Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] [be] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the best major centres I have worked or seen is the International Congress Centre in Berlin , which has two auditoria with a stage in the middle . |
| 2 | It will not be as simple as that , but you will have got the idea : one of the most important aspects of the ‘ climate ’ in which a gene is favoured or disfavoured is the other genes that are already numerous in the population ; the other genes , therefore , with which it is likely to have to share bodies . |
| 3 | Nor has being the younger brother of Alfie , the most successful British Open caddie in this era . |
| 4 | Among those closed and appropriated was the Premonstratensian house at Bayham in Sussex . |
| 5 | So fascinated , intrigued and frightened were the two men by this unusual experience , that they listened without uttering a word . |
| 6 | Others are widowed or divorced , and hate being the odd one out among friends who are all couples . |
| 7 | Altdorf is the seat of the Emperor Karl Franz and has been the Imperial capital since the accession of Wilhelm Prince of Altdorf . |
| 8 | Of course the phenomenological approach has been with us for a long time , and has been the primary source of evidence in the psychoanalytic tradition . |
| 9 | LUBAINA HIMID is a lecturer in Fine Art at Lancashire Polytechnic and has been the main force behind the flowering of Blackwomen 's Art in Britain . |
| 10 | It is an American gun and has been the main weapon of the Official IRA . |
| 11 | Stress and worry are the main causes , but fear of oversleeping in the morning , late-night eating and snoring partners can lead to restless nights , says a survey for the Royal Society of Medicine . |
| 12 | But despite enthusiasm and hard work , disappointment and disillusion are the main reward . |
| 13 | With gloss and shine being the key words for this season 's styles , intensive conditioners are becoming increasingly popular . |
| 14 | A blend of methodologies and careful selection of stimulus materials is valuable but above all a clearly enunciated plan of what is to be taught and assessed is the necessary prerequisite . |
| 15 | More profound and moving is the direct communication which the film opens up between the living and the dead . |
| 16 | More emphatic and repeated was the steady attempt to refine the habits of the lower orders by repressing the more brutal of their popular recreations , an uphill battle in which many Sussex gentry were involved from mid-century onwards . |
| 17 | Its identity and appearance has changed — gone is the glossy apple green cover of the eighties version and gone is the cumbersome title , instead a simple title and many more pages of information . |
| 18 | After being off work ( I worked as a driving instructor and sitting was the worst position to be in ) for six weeks the pain was no better , if anything it was worse . |
| 19 | Stopping , slowing and playing are the diplomatic solutions , but multiplied by the numbers of dogs in most local parks , they make for a badly interrupted run . |
| 20 | And he again attacked barracking : ‘ Bad language , gambling and barracking are the chief evils of the game . |
| 21 | This fact , together with the facts mentioned above , that Fahreddin Acemi appears to have been the first to hold the office of Mufti without an accompanying kadilik and to have been the first to receive a salary specifically in respect of the Muftilik , makes it a reasonable assumption that he was the first Mufti in the sense commonly understood in later times . |
| 22 | The child 's doing , the child 's active social experience and his own thinking and talking are the chief means of his education … words can not be substituted for things . |
| 23 | The start sites predicted by the primer extension analysis for both promoters agreed with GTP and UTP being the first NTPs incorporated ( see Figure 2 ) . |
| 24 | This collaboration , it claimed , had brought the country to the brink of " collapse and disaster " , and had been the principal reason for the suspension of US$100,000,000 in US aid in late May . |
| 25 | In April of 1925 a vacancy for the post of superintendent nurse was advertised and the appointment went to Miss May W. Hall , who was 32 years old , and had been the assistant tutor and deputy superintendent nurse at St.James ' Hospital , Chester . |
| 26 | It had been a village of thatched cabins , with virtually no other buildings at all , and had been the original Galway town before De Burgo came . |
| 27 | It was where the bedrooms had been ; they were later to discover that it was where the Romanovs had lived for a century and a half and had been the favourite apartments of Nicholas I. |
| 28 | Some of the tactics used to control and involve are the same ; but the sub-text — the intentions behind them — differs . |
| 29 | His frequent comments on events occurring on the Continent as well as in England show how well informed and absorbed were the lower levels of the ‘ political nation ’ at this period . |
| 30 | And have been the nineteen ninety one based , correc local correction factors . |