Example sentences of "[be] a [noun sg] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The same happened to Foxley Wood ( Hampshire ) and Tillingham Hall ( Essex ) , new towns that would have been a dream come true for some people , but which were deemed unjustifiable and unnecessary by the Government inspector of planning appeals . |
| 2 | As part of the Aquino governments crackdown on the 19 year old communal insurgency , there has been a drive to outlaw legitimate political groups , including GABRlELA . |
| 3 | A number of economists have placed some of the blame for poor economic performance on a failure to modernize ( there has been a tendency to retain old plants and to support traditional but declining industries , such as textiles ) ; on the emphasis given to maintaining a balance of payments surplus in order to fund overseas military spending and foreign investments , pursued at the expense of economic growth , and on a failure of postwar economic management to manipulate supply as well as demand . |
| 4 | There has also been a tendency to impose new curricula and policies without sufficient preparation of teachers and administrators . |
| 5 | Lastly I fear that because the Mathematics programmes came first and were so well organised and established , with the neat sequential task of curriculum development so easy to define ( despite its obvious size ) , there may have been a tendency to concentrate scarce resources upon an item which , on sober reflection , I believe now to be a lowish priority in the primary curriculum . |
| 6 | It has been a privilege to enjoy close contact with the College and so many Somervillians . |
| 7 | it would normally , if I recall correctly at the time , there would normally been a memorandum listing new charges for each development |
| 8 | Since this value system is so pervasive and so accepted there has never really been a need to develop other value systems that arise from actual social situations . |
| 9 | There has been a failure to see constitutional theory and political practice as in dynamic interaction each with the other ; there has been a failure to recognise that interpretations of the constitution are always relative to time , place , and our position as observers ; and so there has been the simple view that the constitutional set-up as it is , as it is said to be , and as it is said it should be , have all been as of one . |
| 10 | In recent years there has been a move to teach young people in residential care practical skills such as cooking and budgeting which they will need when they leave care . |
| 11 | Alternatively it might have been a shop purveying cooked food , or it could have provided eating facilities for travellers along the road . |
| 12 | But if the videos seem like some psychologist 's nightmare , to the people who make them , they are a dream come true . |
| 13 | Regular trims are a must to keep split ends at bay . |
| 14 | This question is for the railway specialists , but is also included because quizzes are a way to learn odd railway titbits . |
| 15 | It is this question which is the ultimate one ; the others are a screen to hide modern man from his real self , as T.S . |
| 16 | Neither objectives nor plans are an invitation to become inflexible . |
| 17 | These planning assumptions , therefore , are an attempt to predict future business conditions and the sales volumes that might be obtained from them . |
| 18 | Here the changes are an attempt to get clean possession . |
| 19 | The stringency with which the courts have applied the criteria of relevancy has varied in different areas and there has been an unwillingness to declare invalid administrative decisions simply because the applicant could point to one ‘ relevant ’ factor which the authority did not take into account . |
| 20 | Running alongside this financial support has been an attempt to promote industrial cooperatives where small firms would share distribution facilities or share the production of one brand name . |
| 21 | It would be a pity to eat good food in silence , do n't you think ? ’ |
| 22 | There was to be a drive to recruit married women who had left teaching , and to make part-time teaching more attractive . |
| 23 | IT SETS out to be a film depicting immense human courage amid the horrific squalor of life in Calcutta 's slums . |
| 24 | There will be a tree lined pedestrianised square , new public toilets , pedestrian crossings and an open space for special events . |
| 25 | Histological examination showed what seemed to be a life threatening phlegmonous gastritis . |
| 26 | At its worst romanticism can be a cloak to disguise naked evil . |
| 27 | Marxism can be a way to get rich or get laid . |
| 28 | For example , the decline in numbers of young people could be a chance to improve educational standards , thus making Britain better prepared to enter the next century and to manage the demands of an ageing population . |
| 29 | Unfortunately , the insides of these sea-urchins are considered by some peoples to be a delicacy eaten raw and so are potentially dangerous . |
| 30 | ‘ That would be a dream come true . |