Example sentences of "[verb] [be] [adv] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Taiwan 's economic growth has been probably the world 's fastest over the past two decades . |
| 2 | Sicily has been both the home and haven of the Mafia because politicians throughout Italy have found it convenient to tolerate , rather than prosecute , its activities . |
| 3 | Its defence has been largely the concern of other powers since the fall of Singapore in 1942 ; and the British independent nuclear deterrent is no more than a phrase , since it is not independent and , as the Falklands crisis of 1982 showed , it does not deter . |
| 4 | In the past , accommodating such users has been largely the province of a small number of individuals . |
| 5 | And that the business has been predominantly the nature of business has been predominantly manufacturing . |
| 6 | For centuries the practice of philosophy has been overwhelmingly the prerogative of men but it is only recently that feminist analysis has made it possible to see the distorting effect of this historical fact . |
| 7 | In fact , it is only a slight exaggeration to say that the main deterrent effect of monopoly policy has been not the threat of what changes might be required as a result of the MMC investigation , but the threat of having to tie up a large quantity of senior executives ' time to argue the firm 's case in the event that its activities attract a reference to the MMC . |
| 8 | In marriages in which only one of the partners has been down the aisle before , the number of divorces has jumped 67 per cent since 1980 . |
| 9 | Love has inspired more mystical utterances than any other human emotions ; for some saints and mystics , it has been almost the whole of religion . |
| 10 | Yet the new interdisciplinary approaches , the new stress on enquiry and research , and the increased stress on the teacher in the devising of resource-based approaches , require more flexible , efficient and detailed methods of information retrieval than has been typically the case in schools , or in most academic and public libraries hitherto . |
| 11 | Behind that long , happy record has been unquestionably the influence of Caroline . |
| 12 | The crimes which had been committed were manifestly the work of hardened professionals who had no more to do with the incestuous dramas of this city than Zen himself . |
| 13 | And for a first course all you will need is either the broth from the pot-au-feu , which will have a very fine flavour and which you can thicken if you like with a little rice — there should be enough for seven or eight people — or perhaps a dish of mussels , or a light fish soup . |
| 14 | Wittgenstein is here opposing our natural inclination when we start philosophising , which is to say that what matters is not the use of the expressions ‘ I know ’ , ‘ I remember ’ , ‘ I hope ’ , but a mental phenomenon — or process or activity — of knowing , remembering , hoping . |
| 15 | It risks , however , giving the impression that what matters is not the quality of life as we each experience it in our individual consciousness , but simply what takes place in some objective world — which seems a betrayal of the whole point of utilitarianism . |
| 16 | What matters is not the shop but the street outside . |
| 17 | What matters is not the fact but the character of this relationship . |
| 18 | What matters is simply the ranking of the options available . |
| 19 | What matters is how the screen is used in a given application . |
| 20 | Wilkos recent statements about having to sell players before he can buy is just the number of players he has … not that we have nt got the money . |
| 21 | What we emphasize is not the separation of art , but the autonomy of the aesthetic function ’ ( O'Toole and Shukman 1977 : 19 ) . |
| 22 | Drinking and driving is not the way to do it . ’ |
| 23 | What we have not yet considered is where the body clock is and how it is adjusted by external time-cues . |
| 24 | The part of Figure 5.1 to be considered is therefore the area EFGHCD . |
| 25 | The part of Figure 5.1 to be considered is therefore the area EFGHCD . |
| 26 | Unfortunately , the history that nationalists want is not the history that professional academic historians , even ideologically committed ones , ought to supply . |
| 27 | The time to worry was when the noise of the doodle-bug overhead stopped , for then it was going to fall . |
| 28 | Anyway , getting back to my sister , she seemed to expect me to side with her when she 'd been just the opposite with me when I 'd wanted to paint , and I 'm afraid harsh words were spoken all round . |
| 29 | We went there on Sunday , me and Bella , after we 'd been down the prom . ’ |
| 30 | I 'd been down the prom on my bike , and was riding up the posh part to our street . |