Example sentences of "be [art] [noun pl] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To a large extent the areas nearest to the Mediterranean were the most civilized , but there were cities further north with important cultural traditions , including Lyons , Bordeaux and Autun , and there were other cities , including Trier and Paris , which had at times been the residences of emperors . |
| 2 | Hence the Queens of Avelorn have always been the Everqueens of Ulthuan , forming an unbroken chain from ages past . |
| 3 | How important have been the constraints of history and of resources ? |
| 4 | Particularly disastrous , but not uncommon , have been the effects of landslips and rock-falls into bodies of water . |
| 5 | What have been the effects of cutbacks to the Housing Executive budget ? loss of jobs poorer quality of repairs employment of lowest tender firms lack of adequate re-building programme increasing waiting list homelessness rundown of other services offered by the Housing Executive |
| 6 | What have been the reasons for unemployment in Lancashire , Merseyside and Greater Manchester ? |
| 7 | At the heart of these have been the institutions of church and family and a code of behaviour based on personal honour . |
| 8 | The 1970s and 1980s have been the decades of feminism . |
| 9 | Equity — what have been the consequences of regeneration for job creation for local people and for social housing provision ? |
| 10 | It might have been the stories about businessmen roaming the streets with half a million pounds in carrier bags . |
| 11 | The indigenous peoples have ‘ always been the instruments of labour and of production , but not the recipients of social benefits from the government ’ . |
| 12 | Abroad , there have been the horrors of Bosnia and Somalia . |
| 13 | For centuries , the Clan Campbell had been the enemies of Clan Macdonald and to ensure that no mercy was shown to the Macdonalds of Glencoe , the Campbells of Glen Lyon were instructed by Dalrymple to enforce the orders . |
| 14 | has been for , that has actually been the case , has been the problems in terms of actually getting nurses to actually come out and doctors and pharmacists to actually come out publicly . |
| 15 | In different parts of the world I have seen many gardens and sometimes the most delightful aspect has been the sounds of birds and insects that add another dimension to the colours and fragrance . |
| 16 | Why did it hurt to learn that it had been the machinations of others that had brought them together this time ? |
| 17 | So far , as I have indicated , nationalism has proved to be , in any direct confrontation , a stronger force ; and it is undoubtedly the case that the most extensive and devastating conflicts of the twentieth century have been the wars between nations , not the struggles between classes . |
| 18 | Well , Oxford have been the favourites for months ; they always are , but as the tide changes so do their chances . |
| 19 | THE BOUNDARY changes of 1974 gave the name of Tayside to what had been the counties of Perthshire , Kinross-shire and Angus ( which itself had once been known as Forfarshire ) , while Clackmannanshire and Stirlingshire became rather drably Central . |
| 20 | So if if the cadres had taken the law and 's speech there should n't 've been the sorts of problems that , that we came up against . |
| 21 | How different have been the needs of peacetime [ Robbins , 1947 ] . |
| 22 | An accident , in the sense that it could have been the ancestors of lions that took up grass-eating , and the ancestors of antelopes that took up meat-eating . |
| 23 | One preoccupation of the sociology of industrial work has been the causes of job dissatisfaction . |
| 24 | They have not only been the channels of communication and administration from the centre to the periphery , but also the voice of the periphery , or of particular interests at the periphery ; they have been a means of overcoming local particularities , but also platforms for their expression , instruments of central control and obstacles to it . |
| 25 | There had been the protests about waste dumping , and the steady leaking of Windscale/Sellafield . |
| 26 | Those who had been obliged to pay for their own lunches had managed to keep awake ; those who had been the beneficiaries of hospitality of one kind or another , had dozed gently , helped by the lights and the warmth of so many . |
| 27 | Within factories major developments have been the applications of computers to process and production control , the introduction of computer-aided design and draughting ( CAD ) , computer numerically controlled ( CNC ) machine tools , and robots . |
| 28 | In the 1920s the enemy was Labour and the aim was to encourage the desertion of the middle and lower middle classes and the ‘ black-coated ’ workers who had once been the foot-soldiers of Liberalism . |
| 29 | More recently , there have been the objections against council housing developments by environmentalists seeking to halt urban encroachment , and existing owner occupied rural dwellers who want to halt particular forms of residential development . |
| 30 | Some archosaur fossils showed that one species , the longisquamata ( ‘ long-scales ’ ) , possessed heat-insulating scales that possibly also trapped air-pockets and may well have been the forerunners of feathers . |