Example sentences of "have been [adj] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is in the field of its own procedures that the Court of Appeal , in the past , has been receptive to the claim of substantive justice . |
| 2 | In reply , Sir Derek said that though he could not speak for other directors , ‘ my resignation has been available to the board from the day all this started . |
| 3 | So the psychology of the course was created and this has been integral to the development of the tournament . |
| 4 | This has been central to the Catholic tradition as we well know . |
| 5 | The Marquess of Lothian initiated the Country House Scheme , which has been central to the preservation of great houses and their contents . |
| 6 | It has been central to the nouveau roman 's poetics to establish a literary-historical metanarrative as a legitimizing strategy . |
| 7 | As we shall see , this is an area which has been central to the most fundamental controversies in macroeconomics . |
| 8 | Britain has been subject to the same decline in long-stay beds and has responded in the same way as other European countries to this fall in the mental hospital population . |
| 9 | Secondly , many of the ideas presented so far derive from a particular perspective in sociology which has been subject to the criticisms noted above . |
| 10 | Therefore it is not surprising that the lowlands landscape has changed most , especially in arable areas , for farming in the lowlands has been subject to the most thoroughgoing technological changes . |
| 11 | Apparently it has been similar to the crew of a huge tanker somewhere on the high seas sailing hither and tither no doubt , for four long years after setting out , and returning just in time for the recent elections . |
| 12 | A recent Bank of England report for analysts concluded : ‘ The sharper fall in unemployment than rise in employment has been due to the introduction of the Restart interviews and stricter availability-for-work tests . |
| 13 | The sums involved are enormous : 70 per cent of the total growth in the nation 's wealth since 1979 has been due to the rise in value of the housing stock . |
| 14 | The weakening of trade union power in the 1980s has been due to the interaction of government legislation , the rise in unemployment , and technological change . |
| 15 | B. Most of the spoliation of our landscapes , coastlines and rivers has been due to the activities of business people during the last 100 years or so . |
| 16 | The demand for control of our landscapes , or environment , in order to preserve or create pleasant amenities has been due to the work of many people organised in groups . |
| 17 | No doubt the neglect has been due to the absence of knowledge in dealing with these matters , and the ignorance of the right methods and necessary articles for use … |
| 18 | The really phenomenal success of these materials during the last thirty years or so has been due to the combination of cheap and rapid mass-production with adequate toughness — added of course to chemical inertness , lightweight and bright and cheerful , not to say garish , colours . |
| 19 | What part of any contraction in the demand for elderly workers has been caused by state action over the setting of pension eligibility terms , and what part has been due to the autonomous decisions of employers , must for the moment remain an open question . |
| 20 | This has been due to the lack of understanding of the origins of this pottery . |
| 21 | This means that most of the recent increase in the proportion of non-manual employment in the employed population has been due to the expansion of service industries and not due to a rise in the number of government employees . |
| 22 | The major portion of the consumption of energy over the past 100 years has been due to the industrialisation of what is now called the Developed World . |
| 23 | If the campaign has been logical to the strategists , the public perception is that it has been awful . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Sveticic , a near neighbour of fellow Slovenian soloist Tomo Cesen ( ‘ the world 's greatest mountaineer ’ according to Reinhold Messner ) , had earlier soloed the very hard Rolling Stone route on the same face , and has been close to the tops of K2 and Everest . |
| 26 | Its co-operation has been crucial to the international consensus legitimising the war . |
| 27 | The idea of older workers being surplus to labour requirements has been crucial to the development of pensions both in Britain ( the 1925 pensions legislation ) and the United States ( the Social Security Act of 1935 ) . |
| 28 | Pornographic imagery has been crucial to the success of safer-sex campaigns . |
| 29 | However , the organization of rural workers has been crucial to the formation of the Salvadorean opposition movement and political repression has been most savage in the countryside . |
| 30 | This will be used to test the hypothesis that the relationship between state policy and private capital has been crucial to the development of the mineral-energy complex and has been an important factor in the successful capital goods sectors ; this will be supplemented through comparative analysis with other mineral and energy producers in developing economies . |