Example sentences of "of [noun prp] [verb] be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The mile of shining water between him and the Forest of Dean had been devoid of a single ripple . |
| 2 | Although the reduction in coca growing in this part of Bolivia has been significant , drug dealers in the Andes have the same easy access to coca today as they had five years ago . |
| 3 | Your contribution to the work of CPRW has been considerable , spanning many years . |
| 4 | I have always liked cat fish in general , but the more interesting species of Synodontis have been hard to get hold of in my area . |
| 5 | A second legacy of Tiananmen has been increasing tension over the course of Hong Kong 's political development , with just six months remaining before China 's parliament is due to enact the mini-constitution , or Basic Law , setting out the pattern of post-1997 government . |
| 6 | Bruno of Nordgau had been fifty-one years old when he died . |
| 7 | ‘ The earls of Warwick have been some of the most powerful men in English history . |
| 8 | She imagined , for instance , that if the inhabitants of Arghuri had been unwilling to venture on to the mountain before the earthquake , any survivors would scarcely be ready to do so now . |
| 9 | During the first six months of its existence it recorded 156 combats and seventeen confirmed victories ; most of these at Verdun , where it fought intermittently from May to Though still only partially fledged , the Lafayette 's direct contribution to the Battle of Verdun had been significant ; but this was nothing to what , indirectly , its presence there did for the French cause . |
| 10 | MDS Transmodal of Chester have been involved in part of an SE-financed study of opportunities for roll-on roll-off facilities on the East coast — while at the same time conducting a trawl of potential customers for a Medway base at Rosyth . |
| 11 | When disaster strikes , the people of Scotland have been quick to shed their mask of tolerance and search the dressing-rooms for a scapegoat . |
| 12 | But , as the figure also shows , the dose of LiCl used was sufficient to produce an almost total aversion in the subjects naive to the CS , and thus a difference between the groups might have been obscured by a ‘ floor effect ’ — by a lack of sensitivity in the test ( see also Misanin , Blatt , and Hindenliter 1985 ) . |
| 13 | Thus although the Bank of England has been obliged to restore the amount of cash it had withdrawn from the system , there has been an equal and opposite decrease in bills plus money at call held by the banks . |
| 14 | Abroad , the idea of Freeports has been current for many years . |
| 15 | The Battle of Falkirk had been another Jacobite victory , Prince Charles having lost 50 dead and 80 wounded , while Hawley 's casualties , suffered in a mere 20 minutes , amounted to 350 killed and another 300 taken prisoner . |
| 16 | The history of Burma has been one of imperialism . |
| 17 | The great weight of Scottish opinion finds it difficult to understand why , contrary to its Standing Orders , the House of Commons has been unable to establish a Select Committee to scrutinise Scottish affairs . |
| 18 | One of the sad side-effects of industrial action during the early years of the implementation of ISS has been that work on improving the teacher-parent partnership has been more neglected by teachers than anyone initially expected . |
| 19 | Charles Wesley congratulated himself in 1744 that as a consequence of his having preached against wrestling on his visit to Cornwall in the preceding year , the village of Gwennap had been unable to find enough men for their next contest , " all the Gwennap men being struck off the Devil 's list , and found wrestling against him not for him " . |
| 20 | The name of Tom has been synonymous with sailing in Weymouth longer than he might wish to remember . |
| 21 | THE recent release of Michelle Shocked 's single On The Greener Side has sent seismic reverberations throughout the music industry . |
| 22 | It is two thousand years since the Children of Israel have been able to follow the Torah of Israel as citizens in their own land . |
| 23 | Maybe if you 'd spared a few minutes , you could 've become part of Gillian Wearing 's extensive collection of personalised banners . |
| 24 | of Redditch has been successful in passing his tutor 's examination . |
| 25 | Our first week on the Greek island of Thassos had been idyllic . |
| 26 | For me everything that 's come out of Arbour 's been good . |
| 27 | The parish church , older than the oldest part of the house , with its attendant Rectory , squatted a quarter of a mile away on the edge of the estate , joined to the village by a delta of ancient footpaths which successive generations of Dersinghams had been unable to close . |
| 28 | For many years the People 's Republic of China has been one of the world 's leading conventional arms and nuclear technology exporters . |
| 29 | For four days , the nearby town of Ballater had been awash with rumours that the Landau Carriage would be used — weather permitting . |
| 30 | Third party databases such as those of Infocheck have been available on Telecom Gold for up to ten years , but until recently selling services was secondary to selling Prestel and E-mail systems ( and those two delivery options functioned as discrete entities ) . |