Example sentences of "be the [noun] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In addition , from the Soviet point of view , ‘ Within the whole spectrum of measures taken to promote trade between the USSR and Latin America , of greatest importance have been the agreements reached between the USSR Chamber of Commerce and Industry and the Chambers of Commerce in some Latin American countries including Argentina , Brazil , Peru , Colombia and Mexico ’ ( Zinoviev : 1981 , pp. 101–2 ) . |
| 2 | One reason for this has been the deference shown by the Court of Appeal to the expertise of the Commissioners , a deference which appears to be justified by the thoroughness of the re-examination of the cases by the Commissioners . |
| 3 | From Wyeth 's description this seems to have been the approach followed in the PET case . |
| 4 | Cod , plaice , sole and turbot have long been the chief catches in the deep-sea fishing grounds of the North Sea , and the trawler , with which Grimsby 's name is synonymous , was introduced in the nineteenth century to drag a wide-mouthed net along the sea floor , to catch these so-called ‘ ground fish ’ . |
| 5 | This has been the procedure followed by the Yugoslav statisticians for many years . |
| 6 | This has been the method used by the most successful interactive video systems of recent years . |
| 7 | There was evidence of rivets in it and an X-ray revealed traces of a metal covering , which confirmed to experts that it might well have come from the gable end of just such a shrine , and that it could well have been the piece described by the father of Welsh historical research . |
| 8 | ‘ Then it must have been the stream running over the rocks , ’ said Betty . |
| 9 | The second special factor has been the role played by the Murid Brotherhood , an Islamic movement founded in the first decade of the twentieth century by Amadu Bamba , which has played a key political role in delivering support first for the French colonial authorities and later for the governments of independent Senegal . |
| 10 | Most significant for them has been the need to adapt to the much greater degree of bureaucratic organization which has followed the 1973 Act , the great landmark in their careers . |
| 11 | This has been the practice followed on the eastern side of the county at Adamthwaite in the Howgills and is explained in the INTRODUCTION . |
| 12 | This appears to have been the conclusion reached by the Israeli government when it launched its air attack on Iraq 's French-built research-scale Osiris reactor at Tuweithah near Ctesiphon in June 1981 . |
| 13 | First , there had been the challenge posed by the calls for an international working-class opposition to the First World War . |
| 14 | In duels of old , it had n't always been the sword going into the lungs that had killed so much as the drawing of it out . |
| 15 | Another factor had been the effort to help with the Museum project . |
| 16 | So given that the electoral quota argument is not final , contrary to er what the commission implies and what seems to have been the brief given to the commission , the , we come on to the other points . |
| 17 | Pahl ( 1984 ) asserts that it is the last hundred years that have been the aberration compared with the greater flexibility of both earlier periods and the present time . |
| 18 | This has not been the view taken by the Roman lawyers in other European countries . |
| 19 | Finally , there are the questions to do with the assessment of the course , including any examinations . |
| 20 | How are the parents reacting to the problem ? |
| 21 | These textiles to be brief are the type called in the inventories , say . |
| 22 | Nor are the parallels confined to the inner city . |
| 23 | The solid lines are the background spectrum and the dots are the spectrum measured over the cell . |
| 24 | And when are the diggers going on the road ? |
| 25 | And the ones that we know about at the moment are the ones revealed from the census . |
| 26 | It is the aptly-named ‘ promoters ’ who are the ones to blame in the history of boxing . |
| 27 | Or , to put the question in terms closer to his own , are the principles enunciated in the system of Absolute Idealism really the truth to which these theological teachings point ? |
| 28 | Are the cues contained within the picture strong enough for their proper interpretation ? |
| 29 | The second and probably more important source of infective larvae are the eggs passed in the current grazing season by horses , including nursing mares , sharing the same grazing area . |
| 30 | Nor are the problems confined to the rarefied atmosphere of corporate boardrooms . |