Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] been [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | One of the problems with traditional remedial teaching has been that spelling and neatness are fetishes . |
2 | The result has been that discount deals have proliferated . |
3 | 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 . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | The result has been some unbundling , loosening and decentralizing of control in some societies and in some organizations on some tasks . |
6 | A recurring complaint from industry has been that pension funds are too short-term orientated , to the detriment of the companies in whose shares they deal . |
7 | Then the doctrine common to all ages and nations had been that insolvency was a crime , and that the debtor might be properly made to pay in person the penalty for his offence . |
8 | ‘ The argument for the reformers has been that punishment simply does not work . |
9 | The effect of falling school rolls and DES cuts in teacher-training quotas has been some reduction in the numbers of students on courses ; however , recruitment in 1981 was still considerable and , in 1981 , the polytechnics had 1,300 students enrolled on to teacher-training courses . |
10 | Heather had been this way before him , had seen and understood what he would shortly see and might yet understand . |
11 | " This would have been a much larger sum if the salesmen had been any good . " |
12 | ‘ 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 . |
13 | Like the other playwrights whose response to Thatcherism and brutality has been some hand-wringing of their own , Barker is too infatuated by his heroine 's strength to humanise her withe vulnerability and too in awe of her for a passionate or coolly detached opposition . |
14 | One of the sad side-effects of industrial action during the early years of the implementation of ISS has been that work on improving the teacher-parent partnership has been more neglected by teachers than anyone initially expected . |
15 | Dimly , in what seemed at that moment to have been another existence altogether , she remembered Jurgen and Horst arguing that there was actually something dynamic and hopeful about the forces of good and innocence being so demonstrably at risk from the satanic . |
16 | ‘ That 's what I was on about , Boyo , ’ Taff answered , pointing to the spot a few yards away where the mortar team had been this morning . |
17 | For quite a long time the prevailing view among economists had been that money does not affect the relative prices of commodities , but that it does determine the overall price level . |
18 | Indeed , with the beginnings of credit unions in this country , one group that has shown considerable interest in this development has been this group of lenders whose business has been with poor people . |
19 | The tree had been another meeting place of their childhood , and she knew the flaky bark and cracked pavement by heart . |
20 | But obviously the revolution had been some time in the making . |
21 | This has sometimes been justified on security grounds but often the argument has been that disclosure is not in the public interest , that " secrecy is at all times the condition in which the best men make the best decisions . " |
22 | When I wake up , maybe I 'll find that , like the death of Bobby in Dallas , all the recent news has been some kind of bad dream and that labels like Sarah , Non Fiction , Play It Again Sam and Cooking Vinyl all have bands on Top Of The Pops . |
23 | The culmination has been this year 's first World Championships in which Andy took 2nd place as well as being co-sponsor with Palm . |
24 | Much of the general comment has been that quality improvement is just common sense and that we have been doing it all of the time anyway . |
25 | From Henry 's recollection of the trial , which was , admittedly , not all that clear , Young had been some kind of chemist . |
26 | Andréew Fisher had been another contemporary from Sydney and an ability to write , a law degree , and a background in student papers and films made him a choice to handle much of the business side . |
27 | On the whole , especially at local level , the Left in Britain has been more goal orientated than the Right . |
28 | Busy is something Graham Myers has been all season with all Forest injuries Ward with a free kick gets it clear straight to Thomson though Greyson Thomson Gemmell closes down the room immed that 's a very good ball . |
29 | Neither husband nor daughter had been any help . |
30 | For heaven 's sake , she lectured herself despairingly , he was two-timing a fiancée back in England , and if last night 's incident had been any indication he was quite prepared to embark on a brief dalliance with her as well as Tara … |