Example sentences of "[be] [art] [noun sg] of [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Those hospitals which formerly had been the responsibility of Boards of Guardians and later of the local authorities , together with the development of those hospitals which the local authorities brought about , including maternity hospitals , passed to the State under the National Health Service Act 1946 , and are now managed by selected and not by elected authorities . |
| 2 | Of great significance has been the influence of ideologies of modernization , both liberal and Marxist , which essentially equate progress with Western conceptions of social , political and economic development . |
| 3 | Animal welfare had been the subject of discussions with several leading UK retailers and the Danish industry had offered assurances about the way in which animals are produced and reared there . |
| 4 | The answer is that the London Rubber Company , Hoffman LaRoche , Kelloggs , the Central Electricity Generating Board , and the National Coal Board have all been the subject of investigations by the Monopolies and Mergers Commission . |
| 5 | When buying extended works , the collector should make sure that they have not been the subject of depredations of this nature . |
| 6 | The bill had been the subject of months of debate both inside and outside the National Assembly . |
| 7 | It had then been the subject of negotiations with Palestinian and other militia leaders in the area . |
| 8 | Tomorrow the agenda focuses specifically on violence in prisons , something that 's been a problem at Long Lartin jail in Worcestershire where prison officers have been the subject of attacks by prisoners in recent months . |
| 9 | Malaysian logging policies and practices have been the subject of protests by indigenous peoples as well as environmentalists . |
| 10 | In a move that had been the subject of rumours for many months , Jeffrey Archer has gone from Hodder to HarperCollins in a two-book deal . |
| 11 | At its most blatant , posts which had once been the preserve of dons from Oxford or Cambridge were now given to businessmen . |
| 12 | What has been the contribution of sociologists to social policy and reform , and what can they realistically expect to do in these areas ? |
| 13 | A further reported development has been the addition of enzymes to slurry . |
| 14 | Second , prices are available that have previously been the privilege of firms with the buying power of the Big Six . |
| 15 | Perhaps the most important commercial change since the invention of incorporation itself has been the rise of groups of companies with interlinking control and ownership . |
| 16 | He could remember when a barrow , or a donkey and cart , would have been the mark of riches in the Alley and not an imported German car . |
| 17 | A corollary of these studies has been the classification of places in the UK according to their demographic , employment , and housing characteristics ( Johnson , Salt , and Wood , 1974 , Warnes and Law , 1984 , Champion and Green , 1988 ) . |
| 18 | That had been the way of things for several years . |
| 19 | After single-sex schools , the most contentious issue has been the admission of pupils to racially mixed schools . |
| 20 | Part of the Trust 's work in recent years has been the compilation of surveys of vernacular buildings and landscapes . |
| 21 | Most hurtful and unfair of all , though , he had been the butt of jokes about his appearance for as long as he could remember — everything from his ears to his hairline . |
| 22 | However motive power on summer Saturdays in the form of units is always short and a frequent occurrence this summer has been the appearance of buses in Aberystwyth as the 07.25 Birmingham Aberystwyth , and the 10.50 Aberystwyth to Machynlleth return working . |
| 23 | During the 1970s Lima had at least four times been the object of investigations by parliamentary commissions which had looked into his connections , as a member of local government , with the local construction sector in the 1960s . |
| 24 | His team has manfully cleared blocked gutters , downpipes and underground drains that have been the result of years of neglect and prior to the commencement of Phase 1 repair work , they have been ‘ fire fighting ’ the leaks in the sanctuary roof to limit deterioration of the fabric . |
| 25 | Readers must be warned that it has been the practice of governments in recent years to alter the departmental structure from time to time , ostensibly in an effort to find the best possible framework for policy co-ordination , but — it may be suggested — with less elevated political motives in mind too . |
| 26 | Timbmet , whose yards had earlier been the target of demonstrations by Earth First ! activists , claimed that the wood had a valid Chilean export certificate , granted on the grounds that it came from standing dead trees . |
| 27 | It is her work which has been the target of investigations by the National Institutes of Health ( NIH ) and a House subcommittee chaired by Congressman John Dingell , and of less formal inquiries at MIT and Tufts University Medical School , in Boston , where she now works . |
| 28 | Already they 've been the target of attacks from warring factions . |
| 29 | This profound asymmetry in the structure and evolution of the world economic system provides the essential background to the more recent migrations of black communities to Britain in the post-Second World War period , for one of its main effects has been the creation of pools of under- and unemployed workers in circumstances of poverty and restricted opportunity in the Third World , who find themselves having to undergo the painful dislocation entailed by migration and travel thousands of miles in search of work . |
| 30 | these forms are less common than the B strain in the UK , but have been the cause of epidemics in other areas such as Sub-Saharan Africa . |