Example sentences of "be the [noun sg] [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 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | ‘ It can only have been the smell of the mothballs . ’ |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Well the first would have been the building of the tanks , the outside tanks . |
| 22 | The great change has been the disappearance of the landowners from the Tory benches . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | The ‘ stuttering notes must surely have been the result of the hammers bouncing . |
| 27 | Most of the major off-licence chains are also owned by the brewers , though most of the expansion in this sector has been the result of the supermarkets ' willingness to compete with the established off-licences . |
| 28 | An interim inquiry into the disaster published in August 1989 had concluded that its main cause had been the failure of the police to contain the movement of supporters into the stadium . |
| 29 | Although Bracton alleged that the rape of non-virgins was also punishable , this does not appear to have been the practice of the courts . |
| 30 | Notice had been given to the defendant , as if he had himself been the owner of the houses , calling on him to pay the proportion chargeable in respect of them . |