Example sentences of "has be behind " in BNC.
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| 1 | Those on the list are : Mr Sisulu , sentenced with Mr Mandela to life imprisonment in the ‘ Rivonia Trial ’ of 1964 ; four other Rivonia triallists - Raymond Mhlaba , Elias Motsoaledi , Andrew Mlangeni , Ahmed Kathrada , Wilton Mkwayi and the oldest of them all , 80-year-old Oscar Mpheta , a trade union leader who has been behind bars since 1980 , and whose whose sentence runs out next year . |
| 2 | Her husband Walter , former secretary-general of the African National Congress , has been behind bars . |
| 3 | Nonetheless , implementation independence has had a powerful effect on AI thinking about metaphysical problems , and has been behind McCarthy 's insistence that AI must be defined as the study of intelligent mechanisms independent of their implementation in machines or brains , and hence to a general denial that AI is , in any strong sense , about machines . |
| 4 | This assumption has been behind much of the conservative reaction to the ‘ Gorbachev phenomenon ’ . |
| 5 | For example , we all know that productivity growth in the UK has been inferior to West Germany 's over the post-war decades ; that product development has been behind that of Japan ; and that over many years the rates of growth of South Korea , Italy and East Germany were higher than the United Kingdom 's . |
| 6 | After last year 's franchise battle and now this takeover most of the interest in ITV has been behind the scenes , not on the screens . |
| 7 | Mr Rowland , chief executive of Lonrho , the conglomerate which owns the Observer , has been behind a long-running campaign against the Al Fayed brothers , whose acquisition of House of Fraser and Harrods , its flagship store , was heavily criticised in a Department of Trade report in 1990 . |
| 8 | Police say a battle for territory between crack cocaine dealers has been behind a series of recent shootings in South London . |