Example sentences of "[prep] this [noun sg] has be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The great increase during this century has been in the paid work of married women . |
| 2 | part of this interpretation has been by politicians and clerics as well as by judges . |
| 3 | The chief way out of this difficulty has been for empirical studies to focus on surrogates for power , rather than directly on the exercise of power itself . |
| 4 | There have been many variants , but one of the most extensive and thorough applications of this principle has been at Bijlmermeer in south-east Amsterdam . |
| 5 | While at the current time the main focus of this work has been to better assess need through localities , work is being undertaken to identify ways in which budgets could be allocated to localities and purchasing carried out at the local level . |
| 6 | Funding for research of this kind has been on a scale not approached by any other area of sociological enquiry . |
| 7 | In fact a more limited regime of this kind has been on the Soviet agenda for the Mediterranean for many years . |
| 8 | I 'd heard it said that th the development of this site has been in the development plan for twenty years |
| 9 | The argument is simple and reflexive : if the body of this book has been about helping teachers to be more able to deal with uncertainty , conflict and change — in a word , to become better learners — then the tail asserts that the core of their job should be to help young people to become good learners in their turn . |
| 10 | Most of this book has been about mainstream mental health care of adult people . |
| 11 | As has already been noted , however , most of this research has been on villages , rather than the more difficult scattered settlements ; the atypical patterns , such as the strings of villages in chalkland valleys , have received a disproportionate amount of attention ( Fig 15 ) |
| 12 | And so the incredible growth of government throughout this century has been in response to all kinds of problems : economic insecurity , unemployment , declining industries , poverty , natural monopolies , external costs , pollution , inflation . |
| 13 | That came as no surprise to us , as we know how good the business climate in this country has been in recent years with the success of deregulation and low taxation and the attractiveness of Britain as a home of inward investment . |
| 14 | Much of the literature in this area has been of US origin , and the more general applicability of such managerial strategies to other countries needs , therefore , to be considered in the light of evidence from cross-national studies . |
| 15 | While much of the focus in this chapter has been on manufacturing where the reliance on small producers is relatively unusual among advanced economies , the small firm is dominant in many other sectors . |
| 16 | Up to now the emphasis in this book has been on demonstrating ways in which social workers can help maintain a vulnerable elderly person in the community , by working with the client and family network . |
| 17 | All that we have written in this section has been in a light vein , but there is a very serious side to it . |
| 18 | Accordingly , the major contribution of economics to policy over this period has been in providing some short-term corrections to economic activity whilst being able to do little to alter the long-term trend . |
| 19 | Perhaps emphasis at this level has been upon soil evolution rather than upon soil dynamics , which has been treated in relation to land capability . |