Example sentences of "[vb -s] [be] the " in BNC.
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1 | The values which the choice theory represents are the values of a strong laissez-faire conception of the market . |
2 | Direct mail selling frequently uses database information to try and sell only to those people whom the seller thinks are the most likely to give him a sale . |
3 | So the injunction to directors is that they must act bona fide in what they , and not the court , thinks are the best interests of the company . |
4 | What really matters are the personal relationships within the structure . |
5 | whether this stuff is available on retrieval because it seems to me what really matters are the trends . |
6 | Tazmamert has been the great forbidden subject in Morocco . |
7 | It would seem that the special state character of Northern Ireland , with its very legitimacy always under threat , has been the main reason for the maintenance of this pattern of politics . |
8 | What has been attempted in this chapter has been the clarification that so far the traditional values of catholic nationalism are still dominant among the Roman catholics of Ireland , even if they are severely contested by a significant minority from among them and lukewarmly subscribed to by a further significant minority . |
9 | A further change has been the growth of liberal theology within the Irish Roman catholic intelligentsia . |
10 | A notable achievement of ACT has been the passing of the Education ( Northern Ireland ) Act of 1978 , permitting the establishment of multi-denominational schools where such is desired by adequate numbers of parents . |
11 | Though ambition has been the grave of many minor artists , it is also that without which no artist can be called major — with all the provisos about art , artists , major , minor , already touched on . |
12 | The procreative metaphor , he typed ( as Harsnet had written ) , has been the bane of art . |
13 | This has been the experience of the Thirties Society in fighting for the retention of the main plan features of the Nag 's Head , one of the few listed pubs of the period . |
14 | The Festival 's come of age of late and I am more than happy that my sax playing has been the soundtrack for the Festival 's cinema trailer in recent years . |
15 | Helen Mirren plays the role of Detective Chief Inspector Jane Tennison who for years has been the victim of sexual discrimination in the police force . |
16 | It has been the word used to describe the style of today , a style that pervades everything from clothes to waste-paper bins . |
17 | A snap decision to turn has been the cause of many serious stalling and spinning accidents , often when , in fact , there was ample room for a landing ahead . |
18 | They have been inferring that applying the opposite rudder has been the cause of reversing the spin , whereas the real cause of this happening must be the failure to unstall the wings . |
19 | Dick Hobbs ( 1988 ) lived with thieves and detectives as they set out to ‘ do the business ’ , and perhaps one of the most effective pieces of participant observation in recent times has been the four-volume Policy Studies Institute work on the police in London ( 1983 ) . |
20 | I had joined a group who are still fixated on a classification of ‘ disorder ’ which homes in on those who attack property , ; and since the amassing of property has been a primary aim of capitalist society , it should come as no surprise to find that to prevent the dispossessed from simply taking from the élite has been the primary structuring principle of policing . |
21 | ‘ The Name ’ has been the Holy of Holies to all Jews since it was given to Moses as a special revelation of the divine essence ; all other holinesses merely subserve it . |
22 | It is certain , though , that the constructivism that has received the most attention in psychology and philosophy has been the developmental theory of Jean Piaget . |
23 | Yet all we seem to have heard , either from a few of the more militant leading players or their representatives in recent months , has been the cry ‘ We want more . ’ |
24 | The women 's game is much more open today and Gabriela Sabatini has been the best player on the women 's tour this year . |
25 | The best example of this has been the deployment of the HST fleet . |
26 | SUCH has been the scale of reopenings ( not to mention survivals ) of lines and stations in the 1980s that to put matters in perspective it is necessary to go back a bit in history . |
27 | There is always a moment of silence before the audience respond , so strong has been the tension . |
28 | S&N did not buy a beer , they bought a name and the price of Masham 's survival has been the marketing of this name . |
29 | The Dobermann has been the focus of much controversy since being introduced to Britain 50 years ago |
30 | One of the most interesting and welcome results of literary feminism has been the reprinting of forgotten texts , usually by women but occasionally by men . |