Example sentences of "[vb past] [be] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Other skills involved were the planning of time , the allocation of tasks , drawing up a questionnaire to be used to cover local facilities , telephoning and interviewing local licensees and decision-making in relation to the selection , organization and editing of information gathered . |
| 2 | She had never been exposed to anything like it before , and initially she found being the centre of attention quite amusing . |
| 3 | What was also disturbing was that I found being the centre of attention quite attractive . |
| 4 | Suddenly , the cafe stopped being the place where I worked and once again it became the bizarre oasis that I 'd happened upon all those months earlier . |
| 5 | There was never a dull moment and among the places I visited were the Statue of Liberty , Central Park , the World Trade Centre , the Empire State Building , Wall Street and Chinatown . |
| 6 | The flow cost is the opportunity cost of the money or social resources tied up in the plant and is measured by the initial capital cost multiplied by the discount rate r . |
| 7 | The fourth point , Chairman , er is the new settlement issue , and while that 's due for discussion on policy H Two , that issue does shall I suggest invade policy H One , because an appropriate form of words has to be agreed in policy H One to reflect the new settlement issue and as you 'll be aware the County Council is about a step by step approach towards the finalization of the new settlement erm strategy for Greater York , and then finally , a specific issue that you mentioned is the distribution of developments between the Greater York districts er within Greater York , now as you 'll be aware Chairman , that has been done informally , following the original structure plan in nineteen eighty the County and the Districts got together and agreed the distribution of housing and employment land in Greater York . |
| 8 | The subject proposed was The Problem of Pain . |
| 9 | Alexei knelt was the middle of the morning , and the red ball of the sun was already high in the awful blue of the sky . |
| 10 | A little late in the day as it happened , but they did and one of the things that helped was the fact that as an Irish citizen I had to be entered on the aliens ’ register by the local police and that required a passport photo . ’ |
| 11 | To the left as you entered was the copper over which hung a galvanised tub used not only on wash days but also for personal baths . |
| 12 | The Modigliani that Germaine described was the man that so many women admired : fascinating , intelligent , with beautiful manners . |
| 13 | Among the Italian maiolica ceramics analysed was the pharmacy jar of Figure 6.4 , which is one of a number in the same style . |
| 14 | The amount charged was the expense incurred by the body corporate ‘ in or in connection with the provision ’ of the benefit in kind . |
| 15 | Inevitably , the first location he mentioned was the Opera House , followed by Sydney Bridge , the river skyline , and , ‘ if possible ‘ , Darling Harbour . |
| 16 | Inevitably , the first location he mentioned was the Opera House , followed by Sydney Bridge , the river skyline , and , ‘ if possible ’ , Darling Harbour . |
| 17 | For example , in a case — Sex slur drove man to lash out at bully who mocked him : Killer stepson 's years of torment — where a bullying stepfather was killed by the stepson he had tormented for years , one of the taunts mentioned was the mocking of his desires to get on at college , calling him a ‘ funny boy ’ . |
| 18 | ( 2 ) Granting the application , that the central objective of the category of public interest immunity involved was the maintenance of an honourable , disciplined , law-abiding and uncorrupt police force ; that therefore , in view of the public disquiet understandably aroused by proven malpractice of some members of the disbanded West Midlands Serious Crime Squad , and of the extensive publicity already attaching to the authority 's documents following B. 's successful appeal , it could not be said that those who had co-operated in the authority 's investigation would regret that co-operation , or that future generations of potential witnesses would withhold it , if the court were to release the documents to the applicants to enable them to defeat if they could an allegedly corrupt claim in damages ; that the imperative public interest in the case was that the applicants had a proper opportunity of obtaining the evidence they sought so that the grave allegations which they made , and were the same allegations that had troubled the Court of Appeal sufficiently to allow B. 's appeal , could be properly tested in the courts ; and that , accordingly , B. 's undertaking would be varied to allow him to hand over to the applicants those of the authority 's documents which were incorporated in his appeal bundle , the applicants for their part undertaking to use those documents only for the purposes of defending the present libel proceedings pursued against them ( post , pp. 927G — 928A , B ) . |
| 19 | The first dedicated fax card I used was the JTFax , which was purely a fax card and lacked a data modem . |
| 20 | One substance used was the sex pheromone excreted in the urine of the boar . |
| 21 | This is admittedly a rather crude distinction , but one which could be justified by the very uneven break — some 80 per cent of establishments were " non-users " for each category — which it produced ; For experimental purposes we also separated out " high user establishments where the number of fixed-term contract or agency workers used was the equivalent of five per cent or more of the labour force but the results thereby obtained were not more instructive than those obtained by the initial classification and so are reported upon only in a limited fashion . |
| 22 | No see the material all people used was the nightdress nightdress material . |
| 23 | Well , what we did was we what we did was we erm found the alarm system to try and calculate some reasonable output rates erm but what we found was the output rates seemed incredibly low using based on the completion that they have got So what we was we erm took the nine week 's work that they 'd done and erm plus they 'd obviously based our output rates on that erm just for a little example , using the allowances we have n't got whereas actually we 'd been calculating it on what they had n't worked so , that was basically what we So moving on to the actual short-term programme |
| 24 | The dominant ruling idea of Renaissance England Tillyard found was the belief in a cosmic order which governed both human institutions and natural phenomena . |
| 25 | They chunk it up into pairs or groups of three or something like that so four groups of three or two groups of six or whatever , because what Miller actually found was the span of conception was and is seven plus or minus two . |
| 26 | The greatest impediment we encountered was the lack of a ‘ trigger ’ in Eileen 's case . |
| 27 | Obviously one of the determining factors in the enterprises pursued was the make-up of the land and in most areas hill ground predominated . |
| 28 | What changed was the party political situation : the seizure of power by the radical Right in the Conservative party and thence in government . |
| 29 | The second door he tried was the bathroom . |
| 30 | What occurred was the expansion and deepening of its concepts to include racial and hereditary factors . |