Example sentences of "[verb] [be] [art] [det] " in BNC.

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1 All I have to wear are the same old rags I 've had for years .
2 Nevertheless , it is likely that the qualitative features of DNA binding are the same .
3 There has been no such softening in the rest of the world , which the west has now taken under its protective tutelage .
4 However , there has been no such disengagement , let alone direct argument against such texts in general .
5 State if there has been no such contract .
6 To the best of my knowledge , there has been no such request by British Rail .
7 For US T-bonds the situation looked a little more optimistic for a couple of years after the launch , but the volume of contracts traded has fallen steeply since 1988 although there has been no such decline in their home base on the CBoT , and despite the fact that LIFFE invested much effort in internationalising this contract — establishing a fungible link with the Sydney Futures Exchange ( SFE ) in 1986 to allow global trading in US T-bonds for 19 hours a day , and reaching an understanding with the CBoT for fungible contracts in the US T-bond and the UK Long Gilt .
8 There has been no such rethink for the changes planned in civil legal aid in court , which was granted in more than 23,000 cases in 1991/92 .
9 The efforts — and prison sentences — of the unofficial peace movement had redeemed the similarly contaminated word peace , but ‘ in my country , for ages now , socialism has been no more than an incantation that should be avoided if one does not wish to appear suspect . ’
10 The two year ban which he received has been no more than a minor inconvenience to him .
11 The ‘ masculine ’ goal of moral autonomy , then , has been no more in woman 's grasp than it was within the grasp of the Stoic slave of ancient times .
12 The account is and has been no more than a conduit , the defendant holding its funds with a Scottish bank in Glasgow .
13 Historically , resource allocation has been the prime objective ( eg in relation to fisheries ) and environmental protection has been no more than a secondary objective .
14 The Czechoslovak Finance Minister Vaclav Klaus declared : " So far the role of the EBRD in our part of the world has been no more than marginal . "
15 The strongest indication we have had of an MBO here has been no more than vague rumours . ’
16 Maybe that 's one reason why this show has been a few years in the making .
17 This seems to be pitching things a good deal too high , but the current London Film Festival , which continues until Sunday , tends to confirm the impression that 1989 has been a less than vintage year for the movies .
18 A major feature in UK user education ( particularly in the last five years ) has been the many hundreds of thousands of pounds spent on research and development .
19 The result has been the same each time .
20 If the English handicapper appears to have been lenient with Barnbrook Again , the Irish handicapper has been the same with Morley Street .
21 The sum has been the same since 1983 , when the Government launched its Enterprise Allowance Scheme — better known in some circles as the Enterprise Allowance Scam or Enquiring Artists ' Support .
22 The theoretical object ‘ profession ’ has been the same as for conservative theorists .
23 The pattern has been the same for one Big Idea after another .
24 Some newcomers have been indifferent to the sensibilities of the local population ; others , as we shall see , have been oversensitive to what they believe the needs of the village to be-In each case the effect has been the same : members of the former occupational community , faced with an invasion of ‘ their ’ village by outsiders , have tended to retreat in upon themselves and form a community within a community , cutting themselves off from the separate world of the newcomers .
25 But since then our calendar year has been the same as the solar year .
26 I know many of the other tournament professionals will be feeling the same apprehensions and anxieties as myself before the circus begins , but it always has been the same from day one , and believe me it does n't get any easier .
27 Also to be considered are the many strange accounts of werewolves , vampires , apart from ghosts and ghouls .
28 The instructions for the risk rating and the scale used were the same as those used for Study 2 .
29 The selection criteria used were the same for all patients — namely , each patient was individually assessed with respect to general fitness for function of the anal sphincter .
30 All I 'd need is a few fags to keep me awake and I 'd have my foot down all the way .
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