Example sentences of "[art] [noun] have [been] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , it is fair to say that , compared with 1986 , far more emphasis was placed on the data about publications ( of which a much greater quantity was submitted this time ) , i.e. the judgments have been more ‘ output led ’ . ’ |
| 2 | A political storm which had developed in September around the proposed sale of 35 small islands in the Bay of Argolis and the Saronic Gulf abated after a government official , Byron Polydoras , on Oct. 14 assured journalists that the proposals had been that " certain rocky islets " should be leased — not sold — " on a long-term basis for tourist development " . |
| 3 | 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 ’ . |
| 4 | Yes it is , er I mean , what we tried to do was to write er a comedy on a big scale that was n't a marshmallow , er in fact it er the , the comedy deepens and it gets pretty sour , and I think some of the criticism of the play has been that ‘ is it a comedy , or is it a serious play ’ . |
| 5 | Letters from the States had been few and far between of late , although money from Sean still came from time to time . |
| 6 | He adds : ‘ It has been a good few years since the snow has been this hard which means a lot of walkers are n't used to it . |
| 7 | The result has been that sterling has become very expensive to borrow , but there is still far too much of it , and the supply is still increasing too fast . |
| 8 | The result has been that ‘ investment at the highest levels ever ’ has come from fares , not from any public purse , and that an ‘ economic ’ system has become unsafe as BR and LRT weigh up commercial investment needs against the cost of safety measures and the cost of paying wages sufficient to maintain a safe level of staffing . |
| 9 | The result has been that recent chancellors have been able to give free rein to their tax-reforming ambitions . |
| 10 | The result has been that major reforms are completely avoided and every minor reform is weakened or sabotaged . |
| 11 | The result has been that discount deals have proliferated . |
| 12 | The result has been that solar panels are now comparable in price to wind generators . |
| 13 | The result has been that sea walls have had to take the brunt of the power of waves and currents at high tide , which erodes them and requires rebuilding on an ever larger scale . |
| 14 | The result has been some unbundling , loosening and decentralizing of control in some societies and in some organizations on some tasks . |
| 15 | The rule has been that young people intending to study medicine must forsake the humanities and social sciences for physics , chemistry and biology . |
| 16 | The effect has been that for most of this century Britain has had to hold interest rates higher than has been necessary or desirable . |
| 17 | And the repetitions have been many . |
| 18 | The Greeks and the Jews have been such peoples and produced such thinkers . |
| 19 | " This would have been a much larger sum if the salesmen had been any good . " |
| 20 | Just the sight of the stamp had been enough to set her heart beating uneasily and she had to fight down the urge to put off reading the words someone had written to her . |
| 21 | ‘ The argument for the reformers has been that punishment simply does not work . |
| 22 | Such is the demand for the Rt Hon John Smith , QC , on the national stage that visits to his constituency during the campaign have been fewer than he would have liked . |
| 23 | The outcome has been that , over the past fifteen years , there has been ‘ a huge expropriation of accumulated labour , several times greater than the expropriation which immediately followed the war ’ . |
| 24 | ‘ But if the lad has been any sort of problem in the past I still believe United will get the best out of him and put an end to his wandering . |
| 25 | ‘ The consequence has been that for some time , by mutual agreement , we have led more separate lives . ’ |
| 26 | The king had been many years a widower . |
| 27 | The sense of satisfaction was bigger than a prop 's ribcage ; the problems had been fewer than a hooker 's braincells . |
| 28 | The tree had been another meeting place of their childhood , and she knew the flaky bark and cracked pavement by heart . |
| 29 | But obviously the revolution had been some time in the making . |
| 30 | 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 . |