Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] have [been] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Demand for prospectuses has been such that an Independent scribe seeking a Warburgs telephone number for publication was told the firm really would prefer that it did not appear in print . |
| 2 | In the area of hydrology have been some of the most specific contributions made by physical geographers including the analysis of increased discharges ( Hollis , 1975 ; Walling and Gregory , 1970 ; Walling 1979a ) , investigation of sediment yield ( Walling , 1974 ) , research extending into the area of water quality and pollutants related to urban source areas ( Ellis , 1979 ) and analysis of river channel changes downstream from urban areas ( Leopold 1973 ; Gregory , 1981 ) . |
| 3 | A regular visitor to Upper Dean Terrace was my grandmother 's old cook , Bessie , whose chicken cream and queen of puddings had been such a highlight of Nairn holidays , and who was now living in retirement in nearby Learmonth Terrace . |
| 4 | In the immediate post-war years , the Minister of Defence had been little more than the co-ordinator of the three autonomous Service Ministries and the Ministry of Supply . |
| 5 | The progression of destructionn moves from affecting the capacity for a full range of emotional feelings and then into affecting intellectual processes and finally affecting physical health , although ther will of course have been many episodes of some damage to physical well-being throughout the progress of the disease . |
| 6 | The New Right emphasis on adversary politics and an overload of demands has been more of a critique of democracy in Britain than it has ever been a rigorous description of , and explanation for , British politics . |
| 7 | ‘ The earls of Warwick have been some of the most powerful men in English history . |
| 8 | The Battle of Falkirk had been another Jacobite victory , Prince Charles having lost 50 dead and 80 wounded , while Hawley 's casualties , suffered in a mere 20 minutes , amounted to 350 killed and another 300 taken prisoner . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | But pressing the case for disclosure of APR has been such a long , hard battle that there is an obvious temptation to feel that — now the battle has been won — we can all sit back and sigh with relief . |
| 11 | Her teeth crunched down on her lower lip as the whirlpool of her desire sped her back to Seville when this sort of contact had been enough to … |
| 12 | But the major tradition which has queried this view of self has been that which derives from psychoanalysis . |
| 13 | The career of Miller had been that of a classic party functionary rising to PUWP central committee secretary and politburo member , whereas Kwasniewski , who came up through the editorship of party youth wing newspapers to become Minister of Youth and Sports from 1985 , had made his name as a pragmatist and advocate of co-operation with Solidarity in the 1989 round table talks . |
| 14 | Undoubtedly the most significant of these in the context of lasers has been that of inhomogeneous broadening , to which we will return . |
| 15 | Another line of attack has been that of some psychologists who have concentrated their fire on the question whether the type of experimental procedure designed to produce associative learning in Aplysia can ‘ really ’ be said to fulfil the conditions required for classical conditioning . |
| 16 | The traditional attitude of government has been that official information should remain secret unless the government chooses to make it available . |
| 17 | The unity he had in mind was , ironically , that which had existed before Germany became a nation-state , the unity of the disunited rainbow of German states and principalities , the state of unity when Jews were legally inferior to Germans , when Poles were not a numerical threat , when expansion to the east had been easy , when the German people had not been a rising industrial power , when the massed levy of conscripts had been enough to rout their opponents . |
| 18 | Elsewhere , the rate of growth has been such that ancient parishes have been carved into much smaller units so that new churches could serve the expanding population . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Until recently , the acoustic analysis of speech has been such a slow and laborious business that only small samples of speech could be analysed , but recent developments in the use of computers are making it possible to carry out analysis on a much larger scale . |
| 21 | The most common use of context has been some measure of how letters may legally combine to form words . |
| 22 | In both instances , the main markets targeted for development have been those of the US and Western Europe . |
| 23 | It is perhaps not surprising , therefore that from the early days when the state became involved in the education of the masses one of the principal aims of the curriculum enunciated by successive Presidents of the Board of Education , Ministers of Education and Secretaries of State for Education has been that of the preparation for citizenship . |
| 24 | In the last decade a new basis for argument has been that of consumerism and accountability . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Ethridge writes that although expenditure on education increased during the 1980s , ‘ the increase in enrolment has been such that the average per-pupil expenditure actually decreased ’ . |
| 27 | According to Lévy , ‘ The only galleries of modern and contemporary art in Geneva have been those of Daniel Varenne and Jan Krugier . |
| 28 | At the turn of the century industrial production in Belorussia had been half that of the average for Russia as a whole . |
| 29 | On the whole , especially at local level , the Left in Britain has been more goal orientated than the Right . |
| 30 | The nature of community representation in Pittsburgh has been such that , while obliged to consult groups over the allocation of federally originating money , only one group per neighbourhood was consulted . |