Example sentences of "have been that " in BNC.
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| 31 | Another rare loss has been that of Mark Weedon , the Managing Director in London until the autumn of 1988 , now at Heidrick and Struggles . |
| 32 | An aim of educational policy in this and many other countries has been that of enhancing equality of opportunity . |
| 33 | One of the sad side-effects of industrial action during the early years of the implementation of ISS has been that work on improving the teacher-parent partnership has been more neglected by teachers than anyone initially expected . |
| 34 | The most comprehensive research has been that carried out by Dingwall , Eekelaar and Murray ( 1983 ) , based on participant observation in social services departments , NHS child health services and casualty departments , and juvenile courts . |
| 35 | Over recent years the most popular explanation of Britain 's comparatively weak economic performance — and one which focuses mainly on the period of rapid decline since 1960 — has been that insufficient resources have been devoted to those parts of the economy which produce a ‘ marketable output ’ [ Bacon and Eltis , 1974 ; Eltis , 1979 ] . |
| 36 | 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 . |
| 37 | A significant milestone has been that product revenues for the AViiON line finally surpassed those of the proprietary Eclipse MV products . |
| 38 | The whole thing has been that , so it 's not so much … it 's just the whole circumstances of the time that one has lived in . |
| 39 | But the major tradition which has queried this view of self has been that which derives from psychoanalysis . |
| 40 | The result has been that recent chancellors have been able to give free rein to their tax-reforming ambitions . |
| 41 | Their complaint has been that , so far at least , the market mechanism has not proved effective for such large volumes — British Steel , for example , spends £100 million annually on electricity , and ICI accounts for 2%-3% of all consumption in the UK . |
| 42 | The basic premise of the meetings has been that ‘ co-operation between the various agencies which comprise the criminal justice system is crucial to the successful operation of the system as a whole ’ . |
| 43 | This desolate landscape has been that of much of the earth for the greater part of its history . |
| 44 | The traditional attitude of government has been that official information should remain secret unless the government chooses to make it available . |
| 45 | This has sometimes been justified on security grounds but often the argument has been that disclosure is not in the public interest , that " secrecy is at all times the condition in which the best men make the best decisions . " |
| 46 | One of the most recent contributions to this debate has been that of Gerland Ledger , in his book Recounting Plato . |
| 47 | One of the most fruitful recent contributions to Marxist theory has been that of autonomist writers who have identified the centrality of reproduction to capitalism and extended the concept of the proletariat beyond the directly employed worker to include the social proletariat ( see Negri , 1979 ) engaged in the reproduction of labour power . |
| 48 | One of the problems with traditional remedial teaching has been that spelling and neatness are fetishes . |
| 49 | Another difficulty has been that such councils are attuned to providing finance for the creation of specific works , while the need for support in popular music is not at the point of creation , but for help in reaching audiences . |
| 50 | The rule has been that young people intending to study medicine must forsake the humanities and social sciences for physics , chemistry and biology . |
| 51 | However , until very recently the accepted wisdom ( CRC , 1977a ) has been that only manufacturing jobs can provide the sort of economic basis needed for sustained job provision , and that neither hill farming or forestry , as shown in Table 5.10 , or service employment and tourism could provide a long-term solution to rural employment problems . |
| 52 | Another clinical advantage of these exquisitely sensitive tests has been that sufficient DNA can be obtained from buccal washings , dried blood on Guthrie phenylketonuria test cards , or tiny chorionic villus biopsy specimens . |
| 53 | Another line of attack has been that of some psychologists who have concentrated their fire on the question whether the type of experimental procedure designed to produce associative learning in Aplysia can ‘ really ’ be said to fulfil the conditions required for classical conditioning . |
| 54 | The result has been that major reforms are completely avoided and every minor reform is weakened or sabotaged . |
| 55 | The result has been that discount deals have proliferated . |
| 56 | The result has been that solar panels are now comparable in price to wind generators . |
| 57 | In addition , there are for example licensing functions performed by the executive in respect of which the traditional view has been that procedural safeguards do not apply . |
| 58 | ON the basis that ‘ forewarned is forearmed ’ the fundamental principle underlying the Companies Acts has been that of disclosure . |
| 59 | Our basic approach has been that corporate reports should seek to satisfy , as far as possible , the information needs of users : they should be useful . ’ |
| 60 | In the case of subject searches , the criterion as applied to traditional IR systems has been that of retrieval effectiveness , based on the concept of relevance and the measures of recall and precision . |