Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] of [noun sg] [vb past] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The ideology of respectability had been in the process of articulation throughout the century . |
| 3 | As I said before , the unity of Judaism had been in question since the time of Alexander . |
| 4 | Within a few years firm and formal contacts with the Board of Education had been established . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The two companies said the Ministry of Defence had been supportive of their approach and they did not anticipate any regulatory problems . |
| 10 | At first he thought that the flash of light had been something to do with a passing car , possibly a reflection . |
| 11 | The kind of service devised was shaped by a number of different beliefs about community care , about the services available , and about the needs of dementia sufferers . |
| 12 | Unfortunately , much of the investment that took place was never evaluated in this way because it was regarded as " inescapable " , that is , necessary to supply a satisfactory service level , rather than the level of service supplied being part of the decision-making procedure . |
| 13 | The CNAA conference on School Experience and the Assessment of Teaching had been held the previous month . |
| 14 | The fortress was rebuilt in 1896 and by the outbreak of war had been further improved to accord with its new function as the Austrian Army 's forward base against the Russians . |
| 15 | The Department of Education had been established by Jimmy Carter and during the 1980 campaign Reagan had declared his intention to abolish the department if elected . |
| 16 | Michael Jones of the Department of History had been doing research on these buildings for several years and with his colleague , Gwyn Meirion Jones of the City of London Polytechnic they tackled the challenge with alacrity . |
| 17 | Orkney 's Marine Pollution Officer , Captain Bob Sclater aid that the Department of Transport had been kept abreast of developments . |
| 18 | The Department of Health had been expected to approve another £250,000 when the story that it would refuse was leaked , apparently from Downing Street . |
| 19 | She reached out to switch on the bedhead light and realised that the blackness of night had been replaced by grey gloom . |
| 20 | In all the later , more organized phases of this type , at a time when the practice of art had been both distinguished and specialized , the institution of artists as part of the general social organization was still , as we have seen , normal . |
| 21 | There were two decisions which were binding where the rule of privilege had been applied to copied documents : The Palermo ( 1883 ) 9 PD 6 , and Watson v Cammel Laird & Co ( Shipbuilders and Engineers ) Ltd ( 1959 ) 1 WLR 702 . |
| 22 | To quote Bethe : ‘ It is difficult to describe to a non-scientist the novelty of the new concept … it was to me , who had been rather closely associated with the programme , about as surprising as the discovery of fission had been to physicists in 1939 . ’ |
| 23 | The spell had leapt out of the page and instantly burrowed deeply into his mind , from whence even the combined talents of the Faculty of Medicine had been unable to coax it . |
| 24 | The work of philosophy had been completed , it was claimed , by Marxist theory 's recognition of the material base as the level of determination . |
| 25 | The issue of readability had been discussed at an open library committee meeting attended by other staff , where a computer programme for reading-level assessment had been demonstrated . |
| 26 | The issue of abortion had been raised earlier in the month when , on June 23 , Bush vetoed legislation which would have lifted the federal ban on funding medical research which used tissue from abortions . |
| 27 | There was no sound other than that of the distance filtered disco music , but the mood of solitude had been broken . |
| 28 | Only once the transfer of power had been smoothly effected and accepted by the general public , the paper claimed , had Sir Charles Dobson been allowed to die . |
| 29 | The final act of the winter of discontent had been played by the students . |
| 30 | The manufacture of flannel had been discontinued because of the growth of the textile industry in the large towns — and the consequent loss of markets where it could be sold without loss . |