Example sentences of "[verb] [be] one of [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since the late nineteenth century , the problem has been one of a surplus of labour . |
| 2 | While Senna 's steady but swift progress made his 20th Grand Prix victory look easy , the reigning world champion says this race has been one of the toughest . |
| 3 | He has been one of the Legislative Council 's most diligent members , a demanding enough job ; he accepted China 's offer of a seat on the Basic Law Drafting Committee , helping to write Hong Kong 's post-1997 mini-constitution , and was embroiled in more unsuccessful arguments for direct elections , opposed by mainland communists and Hong Kong conservatives . |
| 4 | Every one of the scores of abandoned Trabants and Wartburgs which clog the streets around the embassy has been one of the most cherished possessions in its owner 's life . |
| 5 | Terry Hands , retiring director of the RSC , will be facing up to Douglas Mason of the Adam Smith Institute , whose Expounding The Arts has been one of the most interesting discussion documents of recent years . |
| 6 | This has been one of the central preoccupations of ethnographic police research , especially that inspired by phenomenology and ethnomethodology , and so apposite is policing to this focus that many theoreticians from within phenomenology and ethnomethodology have used it for the application of their ideas ( Cicourel 1968 ; Pollner 1987 ; Sacks 1972 ; Sudnow 1965 ) . |
| 7 | There is truth in that , also in the proposition that in Western culture the ‘ tragic vision ’ has been one of the most powerful means of containing and sublimating desire . |
| 8 | Moreover , because of the first-past-the-post electoral system and the predominantly two-party system , it has been one of the few parties of the left able to form a government on its own . |
| 9 | Stone is not alone in noting the ‘ discrepancy ’ ( p. 420 ) between this and the apparent economic drawbacks of divorce for women ( the increase in divorce has been one of the major factors contributing to the ‘ feminization of poverty ’ ) . |
| 10 | Indeed the conclusion that such diverse aspects of society as religion , kinship , politics , and economics form a linked whole has been one of the touchstones of modern anthropology . |
| 11 | In modern Britain sport has been one of the ways that men have kept themselves apart , defined their own territory , and indulged their enthusiasms . |
| 12 | Dixons has been one of the first retail chains to suffer from the slowing of retail demand . |
| 13 | LIBERALISATION has been one of the key concepts of eighties ' economics , a word which has acquired such power in Anglo-Saxon officialdom that there is virtually no argument about its virtues . |
| 14 | ‘ Bond has been one of the walking wounded for so long that most people have seen this coming and should have provided against it , ’ a banking executive said . |
| 15 | Since its birth in the 1920s , air travel has been one of the world 's most heavily regulated industries . |
| 16 | For more than fifty years , Danny Holland has been one of the premier cuts men in boxing . |
| 17 | He has been one of the inspirations behind the anti-EC Conservative European Reform Group . |
| 18 | The Bodrum peninsular , within sight of the Dodecanese islands of Greece , has been one of the first areas of Turkey to attract British tourists . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | The population explosion has been one of the major phenomena in Latin America this century . |
| 21 | This tacit admission that something had gone seriously wrong with the original expectation of atom-fired electricity ‘ too cheap to meter ’ has been one of the best kept secrets in the whole nuclear power debate . |
| 22 | Hinkley Point B , for example , has been one of the best . |
| 23 | Course measuring , which has been one of the most important areas of work in road racing over the past few years , has certainly not suffered for want of funding . ’ |
| 24 | Knowing who we are as humans has been one of the great vexed questions , searched after and written about down the centuries . |
| 25 | It has been one of the principle tenets of urethritis treatment policy that the patient should take no alcohol during the treatment period . |
| 26 | But that 's nothing compared to his previous existences — he has been one of the 12 priests who murdered Queen Nefertiti 's husband , a minor Basque priest in the last century , and Ivan the Terrible . |
| 27 | Since the National Party came to power in South Africa in 1948 , the education system has been one of the principal instruments through which the apartheid system has been sustained and perpetuated . |
| 28 | Hence the belated and misguided call from Kenneth Baker for longer school days — again betraying a rather narrow view of the use of time — which has been one of the unremarked and growing features of secondary curriculum development of the last twenty years . |
| 29 | Progression has been one of the keystones of the TVEI extension , and there are few secondary schools which are not committed to the concept that a student 's learning should grow out of , and build upon , what has been learned before . |
| 30 | The problem of deliberate self-poisoning and self-injury has placed enormous pressure on the stiff ( physicians , nurses , psychiatrists ) and services ( casualty and emergency departments , medical admission units , psychiatric and social work departments ) involved in the care of patients who take overdoses or injure themselves , and this has been one of the factors that has promoted a re-examination of previously accepted policies for the management of attempted suicide patients . |