Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] of [noun sg] [verb] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | The inability of water to penetrate is the result of a phenomenon known as water tension . |
| 2 | When such a classification is employed it becomes obvious that the majority of work has been directed towards these tertiary activities . |
| 3 | When the British Association for the Advancement of Science had been founded in the early 1830s , clerics had constituted some thirty percent of its membership . |
| 4 | The most sophisticated statement of a process approach comes from Nigeria where a modified version of a list produced by the American Association for the Advancement of Science has been suggested in the national ‘ Guidelines on Primary School Curriculum ’ to help evaluate coverage and approach in syllabuses and curriculum materials . |
| 5 | The ideology of respectability had been in the process of articulation throughout the century . |
| 6 | As I said before , the unity of Judaism had been in question since the time of Alexander . |
| 7 | ( c ) Action on receipt of reply The circumstances in which searches are made and the variety of information elicited are too wide for a short answer . |
| 8 | So far , the discussion of this turning-point and the debate over the direction of change has been conducted mainly in terms of what kind of manufacturing sector is likely to emerge out of the economic downturn . |
| 9 | Conversely Newco may be entitled to deductions of VAT if the change of use has been from exempt use to taxable use . |
| 10 | Within a few years firm and formal contacts with the Board of Education had been established . |
| 11 | The Board of Admiralty had been well aware since 1955 that the US Navy 's Polaris-armed submarines might become the capital ships of the future , and might prove to be more invulnerable as mobile launch platforms for the nuclear deterrent than the US Air Force 's Skybolt , if it too was successfully developed . |
| 12 | Although the Board of Trade had been notified that the company proposed to construct a depôt in torr Road , Penge , this site turned out to be on a section of route which it was no longer intended to construct , so another site had to be found . |
| 13 | The MP for Henley and President of the Board of Trade has been labouring under what 's been described as the heaviest workload of any Cabinet Minister . |
| 14 | Hence many books on the technique of ethnography have been written by those with a background in police research ( Fielding and Fielding 1986 ; Punch 1987 ) . |
| 15 | The measure of income employed is therefore an imperfect indicator of comprehensive income , and this in turn is not truly equivalent to ‘ ability to pay ’ . |
| 16 | This and many other means to exhilarate the heart of man have been practised in all ages , as knowing there is nothing better to the preservation of man 's life . |
| 17 | Thus could the very first and important step in the rise of god-worship have been initiated , by making it unnecessary for there to be an actual physical connection between the objects of faith and the believer . |
| 18 | As has been seen , the progress of Thatcherism had been erratic , even hesitant , since 1979 , though the Falklands victory had given the record of the past four years a spurious consistency . |
| 19 | However , there is plenty of very interesting material in this volume and , while this book is only part of the process , one could certainly agree that the field of rhetoric has been reborn . |
| 20 | Remarkable results have been achieved with children from mainstream and special schools when the teaching of mathematics has been opened up in order to allow pupils to find their own strategies and solutions to problems . |
| 21 | The teaching of literature has been the activity most profoundly affected by these conflicting views . |
| 22 | Under the Institution of Civil Engineers ' Conditions of Contract ( fifth edition ) , retention money is repaid to a contractor in two stages , the first within 14 days after the certificate of completion has been issued , the remainder within 14 days after the end of the period of maintenance . |
| 23 | The paradigm of religion has been turned upside down . |
| 24 | Collister later commented : ‘ What I was trying to get at was the way that in the alps in particular , the experience of adventure had been swapped for glamour . |
| 25 | Literature about informal carers and the experience of caring has been growing ever since the pioneering work of Abrams ( e.g. 1980 ) . |
| 26 | Considering the Statue of Liberty has been a beacon of hope for generations of newly-arrived immigrants , it 's appropriate that Mario arrived in New York with his parents 30 years ago . |
| 27 | The amended view of Manhattan contains its eye-catching motifs : the Statue of Liberty has been conveniently relocated in a open space to the right of the UNO building , while to the left of UNO a scaled-down Eiffel Tower presides over East 42nd Street . |
| 28 | The two companies said the Ministry of Defence had been supportive of their approach and they did not anticipate any regulatory problems . |
| 29 | I know that the Ministry of Defence have been forced to review their private security arrangements at defence establishments er because of breaches of security there , and I would hope that the Health Service and the Department of Health and the Local Health Authorities will take the same kind of responsible action . |
| 30 | The Ministry of Defence has been obliged to freeze its own orders to British industry in the run-up to the election , but a Downing Street spokesman said last night the civil service guidelines allowed the announcement of foreign arms sales . |