Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [been] [det] [noun] " 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 | ‘ 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | ‘ 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The tree had been another meeting place of their childhood , and she knew the flaky bark and cracked pavement by heart . |
| 13 | But obviously the revolution had been some time in the making . |
| 14 | The king had been many years a widower . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . " |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | The culmination has been this year 's first World Championships in which Andy took 2nd place as well as being co-sponsor with Palm . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Neither husband nor daughter had been any help . |
| 21 | 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 … |
| 22 | Suspicions have sometimes been voiced that , whenever government has supported civic education , the reason has been that learning of this kind has been interpreted as supportive of a respectful attitude . |
| 23 | The underlying assumption has been that bureaucracy is desirable as an organizational principle because it attempts to clarify authority and accountability while depersonalising their application . |
| 24 | In the past one accusation sometimes levelled against much primary school history has been that work is insufficiently " historical " in approach . |
| 25 | Creating a teaching force which is adequate to the rapidly growing system has been another problem . |
| 26 | The reason given for this conviction has been that assessment , in grading pupils ' performance in any given test , would leave some pupils with a sense of being of less value than others in the class . |
| 27 | The highest level of information used in processing to date has been some form of lexical look-up . |
| 28 | She should have known she was ill , got a doctor to see her earlier , not waited until the bronchitis had turned to pneumonia , so that none of their injections and treatment had been any good . |
| 29 | The new US approach fell short of outright recognition for Bazin 's government , but involved urging exiled President Jean-Bertrand Aristide to meet with Bazin , whereas the earlier US position had been that Aristide should choose his own Prime Minister prior to his return to the country . |
| 30 | The general view has been that theoria is the engine driving the historical development of science and that praxis is merely the application of theoria . |