general , a result which in space and time has impacts beyond the immediate locality of the routes . |
| 18 | The result has been the ultimate short-term short-life celluloid product , the generic mishmash hung round a gimmick . |
| 19 | The prohibition can be contested in the Court , but the overall result has been the widespread abandonment of resale price maintenance and a fundamental change in the pattern of retail distribution , as new types of outlet developed and replaced the older , small , independent , specialist stores . |
| 20 | The result has been the same each time . |
| 21 | For example , students , both at secondary school and university , for whom activism rather than strategic thinking has been the prime consideration in the struggle , have to be persuaded to co-operate . |
| 22 | YWA 's answer to the Guest Tea has been the annual Treasure Hunt and Barbecue which has been enjoyed by many Edenderry members and friends in recent years . |
| 23 | Football has been the other major sport and has always produced good teams , and Halling must have been among the first to play under floodlights . |
| 24 | Throughout history football has been the favoured sport of the artistic community . |
| 25 | The organisation 's second point , as the chart shows , is that industry has been the unintended victim of high inflation , which has led to a significantly higher corporate tax take than the Lawson reforms of 1984 intended . |
| 26 | Some newcomers have been indifferent to the sensibilities of the local population ; others , as we shall see , have been oversensitive to what they believe the needs of the village to be-In each case the effect has been the same : members of the former occupational community , faced with an invasion of ‘ their ’ village by outsiders , have tended to retreat in upon themselves and form a community within a community , cutting themselves off from the separate world of the newcomers . |
| 27 | He wrote : ‘ To judge by a lot of the stuff written about bands like U2 , you 'd be forgiven for thinking that rock starts are the new Messiahs . |
| 28 | Measures and sacrifices which the bourgeois-liberal mind contemplates with horror are vindicated by the country 's transformed position in the world and the protection afforded future generations against similar tragedies : in the scheme of history , timely , resolute action has been the greatest kindness . |
| 29 | Although recently wound up , one spin-off has been the in-house desk-top publication of the Technical Bulletin itself — the excellent colour illustrations have been printed from computer digitised colour images taken from high quality transparencies . |
| 30 | The most publicised aspect of the North-South divide has been the wide disparity between house prices in different regions of the country . |