Example sentences of "[been] [art] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A related weakness has been the lack of effective co-operation between industry and higher education . |
| 2 | Another frightening development since Mrs Thatcher went has been the lack of genuine economic debate in Whitehall . |
| 3 | One of the problems facing libraries in the use of video material has been the lack of standardization between different systems . |
| 4 | As far as evaluation efforts by academic librarians in general are concerned , the primary problem has been the lack of student response to the process and the consequent impossibility of reaching sufficiently valid conclusions on the basis of small evaluation returns . |
| 5 | One of the major problems with electric vehicles has been the lack of a battery with a high power-to-weight ratio . |
| 6 | Until now , the only problem with this theory has been the lack of evidence , apart from the impossibility of finding anyone who admits to having voted Tory . |
| 7 | Such has been the lack of literary models , though , that the nearest parallel is not with any literary bratpack but rather with the new wave of black film-makers in the States . |
| 8 | One surprise has been the lack of Saxon settlements beneath the medieval villages which have been excavated . |
| 9 | One of the constraints in planning R&D has been the lack of a convincing model of the process . |
| 10 | Anther limiting factor in studying the properties of human gall bladder epithelium has been the lack of normal tissue . |
| 11 | A major difficulty in genetic studies of peptic ulcer disease has been the lack of subclinical markers . |
| 12 | The difficulty with this has been the lack of confidence in building budget forecasts for 1993–4 out of not very precise market-mapping exercises done with only 1992–3 figures . |
| 13 | Of course in the past this has often been the lack of interest which has been shown by district councils , who have tried to ignore the existence of the press . |
| 14 | Pericles ' position is ( almost everywhere : see p. 126 on finance ) described by Thucydides as if his authority depended solely on charismatic qualities of leadership , but this can not have been the whole of it . |
| 15 | The major political development has been the division of the communists into the reformist Democratic Left and the Marxist Refoundation , and the growth of protest movements . |
| 16 | Surfing Hawaii was like being in the Blitz , and it may have been the thought of death that made me think of love . |
| 17 | ‘ I think it must have been coming from the cold of the church into the warmth , or , perhaps — ’ and she made a wan attempt at humour — ‘ it might have been the thought of attending the ladies ’ sewing circle which overcame me ! ’ |
| 18 | Acquiring its contents had been the purpose of her outing , but she no longer cared about it . |
| 19 | They had finished the wine and talked about almost everything but the charity that had been the purpose of the lunch . |
| 20 | The Queen had already been informed ; this had been the purpose of his visit to Sandringham the previous day , which had generally been regarded as part of the normal routine , and not as marking any special occasion . |
| 21 | It was a large walled-in structure containing several graves and a plaque stating that underneath were deposited the remains of Mary , who had been the daughter of somebody and the wife of someone else . |
| 22 | Of course the answer is changing the myth would have made Moses Hebrew and not Egyptian , because if Moses had been the daughter of Pharaoh he would had to been Egyptian and that the Hebrews could n't tolerate because at a later stage their religion became strongly ethnic and racially divided , you really got to be born Jewish to be Jewish , so they could n't tolerate their , their founding fathers of not being anything but Jewish , so they altered it , they changed the records and they falsified the myth , but they left this glaring inconsistency in it , so the myth is no longer it 's er rewritten and this is one of the little bits of evidence and now of course erm if you do n't take psychoanalyst insights into the family romance seriously , that may not cut much ice for you , but if you erm appreciate the force of these unconscious stereotypes in creating this like this , it 's cert it 's a quite potent piece of evidence because you think well why should the , the Bible change the myth , why ca n't it just put up with the normal myth . |
| 23 | Had the Tuairisc model been adopted , there would have been no question of NICRA initiating demonstrations in Dungannon or Derry ; this would have been the responsibility of purely local groups . |
| 24 | Those hospitals which formerly had been the responsibility of Boards of Guardians and later of the local authorities , together with the development of those hospitals which the local authorities brought about , including maternity hospitals , passed to the State under the National Health Service Act 1946 , and are now managed by selected and not by elected authorities . |
| 25 | The general trend towards central control , together with the introduction of LMS , which delegates to governors many of the management powers which have traditionally been the responsibility of the local authority , have conspired significantly to alter the role of the local education authority . |
| 26 | Housing had been the responsibility of the Urban Renewal Authority ( URA ) since the early 1970s when it achieved independent recognition through federal legislation . |
| 27 | Framing the articles of incorporation for the non-profit foundation and its initial policies has been the responsibility of Dr Steven Mansbach , currently Associate Dean of the National Gallery of Art 's Center for Advanced Studies in the Visual Arts . |
| 28 | The thought of ‘ New Liberalism ’ was shaped by the fact that during the period 1880–1914 a great deal of interventionist legislation had been enacted , much of which had been the responsibility of Liberal governments . |
| 29 | Since April 1986 , the whole of the twenty-eight weeks of sickness benefit has been the responsibility of employers , and all twenty-eight weeks is taxable . |
| 30 | Erm most of the other items o on the works and bridges would have been the responsibility of the project manager to er them . |