Example sentences of "[verb] [be] [conj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The interesting thing has been that each time we have revised the strategy we have been partially right , but it has only been as a result of a whole series of revisits , reorganizations and reassessments , as well as changing people , perspectives and systems , that we seem to have got enough right to be able to fight our corner . |
| 2 | A side effect of the Act , however , has been that many owners of leasehold property no longer regard such investments as sound and they have voluntarily negotiated the sale of freeholds even where the property concerned did not fall within the provisions of the 1967 Act . |
| 3 | His hope has been that better use of woodlands will give the trees greater value , and so farmers and landowners will have an economic reason for managing their woods . |
| 4 | The experience of the European Convention has been that this procedure has been little used , with most allegations of violations of the Convention commenced through individual petition . |
| 5 | The non-lexical task most intensively studied is reading nonwords aloud , and the most commonly advocated view has been that this task is accomplished by using a system of rules relating spellings to sounds . |
| 6 | MAFF 's view has been that any support for conservation measures must be purely as an adjunct to agricultural works , a view supported by DoE . |
| 7 | For 40 years the policy has been that some contribution should be made towards the cost of sight and dental charges — that was agreed by both parties . |
| 8 | Juliet Mitchell in her work Psychoanalysis and Feminism has pointed to the significance of this task , but the problem , as suggested above , has been that most analyses have not been sufficiently historically specific to make them usable . |
| 9 | Erm but er certainly the record to date has been that these power stations are erm extremely erm well run and that they ha they 've had no major incidents at all . |
| 10 | One consequence of this has been that further additions to the existing radio and television services would become deeply contested as efforts were made to detach them from the duopoly . |
| 11 | This has been because social psychology has had few ways of handling the macro-level political , economic and social change which has been of such great interest to sociologists . |
| 12 | The reason that sales have not boomed is that many customers have been disappointed at what robots do for them . |
| 13 | For the purposes of translation , what matters is that both types of analysis recognize the sequence as marked . |
| 14 | What is often forgotten is that many people derive their living from them . |
| 15 | What is happening is that two bones in the body are being pulled together and are wearing each other out . |
| 16 | What we do n't know is whether that crate contains the kegs . |
| 17 | What he questions is whether these disciplines can ‘ support a ‘ technology ’ of language teaching ’ , that is to say , presumably , whether they can directly inform pedagogic technique . |
| 18 | The evolutionary view is that the only explanation for certain practices being adopted and others discarded is that these practices enable the group which adopts them to survive and gain mastery over others . |
| 19 | What needs to be considered is whether these groups are better or worse off as a result of ten years of Conservative rule . |
| 20 | It may be , of course , that what we really want is that some losses so caused should be compensated for if they result from illegal action , and some other losses compensated for regardless of whether they result from illegal action or not . |
| 21 | What Baghdad now proposed was that both sides hold referendums to decide the legitimacy of their respective regimes . |
| 22 | What I did n't know was that this species , again in marked contrast to the Mbuna norm , is a precocious spawner , and one morning I discovered my by now 1.5″ female brooding . |
| 23 | To contemporary commentators like Fyvel , the only other section of the population who behaved in such a way were the homosexuals ; what he did n't know was that this pursuit of pleasure , and concentration on self , were exactly those traits that would become desirable , and eventually , socially acceptable , with the extraordinary success of Elvis Presley and the Teen age that followed . |
| 24 | One technique they used was that each individual crafted by himself a new conversation to help the writer of the episode . |
| 25 | What happens is that two companies virtually control distribution — Menzies and W H Smith . |
| 26 | Another point worth remembering is that many insurance companies give substantial discounts to mature drivers . |
| 27 | Once it is determined that an entity has an item that meets the definition of one of the elements , the next question to answer is whether that item should be recognised in the financial statements . |
| 28 | What Freud actually says in Totem and Taboo is the opposite of that , what he actually says is that these feelings are innate , and they are part of an evolutionary heritage . |
| 29 | The important point to remember is that each unit within an NVQ has to be individually assessed at work or in a realistic work environment [ a college restaurant , for example ] so that the trainee proves he or she can do the job . |
| 30 | Knowing which type of memory you require is a matter of experience , but a good thing to remember is that most computers have 640K of base memory — even though they state 1 meg — and that most programs now require at least 530K of this to operate properly . |