Example sentences of "be [art] [noun] [conj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Roman residence of the pope from the time of the Emperor Constantine had always been the Lateran and before Innocent 's time there was only a temporary residence at St Peter 's . |
| 2 | Since the publication in 1932 of Berle and Means ' study of American capitalism , The Modern Corporation and Private Property , it has been the orthodoxy that in the majority of large public companies managements have escaped effective shareholder control . |
| 3 | It may well have been the case that at this time , only a few months into the venture , the women were being paid much the same wage as boy apprentices at the same stage , and this would therefore explain why the delegate meeting decided merely to try to apply the same rule as , in theory at least , limited apprentices " numbers . |
| 4 | Even so , it seems evidently to have been the case that before Stalingrad the voicing of direct criticism of the person of the Führer and his leadership was a rarity . |
| 5 | Perhaps the only heartening aspect of the whole Gulf conflict has been the way that in the post Cold War age , there has been a sustainable coalition of western and eastern states determined to prevent Saddam profiting from his attack on Kuwait . |
| 6 | Indeed , the large number of placings and the large discounts in that year may have been the reason as to why placings have had higher discounts than offers for sale , on average . |
| 7 | In three men gastrectomy may have been the cause and in two poor nutrition may have been responsible . |
| 8 | However , central to this development has been the debate as to whether action should extend beyond the immediate needs of the establishment of the internal market . |
| 9 | Erm at that erm meeting members did er bring up a number of points er , the comments and questions which have been put to the Environment Trust and the answers to them are there on page ninety five under progress to date and , and on onto page ninety six er , the main ones really are the question as to whether er , any rented housing could be provided erm , in the scheme is dealt with there the Environment Trust only develop for sale or for equity share er , they 're not a housing association , they 're a charitable body erm so they did n't feel that they were able to er , take on the role of er , provided rented housing in the scheme . |
| 10 | These are the Fieldnames but in many spreadsheets the cells in which the first row of data is entered are just as important , if not more so than the names themselves . |
| 11 | It is about the most fundamental human freedoms , of speech and thought and belief : these are the things that in the end matter most , as Salman Rushdie himself knows , and stresses . |
| 12 | All other stress components are zero as are the strains except for which is given by where u is the displacement measured on a fiducial length l . |
| 13 | Upon the facts the decision seems to have been correct so far as the rule in Rylands v. Fletcher goes , for all that the defendant had done was to plough up some forest land on which there had previously been no thistles but from which , for some unexplained reason , an immense crop of them sprang up in two successive years . |
| 14 | Though she did not know it , for Clare there had been no choice except between a swift or a lingering death . |
| 15 | He says he 's tried guinea pig and dummy rabbit but there 's been no response and in answer to question says he hopesto she 'll break the diet tonight . |
| 16 | But there has been no suggestion that from this point of view credit scoring is less satisfactory than individual assessment . |
| 17 | The development would appear to have been a success and for the winter timetable an early morning Aberystwyth to Birmingham train will run daily . |
| 18 | " She 's allus been a favourite and by gaw I 'm glad she 's back . " |
| 19 | Lord Donaldson of Lymington M.R. has set out the medical evidence available to us and , in my view , on that evidence it would not have surprised me if there had been a finding that at the relevant time on 5 July , suffering as she was from considerable and continuing pain in her chest , coughing up sputum , on various drugs designed to alleviate pain and to act as sedatives and during the evening suffering contractions in the first stage of labour , she was not in any event fit to make a decision . |
| 20 | He would fly that night to Damascus with his wife who had once been a dancer and with his children whom he loved . |
| 21 | Down in the hold he 'd cracked his shins on the bumper of a small green car and she 'd laughed at his face and kissed him as if he 'd been a kid and for a moment he was thirteen and being hugged by Dave 's big sister , who was certainly large and confusing to thirteen year olds . |
| 22 | Every word of it had been a lie and to this truth Trent remained as totally committed now , close to his own death , as he had been when plotting the downfall of the groups he had penetrated . |
| 23 | However , there had always been a doubt as to whether or not Rodrigo could stay the mile and a half at Epsom . |
| 24 | Yes , well it has also been a point that for all their substantially lower salaries there are far more bright sparks in the higher echelons of public sector management than is credited . |
| 25 | Moodie may have been a priest but in death his body had been laid out like some broken toy to lie on a shelf , the grimacing features half-hidden by a dirty cloth ; the eyes still open , sightless and empty . |
| 26 | It might have been a uniform although in fact it was not . |
| 27 | At the same time I knew that my marriage had been a facade and in a way , by leaving , I felt I was doing the only honourable thing . |
| 28 | There must have been a suspicion that under the control of these Authorities only left-wing teachers need apply for jobs , and that money that might have been spent on education was being spent elsewhere ; for example , on supporting lesbian or ‘ gay ’ groups . |
| 29 | Lady Grange 's husband had been a Jacobite and during one of their marital battles she hinted that she would expose his seditious leanings — for which he could be hanged . |
| 30 | Submerged plants rarely attract attention except when they are a nuisance as in the rotting infestation of sea lettuce a few years ago that produced enough hydrogen sulphide gas to discolour housepaint and tarnish silverware in the unfortunate town of Deale , in Maryland . |