Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [noun sg] [verb] 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 | Another example of regional development has been in the relocation of Government Departments away from the south-east . |
| 3 | Hitherto the focus of economic restructuring had been on the first ( and to a lesser extent the second — see above ) . |
| 4 | The burden of Russia 's social backwardness could not be thrown off as quickly as the threat of political counterrevolution had been by the end of the Civil War . |
| 5 | Such survivals in attitude and custom , however , can not obscure the fact that the fundamental direction of European society had been for decades moving increasingly into the hands of a bourgeoisie whose assumptions were at bottom not those of aristocratic society , even if it aped aristocratic style . |
| 6 | part of this interpretation has been by politicians and clerics as well as by judges . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Such an approach is , of course , not exclusively suited for " outsiders " analysing another community 's talk : in fact , most studies of this kind have been by monolinguals studying conversations in their own or related dialects . |
| 11 | Funding for research of this kind has been on a scale not approached by any other area of sociological enquiry . |
| 12 | In fact a more limited regime of this kind has been on the Soviet agenda for the Mediterranean for many years . |
| 13 | I 'd heard it said that th the development of this site has been in the development plan for twenty years |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Most of this book has been about mainstream mental health care of adult people . |
| 16 | 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 ) |
| 17 | The growth of labour-only sub-contracting has been of mutual benefit to both employers and employees . |
| 18 | The traditional response of moral philosophy has been to narrow down each act to its pure and innermost core , an act of pure will that , alone , is susceptible of moral assessment . |
| 19 | The most remarkable extension of central control has been in the field of local government . |
| 20 | It is obvious that before the sample was obtained another form of natural selection had been in progress : earlier purchases by the public and by the booksellers themselves . |
| 21 | The manipulation of such traits is not new because a form of genetic engineering has been in operation since humans , c. 10 kyr BP ( section 3.3.1 ) , first began to select plants and animals for agricultural purposes . |
| 22 | In Japan , talk of corporate governance has been about as common as sararimen in bowler hats . |
| 23 | We believe that the diagnosis of hiatal hernia has been over exagerated and only manometric studies combined with precise endoscopic evaluation can say whether we are dealing with a true hiatal hernia or a small initial Barrett 's oesophagus . |
| 24 | The most evident contributions of observational sociology have been in the study of effects . |
| 25 | The frequent attention given to the management of river banks has made many unsuitable for the nesting of Kingfishers , and the frequent clearance of marginal vegetation has been to the detriment of species such as the Reed Bunting , Sedge and Reed Warbler . |
| 26 | Indeed , their use of common law has been of especial importance in outlining and protecting certain rights of the individual . |
| 27 | The renunciation of any attempt to tax was at once cause and symptom of the state 's demise . |
| 28 | The feelings of Sixties youth had been at the centre of Crawford 's most successful screen characters , but his third film with director Richard Lester was to incense the older generation in a way that no film had done before . |
| 29 | Nor was anything said about the fact that federal support of civilian R&D has been at a ground-losing $14 000 million for the past three years — down by $3000 million since Reagan took office . |
| 30 | 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 . |