Example sentences of "[be] the [noun sg] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While living in Stornoway I had heard it occasionally but it had been the exception rather than the rule . |
| 2 | The teaching of literature has been the activity most profoundly affected by these conflicting views . |
| 3 | Which would have Previously would have been the preserve only of papers like the Independent or the Times or the or the Guardian . |
| 4 | A woman who fought her way to the top of a liberation movement which traditionally had been the preserve mainly of men . |
| 5 | Well now the third factor , Greater York , has probably been the single most important planning issue for the county council and the Greater York districts over the past ten years . |
| 6 | Alexei held to the opinion that they could not be naturally evolved , and thought that the single horn which projected from the forehead of each had been the whim probably of some Second Empire geneticist . |
| 7 | My legs were steadier than they had been the night before but they still dithered weakly . |
| 8 | The big thermometer on the refuge wall read zero degrees C , and I recalled how cold it had been the night before during our four hour drive from Madrid . |
| 9 | Then a long time after that , it was May , and I 'd been the night before , but he was out ( or in bed with someone ? ) and that evening he was in and alone , and we talked some time ( he was telling me about John Minton ) and then he put on an Indian record and we were quiet . |
| 10 | I was just thinking about what a horrendous evening it had been the night before and then he |
| 11 | Though open opposition , as the ‘ White Rose ’ showed , was futile against the might of the Gestapo and resistance groups were necessarily compelled to continue their work in secrecy and isolation , their hostility to the Nazi regime was now far less out of touch with the climate of opinion than had been the case even a few months earlier , before Stalingrad . |
| 12 | This has been the case even though the new church has been conceived and brought into being by the hypocrites themselves ! |
| 13 | Many more lesbians and gays were openly involved in their local Labour parties than would have been the case even five years previously , and they ensured that the Labour manifestos in the 1986 council elections included commitments to lesbian and gay work . |
| 14 | In practice , as Halsey , Heath and Ridge ( 1980 ) have recently shown , this has not been the case even for working-class boys . |
| 15 | The new textbooks tended to deal more candidly with Japan 's pre-1945 aggression than had been the case previously . |
| 16 | This has been the case both in the British-occupied north and in the south , though the projects in both states have shown differences related to the local economic situation and ideologies . |
| 17 | As we shall see in subsequent chapters , the approach they have taken to fundamental freedoms has on a number of important occasions been radically different and altogether more liberal than has been the case here . |
| 18 | That has been the case most clearly in America in the past dozen turbulent years . |
| 19 | This has been the case particularly for Marxist and neo-Marxist sociologists , since the growth of the middle class has often been cited as evidence against Marx 's theory . |
| 20 | ‘ That might have been the case once , but now we produce perfectly good coaches ourselves , and I 'm concerned the incentive will disappear if administrators continue to look only to Australia . ’ |
| 21 | This indeed has been the case ever since self-replicating molecular assemblages evolved to exploit finite resources . |
| 22 | This happy coincidence — happy , that is , for all those visionaries and seers who speak in sonorous phrases about the ‘ New Pacific Century ’ and the ‘ Grand Pacific Age ’ , and find such a discovery a perfect symbol of what they 're talking about — has been the case ever since 22 October 1884 , when a group of scientists and politicians met in a hotel in Washington DC and set down the rules by which the planet was henceforth to organize the keeping of its time . |
| 23 | The head of the regional justice administration in Bamberg had also observed ‘ a sharp increase and intensification in criticism of the political and military leadership ’ and , ‘ what had never been the case before , to a growing extent of the person of the Führer , who is made responsible especially for the events in Stalingrad and in the Caucasus ’ . |
| 24 | Money was allocated , but due to delays in passage of the Bill through Parliament , as has so often been the case before , no money has actually flowed from the coffers in Rome . |
| 25 | More recent works have been called in aid on those occasions when jurists and others have sought to delineate features of the contemporary Constitution ; this has been the case especially in determining the existence or otherwise of conventions . |
| 26 | I , I think that 's again going to be part of it because that is certainly I mean a major reason why er a lot of peasant societies have large families , but we 'd still have to try and explain why it was that in this period , presumably so very much more of those children were surviving than had been the case earlier . |
| 27 | If that had been the case then the much softer shells would have disintegrated first . |
| 28 | If this has been the case then it can be shown that the Mercurian smooth plains are slightly older than the lunar maria . |
| 29 | … no inconsiderable sacrifice to put in the time and effort that this sort of work requires , particularly when , as I fear has been the case so far , it has to be pursued at rather a breakneck speed . |
| 30 | This has not been the case so far this year with several results ’ , one of which is that ’ Government credibility has been severely tarnished , particularly with regard to perceived dedication to improved training . ’ |