Example sentences of "be [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | I am the Special Projects Officer . |
| 2 | This training covers independence , consent , confidentiality , and inhuman treatment , and the importance of total independence and objectivity is accepted and encouraged by the Greater Manchester Police Force , for whom I am the senior police surgeon . |
| 3 | When you awaken in the morning hush I am the uplifting rush Of quiet birds encircled flight I am the soft stars that shine at night . |
| 4 | Has the British embassy in Germany made it clear to the German authorities how deeply shocking and despicable have been the racist attacks by Nazi thugs there ? |
| 5 | For over three decades these two countries have been the unwilling recipients of acid rain ‘ export ’ on a massive scale . |
| 6 | What then are the implications for sectors of traditional activity where books , journals and newspapers have for so long been the unwavering mainstays ? |
| 7 | Many of the predators mentioned in the previous section function equally well as scavengers ( Hewson , 1981 ) , and the modifications they produce are the same as if they had been the primary predators . |
| 8 | He was referring to that curious mixture of kings , lords and commons which have been the essential elements of Britain 's unwritten — and until now unchallenged — constitution . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The most heavily affected during the barometer 's six-year life , had been the financial institutions with reported frauds totalling £490 million . |
| 11 | There have been the predictable complaints that people increasingly prefer to watch than to play , that we are producing a generation of armchair athletes . |
| 12 | ‘ Oh yes , there have n't been the spectacular rises of the first few years , but we could guarantee a growth figure which more than copes with inflation . |
| 13 | If the Jesuits had been the greatest implementers of post-conciliar renewal in the Pauline era , Opus Dei would shortly become John Paul 's most reliable institutional arm . |
| 14 | It had been the Nordic states which had drawn back from the full implications of the Oslo and Ouchy Conventions of the 1930s . |
| 15 | Even as the people run away in terror , the fire of God 's anger , which destroyed parts of the camp in Numbers 11 , now consumes the 250 men who had been the closest supporters of Korah in his bid for power . |
| 16 | Yet he sensed that those next few minutes , after Ashenden had finished speaking with Kemp , might well have been the crucial ones in that concatenation of events which had finally led to murder ; and he questioned Ashenden further . |
| 17 | The second symptom of change following his long residence at Lyons is this : in later years , but never earlier , Anselm occasionally used the phrase Libertas Ecclesiae , of which Hugh and Gregory VII had been the chief advocates for the last twenty years . |
| 18 | Naylor ( 1987 ) tells some hair-raising tales of how politicians have often been the chief culprits , stashing away government revenues and foreign aid funds in numbered accounts . |
| 19 | Poor folk had long been the chief sufferers from the raids of the body-snatchers , because of the flimsy coffins and shallow graves to which their corpses were consigned . |
| 20 | Quick reflexes , intuition and mobility have been the chief assets of Achille Prospero Rosario Maria Giovanni Carlo Bonito Oliva . |
| 21 | However , at district health authority and hospital level there have not been the practical measures needed to achieve that . |
| 22 | Sawle acknowledged this on the eve of the final Test when , asked to defend the dumping of Marsh , he made the point that it had been the bowlers — Craig McDermott ( whose 31 wickets made him the highest Australian wicket-taker in a series against India ) , Bruce Reid ( a wrecker in the second Test before breaking down again ) and Merv Hughes — who had been the key figures throughout the series . |
| 23 | ‘ Germany , ’ he said , ‘ has been the spiritus agens of the whole development of Middle-Europe — from Hitler to the collapse of the Berlin Wall , which encouraged and prompted our own transformation . |
| 24 | Because they could have turned round Er they would n't have got as much done if there 'd just been the two boys together . |
| 25 | Another interesting aspect has been the two bridges which span approximately 24 metres . |
| 26 | It had n't been a night they had lived through ; it had been the Dark Ages — all seven centuries of them , with wars and oppressions , visions and turbulences . |
| 27 | On their walk back it had been the dark shadows she 'd found unnerving . |
| 28 | And the spies all seemed to have been the clumsy types , exposed and expelled almost at once . |
| 29 | Surely somewhere in the world there would have been the right facies preserved to provide the immediate ancestors of Peregrinella or Iguanodon ? |
| 30 | The Tropicana experience began for me as soon as I arrived … it may have been the small hours yet the reception staff were still delighted to greet the new arrivals . |