Example sentences of "been [art] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Maximum production has been the slogan to which we have all adhered . |
| 2 | Hooliganism has been the exception to the rule that the media are only interested in victories , records , and the private life of the stars . |
| 3 | He seemed to be mulling things over because he must have seen that this had not been the shock to Maggie that it had to him . |
| 4 | Comics have had the greatest punchbags and been the antidote to 12 years of Republican rule . |
| 5 | One factor with which the Baghdad planners had failed to reckon seems to have been the contribution to an enemy 's performance of simple patriotism , the force which impels people to fight to defend their native soil against an invader , whatever they may have to say about the way things are run at home . |
| 6 | We have provided comics , magazines , records and cassettes ; we have installed comfortable seating and modern furniture , and have laid on numerous events and activities : we have been successful in updating our image , but one of the consequences of our success has been the degree to which we have attracted the rowdier elements of the local youth . |
| 7 | A feature of recent years has been the degree to which the differing agencies — HMI , the DES , Further Education Unit , and NBHS ( now renamed Skill : National Bureau for Students with Disabilities ) have worked together . |
| 8 | This could have been the return to the stresses and strains of normal life or because she was no longer taking Arg Nit so I put her on Arg Nit LM1 . |
| 9 | She had also been the saviour to many local drinkers who were about to get the bums rush from an irate Knocker , always a painful experience because Knocker rarely bothered to open the door first . |
| 10 | A presidential decree of Jan. 24 established the Russian Federation Ministry of Security ( RFMS ) , on the basis of the Russian Federal Security Agency [ see pp. 38654 ; 38731 ] and the Inter-Republican Security Service , which had been the successor to the USSR KGB [ see p. 38654 ] and had then been incorporated into the Russian Ministry of Security and Internal Affairs , abolished in January as being unconstitutional [ see p. 38731 ] . |
| 11 | The Government Agent of the Southern Province wrote in his report for 1899 that the ‘ great feature of the year has been the rush to plumbago [ graphite ] . |
| 12 | Recently a member heard of an 1870 five compartment EX-L & SWR coach incorporated in the garden of Mike Rule of Fyfield , Andover where it had been the home to a family of eight from 1920 to 1965 . |
| 13 | And at the last three meetings the bookmakers have operated in a confined square which certainly has n't been the answer to congestion problems . |
| 14 | The main area for discussion has been the extent to which there should be close day-to-day supervision of television and radio . |
| 15 | One of the most notable and significant aspects of the more complex societies which emerged in the course of modern history has been the extent to which social life has been moulded by associations of private persons concerned with promoting a wide range of activities from local government , education , the professions , the arts and sports to a widening area of hobbies and pursuits . |
| 16 | For , as we shall see , one of the most obvious effects of the myth of judicial independence on sentencing practice over the years has been the extent to which sentencers have been left to police themselves according to their own rules arid principles . |
| 17 | Yet a key theme in discussions of relationships between ministers and their departments has been the extent to which politicians enter with apparent policy commitments but become socialized into roles determined by the permanent administrator and particularly by the need for ‘ policy maintenance ’ within their department . |
| 18 | A major worry has been the extent to which the newly structured capital market has drawn in scarce resources , notably graduates who are paid salaries far beyond their opportunity cost . |
| 19 | The privatisation programme has been an enormous success in recent years and not the least part of that success has been the extent to which it has widened and deepened share ownership around the country . |
| 20 | Delia Sutherland closed her fingers around the inside of his elbow with a pressure that could have been the overture to an embrace but he knew it was not . |
| 21 | The buildings would once have been the stables to the bigger houses out on the street , but now the bigger houses would all have been subdivided long ago and the stables leased off and converted . |
| 22 | Perhaps the most significant barrier to the growth of the factoring industry has been the failure to ‘ package ’ the service effectively . |
| 23 | Even more revealing , had I been asking the questions now ( the year of the miners ' strike ) , would have been the reaction to this one , suggested by Griffiths and Howson . |
| 24 | Yet family planning programmes have almost invariably focused upon the cessation of childbearing after two or three children , a tactic that has been the signal to many women and couples that the service did not meet their needs . |
| 25 | I think is we , one of the concerns has been , I 've been visiting has been the need to , feeling of security in many factors . |
| 26 | Linked to egalitarianism and associated with many of the same writers and thinkers has been the drift to collectivism . |
| 27 | A second factor must certainly have been the challenge to Alhred from Aethelred , son of Aethelwald Moll , who was crowned in Alhred 's place ‘ with great honour ’ . |
| 28 | All agreed that the tactical decision on whether to go east or west at Cape Finisterre had been the key to success . |
| 29 | Dr George Kingsley seems to have been the key to Mary 's character — he was an inveterate traveller and his rare moments at home displayed tyrannical dominance and vanity , traits inherited by his daughter who both admired and resented him . |
| 30 | Sarazen was so sure that Daniels had been the key to his win that he asked for the old boy to be with him when he was presented with the claret jug , saying it was a ‘ team victory ’ . |