Example sentences of "be [art] [adj] and " 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 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 " . |
| 8 | One manifestation of this statement in terms of policy has been the Technical and Vocational Education Initiative ( TVEI ) funded by the MSC . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | ‘ It has been the largest and longest sustained fall in unemployment in the history of this country . ’ |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 ) . |
| 15 | The second force defining the modern West has been the intensive and intense encounter with other cultures brought about by imperialist expansion . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | One brighter aspect of the unemployment figures in Shrewsbury has been the steady and sustained drop in long-term unemployment . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Outwardly it had been the easiest and quietest of times that the house had ever known but the unease did not go away . |
| 20 | Until now , fostering economic growth through export expansion has been the easiest and safest thing to do politically . |
| 21 | It is currently in the final stages of negotiations for a very important order from Malaysia which , had it not been the competitive and effective yard that it now is , it would have had no chance of getting . |
| 22 | Phipps 's latest conquest — he rarely went long without excitement — had been the childless and bored Mrs Venables , whose cake was the last he 'd tasted , and whose husband was the local chemist . |
| 23 | In evaluating these arguments it is relevant to distinguish between regimes that have been the constitutional and established government of a state and a regime which is seeking to achieve that position either displacing a former government or to fill a vacuum . |
| 24 | He must have been the best-known and most celebrated inhabitant of Baldersdale — excepting Hannah Hauxwell , of course — within living memory . |
| 25 | His has been the strongest and most resonant of the voices which have called for a change of priorities . |
| 26 | Care in the community has been the dominant and the predominant mode of care for centuries . |
| 27 | The fraud whose bunk was beside the stove and whose fall had been the hardest and cruellest of any sought out Holly on the perimeter path . |
| 28 | 14 Which are the largest and smallest angles ? |
| 29 | It may well be that the majority have been validated , but that those outstanding are the largest and most environmentally damaging . |
| 30 | What makes BSL different are the emotional and social factors attached to deafness and the more obvious opportunity to mix both English and BSL in production since they , superficially at least , occupy different media . |