Example sentences of "[verb] be an [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The limitation is easy to spot : the unspoken assumption that the industrial and economic wealth of his country belongs by right to the whites ; and that any discomforts the blacks suffer are an unfortunate legacy of history . |
| 2 | Er it , it does seem to me it would 've been an enormous problem for the Chinese Communist Party had absolute egalitarianism worked . |
| 3 | When applications being developed are an integrated part of a total system , these techniques prove inadequate . |
| 4 | PR ( much diluted ) has been an indisputable success only in Germany , which has enjoyed , until recently , a natural consensus between its political parties , founded on the need for regeneration . |
| 5 | Capital provision to support these two areas is scarce and the 1990s are going to test even the most supportive administrations to meet urgent demands for library extensions and preservation/substitution programmes , neither of which has been an established part of institutional budget planning , nor likely to receive much more than sympathy from the funding councils , except perhaps in cases where enormous growth in student numbers have caused such pressures on space . |
| 6 | Wizz Jones began his musical career fronting a country and skiffle band in his home town of Croydon , Surrey in 1958 , and has been an established member of the British and European acoustic folk/blues scene ever since , with artists like Eric Clapton citing him as a major influence . |
| 7 | This development is not a fad , but has been an established trend indicated by objective demographic and food survey statistics . |
| 8 | Britain 's first ever permanent Puppet theatre , has been an established Colwyn Bay attraction for over 25 years . |
| 9 | For two thousand years there has been an unresolved question : whether word endings of nouns and pronouns , as well as articles , are an extension of the qualities regarded as male or female . |
| 10 | Since its restoration at Duxford several years ago , this Dridekker has been an infrequent visitor to airshows and was most welcome flying alongside the other replicas in the Great War Combat Team . |
| 11 | In recent years there has been an increased reliance on statute law , for example , in relation to public order and the powers of the police , but , of course , here too , the judges have a role to play in the interpretation of the statutory provisions . |
| 12 | Since that time there has been an increased awareness that myofibroblast type cells are part of the normal structure of many tissues , including the umbilical cord , lung , and colon . |
| 13 | Inevitably , there has been an increased distrust of party politics in the lesbian and gay communities since the Clause debacle . |
| 14 | A by-product of the computer revolution has been an increased understanding by scientists and humanists of each others ' methods and preoccupations . |
| 15 | During recent years there has been an increased use of audiovisual media such as tape-slides , films and video-tape , and to a certain extent computer-based instruction . |
| 16 | But global expansion has been an expensive objective for banks : they lent vast sums on poor terms to borrowers who could shop around for money , starting in Japan . |
| 17 | This fight has been an expensive business for me personally , but I do not mind that . |
| 18 | The Caterham has been an expensive car to run , although not prohibitively so . |
| 19 | Lawrence added : ‘ I know it has been an expensive season for fans , but I hope they will dig deep to back the team in their final home game . ’ |
| 20 | Nor can it be claimed very convincingly that socialism has been an effective counter-ideology to nationalism , or that the socialist movement has in any substantial way curbed the actions of nation states . |
| 21 | It has been an outstanding success , and has been one of the most far reaching reforms ever carried out in Scottish Education . ’ |
| 22 | The poll tax has been an outstanding success for the right hon. Member for Wirral , West ( Mr. Hunt ) — it has got him into the Cabinet . |
| 23 | Chairman Sir Norman Fowler said : ‘ He has been an outstanding member of the Government for a number of years . |
| 24 | And , curiously , it took a rugby league man , Graham Lowe , the New Zealander who has been an outstanding coach at home , in England and now in Sydney , to really pin-point the reason why the All Blacks did not retain the Webb Ellis Cup . |
| 25 | Since the 1960's , Adrian Piper has been an influential video maker in the United States . |
| 26 | When the Employment Service was formed in 1987 , he joined the Executive board and has been an influential figure in our development as an Agency . |
| 27 | Such is the latest outcome of forty years of enthusiastic and single-minded agriculture , of which an equally enthusiastic drainage policy has been an essential part , that conservationists are now questioning the aims of intensive river management on its own terms of hard-headed economics and efficiency . |
| 28 | This participation is demonstrated in several articles , including ‘ Combating inequality ’ on page 11 , which describes how the involvement of local communities in community mapping in the West Bank and Gaza Strip has been an essential part of the process . |
| 29 | Religion is the ‘ universal obsessional neurosis of humanity ’ which has been an essential stage for humanity to pass through , in the same way as every child must have a neurotic phase . |
| 30 | The year since Mandela was freed may have been pretty interesting politically ; but for the Armed Response boys , it has been an absolute ball . |