Example sentences of "[noun] has [been] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the problems with traditional remedial teaching has been that spelling and neatness are fetishes . |
| 2 | The result has been that discount deals have proliferated . |
| 3 | The result has been that sea walls have had to take the brunt of the power of waves and currents at high tide , which erodes them and requires rebuilding on an ever larger scale . |
| 4 | The result has been that sterling has become very expensive to borrow , but there is still far too much of it , and the supply is still increasing too fast . |
| 5 | The result has been some unbundling , loosening and decentralizing of control in some societies and in some organizations on some tasks . |
| 6 | A recurring complaint from industry has been that pension funds are too short-term orientated , to the detriment of the companies in whose shares they deal . |
| 7 | The running of multiple sessions has been another means of saving which , though not always a problem , has led to truncated teaching sessions , late-coming and absenteeism on the part of teachers and pupils . |
| 8 | ‘ The argument for the reformers has been that punishment simply does not work . |
| 9 | The effect of falling school rolls and DES cuts in teacher-training quotas has been some reduction in the numbers of students on courses ; however , recruitment in 1981 was still considerable and , in 1981 , the polytechnics had 1,300 students enrolled on to teacher-training courses . |
| 10 | ‘ But if the lad has been any sort of problem in the past I still believe United will get the best out of him and put an end to his wandering . |
| 11 | Like the other playwrights whose response to Thatcherism and brutality has been some hand-wringing of their own , Barker is too infatuated by his heroine 's strength to humanise her withe vulnerability and too in awe of her for a passionate or coolly detached opposition . |
| 12 | One of the sad side-effects of industrial action during the early years of the implementation of ISS has been that work on improving the teacher-parent partnership has been more neglected by teachers than anyone initially expected . |
| 13 | Indeed , with the beginnings of credit unions in this country , one group that has shown considerable interest in this development has been this group of lenders whose business has been with poor people . |
| 14 | This has sometimes been justified on security grounds but often the argument has been that disclosure is not in the public interest , that " secrecy is at all times the condition in which the best men make the best decisions . " |
| 15 | When I wake up , maybe I 'll find that , like the death of Bobby in Dallas , all the recent news has been some kind of bad dream and that labels like Sarah , Non Fiction , Play It Again Sam and Cooking Vinyl all have bands on Top Of The Pops . |
| 16 | The culmination has been this year 's first World Championships in which Andy took 2nd place as well as being co-sponsor with Palm . |
| 17 | Much of the general comment has been that quality improvement is just common sense and that we have been doing it all of the time anyway . |
| 18 | On the whole , especially at local level , the Left in Britain has been more goal orientated than the Right . |
| 19 | Busy is something Graham Myers has been all season with all Forest injuries Ward with a free kick gets it clear straight to Thomson though Greyson Thomson Gemmell closes down the room immed that 's a very good ball . |
| 20 | Suspicions have sometimes been voiced that , whenever government has supported civic education , the reason has been that learning of this kind has been interpreted as supportive of a respectful attitude . |
| 21 | Lalande wrote of him in 1763 : ‘ Sisson has been several times in prison for failing to pay his workmen [ of whom Jesse Ramsden , q.v. , was one ] ; he starts many things and finishes nothing : he takes his instruments to the pawnbroker , where they have been seen selling for a tenth of their value . |
| 22 | The underlying assumption has been that bureaucracy is desirable as an organizational principle because it attempts to clarify authority and accountability while depersonalising their application . |
| 23 | In the past one accusation sometimes levelled against much primary school history has been that work is insufficiently " historical " in approach . |
| 24 | Creating a teaching force which is adequate to the rapidly growing system has been another problem . |
| 25 | The reason given for this conviction has been that assessment , in grading pupils ' performance in any given test , would leave some pupils with a sense of being of less value than others in the class . |
| 26 | The highest level of information used in processing to date has been some form of lexical look-up . |
| 27 | The general view has been that theoria is the engine driving the historical development of science and that praxis is merely the application of theoria . |
| 28 | A more fundamental objection has been that music-hall and vaudeville were essentially controlled by showmen who were of course entrepreneurs . |
| 29 | The most common use of context has been some measure of how letters may legally combine to form words . |
| 30 | West Ham 's assistant manager Harry Redknapp has been another victim of a fans ' fit-up . |