Example sentences of "[verb] be the [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I ought to I ought to 've been the bloody brainiest in country me |
| 2 | All I have to wear are the same old rags I 've had for years . |
| 3 | Leading that charge has been the right hon. Member for Henley ( Mr. Heseltine ) — that elegant nonentity whose only claim to fame was that he helped rid the nation of the right hon. Member for Finchley ( Mrs. Thatcher ) . |
| 4 | The Lemonheads have been touring for about three months , first in America and now in Europe , and this has been the first real glitch they 've encountered . |
| 5 | Football has been the other major sport and has always produced good teams , and Halling must have been among the first to play under floodlights . |
| 6 | The biggest initiative has been the virtual nationwide provision of two-year part-time course for full-time teachers leading to Certificates in Education ( FE ) , but there has also been a growth in Diploma and higher degree courses and there seem likely soon to be additional initial BEd . |
| 7 | In the past , sea salt has been the only recognized medication for such infections , but in recent years great strides have been made in our understanding of the various fungal infections and cures based upon methylene blue and malachite green are readily available and work simply and quickly . |
| 8 | In many of the lower-wage countries the growth of this type of employment has been the only real employment growth . |
| 9 | Until recently , surgery has been the only effective management for Dieulafoy 's lesions . |
| 10 | Since 1987 , it has been the only monetary aggregate with a target range set annually . |
| 11 | So far as it is known , Noble has been the only born-deaf person ever to be a Freemason in Britain . |
| 12 | of the union 's total membership , approximately half are under the age of 30. since the advent of rock in the 1950s and 1960s , the union has been the only independent organization to give service , protection and advice to rock musicians . |
| 13 | One of the most significant developments has been the increasing open employment of young people with severe disabilities , particularly severe intellectual disabilities . |
| 14 | Although Hubble 's work ( with subsequent numerical amendment ) has been the principal empirical basis of cosmology , this is not a book about cosmology but about astronomical observation beyond the Galaxy . |
| 15 | A partner in the Washington DC and Century City ( CA ) offices , he has been the principal corporate and litigation lawyer for Princess Cruises for the past five years . |
| 16 | Its traditional power base has been the rural cattle-owning sector . |
| 17 | To ask the Secretary of State for Health what has been the average annual increase in national health service capital spending since 1978-79 ; and what was the average increase between 1973-74 and 1978-79 . |
| 18 | For the past seven years , Bates has been the one constant factor in the British Davis Cup team for since his debut against Portugal in 1985 he has never missed a match and has played singles on every occasion . |
| 19 | In Western music the established framework for stability and order has been the diatonic harmonic system which was developed in the Renaissance . |
| 20 | A major feature in UK user education ( particularly in the last five years ) has been the many hundreds of thousands of pounds spent on research and development . |
| 21 | Tazmamert has been the great forbidden subject in Morocco . |
| 22 | The bridgehead has been the small Western community , which now has the use of a state-of-the-art office services joint venture to be found at 50 Gorky Street in central Moscow , as well as ‘ Reprotsentr ’ , in which Rank Xerox is a partner . |
| 23 | Because largely up to the present time in the er , as far as older people are concerned , then the only alternative to the current truth , and direct provider of services , has been the straight private sector . |
| 24 | Kavos has been the fastest developing resort in Corfu over the past two years and now has more bars , tavernas and discos than just about anywhere else on the island . |
| 25 | Electronics has been the fastest growing sector of the Scottish economy in recent years , but it is dominated by externally-controlled multi-nationals . |
| 26 | The result has been the ultimate short-term short-life celluloid product , the generic mishmash hung round a gimmick . |
| 27 | The Oriskany has been the commonest producing formation , and few wells have tested the Cambrian and Ordovician section where porosity associated with unconformities may be significant . |
| 28 | Although recently wound up , one spin-off has been the in-house desk-top publication of the Technical Bulletin itself — the excellent colour illustrations have been printed from computer digitised colour images taken from high quality transparencies . |
| 29 | The price which has been paid for the lower rate of tax on income has been the additional National Insurance charge and also the locking up of the profits in excess of the salary of £43,500 as retained profit in the company . |
| 30 | This has been the favourite explanatory imagery of mainstream positivistic criminology . |