Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] be [verb] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Resistance to flow is called viscosity . |
| 2 | The government 's response has been to pump demand into the economy . |
| 3 | Siobhan has been losing weight for two years . |
| 4 | A user has been allocated responsibility for replying to it but no SSR has been sent in response to the SPR . |
| 5 | A user has been allocated responsibility for replying to it but no SSR has been sent in response to the SPR . |
| 6 | A user has been allocated responsibility for replying to it but no SSR has been sent in response to the SPR . |
| 7 | The computer has been taught fishing tricks : it jiggles the line to make the squid think the bait is alive . |
| 8 | The effect of the recession has been to reduce membership numbers to the level of 15 years ago , with a drop of 10,000 in 1992 , and an even greater proportionate fall in the number of examination candidates . |
| 9 | JOHN DUTTON , 47 , a graduate of Lancashire College of Agriculture who started his journalistic career as a Press officer with the Milk Marketing Board has been appointed Editor of ‘ British Farmer ’ , the official journal of the NFU . |
| 10 | The loneliness many older people experience has been given respectability by certain social theories which either seek to give , or are interpreted as , an explanation for the isolation of older people . |
| 11 | It also points out in in in in the report , that this income has been to meet expenditure of thirty-two thousand pounds for the number of services , and the remainder of this , has been with additional insurance costs . |
| 12 | The paradigm of religion has been turned upside down . |
| 13 | But despite this and the fact that Brazil 's President Fernando Collor de Mello strongly supports the concept of the park opposition has been gathering force . |
| 14 | The intention has been to stimulate interest within the British Airways engineering community towards AI based solutions to engineering diagnostics problems . |
| 15 | Manitou , ( the Great Spirit ) was so touched by the Indian 's devotion that upon his death Manitou made him into a rock standing off the inlet , and that monument has been called Siwash Rock ever since . |
| 16 | How can you tell when a motorcyclist has been having fun speeding on the motorway ? |
| 17 | The National Bee Unit said the varroa parasite has been found north of Dartmoor . |
| 18 | A man accused of murder has been granted bail by magistrates . |
| 19 | South Africa 's reply has been to attack transport and economic installations that link the neighbours so as to ensure that they remain dependent on South Africa . |
| 20 | The effect has been to leave DGIV acting as both prosecutor and judge in competition cases , which is unacceptable . |
| 21 | And the effect has been to reduce truth to timeliness , morality to usefulness and personal faith to a matter of what is fashionable . |
| 22 | The extraordinary depth and length of the recession is partly to blame , since one effect has been to reduce wastage rates still further . |
| 23 | We are returning , by another route , to Minsky 's suggestion that the evolutionary role of consciousness has been to give access to modules or levels , otherwise inaccessible , so as to debug , reprogram or retrain them . |
| 24 | For a week now the person — or thing — in that study has been crying night and day for some special chemical powders . |
| 25 | Since the publication of ‘ Education for Self-Reliance ’ , the process of transforming these goals into curriculum plans and curriculum practice has been taking place , somewhat languidly at first , but with increasing momentum . |
| 26 | One of the errors attributable to constructivist rationalism has been to view law as a prescription posited by authority ; that is , of equating law with legislation . |
| 27 | On the one side , US aid has been made conditional on action against the drug trade . |
| 28 | A woman who tried to take over Swindon Town Football Club has been giving evidence against the former manager Lou Macari , who 's on trial for tax fraud . |
| 29 | Gradually , a minor revolution in TV news programme presenting was taking place . |
| 30 | ‘ He said he thought his mummy had been having car trouble because she had n't turned up . |