Example sentences of "[art] [noun] have been [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | erm The response has been for that authority then to groin its bit of beach , and so we end up with a situation today where along the Sussex coast practically the whole of the coast is groined , except for the areas which are backed by high cliffs , erm where we have the sorts of rates of erosion that I mentioned . |
| 2 | The majority had been of wood and most of these were lost through fire . |
| 3 | But several readers had pointed out that if evil could not create , was only good perverted , then presumably the orcs had been by nature good and might in some way be saved ; Tolkien certainly balked at calling them ‘ irredeemable ’ , see Letters , pp. 195 , 355 . |
| 4 | This has become something of a cause célèbre in rock press folklore , but in truth the NME had been in worse scrapes before and no doubt has many more ahead . |
| 5 | The base had been in line for the axe under the Options for Change review of the Services but was saved because the cost of relocation exceeded the saving . |
| 6 | Hitherto the provision had been for the Speaker to become interim president , with the obligation to organize elections within a period of 45-60 days . |
| 7 | And the change had been with Pamela , not with him . |
| 8 | ( 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 . |
| 9 | Both suggest that in the area of sexual morality the change has been towards less restraint , less control and more choice . |
| 10 | Although he differentiated his position from that of Draper , suggesting that the struggle had been between science and dogmatic theology rather than between science and religion , A. D. White insisted that there had been a theological and a scientific view of every question , invariably at odds . |
| 11 | The struggle has been between the Czech people and the security apparatus behind the Communist party . |
| 12 | The struggle has been between the Czech people and the security apparatus behind the Communist party . |
| 13 | As an extremely well-equipped force , the SDK have been at the centre of political controversy in Japan because of the difficulty of assessing the basic needs of a force that is there purely to defend . |
| 14 | On balance , I believe that Britain 's membership of the EEC has been of some benefit in terms of the home market which she has gained and will continue to gain as and when her partners honour their commitments to complete the Single Market ; however , as should be clear from the figures quoted in Chapter 5 , the assertion that EEC membership has been good for Britain is open to question . |
| 15 | Almost all previous contact with the Board had been through courses of one or two days duration — mostly held on a trainee 's farm ( but also at local education colleges in England and Wales ) , with up to 70% of the time being spent on trainee participation and practice . |
| 16 | That is why the board has been considering developing an alternative system jointly with NASDAQ , the American over-the-counter market . |
| 17 | The Paras have been jumping into one of the dropping zones on Salisbury Plain since first light , so the Scouts have been on standby on the DZ in case there should be any casualties . |
| 18 | The RAF has been at Abingdon since 1932 . |
| 19 | Subjects were told that after they had heard the passage one sentence from it would be repeated , either exactly , or with some small change , and that their task was to say whether the sentence had been in the passage or not . |
| 20 | Though the brand had been in the market since before the war , it had a very small market share . |
| 21 | The case had been under way in Ohio for more than two years and was now ready for trial . |
| 22 | It appears that the case had been in progress before the Heliopolitan Divine Council for eighty years and the gods were understandably becoming impatient and short-tempered , yet they seemed unable to decide upon a judgement . |
| 23 | But if you think things are bad now , just wait till the case has been to court . |
| 24 | I think the Germans had been after ‘ Salt Peter ’ , but they got the empty coal yard and one or two small buses instead . |
| 25 | The contract had been until the end of September when she could reapply for the job she had been turned down for , ‘ provided she had had sufficient experience nursing very sick children ’ , he said . |
| 26 | In the English civil wars of the mid-thirteenth century the cavalry had been in command ; but fifty years later , things were beginning to change . |
| 27 | They will also want to know how successful the plans have been in achieving what they set out to achieve . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Some of the prisoners had been to parties in the German Kommandantur . |
| 30 | The Lions have been on tour for a month . ’ |