Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] be the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ ICI has been the first in the field with major products , such as polyester fibre and polythene . |
| 2 | The women 's game is much more open today and Gabriela Sabatini has been the best player on the women 's tour this year . |
| 3 | One brighter aspect of the unemployment figures in Shrewsbury has been the steady and sustained drop in long-term unemployment . |
| 4 | What Mr Rowland wants is the early publication of this report . |
| 5 | What Mr Rowland wants is the early publication of this report . |
| 6 | Back in daylight , Vatanen has been the driving force behind the Banbury team today . |
| 7 | The first drawer Marie opened was the wrong one . |
| 8 | It had been Eleanor , quiet , firm , devoted whom Dorothea had loved , and Eleanor had been the only living person whose presence she could bear when Hallam died a year after their coming to Haverstock . |
| 9 | The Issak had been the main casualties in the government 's campaign to stamp out support for the rebel Somali National Movement ( SNM ) . |
| 10 | Nevertheless there ought to be some control somewhere and we 're getting back to what I think Richard said was the original idea of some kind of development control that is a popular thing in order to be allowed , people ought to make money for the various charities and so on , we ought to try and prevent er certain unjust practices going on and so on . |
| 11 | The ironic , cynical tone that Nizan adopted was the visible sign of an effort to master a situation which was otherwise uncontrollable . |
| 12 | Perhaps the only thing that Margaret Thatcher and Edward Heath shared was the same Rada voice coach . |
| 13 | But the finest import Mrs Gray made was the German bitch Int . |
| 14 | For several years Spain has been the biggest source of sales for the majority of ELT publishers ; indeed , it is reported that for one of the smaller players it represents a dangerous 50% of turnover . |
| 15 | The NFC has been the outstanding example where for seven years the company was owned entirely by the workforce . |
| 16 | What Mr Alexander establishes is the vital contrast between external sanctity and order and the lust , violence , madness and panic that fuel the characters ' actions . |
| 17 | We bought our ball in Dongbei too — from the no.1 department store in Dandong on the North Korean border ( could Korea have been the original influence ? ) . |
| 18 | The final items indicating Athenian warlike preparations rather earlier than Thucydides implies are the Athenian decrees moved by Kallias ( ML 58 ) which show that temple treasures in some demes were moved from exposed positions in Attica to the Athenian Acropolis ; the decree is as early as 434 . |
| 19 | ‘ Perhaps England winning is the best thing that could have happened to South African rugby . |
| 20 | On 27 June Tan Malaka and other leading Communists were set free and Sjahrir was kidnapped just as Sukarno had been the previous August . |
| 21 | Lenin had been the effective leader in the United States of Soviet Russia but he died in January 1924 , leaving two possible successors , Trotsky and Stalin , but Stalin had established himself in the Communist hierarchy and Trotsky was subsequently expelled . |
| 22 | Apart from Granny Tremayne , Edna had been the only other permanent reliable character in Celia 's youth . |
| 23 | Henry Phipps had been the chief celebrant at this particular form of ‘ get-together ’ , and now someone had brought his priapic revels to a rather spectacular end . |
| 24 | In this sense , all the diverse myths of classical tragedy are equally Dionysiac , and the same applies to the tragic heroes : for a long time , Dionysus had been the only character represented in the early drama , its only hero , and , until Euripides , all the different suffering heroes of tragedy were still " mere masks of this original hero " . |
| 25 | President Assad had been the first Arab leader to criticize the Iraqi invasion , but there was considerable apprehension in the West that Saddam Hussein 's emergence as a focus of anti-Western Arab radicalism might open the way to a rapprochement between Iraq and Syria . |
| 26 | Lithuania had been the first of the Soviet republics to declare independence , in March 1990 , and during the coup its two Baltic neighbours followed suit , Estonia on 20 August and Latvia on 21 August . |
| 27 | From the end of the Napoleonic Wars in 1815 , England had been the dominant financial and commercial power in Europe and , on that basis , in the global economy ; the structural changes in the 1830s and 1840s were to consolidate that hegemony . |
| 28 | Jezrael hated being the only one there who wore a bodysuit but she would have hated more the embarrassment of displaying herself with all her imperfections to the crude and lumpen miners . |
| 29 | Deng Xiaoping has been the dominant figure within the upper echelons of the ruling Chinese Communist Party since 1980 . |
| 30 | So far as it is known , Noble has been the only born-deaf person ever to be a Freemason in Britain . |