Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] been [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The second major contextual change has been shifts in government policy , operating in the context of large scale youth unemployment . |
| 2 | The result has been fragmentation in political life . |
| 3 | The reasons for the shift from regarding sign language as one universal form of communication to seeing sign languages as highly different from each other are easy to understand , but the result has been confusion over what questions remain to be asked about the differences between sign languages . |
| 4 | For more than forty years American football has been symbol of patriotism at the Upper Heyford airbase . |
| 5 | The major area of academic industry has been analysis of central mental concepts such as intention or recklessness . |
| 6 | Glenrothes College has been part of the general SVQ programme from the start , and , like many piloting centres , we are learning as we go . |
| 7 | Hammer has been Director of Miller Nordenhake , the Cologne amalgam of Burnet Miller of Los Angeles and Galerie Nordenhake of Stockholm since April 1991 . |
| 8 | Whereas Guy had only arrived in the Middle East in 1180 and at the time of his defeat had been King of Jerusalem for less than a year , Saladin had ruled Egypt since 1169 and Syria since 1176 . |
| 9 | There was some speculation that the action had been part of ongoing Israeli efforts to secure the release of servicemen missing in Lebanon . |
| 10 | What we can say , though , is that juvenile crime and street violence have been characteristics of British society over hundreds of years , rather than being indicative of a contemporary moral and social disintegration . |
| 11 | Saddened that polytechnics have been unable to throw off the second-class public image , Teesside University 's director , Dr Michael Longfield said : ‘ The three polytechnics in the North-East have been universities in all but name for many years . ’ |
| 12 | Those classed as ‘ other homes ’ included convalescent homes , a rehabilitation centre , an assessment centre , a holiday home for the disabled and rest homes which may in practice have been homes for older people ( the classification was made on the basis of the information given by the person interviewed ) . |
| 13 | The most serious impact on the community sector has been cuts in local authority spending — the largest source of revenue for most local organisations . |
| 14 | Like other sections of the popular movement the health sector has been years in the growing and in establishing work practice and vital organizations . |
| 15 | It is the first time that a Vernier machine has been build outwith the inventor 's factory in Belgium , and has been constructed by Pickering Staplina , joint partners with Stoddard in Bonded Developments Ltd . |
| 16 | ‘ What a pleasure it has been , and an honour to have been MP for Winchester for 13 years , ’ he said , thanking those who had supported him in the past year . |
| 17 | Yeltsin assured the miners that the transfer had been part of the pact which he and eight other republican leaders had signed with USSR President Mikhail Gorbachev a week earlier [ see p. 38129 ] . |
| 18 | She was the mother and the wife and the queen of the home , as Our Lady had been queen of the little family at Nazareth . |
| 19 | Until this time , the mainstay of treatment for syphilis had been mercury in some form or other , either by internal administration or in the form of unctions . |
| 20 | He was troubled by the strange things the Rannoch eagles had said about the Wrath eagles being exterminated and wondered if his own capture had been part of that . |
| 21 | Since then the site has been home to a nursery and more lately a garden centre , attracting more than 20,000 visitors a year . |
| 22 | But however much that sense of a local spiral of depression exists , there is an ever-present sense that the economic crisis has been part of broader international changes and problems . |
| 23 | Much of the work involved in setting up the business has been research into the complex safety requirements . |
| 24 | Even though their main aim has been consolidation in the league , a win today could even make them title outsiders . |
| 25 | I remember the amounts because for several years , it was my Saturday job to go to St. Martin 's Church Vestry to collect the money which was paid out by the Parish Clerk , Mr. Daniel Sutton , who before retirement had been Headmaster of the Church School . |
| 26 | Before Rope Thrower subdued the Great Chief Manuelito — among whose lieutenants was Hawk 's many-times-great grandfather Armijo — the Navaho had been herders of horses and cattle , cultivators of corn , pumpkins , wheat and melons and famous for their groves of peach trees . |
| 27 | It had been a bitter pill to swallow , and she had made her feelings plain to the man her husband had been friends with since his childhood . |
| 28 | Trouble was that Mrs Sharon Rogers ' husband had been commander of the U. S. S. Vincennes . |
| 29 | The decision to remove exchange controls had an unexpected bearing on the progress of the campaign against Imelda Marcos , whom the government was prosecuting on corruption charges relating to the years in which her late husband had been President of the Philippines . |
| 30 | This is not to deny the discoveries that have been made , but to state that the purposes that have given meaning to the scientists ' pursuit of truth have been success in and the sustaining of the scientific establishment . |