Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] [verb] 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 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | And the change had been with Pamela , not with him . |
| 6 | ( 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 . |
| 7 | Both suggest that in the area of sexual morality the change has been towards less restraint , less control and more choice . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The struggle has been between the Czech people and the security apparatus behind the Communist party . |
| 10 | The struggle has been between the Czech people and the security apparatus behind the Communist party . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | That is why the board has been considering developing an alternative system jointly with NASDAQ , the American over-the-counter market . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Though the brand had been in the market since before the war , it had a very small market share . |
| 15 | The case had been under way in Ohio for more than two years and was now ready for trial . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | But if you think things are bad now , just wait till the case has been to court . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | The evening before , the carrier-bag had been at the foot of the monkey-puzzle , propped up against the trunk , facing the house . |
| 21 | After all , she and the Archdeacon had been into the house once already . |
| 22 | At the end of her eight-week course at the ICO she declared that the experience had been like a very deep well with pure water . |
| 23 | We know what the experience has been over the years . |
| 24 | How many times have you sat down at your machine and thought ‘ I do n't think I can cope with this ’ and within the next five minutes all the knitting has been on the floor ? |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | The ‘ Fury and the Spitfire has been to an airshow the previous day at Yeovilton , they had then flown to Humberside for another airshow and were on their way home . |
| 27 | We at Halpern and Woolf believe the recession has been with us for some months already ; the C B I takes the same view and they 're pressing for interest rate reductions now to restore business confidence . |
| 28 | The university has been under curfew and restraint for months . |
| 29 | Well you could say that erm our background goes back erm twenty-five years , in fact , we 've had a considerable involvement with industry both local and national for as long as the University has been in existence , which is now nearly twenty-five years . |
| 30 | The census has been for many years now an important instrument , among a range of such instruments , in the administration of the welfare state . |