Example sentences of "[noun] of [noun] have [been] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the more obvious characteristics of partnerships has been that educational partners are generally the poor relation — at least they usually behave as if they are — probably because partnerships are measured essentially in terms of cash rather than other kinds of resource such as accommodation , talent , expertise , knowledge and creativity . |
| 2 | A regular visitor to Upper Dean Terrace was my grandmother 's old cook , Bessie , whose chicken cream and queen of puddings had been such a highlight of Nairn holidays , and who was now living in retirement in nearby Learmonth Terrace . |
| 3 | But pressing the case for disclosure of APR has been such a long , hard battle that there is an obvious temptation to feel that — now the battle has been won — we can all sit back and sigh with relief . |
| 4 | The traditional attitude of government has been that official information should remain secret unless the government chooses to make it available . |
| 5 | The Battle of Falkirk had been another Jacobite victory , Prince Charles having lost 50 dead and 80 wounded , while Hawley 's casualties , suffered in a mere 20 minutes , amounted to 350 killed and another 300 taken prisoner . |
| 6 | The New Right emphasis on adversary politics and an overload of demands has been more of a critique of democracy in Britain than it has ever been a rigorous description of , and explanation for , British politics . |
| 7 | Her teeth crunched down on her lower lip as the whirlpool of her desire sped her back to Seville when this sort of contact had been enough to … |
| 8 | ‘ The earls of Warwick have been some of the most powerful men in English history . |
| 9 | The career of Miller had been that of a classic party functionary rising to PUWP central committee secretary and politburo member , whereas Kwasniewski , who came up through the editorship of party youth wing newspapers to become Minister of Youth and Sports from 1985 , had made his name as a pragmatist and advocate of co-operation with Solidarity in the 1989 round table talks . |
| 10 | In the area of hydrology have been some of the most specific contributions made by physical geographers including the analysis of increased discharges ( Hollis , 1975 ; Walling and Gregory , 1970 ; Walling 1979a ) , investigation of sediment yield ( Walling , 1974 ) , research extending into the area of water quality and pollutants related to urban source areas ( Ellis , 1979 ) and analysis of river channel changes downstream from urban areas ( Leopold 1973 ; Gregory , 1981 ) . |
| 11 | Elsewhere , the rate of growth has been such that ancient parishes have been carved into much smaller units so that new churches could serve the expanding population . |
| 12 | The most common use of context has been some measure of how letters may legally combine to form words . |
| 13 | Until recently , the acoustic analysis of speech has been such a slow and laborious business that only small samples of speech could be analysed , but recent developments in the use of computers are making it possible to carry out analysis on a much larger scale . |
| 14 | Another line of attack has been that of some psychologists who have concentrated their fire on the question whether the type of experimental procedure designed to produce associative learning in Aplysia can ‘ really ’ be said to fulfil the conditions required for classical conditioning . |
| 15 | The unity he had in mind was , ironically , that which had existed before Germany became a nation-state , the unity of the disunited rainbow of German states and principalities , the state of unity when Jews were legally inferior to Germans , when Poles were not a numerical threat , when expansion to the east had been easy , when the German people had not been a rising industrial power , when the massed levy of conscripts had been enough to rout their opponents . |
| 16 | In the immediate post-war years , the Minister of Defence had been little more than the co-ordinator of the three autonomous Service Ministries and the Ministry of Supply . |
| 17 | Undoubtedly the most significant of these in the context of lasers has been that of inhomogeneous broadening , to which we will return . |
| 18 | But the major tradition which has queried this view of self has been that which derives from psychoanalysis . |
| 19 | One of the sad side-effects of industrial action during the early years of the implementation of ISS has been that work on improving the teacher-parent partnership has been more neglected by teachers than anyone initially expected . |