Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] [noun] has be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ … there are many Ph Ds whose working career has borne little relation to the subject of their thesis , however potent the contribution of research training has been to their intellectual and practical development . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ … there are many Ph Ds whose working career has borne little relation to the subject of their thesis , however potent the contribution of research training has been to their intellectual and practical development . ’ |
| 3 | Party strategists acknowledge that the overwhelming weight of opinion polls has been against them — and that for Mr Major to win tomorrow he would need a movement in public opinion greater than that achieved in nine of the past 10 election campaigns . |
| 4 | The development of CD-ROM techniques has been of particular significance for students of texts : classics students can search the complete database of ancient literature by using the IBYCUS implementation of the Thesaurus Linguae Graecae ; students of English can use the CD-ROM version of the Oxford English Dictionary to conduct searches which would take lifetimes if conducted on the twenty volumes of hard copy . |
| 5 | Does the Minister recognise that the question of loan sharks has been on the agenda for the past 12 years , but that nothing positive has occurred other than the report to which he referred ? |
| 6 | LM It is very easy in the kind of society Czechoslovakia has been in the past twenty years to lose a more general perspective on events . |
| 7 | Consequently , an active programme of asset disposals has been under way over the last year in order to reduce the group 's high level of debt , which was the result of decisions to develop new oil and gas fields over the last few years , as well as the additional debt burden inherited following the acquisition of Ultramar . |
| 8 | The main loss of oil consumption has been in heating and electricity generation . |
| 9 | This vast expanse of grass and heather is a cover concealing a realm of magic and mystery , where since the beginning of time nature has been at work slowly evolving an intricate subterranean labyrinth of caverns , grottoes and canals carved in beautiful designs by the agency of running water . |
| 10 | A program of research into leadership styles has been in operation at Ohio State University since 1945 . |
| 11 | In welcoming this commitment , Mr Bell pointed out that the substantially greater freedom which U.K. insurers have enjoyed in product design and in investment policy has been to the distinct benefit if their policy-holders in the past . |
| 12 | However , the emphasis in LMS training has been on a whole-school approach , with governors , teachers , office staff , cleaners , caretakers , technicians , ancillary staff and LEA representatives working together for a full day in a particular school . |
| 13 | It is noticeable that though Derrida is a philosopher , albeit one interested in literature , and has always worked in an academic-philosophical context , even if on the margins of the subject , his major impact in North America has been in literature departments . |
| 14 | It is therefore timely to consider what the impact of this mandatory scheme for school self-evaluation has been on the teachers , recalling what the stated intentions were at the outset : |