Example sentences of "[art] [noun pl] [pers pn] be the [noun] " in BNC.

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1	For the conservative-historians it was the Profumo affair that most forcefully illustrated the altered circumstances that 1960s Britain found itself in .
2	As with the Orthodox Church , so with the Catholics it was the February decree that precipitated the crisis in relations with the Soviet government .
3	Rather than the buildings it was the lights and circulation in the new centre of Paris — on the Avenue de l'Opéra , the Boulevard Madeleine , the Boulevard des Capucines , the Rue Auber , the Boulevard des Italiens — which attracted the foreign visitor and was registered in the cityscapes of Monet and Renoir in the 1970s .
4	Charlie was an employee like everyone else , but in the absence of the owners he was the man at the top … all the responsibility , almost none of the rakeoff .
5	In the lowlands it is the prosperity of agriculture which is contributing to landscape change by allowing increasing investment in new capital-intensive forms of production .
6	They 're the gifts they 're the thankyous .
7	And when it hits the turbines it 's the diameter 's ten inch .
8	Many of these were destined to become miners in their turn , but for the girls it was the problem of finding a good husband and the inevitable hardship of raising a family .
9	For the police it was the end of a brotherhood of evil .
10	Although the strike itself went off peacefully , according to the police it was the cause of violence which began on Nov. 3 at a mine in Welkom in the Orange Free State and which had led to the killing of at least 84 miners by Nov. 11 .
11	And it 's right opposite or near the well , not opposite the Billets it was the auction rooms before
12	When she heard my name given out , she was certain that against all the odds it was the boy she had played with — and tried to make understand her frantic sign language and European gibberish — more than 40 years earlier .

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