Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [verb] been [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the most devastating effect has been the reduction of the water table . |
| 2 | However one chooses to interpret it , the mystical experience has been a fact of life , once human consciousness has developed to a particular point . |
| 3 | The Public Enemy had been a Warner Bros film and that studio soon went on to consolidate its reputation as one specializing in contemporary themes by releasing I am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang . |
| 4 | Secondly , mirroring the extension of the law 's concern to notions of social harm has been a widening of the conceptions of deviant and enforcer to include not only individual actors but also organizations . |
| 5 | But the female body tortured by sexual violence has been the object of pornography , not sacrament . |
| 6 | However , the climatic influence has been the subject of review on aspects of geomorphology ( Derbyshire , 1976 ) and the map produced by Walling and Webb ( 1983 ) is included in a volume on palaeohydrology which is one of the more recently developing temporal approaches ( p. 172 ) . |
| 7 | The causes of the development of trade unionism within the public sector have been the subject of a good deal of political debate and social science theorizing . |
| 8 | Actually , Cliff , our computer simulation suggests that , in the unlikely event of your making a nude video , Britain would sigh , ‘ Oh dear , the poor old boy 's been a bit of a git . ’ |
| 9 | Indeed , one motif running throughout the history of social work has been the disparity between ‘ diagnosis ’ and ‘ response ’ . |
| 10 | The use of either cendres-noires or organic manure is generally preferred today , but in the past the most popular fertiliser has been the boues de ville , quite literally , town refuse . |
| 11 | It 's home to The Ski School Of Great Britain and nearby Murren has been the backdrop for films including James Bond 's On Her Majesty 's Secret Service — remember the revolving restaurant ? |
| 12 | Observers noted that Kravchuk 's offer , and specifically the offer to settle the ethnic Germans [ for whose status see below ] , could be seen as a snub to the Russian Republic , whose hesitancy in creating a Volga republic for the deported German population had been a topic of discussion in the Russian Foreign Minister 's recent visit to Bonn [ see also p. 38730 ] . |
| 13 | Free enterprise has been the curse of conservation , feeding the feckless exploitation of the world 's natural resources in a rat-race pursuit of material wealth . |
| 14 | An interesting development has been the emergence of national hymnals , such as The Australian Hymn Book in 1977 ( subsequently published elsewhere as With One Voice ) . |
| 15 | In this respect , an interesting development has been the growth of Community Schools/Colleges . |
| 16 | However , a recent interesting development has been the introduction of multi-disciplinary courses such as that offered by the London College of Printing in Media and Production Design and by North Staffordshire Polytechnic in the history of design and visual arts with a chief study in ceramics . |
| 17 | One of the distressing side-effects of the sexual revolution has been the emphasis on successful sexual performance . |
| 18 | Perhaps the most exciting development has been the Animation Programme . |
| 19 | The hon. Gentleman has been a Minister and is conversant with the systems that operate here . |
| 20 | ‘ Yes , I 'm afraid Nader has been a bit of a dark horse in that respect . ’ |
| 21 | More interesting for the British observer has been the lot of the Progressive Democrats , like the late Alliance a new party competing with two older and stronger parties . |
| 22 | The other and lesser mistake has been the Government 's failure to agree on a policy towards the European Monetary System . |
| 23 | Since 1846 his faithful companion had been a Miss Howard , formerly of Brighton and London , who had discreetly accompanied the Prince through his various adventures . |
| 24 | One tangible response to the need for improved responsiveness has been a change in approach to how organisational structures facilitate the company 's mission . |
| 25 | The old man had been a seaman , and they had come from Chatham seeking a relative who had once lived next door , but who they found had moved . |
| 26 | The conditions of his social scientific success have been the denunciation of the Parisian intellectual avant-garde , which he is at the same time quite integrally part and parcel of . |
| 27 | At Ballyconneely , with the Twelve Pins at their backs , they went down a track and faced the black Atlantic , left the low-slung car and scrambled out along the headland until they found , amazingly , a concrete pillbox , a relic of the war in which , surely , the Free State had been a neutral ? |
| 28 | Instead the French star has been the spark that has ignited a dazzling new united era , while Batty has also departed the title winning Leeds side of 1992 to become part of Kenny Dalglish 's millionaires club at Blackburn . |
| 29 | The low standards of residential care have been a topic of concern for many years . |
| 30 | One of the most important recent developments in European social psychology has been the emergence of the concept of ‘ social representations ’ . |