Example sentences of "in [art] [noun prp] [vb -s] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | This view is espoused by Myers ( 1986 ) , who believes that deforestation in the Himalaya has been responsible for flood disasters in the lower reaches of the Ganges and Brahmaputra and the higher incidence of flooding that has occurred since 1940 ; apparently flooding now affects some 10 6 ha of land as compared with 6 × 10 6 ha in the early 1950s . |
| 2 | One of the factors sustaining the growth of domestic demand in the USA has been the very considerable federal government budget deficit . |
| 3 | The concept of an " NHS nursing home " for elderly severely mentally ill people in Newcastle has been described by Fairbairn et al ( 1986 ) , and a " hospice approach " to the treatment of " advanced dementia " within a general hospital in the USA has been described by Volicer et al ( 1986 ) . |
| 4 | Traditional pollution control in the UK has been fragmented with air , water and wastes regulated by diffrent agencies operating different pollution control approaches . |
| 5 | Nuclear emergency planning in the UK has been reviewed by Matthews and Pepper ( 1981 ) . |
| 6 | The traditional role of governments in the UK has been to ease the pressures on both companies and individuals by some form of intervention — subsidies , loans or payments etc . |
| 7 | Since 1971 , 1280 kg of plutonium produced in the UK has been exported for civil purposes principally to Belgium , France , the Federal Republic of Germany , Switzerland , Japan and the United States . |
| 8 | The trend in the UK has been for the pyramid to become flattened as many organisations have striven to reduce their layers of middle management to take account of new technology and cut costs . |
| 9 | All Factor VIII now supplied in the UK has been heat-treated to kill the virus . |
| 10 | This is attributed mainly to historical reasons whereby the function of external agreements in the UK has been largely procedural , rather than substantive . |
| 11 | But the only obvious truth of this kind in the UK has been that foreign supply creates domestic demand , the measure of which is import penetration . |
| 12 | The public system of child care in the UK has been dominated by the twin themes of rescue and compensation . |
| 13 | The total number of books published in the UK has been rising relentlessly for over 10 years , but 1993 should herald a change in strategy from major publishers : Random House , HarperCollins and Reed Consumer Books are among companies to have announced that they are substantially reducing the number of titles that they will be publishing in 1993 . |
| 14 | Perhaps the most important outcome of deregulation in the UK has been the emergence of a new corporate creature — the financial conglomerate . |
| 15 | One of the traditional planks of Labour Party policy in the UK has been to own the " commanding heights ' of the economy , though it is never completely clear what these include . |
| 16 | For example , we all know that productivity growth in the UK has been inferior to West Germany 's over the post-war decades ; that product development has been behind that of Japan ; and that over many years the rates of growth of South Korea , Italy and East Germany were higher than the United Kingdom 's . |
| 17 | For example , the general association of mathematics with ‘ science ’ may disguise its potential in relation to other subjects ; and the whole question of the relationship between science and technology in the UK has been the subject of a lively debate in the last decade . |
| 18 | Index arbitrage in the UK has been hampered in the past by the lack of a mechanism ( such as DOT in the USA ) to speed up the process of trading a basket of shares , the requirement to pay stamp duty and insufficient liquidity to cope with large arbitrage trades without an adverse price movement ( Price , 1988 ) . |
| 19 | The £1,000 Arthur C Clarke Award for a work of science fiction published in the UK has been won by Body of Glass ( Michael Joseph , £14.99 , Penguin , 6th May , £5.99 ) by Marge Piercy . |
| 20 | Investment in the monitoring and evaluation of social policy changes made during the post-war period in the UK has been very limited , relative to the vast costs of actually making the changes . |
| 21 | The reduction of the public sector borrowing requirement ( PSBR ) in the UK has been a target , and this indicates a desire to curb the role of government spending . |
| 22 | The growth of venture capital funds in the UK has been substantial in the 1980s and is the result of a number of factors . |
| 23 | The product from International Paint 's Retail Division in the UK has been used to coat display boards and other structures used in the Daearth Project in Wales . |
| 24 | The merchandising bonanza in the US has been one of the biggest ever connected with a Hollywood film . |
| 25 | The $338m damages an Arizona jury awarded to Standard Chartered against Price Waterhouse in the US has been struck out , and a retrial ordered by the same judge who presided over the original trial . |
| 26 | The pot of face relations in the US has been simmering and bubbling furiously , until it finally boiled over and hit the burner . |
| 27 | The report goes on to say that clean-up policy has been made on political rather than scientific grounds and that " less than 1 percent of the $4,200 million spent each year on hazardous-waste sites in the US has been used to evaluate health risks at listed Superfund sites . " |
| 28 | He said : ‘ Up to now , the Irish-American lobby in the US has been unfocused and largely impotent in relation to the Anglo-Irish conflict . |
| 29 | Since gaining a scholarship at Stanford University , his progress in the US has been impressive . |
| 30 | The significance of managerial issues in the NHS has been emphasised throughout 12 years of Conservative government — most notably through the implementation of the Griffiths Report ( 1983 ) and Working for Patients ( 1989 ) . |