Example sentences of "be [art] [adj] [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What had once been the greatest and most prosperous of Elf realms had effectively ceased to be . |
| 2 | These workers have traditionally been the toughest and most radical , and employers all over America are aware that if Pittston can break the ‘ mother union ’ , then the attempts to gain the ground lost in the Reagan years will be stillborn . |
| 3 | The Court of Appeal held that as the main purpose of Mr Stark 's contract had merely been the regular and efficient distribution of newspapers and since there was no evidence he should personally engage in distribution , it followed that the contract was not a ‘ contract personally to execute any work or labour ’ and therefore Mrs Gunning was not employed under such a contract . |
| 4 | But it seems sad that so many did not have a more enjoyable sexual introduction , especially when for a few it had been the one and only time . |
| 5 | In the past , Oxford have been the heavier but this year , on average , they 're nearly a stone a man lighter . |
| 6 | This has been the frequent and characteristic complaint of those ( in my experience few ) historians who have explored the New Historicism : the representation of history is idiosyncratic and selected to reflect the preoccupation of the literary critic , not an attempt to account accurately for the period . |
| 7 | This is unsettling , and makes me realise that for those three and a half hours I have been the still and passive object of her intuition as well as her technical skill . |
| 8 | To Johann Joachim Winckelmann ( 1717–18 ) , son of a Saxon cobbler , who rose to be a friend of cardinals and custodian of their books and antiquities , belongs the honour of having been the first and , in some ways , the most influential of these " thorough-going Romantics " . |
| 9 | In five out of the last seven years the success rate for this type of appeal has been the first or second highest for all categories and almost one in every two appeals has been lost by local authorities . |
| 10 | One manifestation of this statement in terms of policy has been the Technical and Vocational Education Initiative ( TVEI ) funded by the MSC . |
| 11 | It was certainly better than the sandwich and a can of beer that she 'd expected ; if this had been the late and unlamented Eddie she 'd probably have been faced with a walk to the nearest carry-out to find that he 'd finished off the beer in her absence . |
| 12 | And yet Eliot had always been the subtler and more complicated man , shrewd enough to make his peace with an age to which he did not truly belong . |
| 13 | ‘ It has been the largest and longest sustained fall in unemployment in the history of this country . ’ |
| 14 | The civilization of China is among the oldest in the world , and China has throughout Japan 's history been the largest and most powerful of her Asian neighbours . |
| 15 | In the more sculptural , formal , Negroid paintings the starting point for the investigation of form had been the logical or rational division of the human form and face into their component parts . |
| 16 | Important cases in which public policy has been the paramount or only reason for striking down a provision as an unreasonable restraint of trade include Morris ( Herbert ) v Saxelby and Leng ( Sir WC ) & Co Ltd v Andrews [ 1909 ] 1 Ch 763 . |
| 17 | Enclosure may not have been the only or even the most potent of the forces increasing and impoverishing the rural proletariat in the southern and Midland counties , but it was impor-tant in bringing many to a total wage-dependency . |
| 18 | ( b ) Only or main residence Relief from any liability to capital gains tax on any transfer should be available in most cases because the former matrimonial home will have been the only or main residence of both the husband and the wife . |
| 19 | If the Revenue accept that the court order or agreement between the parties created a settlement on the ground that the interests of the beneficiaries are not of the same quality as the wife has a right of occupation ( see Booth v Ellard [ 1980 ] 1 WLR 1443 ) Taxation of Chargeable Gains Act , 1992 , s225 provides that the gain accruing to a trustee on the disposal of settled property shall in effect be free from capital gains tax where during the period of ownership the house has been the only or main residence of the person entitled to occupy it under the terms of the settlement . |
| 20 | It was an amazing last 15 mins and the crowd fo nearly 38,000 must have been the biggest and noisiest for at least 10 yrs . |
| 21 | The social security system was , at first , principally intended to support pensioners and , although the numbers have increased during the last forty years , the main increases in those claiming supplementary benefit ( now renamed income support , have been the unemployed and single parents ( see Figure 5.1 ) . |
| 22 | The second force defining the modern West has been the intensive and intense encounter with other cultures brought about by imperialist expansion . |
| 23 | The main sufferers from the air ban so far have been the Asian and African workers , many of whom have little more in their pockets than their return air tickets — now useless . |
| 24 | Rather , the critical determinant of economic policy has been the hidden or not so hidden hand of political priorities . |
| 25 | One brighter aspect of the unemployment figures in Shrewsbury has been the steady and sustained drop in long-term unemployment . |
| 26 | A little later from his bedroom , where he had retired for a rest , he watched through his daughters ' brass telescope as the grey shadow of what had once been the sleek and lively Hari moved slowly over to the sepoy lines with , as usual , the Prime Minister dodging along behind am . |
| 27 | Outwardly it had been the easiest and quietest of times that the house had ever known but the unease did not go away . |
| 28 | Until now , fostering economic growth through export expansion has been the easiest and safest thing to do politically . |
| 29 | ‘ I 've no idea if it would have been the same or not , ’ she said rather wildly . |
| 30 | It would have been the twenty-seventh or twenty-eighth of June , nineteen-ninety . |