Example sentences of "[be] [det] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am that heroic surgeon ! |
| 2 | The reasons for this flexibility are that little party capital is made out of these alterations and since the Treasury fears forestalling , it is held that there c ; in be no prior negotiations about tax changes with outside interests . |
| 3 | The traditional attitude of government has been that official information should remain secret unless the government chooses to make it available . |
| 4 | A shiver ran through Theda 's body — the frame that was near a shadow of itself , just as it had been that long-gone day in March . |
| 5 | Lord Carrington 's view has been that premature recognition would be a mistake , and Mr. Cyrus Vance — the Secretary-General 's representative — has made the same point . |
| 6 | The conventional view has been that political strife was so intense between 1689 and 1715 because party divisions cut deep into society ; all elements of the population , from the gentry , through to the merchants , professionals , artisanal and trading classes , the small farmers , right down to the " mob " , were caught up in the rage of party . |
| 7 | The general impression has been that major capital schemes not requiring Treasury approval have been poorly appraised . |
| 8 | Dutch experience has been that close cooperation is needed between planners and all of these groups as well as others such as the police , mandating a cautious , incremental , flexible and thus costly style of planning . |
| 9 | But had it not been that actual set of people — Sam Phillips , the band , Elvis and The Jordanaires — the chemistry might not have been such that it worked . |
| 10 | And now Dennis Gray has weighed in with a second version of his ‘ Life as a Climbing Tyke ’ — the first having been that marvellous tale of human bondage from 20 year ago , Rope Boy , or ‘ How I survived an apprenticeship with Joe Brown and started to love climbing ’ . |
| 11 | And there had been that other message … she had rung Cartier to speak to someone called Michael Watney , only to be told that there was no-one called Michael Watney working there , and did she mean Michael Courteny , and if so , would she hold on ? |
| 12 | Always , in the background , in the dim recesses of her mind , there had been that niggling doubt . |
| 13 | A long-held belief has been that decorated cremation pottery , at least , was a product of specialist workshops which traded their wares ( Myres 1969 ) . |
| 14 | And there had been that brief time in the Wolfwood — I wo n't remember it ! thought Fenella , but she did remember it . |
| 15 | So that 's why there 'd been that electric air of haste pervading the whole episode . |
| 16 | There had been that unfortunate controversy in the local Press with the manager of the Palladium , when he had been compelled , under pressure from his bishop , to issue a statement to the effect that all films were not necessarily harmful in the eyes of the Church . |
| 17 | When he was young his hair had been that flaxen gold too , as soft and as fine . |
| 18 | The key or ‘ entrée ’ to the new development has been that problematic aspect of school work — projects and assignments . |
| 19 | Whilst the potential here looks considerable , there is just a slight concern that initial reaction has been that medical audit requires a rather more in-depth review of each case than is provided by routine data collection approach . |
| 20 | One of the problems of LEA control has been that local government is a highly politicised domain . |
| 21 | There had been that horrible murder on the A3 only this year . |
| 22 | But the only obvious truth of this kind in the UK has been that foreign supply creates domestic demand , the measure of which is import penetration . |
| 23 | Another clinical advantage of these exquisitely sensitive tests has been that sufficient DNA can be obtained from buccal washings , dried blood on Guthrie phenylketonuria test cards , or tiny chorionic villus biopsy specimens . |
| 24 | Little more than a year earlier there had been that never-to-be-forgotten encounter at the inn . |
| 25 | Perhaps the most important of these has been that public education in England and Wales has been a service provided by public local authorities and paid for out of taxes . |
| 26 | There had been little internal enthusiasm for this project and it was largely due to the personal sponsorship of a new technical director , Dr John Powell , that the company , which had 48 000 employees and a £500m turnover , decided to exploit Hounsfield 's work . |
| 27 | However , there seems to have been little empirical work done on such courses . |
| 28 | There has been little empirical work done on the amount of substitution through time amongst the various resources used by the hospital sector . |
| 29 | However , despite the importance of the issue , there has been little empirical research on the ways in which decisions are currently made by the prison authorities or the implications of these decisions for the prison service . |
| 30 | Whilst there has been considerable theoretical work in the area , there has been little empirical study of either state , or colleague control of professional practice . |