Example sentences of "been [art] [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | And so , for these and other reasons , the planned town has always been the exception in England , and derives most of its special interest from that fact . |
| 2 | A major criticism has been the delay in meeting requests for assistance from developing countries . |
| 3 | Certainly this has not been the experience in other jurisdictions . |
| 4 | A part of the history of perceptions of people has been the changes in the labels that have been used over the years . |
| 5 | To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what have been the changes in the rates of value added tax since the beginning of 1979 . |
| 6 | It is ironic that the British government should have gone through so many contortions over local government tax , finally to arrive at a system whereby the bulk of tax is raised centrally and distributed to the local authorities , while such a system has been the norm in Germany for decades . |
| 7 | Beards had been the norm in Classical Greece for portraits of politicians and philosophers . |
| 8 | For forty three years it has been the jewel in the crown of the Labour Party legislation and for forty three years the Labour Party has defended the National Health Service against all comers . |
| 9 | While in Amritsar he visited and prayed at the Golden Temple , Sikhism 's most hallowed shrine which had been the subject in 1984 of an Army assault [ see pp. 33223-24 ] , in a gesture of reconciliation . |
| 10 | It was created and then given to the town in the last century by Massey — first name , and how fittingly , Placide — who had previously been the gardener in charge of the orangery of Versailles and at the Jar din tea Plantes in Paris . |
| 11 | Rather than attempting to stifle mental conflict and to keep it from consciousness as would have been the trend in nineteenth and early twentieth-century culture , modern cultural trends instead encourage acting-out and expression of the conflict as being more ‘ healthy ’ than repression . |
| 12 | A few times , the show has been the catalyst in bringing fans together . |
| 13 | I have been the catalyst in the fusing of these two remarkable characters at postwar reunions and have been warmed by their adult behaviour , long after the flak had faded . |
| 14 | A major improvement in recent years has been the inclusion in such reports of analysis and interpretation of the data ( see , for instance , Cook and Dacre 1985 ) . |
| 15 | This has underlined that the price of popularising rugby union has been the increase in pressures off the field , which can be as significant as the demands made on the players themselves . |
| 16 | The most significant change in terms of land use , in recent times , has been the increase in the proportion of urban areas at the expense , principally , of agricultural land . |
| 17 | A feature of these forms has been the increase in those aspects which relate to procedure rather than to strict contract conditions . |
| 18 | One measure of our regard for the charity , has been the increase in Home Office funding . |
| 19 | To ask the Secretary of State for Energy what has been the increase in labour productivity in the coal mining industry since 1983-84 . |
| 20 | To ask the Secretary of State for Employment what has been the increase in United Kingdom unemployment during the past 12 months . |
| 21 | Last October , Glasgow High-Kelvinside administered a 56-13 thrashing to Heriot 's in a Division I match , yet such has been the turnround in both clubs ' fortunes since then , when the clubs meet in a friendly at Goldenacre tomorrow it 's GH-K , who still face the possibility of relegation , while Heriot 's have accelerated into mid-table . |
| 22 | One cause of overcrowding in contemporary prisons , not only in Texas , has been the rise in the number of sentences of imprisonment imposed by the courts . |
| 23 | One major example has been the rise in the number of groups some more organized than others — representing communities or neighbourhoods , mainly within the context of local politics . |
| 24 | One of the seemingly least observed phenomena of the post war era has been the rise in the white collar workforce and the corresponding provision of modern commercial office accommodation that has changed the industrial landscape . |
| 25 | Equally significant has been the rise in unemployment which is now higher here than in any other county in mainland Britain . |
| 26 | The vicar said that indeed if this had happened then it must have been the Devil in disguise . |
| 27 | A contributory factor to the muddled thinking on excise duty on whisky has been the discrimination in favour of imported wine , where increased consumption has been shown to cut away at the base of whisky consumption . |
| 28 | An indication of this has been the reduction in the activities of the rural underworld , which was such a thriving feature of village life when it was an occupational community , but which has now virtually disappeared . |
| 29 | One of their biggest successes has been the reduction in the number of abandoned puppies , largely due to a low-cost neutering scheme available throughout the borough . |
| 30 | Government , employers and educators alike are now convinced that higher education should be expanded radically during the next decade , to include perhaps twice as high a proportion of school leavers and others than has traditionally been the case in the UK . |