Example sentences of "[noun] [vb base] be the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | The loss of Batty was a big blow to the midfield but the injuries to both Wallace and Speed have been the big set back this season . |
2 | How much longer moderator can we in the Welsh provence accept being the poor relationship within the denominations ? |
3 | Concerns have been the small number of inter-disciplinary and student-led projects put up for funding . |
4 | Green belts have been the major instrument of planning in fringe areas , having long been advocated by leading planning theorists such as Unwin and Howard . |
5 | The issue raised by these developments is whether the principle of orality upon which English trials and appeals proceed is the best way of dealing with appeals . |
6 | He can do no better than argue that it involves apprehending things simultaneously rather than in succession though he does not explain how the successful mystic can transcend the limits of the magic number seven , which most psychologists agree is the maximum number of entities that can simultaneously be held before the mind . |
7 | So far , the most successful renewable energy plants have been the ten hydro electric stations in Scotland providing around 2 per cent of the country 's electricity . |
8 | We have already noted that two key ingredients contributing to this crisis have been the burgeoning remand population during the 1990s and , closely linked with and contributing to this , the explosion in the number of committals for trial to the Crown Court . |
9 | Although the Student Tutoring Scheme and the Enterprise Studentships have been the main focus of Student Enterprise activities within Napier over the last year , students have been involved in ‘ enterprising ’ activities elsewhere : |
10 | Traditionally , individuals have been the central feature of attempts to understand corporate crime , but unfortunately for criminology , it was their pathological characteristics which were advanced as the cause of their deviations . |
11 | Tae kwon do is the Korean art of self-defence and Britain 's rather good at it , so expect a lot of that on your screens . |
12 | The lower earnings limit is the same level as the basic retirement pension . |
13 | Among the more successful privately owned terminals have been the Glaswegian trio of Deanside , Mossend and Law junction , all of which ( but especially the first two ) have attracted healthy quantities of regular traffic . |
14 | Two important initiatives in community economic development have been the National Association of Development Trusts for England and Wales and also an investigation into the strategic needs of community enterprises called Investing in Community Enterprise . |
15 | Market trends indicate that imported wines have been the main winner — Scotch Whisky the main loser . |
16 | Lending to small business owners has become an important profit centre for banks and the importance of establishing an efficient means of raising finance is also vital to the economy , because ‘ recent evidence shows that small firms have been the major creator of new jobs in the 1980s ’ . |
17 | Earth-based radar studies have determined the topography and the texture of about 25% of the Cytherean surface , but radar studies from spacecraft have been the main source of such information . |
18 | Flat batteries have been the only problem . |
19 | ( Thus in the current debate about the ordination of women , both sides ask what does Jesus ' message suggest is the right thing to do , what difference does it make that Jesus was a male human being , or what kind of a community was the early church ? |
20 | Outside Europe the main developments have been the gradual relaxation in Japanese exchange controls and the steady move into foreign assets by the main United States institutions , particularly pension funds . |
21 | GH 's Slim Plan diet will give a weight loss of 1–2lb per week , which experts agree is the ideal level . |
22 | and it is the phenotype which most biologists think is the genetic mechanism for evolution . |
23 | The evidence suggests overwhelmingly that the biggest single influence on whether children smoke is the parental influence . |
24 | On the other hand fetch is the limiting factor in the height of waves generated by easterly winds over the North Sea . |
25 | The problem is that pluralist writings have also shown that there are continuous and time-consuming battles over budget decisions and expenditure allocations , even amongst those whom elite theorists argue are the conspiratorial elite . |
26 | The concentration of neurons in ganglia is perhaps the first step towards building a brain , but even the appearance of a large head ganglion does not ensure that brains of the sort that humans and other mammals possess are the only design solution that can result . |
27 | These are questions which were first posed over fifty years ago , but they have obviously made little lasting impact on a literature where the expenditure flows depicted in elaborations of the model have been the principal focus of attention . |
28 | For a century , after all , the bicheiros have been the closest thing in Brazil to a robber aristocracy . |
29 | Its markets have been the developed world and its aim a quick profit . |
30 | Although slides and photos have been the traditional medium , and are widely accepted as substitutes for the landscape ( Shuttleworth , 1980b ) , Kreimer ( 1977 ) has also argued that they need to be put more fully into their context . |