Example sentences of "be the [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To a large extent the areas nearest to the Mediterranean were the most civilized , but there were cities further north with important cultural traditions , including Lyons , Bordeaux and Autun , and there were other cities , including Trier and Paris , which had at times been the residences of emperors . |
| 2 | It had some connection with the Bronte sisters , and two of the houses in the dale , High Hall and Whernside Manor , may have been the models for Wuthering Heights and Thrushcross Grange . |
| 3 | Hence the Queens of Avelorn have always been the Everqueens of Ulthuan , forming an unbroken chain from ages past . |
| 4 | The back-to-back Grand Slam and a place in the final of the World Cup in November have been the triggers for a vast increase in recruitment . |
| 5 | A part of the history of perceptions of people has been the changes in the labels that have been used over the years . |
| 6 | To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what have been the changes in the rates of value added tax since the beginning of 1979 . |
| 7 | Malan ignored calls in Parliament for his resignation from both the Democratic Party ( DP ) and the CP — the latter on the grounds that right-wing organizations had been blamed for what had in reality been the activities of the CCB . |
| 8 | The best businesses over a long period of time have been the ones with a single thrust . |
| 9 | This approach made it inherently possible for the Jews to claim to have been the teachers of the Greeks owing to their own greater antiquity . |
| 10 | How important have been the constraints of history and of resources ? |
| 11 | The north of England and Scotland have traditionally been the areas of greatest activity in collected credit . |
| 12 | What have been the effects of cutbacks to the Housing Executive budget ? loss of jobs poorer quality of repairs employment of lowest tender firms lack of adequate re-building programme increasing waiting list homelessness rundown of other services offered by the Housing Executive |
| 13 | Particularly disastrous , but not uncommon , have been the effects of landslips and rock-falls into bodies of water . |
| 14 | What one believes to have been the effects of the growth and elaboration of the hierarchy on the attitudes both of scholars towards their own role and of others towards scholars has been discussed at the beginning of the chapter , but one may , perhaps , in conclusion , briefly reinforce the point by quoting a remark attributed to the Grand Vezir Karamani Mehmed Pas a concerning Hocazade . |
| 15 | What have been the reasons for unemployment in Lancashire , Merseyside and Greater Manchester ? |
| 16 | Giving evidence at a judicial tribunal into Ouko 's killing , Troon said that Ouko 's attempt to expose governmental corruption and a dispute with Biwott had been the reasons for his murder . |
| 17 | At the heart of these have been the institutions of church and family and a code of behaviour based on personal honour . |
| 18 | The industrial machine that we have followed so far has been the philosophies of the Enlightenment embodied and incarnated in the economic mode of capitalism . |
| 19 | It seems from the work of earlier historians that at some time around 1200 the influence of the great magnates underwent a challenge : in part this was because the king was intruding more and more into what had been the magnates ' private preserve , the distribution of justice to their feudal tenants ; in part also because rising inflation damaged their incomes ; and because the individual ambitions of certain of the men who had been the tenants of their knights ' fees led them to seek their advancement outside their natural lords ' followings . |
| 20 | Such had been the aims of his predecessors , in particular the English pope , Adrian IV . |
| 21 | The 1970s and 1980s have been the decades of feminism . |
| 22 | Studlar ( 1984 ) has remarked that all established institutions in Britain have been the objects of critical attack in recent times except for the monarchy : ‘ Only the monarchy seems safe from challenge , secure in its substantive weakness ’ ( p. 5 ) . |
| 23 | Equity — what have been the consequences of regeneration for job creation for local people and for social housing provision ? |
| 24 | What would have been the consequences for you had you been prosecuted ? |
| 25 | These had also been the affiliations of the previous incumbents . |
| 26 | A series of conversations with foundation arts students , arts graduates and post graduates reveals plenty of sludge amongst a privileged group who have been the recipients of a generous slice of the United Kingdom 's art ‘ Education ’ cake . |
| 27 | Two local village churches have been the recipients of the Group 's generosity : in 1958 the Church of St. James , Thrapston , received the pews which had previously been installed in the Chelveston base chapel and the tower of the Church of St John the Baptist in nearby Caldecott-cum-Chelveston was restored with the help of the 305th . |
| 28 | A House have been the recipients of the kind of underwhelming apathy that would lead most bands to go back to their day jobs and while away their evening swilling pints In The Norseman , mulling over what might have been . |
| 29 | I put it down , and I phoned the people I thought might have been the recipients of it , to make sure it was genuine , |
| 30 | It might have been the stories about businessmen roaming the streets with half a million pounds in carrier bags . |