Example sentences of "of [noun] has [been] [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The general pattern of change has been one of upward mobility . |
| 2 | For many , the whole idea of using Marxist concepts of analysis is out of the question for a Christian and the spectre of communism has been one of the most divisive aspects . |
| 3 | Much of the research into the social psychology of racism has been narrow to the extent to which it has concentrated upon images of outgroups , rather than on the image of ‘ prejudice ’ or ‘ racism ’ itself . |
| 4 | But the cost of resistance has been high in blood , in material destruction , in local misery and humiliating international paralysis . |
| 5 | Well presumably with , what we 're trying to do is create some sort of alternative family units , we do n't want , although , er , laudable what the youth service does , is , we would n't want , if they do n't want to plugged , clubbable together , if , if , if , if the , the unit could provide that , or provide alternatives to pick up the , the correlation between that and , and ordinary normal family unit , I would hope that that would have been the best way forward , erm , er , because often some youngsters are in this situation because they , they have n't found the , that sort of provision has been helpful for them . |
| 6 | The New Right emphasis on adversary politics and an overload of demands has been more of a critique of democracy in Britain than it has ever been a rigorous description of , and explanation for , British politics . |
| 7 | Britain 's growth rate has been one of the lowest of any major Western economy since 1961 , that Britain 's share of investment has been one of the two lowest , that Britain 's share of world trade has been falling while others have had rising shares and that Britain 's rate of inflation has been one of the fastest in the Western world . |
| 8 | This is why much of philosophy has been barren for more than 2,000 years and is likely to remain so until philosophers learn to understand the language of information processing . " |
| 9 | Abroad , the idea of Freeports has been current for many years . |
| 10 | Over the past few months , our morning series of sermons has been concerned with different aspects of prayer . |
| 11 | In Eastern Europe , parliamentary scrutiny and criticism of bureaucracy has been strongest during periods of party weakness and resurgent democracy — Yugoslavia in 1963 , Czechoslovakia in 1968 and Poland in 1980 , for example . |
| 12 | The vast majority of empirical investigation in the area of textuality has been psychological in orientation and based on the responses of readers . |
| 13 | The history of Burma has been one of imperialism . |
| 14 | As I have reminded groups before now , the reality of incarnation has been central to Catholic spirituality and practice ; that is not so true of other traditions . |
| 15 | The eclipse of electricity as a means of propulsion has been one of the more curious facets of the evolution of transport . |
| 16 | What is documented in the book is what everyone in sport has known for years — that the use of steroids has been widespread in many sports since the sixties . |
| 17 | Although a textbook on oceanography was produced by a physical geographer and was subsequently divided into two volumes , ( King , 1962 ; 1975 ) the separate discipline of oceanography has been responsible in physical oceanography for research on sea level and its changes ; tides , waves , currents , the physical and chemical properties of sea water as well as the form of the sea floor and marine sediments , and in biological oceanography for research on ocean flora and fauna . |
| 18 | The name of Tom has been synonymous with sailing in Weymouth longer than he might wish to remember . |
| 19 | This neglect of walking has been apparent for years . |
| 20 | Britain 's growth rate has been one of the lowest of any major Western economy since 1961 , that Britain 's share of investment has been one of the two lowest , that Britain 's share of world trade has been falling while others have had rising shares and that Britain 's rate of inflation has been one of the fastest in the Western world . |
| 21 | Since 1988 the register of title has been open to inspection by the general public . |
| 22 | That element of realism has been evident in the papers issued by the APB over the last year , in particular those on expanding the auditors ' report and going concern , but nowhere is it more clearly shown than in the recently published The Future Development of Auditing ( see also this issue , pp 10 and 88 ) . |
| 23 | of Redditch has been successful in passing his tutor 's examination . |
| 24 | For many years the People 's Republic of China has been one of the world 's leading conventional arms and nuclear technology exporters . |
| 25 | The reason for this is that UK per capita consumption of alcohol has been static from the late 1970s , as shown in Figure 5.2 . |
| 26 | The Commission on Analytical Nomenclature of IUPAC has been active for a long time in establishing nomenclature for chromatography . |
| 27 | The balance of trade has been negative since 1982 , and in 1989 hit a record £24 billion |
| 28 | Undoubtedly the most significant of these in the context of lasers has been that of inhomogeneous broadening , to which we will return . |
| 29 | Another line of attack has been that of some psychologists who have concentrated their fire on the question whether the type of experimental procedure designed to produce associative learning in Aplysia can ‘ really ’ be said to fulfil the conditions required for classical conditioning . |
| 30 | At the same time , his account of society has been one of the most bitterly contested of all social theories , for it is not only a sociological theory , but also a philosophy of man and a programme for revolutionary change in society . |