Example sentences of "have [adv] be the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Possibly intending a pun on the word ‘ horary ’ , he named it an ‘ orrery ’ ; and this has since been the usual English word for a mechanical planetarium . |
| 2 | It has long been the largest voluntary nature conservation organisation in Europe . |
| 3 | On European monetary union , it seems to me that it has long been the cherished aim of Conservative Governments to find a means by which we could control the value of our currency — to make it predictable in its exchange rate , as it was for much of the 19th century . |
| 4 | The parliamentary road to socialism has been the major tradition within Britain where the Labour Party has long been the dominant organisational force on the Left and amongst the working class . |
| 5 | Portree has long been the commercial centre of the Isle of Skye . |
| 6 | It has long been the French preference to maintain the Council as the primary decision-making body of the Community , and indeed to reinforce its role ; the Germans want greater powers for the Parliament in Strasbourg . |
| 7 | To be able to sell every vehicle that lands at a UK port and , as a result , to enjoy buoyant prices for used models , has long been the happy position for Mitsubishi 's UK importer , Colt Cars . |
| 8 | We 've thrown in lots of youngsters but really the players ’ budget has basically been the same for five years , ’ he said . |
| 9 | The next pair of readings are concerned with what has perhaps been the single most salient political issue in British education in the twentieth century : the issue of inequality of opportunity and inequality of outcome between social classes — particularly between middle and working class children . |
| 10 | The Spanish Civil War has thus been the real focus of recent debate surrounding the British reaction to European fascism . |
| 11 | ‘ BY DAYLIGHT , the bower of Oak 's newfound mistress Bathsheba Everdene presented itself as a hoary building of the Jacobean stage of Classical Renaissance as regards its architecture , and of a proportion which tells at a glance that , as is frequently the case , it has once been the manorial hall on a small estate … |
| 12 | Corduroy has always been the poor man 's velvet ; its pile is made of cotton , rather than silk or satin , and by the eighteenth century it was being worn all over Europe , not by kings , but by working men . |
| 13 | This has always been the only way in which future interests in personal property can be created . |
| 14 | One source of recruitment has always been the armed services , not only because their staff have already been security vetted , but also because they are used to carrying out dull repetitive chores and filling out the endless paperwork that forms the major part of any intelligence operation . |
| 15 | In fact , her target audience has always been the unenterprising middle- classes , in big private companies as much as in the public sector , looking for security in the form of a home , a pensionable job and a company car . |
| 16 | Of course , what applies to animals applies equally to people : indeed , it has always been the declared aim of the behaviourists to understand and to control human behaviour . |
| 17 | Poland has always been the first non-Soviet WTO state to receive front line equipment from the USSR . |
| 18 | In this respect Excel has always been the first of the Windows spreadsheet , and incorporated much of the ease of use that Windows offered . |
| 19 | A personal hate of mine has always been the general level of noise which distortion sounds seem to produce , no matter what precautions you take . |
| 20 | Lord Callaghan , the last Labour prime minister , said : ‘ What happened in the 1980s was a temporary aberration from what has always been the real position of the Labour Party , and Neil Kinnock has recaptured the traditional position . ’ |
| 21 | Barry has always been the best man for the job and we 're going to continue our partnership . ’ |
| 22 | The documentation for these drawings has always been the best of any British collection of its type , and after the paring away of the greatest country house collection of drawings Chatsworth 's by the two Christie 's sales of the 1980s , Holkham remained the most important extant . |
| 23 | GOLD HAS always been the ultimate store of value — and so it is proving here today . |
| 24 | ‘ Participant observation ’ has always been the central method of ethnographers . |
| 25 | And this , of course , has always been the central dilemma and one that the critics of TNC practices in the Third World can not escape . |
| 26 | The fade has always been the safer shot as Ben Hogan — another who , for long , was haunted by a hook — so thrillingly and chillingly exemplified . |
| 27 | ‘ Plus , ’ said Jack , ‘ the lyric has always been the natural medium for the untrammelled expression of feeling . |
| 28 | ‘ Because of the financial strength of the company ’ , Hobor said , ‘ it does n't have to constrain itself during a downturn — in fact its philosophy has always been the opposite : when you 're in a downturn , that is when you should be investing in plant and equipment ’ . |
| 29 | ‘ The strange thing is that he has always been the soundest of horses and never taken a lame step in his life . |
| 30 | In this country , where the concept of science has always been the narrower one associated with the paradigm of the natural sciences , there is still in most institutions a very firm institutional demarcation between arts or humanities on the one hand and the social sciences on the other , a demarcation which will be explored later . |