Example sentences of "the [det] has been " in BNC.

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1 But during the last decade the challenge of achieving expanding opportunities for the many has been ignored — instead , the priority has been to bring benefits only to the few .
2 Here the latter has been wanting : ‘ I know it sounds daft .
3 Here the latter has been wanting : ‘ I know it sounds daft .
4 The latter has been liberalised in all 12 member states .
5 The latter has been my guardian and close confidant from infancy — he would not fail me now ! ’
6 Interestingly , the former is now given Very Difficult in the guidebook while the latter has been raised to Hard Very Severe .
7 It takes a bit of an effort to get to the punchline in IBM Corp 's alliance with Blockbuster Entertainment Corp to enable record stores to create compact disks on the spot at the request of the customer ( CI No 2,166 ) , because the deal is actually between IBM 's Fireworks Partners unit , which is buying a stake in Blockbuster 's NewLeaf Entertainment Corp subsidiary and creating a new company , Fairway Technology Associates , both in Deerfield Beach , Florida ; the latter has been formed to further the development of multimedia technologies and to operate the multimedia distribution system , which will consist of digital content databases , interfaces to broadband telecommunications networks , audio and video servers and content production and display devices — and we were all wrong in suggesting that the point of the system was to enable retailers to eliminate the problem of needing to stock thousands of slow-moving titles — the partners say the aim is ‘ to create a more enticing retail experience ’ .
8 The most notable representative of the latter has been Michel Foucault , who has remorselessly continued the critique of totalizing forms of history and the disavowal of a general philosophy of history in favour of strategic ‘ genealogical ’ analyses .
9 The long-term growth in the latter has been enormous .
10 The latter has been the chosen course , with the Federal government establishing welfare programmes , and guidelines for their operation , whereby part ( if not all ) of the costs of programme implementation are met from Federal money , and allocated to the State governments to be used for the defined purposes .
11 As the syllabuses and teaching methods devised for the in-service PGCE course are also used on the equivalent full-time course , the latter has been accepted by the General Nursing Council as a recognized route for the training of nurse tutors .
12 Traditionally , the connection between the police and the party in power locally has been very close , and the susceptibility of the former to the wishes of the latter has been much greater than in Britain .
13 The former approach has been the classical one , dating from the early statistical models of rubber elasticity based on random walk theory ; the latter has been followed by the rheologists , those who study solution properties and in recent years developed in new directions by de Gennes and Edwards and their collaborators .
14 The former is relatively difficult to investigate in the normal research framework of brief laboratory experiments , and the latter has been overshadowed by the large volume of research on rational information processing , using analogies between computers and the mind .
15 Other notable examples include the Church at Znojmo and S. Maurice at Olomouc , though the latter has been much altered on the exterior ; it has a hall church interior .
16 The latter has been extensively studied by Stenson , who suggested a two stage pathogenic framework for inflammatory bowel disease .
17 The latter has been the main advocate of the project , which would greatly improve the republic 's electricity supply .
18 ( The latter has been tested in Britain by the Reading Bus Company , see ED 72/73 ) .
19 In Cuba , the former has been emphasised with marked success , while economic growth has been subject to fluctuations .
20 Turning to the relationship between direct land-users and conservation agents , lack of participation of the former has been attributed to governments not involving the people in the design and implementation of the project .
21 However , while the former has been given considerable attention by geographers ( summarized by Openshaw et al. 1989 ) there has been relatively little such work in the UK on the disposal of non-nuclear wastes .
22 Usually , the former has been talking about the latter .
23 Digital employees use the phrase ‘ high performance ’ in preference to Vaill 's usage ; the former has been adopted here .
24 Despite the original relationship of the rule to nuisance , however , the former has been developed in such a way that it provides a remedy which is basically quite different from nuisance .
25 Since the 1960s the same has been true of France .
26 6.4 Upon expiry or termination , for whatever reason , of this Agreement , shall return or destroy as shall instruct no later that 30 ( thirty ) days thereafter , all Licensed Software , documentation , technical information and any other data supplied to during the continuance in effect of this Agreement and all and any copies made of the whole or any part of the same and shall furnish with a certificate , certifying that the same has been done , except such supporting software , information and data which will require to continue to support the Licensed Software being the date of expiry or termination where permits to do so .
27 Angle has a plaque honouring its Fighter Command history and the same has been done for Pembroke Dock and its flying-boat squadrons .
28 The same has been happening in the steel industry with the advent of the mini-mills .
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