Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [be] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And the most Anglophobe of Pound 's books is , appropriately , the one that is most full of shoptalk — though of shoptalk of a special kind , the talk of the master to his apprentices in the shop that is a workshop , the atelier where the talk that goes on is the vehicle by which an artistic tradition is transmitted , not in conceptualizing , and tendentious readings of history , but where it is concrete , in tricks of the trade and rules of thumb and words to the wise . |
| 2 | excellent , scale and ability what we need to agree on is the skills and abilities that we want in there . |
| 3 | What passed on were the gold frame and certain historic jewels from earlier dynasties . |
| 4 | In the end , all I had to go on was the gallery itself . |
| 5 | The essential oils listed below are the oils used in my own practice . |
| 6 | Listed below are the courses that are already open for applicants . |
| 7 | What Sherman 's circle perhaps does not emphasize sufficiently is the impact that dominant social ideology about the nature of old age has upon personal problems of older people at all levels of experience , emotional , social and financial . |
| 8 | There would be a fine view across the Thames , except that all there is to see opposite is the gasworks and Delta Wharf , a place that has not been prettified . |
| 9 | Secondly , admission to a psychiatric unit has presumably been the result of distress which in many cases will persist after admission . |
| 10 | Although it has rarely been the subject of judicial pronouncement the conceptual basis of the " conventional " sums awarded by the courts in respect of non-pecuniary losses appears to be that such sums are what are considered fair and reasonable compensation in the social , economic and industrial conditions which prevail in England and Wales . |
| 11 | Furthermore , industrialization has rarely been the panacea for rural development that had been hoped . |
| 12 | What matters most are the attitudes of teachers to parents and parents to teachers — whether there is genuine mutual respect , whether the parents understand what the schools are doing for individual children and ( whether ) teachers realise how dependent they are upon parental support . |
| 13 | What matters most is the result , so entertainment will not be the highest priority . |
| 14 | In terms of performance , the main facets to concentrate on are the feel and the overall sense of dynamics . |
| 15 | ‘ On a number of occasions he has personally been the target of attack from either snipers , antitank fire or from mortar bombardment . |
| 16 | Perhaps development of nursery education on a much greater scale , bigger scale than has hitherto been the case |
| 17 | Perhaps a development of nursery education on a much greater scale , bigger scale than has hitherto been the case |
| 18 | But the meeting understood that " It has hitherto been the policy of this HQ and remains ( it is understood ) the advice of the British Resident Minister and the US Political Adviser that all classes and types of dissident and anti-Tito Jugoslavs who fall into the hands of Allied Forces either in Italy or in Austria should not be forced to return to Jugoslavia … " |
| 19 | Twenty-three years in the business has all been the build-up for this , as I take on my most challenging role ever — bloody prompter ! ’ |
| 20 | Of course , the UK has long been the home of large companies exploiting ‘ primary products ’ ( plantation crops , furs , timber and minerals ) in different parts of the Commonwealth and the world . |
| 21 | The Faculty is one of the oldest in the University and has long been the home of many outstanding legal scholars and practitioners . |
| 22 | In answer to a Parliamentary Question , he said that where , following a successful challenge in the courts , retrospective legislation is introduced to restore the previous understanding of the law , it has long been the Government 's policy that the successful litigant should not be deprived of the benefit of the court judgment in his favour . |
| 23 | Drafix CAD is an MS-DOS based CAD drawing package that has long been the choice of users who have been unwilling to pay the price demanded for the industry standard — AutoCad . |
| 24 | It involves the use of DMSO ( dimethyl sulphoxide ) , which has long been the centre of controversy . |
| 25 | CITY UNDER SIEGE London has long been the centre of European finance , but the slide in business now could just be the start of a lasting loss of market share . |
| 26 | In both French and British space programmes , keeping up with — or at least not falling further behind — the USA and USSR space efforts has long been the name of the game . |
| 27 | ‘ It has long been the law that when a man pleads guilty to an indictment the trial judge can permit him to change his plea to not guilty at any time before the case is finally disposed of by sentence or otherwise . |
| 28 | By combining traditional craftsmanship with state of the art electronics , Yamaha 's APX range of electro-acoustic guitars has long been the professionals ' choice for performing and recording alike . |
| 29 | ‘ Whether the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel or the Stanze of Raphael should be regarded as the culminating effort of modern art , has long been the subject of controversy ’ ; but they both received double asterisks . |
| 30 | The coco-de-mer grows only on Praslin and its neighbour Curieuse and has long been the subject of legends and superstitions . |