Example sentences of "be [art] [noun sg] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am the city where you will not stay , |
| 2 | Can I just say , first of all , that I am the odd-speaker out in this gathering because virtually everyone else who has addressed you has done so from the point of view of their own particular expertise and occupation and those of you who know health councils will appreciate that they tend to take a pretty robust view of private care as it impinges on anything to do with health . |
| 3 | While living in Stornoway I had heard it occasionally but it had been the exception rather than the rule . |
| 4 | The teaching of literature has been the activity most profoundly affected by these conflicting views . |
| 5 | This was supposed to have been the event where he at last assumed his rightful position at the summit of the athletics world following his nightmare at the Olympics . |
| 6 | Which would have Previously would have been the preserve only of papers like the Independent or the Times or the or the Guardian . |
| 7 | A woman who fought her way to the top of a liberation movement which traditionally had been the preserve mainly of men . |
| 8 | Well now the third factor , Greater York , has probably been the single most important planning issue for the county council and the Greater York districts over the past ten years . |
| 9 | Alexei held to the opinion that they could not be naturally evolved , and thought that the single horn which projected from the forehead of each had been the whim probably of some Second Empire geneticist . |
| 10 | My legs were steadier than they had been the night before but they still dithered weakly . |
| 11 | The big thermometer on the refuge wall read zero degrees C , and I recalled how cold it had been the night before during our four hour drive from Madrid . |
| 12 | Then a long time after that , it was May , and I 'd been the night before , but he was out ( or in bed with someone ? ) and that evening he was in and alone , and we talked some time ( he was telling me about John Minton ) and then he put on an Indian record and we were quiet . |
| 13 | I was just thinking about what a horrendous evening it had been the night before and then he |
| 14 | Though open opposition , as the ‘ White Rose ’ showed , was futile against the might of the Gestapo and resistance groups were necessarily compelled to continue their work in secrecy and isolation , their hostility to the Nazi regime was now far less out of touch with the climate of opinion than had been the case even a few months earlier , before Stalingrad . |
| 15 | This has been the case even though the new church has been conceived and brought into being by the hypocrites themselves ! |
| 16 | Many more lesbians and gays were openly involved in their local Labour parties than would have been the case even five years previously , and they ensured that the Labour manifestos in the 1986 council elections included commitments to lesbian and gay work . |
| 17 | In practice , as Halsey , Heath and Ridge ( 1980 ) have recently shown , this has not been the case even for working-class boys . |
| 18 | The new textbooks tended to deal more candidly with Japan 's pre-1945 aggression than had been the case previously . |
| 19 | This has been the case both in the British-occupied north and in the south , though the projects in both states have shown differences related to the local economic situation and ideologies . |
| 20 | As we shall see in subsequent chapters , the approach they have taken to fundamental freedoms has on a number of important occasions been radically different and altogether more liberal than has been the case here . |
| 21 | This sounds simple enough , yet it does mean that the data subject ( to whom the information relates ) and the data user ( who puts it into a computer ) should each see the handling of the data in the same way , and this has not always been the case when data have been disclosed to third parties , or have been collected for one ostensible purpose and used for another . |
| 22 | That has been the case most clearly in America in the past dozen turbulent years . |
| 23 | This has been the case particularly for Marxist and neo-Marxist sociologists , since the growth of the middle class has often been cited as evidence against Marx 's theory . |
| 24 | ‘ That might have been the case once , but now we produce perfectly good coaches ourselves , and I 'm concerned the incentive will disappear if administrators continue to look only to Australia . ’ |
| 25 | This indeed has been the case ever since self-replicating molecular assemblages evolved to exploit finite resources . |
| 26 | This happy coincidence — happy , that is , for all those visionaries and seers who speak in sonorous phrases about the ‘ New Pacific Century ’ and the ‘ Grand Pacific Age ’ , and find such a discovery a perfect symbol of what they 're talking about — has been the case ever since 22 October 1884 , when a group of scientists and politicians met in a hotel in Washington DC and set down the rules by which the planet was henceforth to organize the keeping of its time . |
| 27 | The head of the regional justice administration in Bamberg had also observed ‘ a sharp increase and intensification in criticism of the political and military leadership ’ and , ‘ what had never been the case before , to a growing extent of the person of the Führer , who is made responsible especially for the events in Stalingrad and in the Caucasus ’ . |
| 28 | Money was allocated , but due to delays in passage of the Bill through Parliament , as has so often been the case before , no money has actually flowed from the coffers in Rome . |
| 29 | More recent works have been called in aid on those occasions when jurists and others have sought to delineate features of the contemporary Constitution ; this has been the case especially in determining the existence or otherwise of conventions . |
| 30 | I , I think that 's again going to be part of it because that is certainly I mean a major reason why er a lot of peasant societies have large families , but we 'd still have to try and explain why it was that in this period , presumably so very much more of those children were surviving than had been the case earlier . |