Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] been [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Another significant change in carp fishing technique has been in surface fishing . |
| 2 | The staple crop has for centuries been rice , and wet-rice agriculture has been of crucial significance in the evolution of Japanese society . |
| 3 | Though its timing caught out the markets , the krona/ecu link has been on the cards for some months . |
| 4 | The channel tunnel rail link has been at the centre of my thoughts about my own urban concerns . |
| 5 | perhaps the best-known attempt to make such a link has been by Peter Hall . |
| 6 | Indeed it has been a skill whose weakness has been at the root of many criticisms of GCSE papers where short answers are not deemed to be adequate foundation for A level . |
| 7 | Studies of rape in England and Wales suggest that two-thirds of rapes take place in the home of the victim or the offender , and that only one-third involve strangers ; that two-fifths of victims suffer physical violence as well as rape , and one-sixth suffer additional sexual indignities ; that recent years have seen an increase in the reporting of rapes between acquaintances , and that rapes are increasing a little in their intrinsic seriousness ( i.e. in terms of the violence used , other sexual acts , etc ) , but that the most significant rise has been in the average length of sentences imposed on rapists by the courts . |
| 8 | Why his Lordship should have concluded that the facts did not give rise to the issue is unclear , but subsequent events have shown that the decision has been of much greater importance for the scope of the right of public meeting than his Lordship imagined it would be . |
| 9 | This conc has been in progress all today . |
| 10 | Short 's preparation has been under way for six months and has been intensive . |
| 11 | Bramham Park has been in the Lane Fox family for eight generations , since Robert Benson and the first Lord Bingley built the House and laid out the grounds in the manner of Versailles in 1698 and George Fox married his daughter . |
| 12 | ( 1982 ) have shown that about three-quarters of the change has been to woodland , as shown in Figure 8.4 , and that this pattern is fairly geographically even , except for Dartmoor as shown in Table 8.4 . |
| 13 | Both suggest that in the area of sexual morality the change has been towards less restraint , less control and more choice . |
| 14 | One recent change has been among the so-called shabashniki . |
| 15 | Now in his third full season with the HB NSR , Bradl 's main change has been from Michelin to Dunlop tyres |
| 16 | The main change has been in attitudes to Japan and Western Europe . |
| 17 | The second change has been in share prices themselves : in the 1980s they soared . |
| 18 | The numbers unemployed and in education rose but a bigger change has been in the numbers on the Youth Training Scheme which was set up in 1983 . |
| 19 | The most important contextual change has been in the labour market . |
| 20 | Another radical change has been in the traditional structure for production management on the major multi-business sites . |
| 21 | When the morning walk has been a hot , hard climb and all breathing has been in gasps , you can arrive at lunchtime with a mouth as dry as a salt mine . |
| 22 | In broad terms , the division has been between those who see an accumulation of reforms and a gradual erosion of bourgeois dominance as leading to a situation in which a relatively easy and peaceful transition to a socialist society will be achieved ; and those who regard reforms largely as mere palliatives , value the struggle for reforms mainly for its effect in developing working-class consciousness and organization , and envisage the achievement of socialism as a more abrupt event ensuing from a more or less violent final confrontation between the bourgeoisie and the proletariat . |
| 23 | Funding for research of this kind has been on a scale not approached by any other area of sociological enquiry . |
| 24 | In fact a more limited regime of this kind has been on the Soviet agenda for the Mediterranean for many years . |
| 25 | The least coverage has been in the realm of news and current affairs , where until the recent AIDS and Clause 28 reportage gay stories have been given only very occasional attention . |
| 26 | The chief way out of this difficulty has been for empirical studies to focus on surrogates for power , rather than directly on the exercise of power itself . |
| 27 | Iraq 's heritage has been at least as much shaped by Ottoman rule as Romania 's , but equally Saddam and the Iraqi Ba'ath Party modelled their organization and secret police methods on those of the Soviet Communist Party and its little brothers . |
| 28 | Inter-rater reliability was assessed across codes , individuals and data-points ; mean weighted occurrence/ non-occurrence reliability has been between 84 per cent and 95 per cent on each occasion . |
| 29 | Since the crisis began in the late 1970s , spending on education below tertiary level has been at rock bottom and health little better . |
| 30 | Perhaps emphasis at this level has been upon soil evolution rather than upon soil dynamics , which has been treated in relation to land capability . |