Example sentences of "[det] [verb] be the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the city has also revealed something about the American voter , something that belies the conventional wisdom that all that counts is the big-buck campaigns with their television adverts and ‘ issues ’ tailored to every fractured constituency . |
| 2 | Whether or not that was the intent of the regulations — and I am willing to believe that it was not the Minister 's intent — that has been the net effect of the way in which the three-week period was cut off due to the way that the regulations were tabled . |
| 3 | To date , that has been the only way — mass starvation , disease , AIDS , wars and insurrection , enforced transmigration and so on . |
| 4 | ‘ That has been the only topic of conversation throughout the county lately , ’ adds Chivers , ‘ We beat them last year at Casement Park , then fell to Donegal in the final . |
| 5 | That has been the main probem problem with the delay , can you confirm that erm assuming the the software is er is actually rated flight safe er that there are other stages yet , we 've still got to integrate the weapons systems , sensors and everything else . |
| 6 | That has been the latest Australian sports game featuring powerhouse backrower Willie Ofahengaue . |
| 7 | This is certainly not the case , although this has been the prevailing attitude from senior nurses for many years . |
| 8 | This has been the frequent and characteristic complaint of those ( in my experience few ) historians who have explored the New Historicism : the representation of history is idiosyncratic and selected to reflect the preoccupation of the literary critic , not an attempt to account accurately for the period . |
| 9 | This has been the bloodiest election campaign in Columbian history ; in the last nine months , some two thousand people have died , including three presidential candidates . |
| 10 | A good example of this has been the recent discussion over anti-discriminatory legislation . |
| 11 | In the UK ( and the USA ) this has been the recent drift of government programmes . |
| 12 | This has been the second most successful method of recruitment ; x new members were recruited by Head Office in 1992 . |
| 13 | This has been the second most successful method of recruitment . |
| 14 | This has been the traditional field of communication ethics . |
| 15 | The Lemonheads have been touring for about three months , first in America and now in Europe , and this has been the first real glitch they 've encountered . |
| 16 | Carole Martin and their assistant have been killed in a car crash and this has been the final straw for owner Trevor Martin , to whom we offer our condolences . |
| 17 | This has been the principal objective of President Doe of Liberia , himself of tribal origin . |
| 18 | This has been the saddest day of my life … |
| 19 | This has been the unwavering government line since , even after the murder of a 66-ear-old disabled woman by a private care agency worker 16 months ago . |
| 20 | ‘ You will perceive by the accompanying prospectus that I have commenced another work of much greater magnitude [ than the Century ] ; for my own part I should have been more anxious to have gone on with unfigured foreign birds and by that means have added so much the more interest to the science of ornithology , but the greater number of the subscribers to my other work not paying attention to birds generally but limiting themselves to those of our own country , they have frequently reiterated their request that I should commence a similar work on the Birds of [ 'this country ’ crossed out ] Europe and this has been the only motive for my undertaking so laborious a task . ’ |
| 21 | Mr Eggar said : ‘ This has been the largest round , in terms of the number of blocks on offer , since the fourth round in 1972 . |
| 22 | One result of this has been the pervasive influence of linguistic methodology upon such studies of objects as have developed in recent decades ; and while the rise of semiotics in the 1960s was advantages in that it provided for the extension of linguistic research into other domains , any of which could be treated as a semiotic system ( e.g. Eco 1976 : 9–14 ) , this extension took place at the expense of subordinating the object qualities of things to their word-like properties . |
| 23 | Changes in sexual law of recent years give evidence of a gradual movement towards tolerance and understanding , and without doubt this has been the true state of affairs in the United Kingdom during the present generation . |
| 24 | It is not our purpose to review these initiatives , merely to point out that this has been the single most important factor responsible for the change in budgetary climate in local government in recent years . |
| 25 | Although a superiority of the left visual field has not always been reported , this has been the common finding when the faces to be responded to were highly discriminable and/or unfamiliar ( Sergent and Bindra , 1981 ) . |
| 26 | A further and more complex instance of this has been the National Accelerated Development Programme ( NADP ) . |
| 27 | Coupled with this has been the inevitable problem of glass fragility . |
| 28 | This has been the constant trend , despite the fact that particular occupations may have been de-skilled in the process . |
| 29 | ‘ This has been the worst year for me , ’ Leconte said , recounting his six months out of the game with back trouble . |
| 30 | Thorne , the world No.9 , admitted after a lacklustre display last night : ‘ This has been the worst year of my life . ’ |