Example sentences of "this [verb] be [num] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | This has been one of the central preoccupations of ethnographic police research , especially that inspired by phenomenology and ethnomethodology , and so apposite is policing to this focus that many theoreticians from within phenomenology and ethnomethodology have used it for the application of their ideas ( Cicourel 1968 ; Pollner 1987 ; Sacks 1972 ; Sudnow 1965 ) . |
| 2 | The problem of deliberate self-poisoning and self-injury has placed enormous pressure on the stiff ( physicians , nurses , psychiatrists ) and services ( casualty and emergency departments , medical admission units , psychiatric and social work departments ) involved in the care of patients who take overdoses or injure themselves , and this has been one of the factors that has promoted a re-examination of previously accepted policies for the management of attempted suicide patients . |
| 3 | This has been one of my great disappointments , ’ he says . |
| 4 | This has been one of the most controversial clauses in the Act and was deleted in the House of Lords but reinstated by the government . |
| 5 | Women as authors are n't unveiled any longer ; this has been one of the marked developments of the last decade . |
| 6 | Key to all this has been one of Davidson 's major responsibilities , the development of a highly sophisticated system of strategic , operational and individual business plans and performance monitoring and review . |
| 7 | This has been one of the best Friday debates that I have attended for a long time . |
| 8 | This has been one of the happiest days of my life , ’ Margrida declared , her voice becoming choky , ‘ and when you and Vitor get married that will be — ’ |
| 9 | Consistently over the last number of years this has been one of the events to sell out most quickly in the entire Festival programme . |
| 10 | I once found the complete skeleton of a sea otter here , a sad reminder of Camusfearna : could this have been one of Gavin 's friends ? |
| 11 | About 400 sick conscripts were discharged ( this having been one of the demonstrators ' demands ) , as were those who had served 18 months of their two-year service . |
| 12 | This had been one of the 150 organizations that had written asking for patronage when Diana became engaged , and had been turned down . |
| 13 | All that the loyalists knew was that their very own Special Constabulary was going to be dismantled and that this had been one of NICRA 's long-standing demands . |
| 14 | Lynch knocked out Peter Kane of Golborne in the thirteenth round , and it was generally agreed that this had been one of the finest contests between flyweight boxers . |
| 15 | This had been one of the demands put forward by the Eco-glasnost group at public protests in Sofia in October 1989 . |