Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun] [verb] be [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed the ability to produce a range of returns on value for money indices has been a major factor in securing continued treasury funding . |
| 2 | The hair rig has been a great leveller of angling ability and because on most waters it is self-hooking this can often lead to complacency on the angler 's part . |
| 3 | The growing number of life sentence prisoners has been a considerable problem for the prison service for some years now . |
| 4 | The government claim that GP fund-holding has been a success . |
| 5 | Both the ICL New Range and the IBM 360 computer projects have been the subject of historical studies , the former at a strategic level ( Campbell-Kelly 1989 ) and the latter in very much more detail ( Pugh 1991 ) . |
| 6 | Some of the greatest guitar songs have been the riff songs , so I immediately thought of Paul Rogers . |
| 7 | Despite targeting this relatively small but high risk group , such screening programmes have been the subject of criticism . |
| 8 | The issue of potency level has been a source of the bitterest argument between practitioners since Homœopathy began . |
| 9 | Often the purpose has been to encourage wage restraint ; the size and shape of investment programmes have been the subject of ministerial concern ; in the past the National Coal Board has been dissuaded from closing uneconomic pits . |
| 10 | For those who are capable of learning how to modify diet and insulin dose to suit prevailing circumstances and want to do so , the ability to determine their own blood glucose has been a major step forward , permitting more satisfactory glycaemic control and a more adventurous approach to many activities ( Skyler et al , 1978 ; Sonksen et al , 1978 ; Walford et al , 1978 ) . |
| 11 | The Bidston Dock cranes have been a Birkenhead landmark for many years . |
| 12 | The Bidston Dock cranes have been a feature of the Wallasey landscape but unpopular with some local residents who regarded them as an eyesore and the cause of television reception problems . |
| 13 | General practice research has been a minority activity and underfunded in the past |
| 14 | He is my oldest friend , and it was his wedding , but he was looking mogadonic with self-satisfaction , so I purloined the camera and announced that what the wedding album needed were a few art shots . |
| 15 | One of their long term winners has been the thin , lightweight , but very windproof Ultrafleece . |
| 16 | Nonetheless , although for many people the rise in car ownership can be seen as a great success , for a significant minority either unable to drive or unable to afford a car , notably the old , the young , the unemployed , the housewife ( left at home without a car ) and the disabled the corollary of increased car ownership has been a rapid decline in rural public transport , a concentration of services into ever more remote central places with increased journey lengths as shown in Table 6.1a , and a real sense of isolation and deprivation . |
| 17 | The first thing a refugee child learns is the name of his or her home village in Palestine . |
| 18 | The Festival 's come of age of late and I am more than happy that my sax playing has been the soundtrack for the Festival 's cinema trailer in recent years . |
| 19 | The Board 's General Manager Tom Frawley said today that the decision to close the Shantallow home had been a difficult one , but claimed it was the only possible course of action ‘ in light of the increase over the last few years in the level of nursing home accommodation and the reduced demand for residential accommodation which has come about as a result of improvements in housing in general and the development of sheltered accommodation and other community alternatives . ’ |
| 20 | The loss of his agents amongst the Ping Tiao had been a serious setback , and the men he had bought from amongst their ranks had proved unsatisfactory in almost every respect . |
| 21 | Syn-gas and carbon monoxide have been a mainstay of the heavy organic chemicals industry around the world for some years . |
| 22 | EC plans for a carbon tax have been the cause of prolonged infighting within the commission and several member states as well as European industry . |
| 23 | Agricultural export subsidies had been the crucial stumbling block on which this round of GATT talks foundered in December 1990 [ see p. 37930 ] . |
| 24 | Sgurr a'Ghlas Leathaid is the dominant peak in the view from Achnasheen , so there was a smug satisfaction in being on it at long last . |
| 25 | Another important reason for the trend to eurosterling bonds has been the growth in interest-rate swaps . |
| 26 | The soap giant is repackaging Wisk , through Fisher Ling & Bennion , as part of what industry sources believe is a major marketing initiative to revitalise the brand 's fortunes . |
| 27 | Car sales had been the one area of consumer spending undented by the Chancellor 's high interest rates strategy . |
| 28 | Eddie Gray is genuinely regarded by some clever football people to have been every bit as good as best , and could have made a similar name for himself had he not been dogged by injury . |
| 29 | A dollop of cranberry sauce has been the traditional accompaniment to turkey since the Pilgrim Fathers ate what they called crane berries ( the flowers resemble cranes ) — probably in the form of a sauce — with turkey at the Thanksgiving feast , celebrating their survival of the first winter spent in America . |
| 30 | Anther limiting factor in studying the properties of human gall bladder epithelium has been the lack of normal tissue . |