Example sentences of "be [art] [noun pl] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These had also been the affiliations of the previous incumbents . |
| 2 | Samuel and Maclean had been prominent in the Asquithian wing of the Liberal Party while Baldwin , Hoare , and Neville Chamberlain had been the leaders of the Conservative anti-coalitionists in 1922 . |
| 3 | Who have been the faces on the front pages of the newspapers this week ? |
| 4 | Some of them may have been the fathers of the running children . |
| 5 | Kansas City have been the nearly-men of the American Football Conference for a few seasons . |
| 6 | Kansas City have been the nearly-men of the American Football Conference for a few seasons . |
| 7 | I think it 's fair to say that the only significant report from the Operations Information Officer during this tour has been the dates of the first flights bringing Swedish holidaymakers to Larnaca . |
| 8 | The buildings would once have been the stables to the bigger houses out on the street , but now the bigger houses would all have been subdivided long ago and the stables leased off and converted . |
| 9 | Law was only giving credit where due when he said that these two groups ‘ have from the first been the main-props of the new National Free Church movement ’ . |
| 10 | As far as the kadiliks are concerned , the original mevleviyet kadiliks appear to have been the kadiliks of the three Ottoman capitals , Istanbul , Edirne and Bursa , this number being increased in the first Instance through the acquisition of other important cities by conquest or other means . |
| 11 | The central events of the Lord 's life had always been the pivots of the Christian year and the week ; the day of the Resurrection and Sunday , the Lord 's day , were at the centre of a cycle of festivals . |
| 12 | The proceedings of Sir Paul Scoon after the American invasion were just as revolutionary — meaning validated by force not law — as had been the proceedings of the superseded military regime . |
| 13 | The sansculotte was as familiar a subject in Gillray 's 1793 output , as had been the inadequacies of the British Royal Family in the previous year . |
| 14 | Indeed , the knot gardens must have been the forerunners of the Victorian bedding schemes which have equally elaborate designs , the differences being that they relied on colour for their main effect , and also often reproduced an object or spelt out words . |
| 15 | I truly feel Co Armagh should have been the winners of the Irish award as Cherry Orchard fully deserved the visiting award . |
| 16 | As kite-makers and everyday enthusiasts for kite flying , the Peacock family of St.Albans had also been the winners over the first two years of the Kite Society 's Rokkaku Challenge . |
| 17 | These are the ladies of the European Tour , the Ford classic is the first title of the season and as always , competitive golf is tense , nerve-wracking stuff . |
| 18 | By contrast , in the ‘ well-managed consensus ’ of the Rhine model , banks rather than stock markets are the guardians of the capitalist flame , Albert says . |
| 19 | These are the questions to the puzzled men , man . |
| 20 | These are the creatures of the True Line ! |
| 21 | There are the careerists amongst the senior management of the school , some of whom will seem to have ‘ sold out to the system ’ : to affect a philosophy in so far as it looks in their own interests to do so , to have become executives and to have lost touch with the pupils . |
| 22 | Also shown are the ages of the corresponding mare basalts , and you can see that they are several 100 Ma younger than the brecchias . |
| 23 | Are the systems in the this ourselves now on the responsibility of the sample videos that are now running smoothly . |
| 24 | The four types are the foundations of the modern phyla , the most basic subdivisions of the animal kingdom , although the articulates and radiates have been broken up as the true range of diversity has become apparent . |
| 25 | The environment is the source of all ingredients for human subsistence-food , water , and shelter ; how it is perceived , and how its potential as a resource base is realized , are the foundations of the contemporary human occupance of the earth , even if those foundations have been substantially reworked many times , in many places . |
| 26 | The two issues at the heart of the disagreement are those which have killed at birth any attempt in the past dozen years to address the Palestinian question : Who speaks for the Palestinians and what are the limits of the Palestinian problem ? |
| 27 | But what are the reasons behind the grim statistics ? |
| 28 | That is the the effects on the ceiling are the effects of the last one . |
| 29 | Are the forces of the mightiest military power on earth to be deployed so sparingly that they might as well be shrunk much more than most imagine ? |
| 30 | These are the values of the modern Conservative Party . |