Example sentences of "[be] the [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are a number of issues that already have and will continue to have direct bearing on day to day practice of which the major one will be the reverberating effects upon pre-school education of the Education Reform Act 1988 . |
| 2 | Velizy , France is to be the European headquarters with around ten staff and other offices will open in London , Northern European Office , and Munich , Central European Office , by the end of this year . |
| 3 | Fresh from the USA , the Expo makes its UK debut in Scotland from 5–7 March 1993 , which also happens to be the European Year of Older People . |
| 4 | In 1990 Glasgow was selected to be the European City of Culture and in this connection a sponsorship programme was devised including a performance by the world renowned Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra , an exhibition of a selection of the of Camille Pissarro at The Burrell and a number of other events . |
| 5 | Going to another church ( of the Presbyterian Church of England ) my love of God came to be the central factor in my life , and aged almost sixteen I told my headmistress with quiet confidence that I wished to be ordained . |
| 6 | But , uniquely , the new English offered through education unmediated access to what was taken to be the central activity of all human judgement . |
| 7 | Nevertheless , his allegiance did not suddenly evaporate and by 1869 , on the eve of his departure for Basle , he was still happy to be the central member of a small circle of devotees . |
| 8 | It seems likely that as small children they stayed in the relative security of England while Henry spent most of his time abroad , immersed in what was always to be the central concern of his life , governing his continental dominions . |
| 9 | For a variety of reasons — some conscious and deliberate , some accidental , some historical and political , some organisational and philosophical — difference rather than similarity appears to be the central characteristic of our primary schools today . |
| 10 | Consent continues to be the central issue under Category 3 . |
| 11 | With a leadership battle looming in the Labour Party in the wake of its fourth successive defeat , the issue of electoral reform may prove to be the central issue for internal debate , a factor the Liberal Democrats will exploit to the full . |
| 12 | With a leadership battle looming in the Labour Party after its fourth successive defeat , electoral reform may prove to be the central issue for internal debate , a factor the Liberal Democrats will exploit to the full . |
| 13 | All this turned out to have long-term significance for Charles the Bald , for much of this region was to be the central zone of his future kingdom . |
| 14 | I have already put a good deal of stress upon two contrasted aspects of what seems to me to be the central paradox of anthropology considered as an intellectual discipline . |
| 15 | Well these sort of languages often considered to be the central pillar to group attachment and er official agencies like government an and things like historically support group language purity . |
| 16 | The Deutsche Bundesbank shall be the central bank in this currency area … |
| 17 | The word ‘ model ’ implies a physical description that does not attempt to be complete or accurate in detail but that encapsulates what are thought to be the central features of the phenomenon . |
| 18 | Everything Rossi says is illustrated by the story of Humanae Vitae , which proved to be the central crisis of his pontificate . |
| 19 | However , at the centre of the understanding must lie an awareness that schools and colleges have always been in the business of change , created by responding to the needs of individual children and students and that the child at school or the student at college must continue to be the central focus of all educational activity . |
| 20 | Talk was to be the central strategy for learning . |
| 21 | A serious issue indeed for the Committee given that literature is to be the central instrument for furthering its cultural programme . |
| 22 | We come here to what seems to me to be the central dilemma in second language pedagogy : the conditions appropriate for acquiring communicative resources are different from the conditions of their use . |
| 23 | But that 'd be the tidiest thing for you . |
| 24 | Wholeness of body , mind and soul should be the prior concern of all Christians and they believe that this wholeness can be found through faith . |
| 25 | She was almost certain it would be the tall man with the unseasonal yellow gloves with pearl buttons , so personable and well-spoken , who bore the name of a well-known apéritif . |
| 26 | So whilst you might think it 's a nice idea to make a change to some procedure or work instruction or whatever you want to call it , there may be the odd occasion on which it 's not actually possible to bring in a change because we 're faced with still er meeting the requirements in the base er I S O Nine Thousand document . |
| 27 | ( Doubtless there will be the odd sadist in their midst but this is predictable of any group of more than thirty people . ) |
| 28 | He may be the Grand Wizard in international intrigue or mass murder , but as a dreamer , he 's just a jumped-up wank manager . |
| 29 | Plump , bespectacled and usually shining with perspiration , Paul de Levantiére would try very hard to be the Grand Couturier with Louise in the fitting room — but he was a gentle man and her firm independence always routed him . |
| 30 | Not only were the subjects told of what Dement thought might be the probable results of the regime , but they were provided with a psychiatrist on duty all the time to whom they could report any unusual sensation . |