Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [be] [verb] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Degas ' sculpture is on the move : literally , in the sense that a complete set of the artist 's bronzes has been travelling the world for the past five years , turning up in Verona , Florence , Amsterdam and Japan ; metaphorically , in a sudden resurgence of interest in the sculptures themselves , after more than four decades of academic neglect . |
| 2 | A hard core of nine fell walkers has been keeping the Company flag flying across the country . |
| 3 | This web of relationships has been called the role-set . |
| 4 | But the court 's discretion under this rule only arises if the applicant has sought a declaration , an injunction or damages ; and even if one of these remedies has been claimed the court may , in cases raising complex factual issues , refuse to exercise the discretion in the applicant 's favour on the basis that it would be better if the case were started afresh by writ . |
| 5 | Perhaps the greatest mistake in the application of GIS has been to allow the glamour of the technology to distract attention from the more mundane , yet vital , aspects of data acquisition and verification . |
| 6 | In Sudbrook the lessors had refused to appoint their valuer to discuss and seek to agree the value of the reversions with a valuer appointed by the lessees ; under the lease the valuers appointed were to refer the matter to an umpire . |
| 7 | Once the special character combinations had been replaced the file was iteratively refined . |
| 8 | One of the first rules of house and hall parties had been to scout the building for dark corners that might make useful retiring-places if the evening went well — preference was given to anywhere that had a lock on the inside . |
| 9 | After a dress rehearsal for a Symphony Hour show , I suggested , as producer , that in the adagio movement of the main symphonic item the violins had been taking the tempo slightly too fast . |
| 10 | First , the Velikovskians have been given the chance to make a superficially plausible claim that there is some kind of ‘ orthodox-science ’ vendetta against them and against their master' : they have been able to portray themselves as persecuted martyrs . |
| 11 | Journalists have been asking the question since he was , well , 23 . |
| 12 | Some US dairy farming organizations have been urging the FDA to ban BST for some time . |
| 13 | The major industrial nations have been lowering the energy intensity of their economies since the 1970s ; the degree to which this will continue is central to any energy consumption projection . |
| 14 | Police and charity commissioners investigating the disappearance of thousands of pounds of funds have been meeting the trustee who raised the alarm . |
| 15 | THE RISE and rise of Tranmere Rovers has been given the Saint 's blessing . |
| 16 | In emphasising form and the ‘ gratuitousness ’ to daily concerns Kolve is reflecting the writing of the Dutch anthropologist and philosopher Johan Huizinga ( 1970 ) who also sees play ( in all its senses ) as something apart from ‘ ordinary life ’ and as a means of ‘ creating order ’ . |
| 17 | Now sometimes what salesmen do is suggest the answer , do you do this ? |
| 18 | Since mid century , philanthropists and social reformers had been urging the removal of the population of the inner-city slums to the more salubrious outskirts of the city . |
| 19 | The patrol of four unarmoured Land Rovers had been testing the safety of a Serb-held route to the northern town of Tuzla . |
| 20 | Parents have been promised the right to stay in hospital with their sick children at all times . |
| 21 | Parents have been promised the right to stay in hospital with their sick children at all times . |
| 22 | As the accompanying article by a Yugoslav investigative journalist suggests , however , it may well be that for political reasons the Yugoslavs have been fighting the case with at least one hand tied behind their back . |
| 23 | In one market , though , western companies have been denied the walk-over they expected : newspapers . |
| 24 | A number of US companies have been discussing the possibility of a sale with Piper , which has all but stopped production because of cash flow problems . |
| 25 | If the potatoes have been peeled the cooking water can be used for sauces or soups . |
| 26 | A key theme of policy in recent years has been to maximise the extent to which other agencies than government itself can be held responsible for inadequacies in public sector services . |
| 27 | The overall effect of this hedging activity in recent years has been to reduce the group 's interest charge . |
| 28 | The strategy over the past few years has been to establish the University more actively in research , whilst retaining its commitment to excellence in teaching . |
| 29 | To this view in recent years has been added the opinion that great benefits would be attached to stabilising Britain 's currency by linking it to the Deutschmark . |
| 30 | The response of most governments has been to manipulate the economy in order to secure some trade-off between the conflicting economic objectives . |