Example sentences of "[noun] of [noun] have [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Metropolitan Borough of Wigan has been sufficiently impressed with the results so far to finance the printing of enough copies for the first year pupils of three comprehensive schools beginning in September 1985 . |
| 2 | With the weak-link strength recommended by the glider manufacturer , breaking the weak link is now comparatively rare and the risks of error have been reduced . |
| 3 | These arts of war have been nurtured over thousands of years . |
| 4 | Reich argued , however , that over thousands of years these essentially good characteristics of humanity had been repressed . |
| 5 | One of the more obvious characteristics of partnerships has been that educational partners are generally the poor relation — at least they usually behave as if they are — probably because partnerships are measured essentially in terms of cash rather than other kinds of resource such as accommodation , talent , expertise , knowledge and creativity . |
| 6 | Other characteristics of class have been noted : disproportionate recruitment into the bureaucracy from the offspring of bureaucrats ; a distinctive subculture by monopolization of access to Western education ; the relative wealth and privileges separating the bureaucratic stratum from the rest of society , and control of the means of repression to maintain the bureaucracy 's dominance . |
| 7 | But , first , what characteristics of individuals have been found to affect the way they behave at work ? |
| 8 | Furthermore , some of these sorts of approaches have been modified for more general use with those who are not already suffering a psychiatric disorder . |
| 9 | A few of the rarer sorts of meteorite have been chipped off much larger blocks : the Moon and Mars . |
| 10 | All sorts of people have been questioning me — the health and safety lot , the union , management — you name it , they 've been to see me . ’ |
| 11 | Since 1973 the Association of illustrators has been fulfilling a much needed role in the illustration industry . |
| 12 | Further data on these geomagnetic reversals were collected and by the mid-1960s a chronology of reversals had been established through the radiometric dating of a large number of samples from all over the world . |
| 13 | Once the acute episode of RSI has been identified and treated , the next essential step is to prevent a recurrence . |
| 14 | In recent months a good deal of concern has been expressed about students no longer having access to benefits over the summer vacation . |
| 15 | A great deal of money has been spent conserving a block of less-than-distinguished Victorian slums and warehouses . |
| 16 | A good deal of money has been made tarting up riverside and bank top pubs to take account of the new ambiance and to cater to the non-industrial affluent . |
| 17 | All I do know is that we 're very conscious a great deal of money 's been spent by the Council and by the Trust to try and make the place outside more inviting those tubs been put there er they been planted etc there 's a lot of litter there we 've put litter bins there there 's taxi rank there there 's lot 's of things been put there I think the problem is it is n't the people who do that I mean it 's the people who actually do the litter and it 's quite clear that we do go out we do tidy up but it happens and it 's a case of balance of what we can do and what you ca n't do but we do work at it I can assure you . |
| 18 | A great deal of ink has been spilled over the nature of indirect duties , to which I will return in the next section . |
| 19 | In the course of the exercise a great deal of knowledge had been gained about EPH activities and associated problems , and various other changes were made as a result of the investigation . |
| 20 | Although a good deal of success has been achieved with regard to mapping vegetation ( Hathout , 1980 ) , there are still problems with resolution and cloud cover ( Allan , 1980 ) and although these are gradually being resolved by radar , the problem of more detailed and fine-grained interpretation will remain for the foreseeable future ( Deane , 1980 ) . |
| 21 | A great deal of progress has been made on equal rights . |
| 22 | A great deal of work has been done in attempts to get at the ‘ true ’ total of crimes committed . |
| 23 | A great deal of work has been done in academic and business schools on the track record of success of those who have diversified totally outside their own fields of experience . |
| 24 | ‘ Yes , a great deal of work has been done . |
| 25 | Over the last two decades a great deal of work has been published by historians on the subject of popular culture . |
| 26 | Although a great deal of work has been done in the historical demography of the developed world relatively little research has been carried out in relation to the corresponding ( i.e. pre-demographic transition ) period in the Third World . |
| 27 | Similar schemes have been drawn up for several mammalian groups , certain butterfly genera , various reptiles and amphibians while a good deal of work has been carried out on the distributions of the avifauna . |
| 28 | Yes , erm , a great deal of work has been done in the United States on this trend , in particular by juvenile fire setters as they refer to them . |
| 29 | A great deal of publicity has been given to CFCs , not just because they are destroying the stratospheric ozone layer but because many are extremely powerful heat trappers as well . |
| 30 | Indeed he agreed that a great deal of hypocrisy had been involved in what Macaulay had called one of the ‘ fits of morality ’ to which the British nation was periodically subject . |