Example sentences of "been [art] [noun] [verb] by " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | It is also believed to have been the word used by Romans when they were attempting to describe the giraffe . |
| 2 | Even more important in the context of this book , however , have been the changes wrought by migration . |
| 3 | Although evidence that Sheffield did any work appears lacking , his might well have been the activity reported by Dickson . |
| 4 | The other stand-by has been the money earned by Greece 's merchant navy . |
| 5 | And there 'll also be at the club tomorrow morning an antiquarian bookseller , a dealer in manuscripts , and an expert in drawings , to see if there 's been the hanky-panky suggested by those few notes about Fishbane . ’ |
| 6 | One reason for this has been the deference shown by the Court of Appeal to the expertise of the Commissioners , a deference which appears to be justified by the thoroughness of the re-examination of the cases by the Commissioners . |
| 7 | A major worry has been the threat posed by groundwater pollution and some research has been conducted on using GIS to monitor this ( Merchant et al. 1987 ; Barringer et al. 1987 ; von Braun 1988 ) . |
| 8 | This has been the procedure followed by the Yugoslav statisticians for many years . |
| 9 | This has been the method used by all the great melody-writers over several centuries . |
| 10 | This has been the method used by the most successful interactive video systems of recent years . |
| 11 | There was evidence of rivets in it and an X-ray revealed traces of a metal covering , which confirmed to experts that it might well have come from the gable end of just such a shrine , and that it could well have been the piece described by the father of Welsh historical research . |
| 12 | The second special factor has been the role played by the Murid Brotherhood , an Islamic movement founded in the first decade of the twentieth century by Amadu Bamba , which has played a key political role in delivering support first for the French colonial authorities and later for the governments of independent Senegal . |
| 13 | Indeed , this has in effect been the argument made by many international lawyers in the years after Hiroshima . |
| 14 | This appears to have been the conclusion reached by the Israeli government when it launched its air attack on Iraq 's French-built research-scale Osiris reactor at Tuweithah near Ctesiphon in June 1981 . |
| 15 | Perhaps his greatest tribute , however , has been the comments made by so many people in the organisation : ‘ Peter always took time to listen ’ . |
| 16 | First , there had been the challenge posed by the calls for an international working-class opposition to the First World War . |
| 17 | A notable exception has been the guides produced by Open University teams ( involving academic staff and librarians ) and published as separate units for particular courses . |
| 18 | This may well have been the aircraft attacked by Westmacott . |
| 19 | This has not been the view taken by the Roman lawyers in other European countries . |
| 20 | However since that time , there has been no recognition granted by USDAW , the main reason for which is the General Secretary , who allegedly had said that because his organization is not a profit making organization , there is no reason to have a trade union there . |
| 21 | There had been no pressure brought by the employers to adopt that method of working . |
| 22 | Unlike much of Europe , England had long been a territory ruled by one dynasty , and was protected by the Channel from invasion by the great land powers of the Continent . |
| 23 | Again those expressions of disgust : I might have been a leopard trapped by big-game hunters , when mercy did not enter into their thoughts . |
| 24 | If on the transfer of the property to the settlement no hold-over claim is possible then it is clear that if the trustees pay the settlor 's capital gains tax there will have been a benefit paid by the trustees to the settlor and the Revenue would no doubt invoke TA 1988 , s673 ( settlements where settlor retains an interest ) . |
| 25 | Perhaps the most important of these has been that public education in England and Wales has been a service provided by public local authorities and paid for out of taxes . |
| 26 | Perhaps it had been a decision taken by a General of KGB in the Lubyanka , perhaps the papers had gone to the Politburo or even to the President , but the matter had not been pushed . |
| 27 | It could equally well have been a photocopy supplied by the employee . |
| 28 | Brawling has often been a pastime favoured by certain film stars ; normally those who happen to drink a lot as well . |
| 29 | He had been a student driven by his father into commerce when all he wanted was to study , to be acclaimed as a Hebrew scholar . |
| 30 | Cambridgeshire has never been a county dominated by the nobility and gentry , for the degree of manorial fragmentation found there from Domesday Book onwards did not encourage the development of strong lordship . |