Example sentences of "be the [noun] [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I am the photographer on the expeditions , ’ he explains . |
| 2 | The major political development has been the division of the communists into the reformist Democratic Left and the Marxist Refoundation , and the growth of protest movements . |
| 3 | ‘ I must have been the thorn between the roses , ’ he said , with some satisfaction . |
| 4 | This has certainly been the experience of the authors and a number of other staff who have adopted this approach on their courses . |
| 5 | To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what have been the changes in the rates of value added tax since the beginning of 1979 . |
| 6 | A part of the history of perceptions of people has been the changes in the labels that have been used over the years . |
| 7 | This approach made it inherently possible for the Jews to claim to have been the teachers of the Greeks owing to their own greater antiquity . |
| 8 | Steve Cauthen , who rode Balla Cove , had earlier taken the other feature race on the card , the Godolphin Stakes , on Spritsail — a victory that should have been the subject of a stewards ' inquiry . |
| 9 | By 1979 only about 6,000 ha in Lewis and Harris ( no more than 4% of the total common grazing ) had been the subject of the grants available under the Crofting Counties Agricultural Grants Scheme . |
| 10 | Throughout Napoleon 's exile the violet had been the symbol of the Bonapartistes , for the violet was the flower which , like the deposed Emperor , would return in the spring . |
| 11 | There has always been the equivalent of the Novices group , for example , allowing entrance to the soccer microculture for any boy willing to learn the rules of being a fan . |
| 12 | ‘ It can only have been the smell of the mothballs . ’ |
| 13 | Erm and he 's saying that you know to start with basically education has always been the preserve of the landlords , er the peasants have n't had anything to do with education , have always been poor illiterate peasants erm and now he 's saying that because the landlords have been overthrown erm suddenly peasants er have , you know , are forming erm schools and have been able to be taught various things . |
| 14 | This meant that some of the old despoblados , the deserted towns that had been the despair of the economists for two hundred years , came back under cultivation , just as in the town of Salamanca , centre of a great wheat region , the empty houses left untenanted by the recession of the seventeenth century were occupied once more . |
| 15 | In the circumstance of their redundance , the usual prescription has been the demolition of the buildings and sale of their sites , but it is likely that where redundancy affects noteworthy buildings — and an increasing number of Roman Catholic churches , lacking the exemption from ‘ listing ’ currently enjoyed by the Anglican churches , are being listed as buildings of architectural or historic interest — the church hierarchy may have to consider offering them for conversion to alternative uses . |
| 16 | This could have been the return to the stresses and strains of normal life or because she was no longer taking Arg Nit so I put her on Arg Nit LM1 . |
| 17 | An indication of this has been the reduction in the activities of the rural underworld , which was such a thriving feature of village life when it was an occupational community , but which has now virtually disappeared . |
| 18 | Just the sort of behaviour , in fact , that , had it been the work of the lads from the local council estate , would have resulted in a platoon of plods descending at great speed , batons ready in the best of LAPD fashion . |
| 19 | Contemporaries did note approvingly that attempts were made to keep it clean and well aired , which , it seems , had not always been the case in the days of Louis-Philippe . |
| 20 | Joseph had been the guardian of the women and children throughout the long march , and though he conferred constantly with the other headmen , the whites regarded him as the figurehead of the Nez Perce resistance . |
| 21 | The system is based around Siemens ' Vision Optimised Network Evolution programme , although GEC Plessey says that it has been the developer of the services to be offered and will manage the planned Asynchronous Transfer Mode evolution . |
| 22 | Frank sat down again and launched into a tale of how he had outwitted the guards at every turn and been the mainstay of the prisoners . |
| 23 | Some of the most inspiring work of Chattisgarh Liberation Front has been the formation of a women 's organisation that has set up a popular tribunal to deal with wrongs against women — desertion , rape , abuse . |
| 24 | Well the first would have been the building of the tanks , the outside tanks . |
| 25 | The great change has been the disappearance of the landowners from the Tory benches . |
| 26 | Sir William Walker was an ageing Conservative ex-Lord Mayor of Manchester , engineer , and member of the CEB , who had been the architect of the employers ' side of the industry 's labour relations machinery prior to nationalisation . |
| 27 | I mean I , I tend to think it 's a , it 's a play that 's got some very very funny bits in it , I do n't want to give away what the story 's about , but whilst there 's been the frivolity on the slopes , the whole thing starts to take on a , a , I tell you what it was , I remember reading an article by Dr Ruth , who said that good skiers are good in bed because the image of , of the skier is very potent , you know , and very strong . |
| 28 | Although Pakistan has been the conduit for the arms supplied to the guerrillas by America and Britain , the guerrillas in the field have been their own men . |
| 29 | The only body of people who have been behind the Bill have been the principals of the colleges , and what did they say ? |
| 30 | The ‘ stuttering notes must surely have been the result of the hammers bouncing . |