Example sentences of "[noun sg] has be one [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For many , the whole idea of using Marxist concepts of analysis is out of the question for a Christian and the spectre of communism has been one of the most divisive aspects . |
| 2 | His Excellency has been one of the best Ambassadors Spain has ever sent us , and his very dear wife has given him so much support . |
| 3 | The general pattern of change has been one of upward mobility . |
| 4 | Defence has been one of the big strong points of Widnes performances this season . |
| 5 | The new approach to assessment has been one of the most important changes in vocational education and training over the last ten years . |
| 6 | The relationship between linguistics and literature has been one of the most widely discussed issues in modern literary theory . |
| 7 | Fraud has been one of the problems that the factors/invoice discounters have had to tackle during the recession . |
| 8 | For Dollimore , whose reading of the play in Radical Tragedy has been one of the more persuasive recent accounts , Faustus is the site of a power struggle between God and Lucifer , both equally responsible for his destruction . |
| 9 | It is an impossibly restricted view , therefore , to imagine a universal approach to landform study being based only upon consideration of historical development … the physical and the resulting psychological , inability of geographers to handle successfully the simultaneous operation of a number of causes contributing to a given effect has been one of the greatest impediments to the advancement of their discipline . |
| 10 | Britain 's growth rate has been one of the lowest of any major Western economy since 1961 , that Britain 's share of investment has been one of the two lowest , that Britain 's share of world trade has been falling while others have had rising shares and that Britain 's rate of inflation has been one of the fastest in the Western world . |
| 11 | ‘ I 'm sure that not eating has been one of your problems , ’ she informed me . |
| 12 | The authors go on to offer examples of students whose transition from college has been one of experiencing limited choice and often unsuitable placements . |
| 13 | The Great Tower of Magdalen College has been one of Oxford 's best known sights since the fifteenth century . |
| 14 | Thus the retailing scene has been one of dynamic change which has affected ways in which salespeople now operate . |
| 15 | Over the past 200 years turning has been one of the most highly skilled jobs to be found in engineering workshops . |
| 16 | Hard work has been one of the main reasons — and Kristian is back in the swing with no regrets about leaving Neighbours . |
| 17 | Stone is not alone in noting the ‘ discrepancy ’ ( p. 420 ) between this and the apparent economic drawbacks of divorce for women ( the increase in divorce has been one of the major factors contributing to the ‘ feminization of poverty ’ ) . |
| 18 | X for Sparc and iAPX-86 has been one of the company 's most important achievements to date . |
| 19 | Within Greater York the general philosophy embodied in both the Greater York study and the structure plan has been one of restraint . |
| 20 | Crosby said : ‘ Stamina has been one of the lad 's weaknesses and this could explain it . |
| 21 | ( c ) First registration of title Generally , an application for first registration of title , even when the land is in a compulsory area , will not be required unless the conveyance has been one of sale of the whole of the property ( Land Registration Act 1925 , s123 ) . |
| 22 | Since the period in question has been one of economic growth , and since it is argued that the demand for temporary workers grows faster than the demand for labour as a whole in periods of rising economic activity , our findings are particularly noteworthy . |
| 23 | In modern Britain sport has been one of the ways that men have kept themselves apart , defined their own territory , and indulged their enthusiasms . |
| 24 | History shows that sport has been one of the two major areas in which blacks have been allowed or even encouraged to do well . |
| 25 | By contrast , the issue of social mobility has been almost entirely ignored by contemporary spatial analysis , even if the issue of social mobility has been one of sociology 's concerns . |
| 26 | The estate agency sector has been one of the most dynamic industrial sectors in 1980s Britain , and there has been a large growth both in the number of firms of estate agents and in the numbers employed within these firms . |
| 27 | In the UK , the healthcare sector has been one of the most successful during a recession that matches the 1930s in depth and duration . |
| 28 | Polygon shares some books in common with EUP , publishing some of the press 's hardbacks in paperback form , but its best seller has been one of its most atypical publications , Kathleen B. Cory 's Tracing Your Scottish Ancestry . |
| 29 | While before 1962 most immigration into Britain consisted of men , temporarily migrant and unaccompanied by families , the post-1962 period has been one of permanent settlement with workers and their families ( Braham , 1985 , p. 112 ) . |
| 30 | The period has been one of unprecedented intellectual progress … |