Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [be] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Among the top riders invited were world uphill champion Tim Gould , his team mate Fred Salmon , the men 's Raleigh team and team Raleigh lady professional Caroline Alexander . |
| 2 | The institutions involved were Eagle Star Investment Managers , Foreign & Colonial Ventures , Ivory & Sime Development Capital , NatWest Ventures and Rothschild Ventures . |
| 3 | Hair has been roller set to give lift to the roots and movement to the ends . |
| 4 | Hair has been roller set to give body and volume . |
| 5 | Will he confirm that in every year and for every authority recently in Greater Manchester , the amount of money that the Government have allowed them to spend on capital projects has been way behind what they have needed , with the result that there is now a backlog of repairs and maintenance ? |
| 6 | The winner has been apathy and the loser democracy . |
| 7 | This latter finding has been point out by some authors , noting that the mean age at the time of the diagnosis of Barrett 's oesophagus was about 55 years , which is the same as the value found in our study . |
| 8 | Despite its success — eight out of 11 young people have got jobs — no definite funding has been body . |
| 9 | March has been part of the Grand Prix racing scene for more than 20 years , but recent lack of sponsorship has meant staff at Bicester have n't been paid for over 5 months . |
| 10 | Marcus has been kind enough to come here . |
| 11 | Since leaving South Morecambe , Colin has been manager responsible for CCG projects all over the country , as far as Hull , Peterhead , Essex , Nottingham and Lincoln . |
| 12 | Professor Stewart has been Secretary and Deputy Chairman of the Agricultural and Food Research Council since 1988 . |
| 13 | British Nuclear Fuels has been find £7,500 plus costs after admitting the unauthorized disposal of radioactive waste . |
| 14 | Doubtless his friends and family were working on his behalf and might well be involved with Peggy Say 's campaign . |
| 15 | In his time Taylor has been part of the North-East 's industrial traditional first as managing director of the now defunct Head facility at Stockton and later at Aycliffe-based Eaton Axles . |
| 16 | Aged 38 , Lina has been secretary to the general manager for three years . |
| 17 | A pretty , asymmetric bob has been precision styled to maximise the smooth , shiny finish . |
| 18 | Letzkus ( 1980 , p. 181 ) states that ‘ it appears that the concept of ZBB has been oversold . |
| 19 | A further problem with the interpretation of some previous studies of mucosal metabolism has been concern that the procedure used for isolating a pure epithelial cell population from resected bowel specimens may itself have introduced artefacts , and that these artefactual changes might well have been different in the inflamed colitic tissue from those in the histologically normal colon . |
| 20 | Where trade has proved damaging for whatever reason , the result has been estrangement . |
| 21 | The result has been fragmentation in political life . |
| 22 | The reasons for the shift from regarding sign language as one universal form of communication to seeing sign languages as highly different from each other are easy to understand , but the result has been confusion over what questions remain to be asked about the differences between sign languages . |
| 23 | Mr Devaux has been head of chambers at the firm which is soon to drop its name based on the names of partners in favour of the title East Anglian Chambers . |
| 24 | Since 1986 all blood has been heat treated and there have been no cases since then . |
| 25 | Since its inception a major programme has been teacher placements with the partnership becoming host to the teacher placement organiser for Mid Glamorgan . |
| 26 | As with numerous other mill sites , it has waxed and waned in importance , and over the centuries has been home to many individuals and industries . |
| 27 | For more than forty years American football has been symbol of patriotism at the Upper Heyford airbase . |
| 28 | The traditional external source of funds has been bank loans , and despite some recent reduction in bank dependence as internal reserves or retained profits have increased in importance , higher levels of bank debt is still a characteristic of Japanese company finance . |
| 29 | Mr Scott has been chairman of Stockton Council 's planning committee almost constantly since 1974 , says a dire slump in the local economy is enough in itself to sound a death knell for the Tories . |
| 30 | The major area of academic industry has been analysis of central mental concepts such as intention or recklessness . |