Example sentences of "has been the " in BNC.

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1 Tazmamert has been the great forbidden subject in Morocco .
2 It would seem that the special state character of Northern Ireland , with its very legitimacy always under threat , has been the main reason for the maintenance of this pattern of politics .
3 What has been attempted in this chapter has been the clarification that so far the traditional values of catholic nationalism are still dominant among the Roman catholics of Ireland , even if they are severely contested by a significant minority from among them and lukewarmly subscribed to by a further significant minority .
4 A further change has been the growth of liberal theology within the Irish Roman catholic intelligentsia .
5 A notable achievement of ACT has been the passing of the Education ( Northern Ireland ) Act of 1978 , permitting the establishment of multi-denominational schools where such is desired by adequate numbers of parents .
6 Though ambition has been the grave of many minor artists , it is also that without which no artist can be called major — with all the provisos about art , artists , major , minor , already touched on .
7 The procreative metaphor , he typed ( as Harsnet had written ) , has been the bane of art .
8 This has been the experience of the Thirties Society in fighting for the retention of the main plan features of the Nag 's Head , one of the few listed pubs of the period .
9 The Festival 's come of age of late and I am more than happy that my sax playing has been the soundtrack for the Festival 's cinema trailer in recent years .
10 Helen Mirren plays the role of Detective Chief Inspector Jane Tennison who for years has been the victim of sexual discrimination in the police force .
11 It has been the word used to describe the style of today , a style that pervades everything from clothes to waste-paper bins .
12 A snap decision to turn has been the cause of many serious stalling and spinning accidents , often when , in fact , there was ample room for a landing ahead .
13 They have been inferring that applying the opposite rudder has been the cause of reversing the spin , whereas the real cause of this happening must be the failure to unstall the wings .
14 Dick Hobbs ( 1988 ) lived with thieves and detectives as they set out to ‘ do the business ’ , and perhaps one of the most effective pieces of participant observation in recent times has been the four-volume Policy Studies Institute work on the police in London ( 1983 ) .
15 I had joined a group who are still fixated on a classification of ‘ disorder ’ which homes in on those who attack property , ; and since the amassing of property has been a primary aim of capitalist society , it should come as no surprise to find that to prevent the dispossessed from simply taking from the élite has been the primary structuring principle of policing .
16 ‘ The Name ’ has been the Holy of Holies to all Jews since it was given to Moses as a special revelation of the divine essence ; all other holinesses merely subserve it .
17 It is certain , though , that the constructivism that has received the most attention in psychology and philosophy has been the developmental theory of Jean Piaget .
18 Yet all we seem to have heard , either from a few of the more militant leading players or their representatives in recent months , has been the cry ‘ We want more . ’
19 The women 's game is much more open today and Gabriela Sabatini has been the best player on the women 's tour this year .
20 The best example of this has been the deployment of the HST fleet .
21 SUCH has been the scale of reopenings ( not to mention survivals ) of lines and stations in the 1980s that to put matters in perspective it is necessary to go back a bit in history .
22 There is always a moment of silence before the audience respond , so strong has been the tension .
23 S&N did not buy a beer , they bought a name and the price of Masham 's survival has been the marketing of this name .
24 The Dobermann has been the focus of much controversy since being introduced to Britain 50 years ago
25 One of the most interesting and welcome results of literary feminism has been the reprinting of forgotten texts , usually by women but occasionally by men .
26 In recent years the one English voice that has seemed to reiterate the Eliotic thesis in anything like its entirety has been the voice of C.H. Sisson :
27 ONLY a dealer who had just come back from a weekend in the Kalahari desert would have been surprised to hear of yesterday 's agreed £337.6m bid by MB Group for Caradon , the Twyfords and Everest building products group , so comprehensive has been the pre-match publicity .
28 It will be interesting to see whether Japanese management practices likely to be brought in by the new top management will work in an environment where aggressive individual success , rather than collaborative teamwork has been the norm .
29 The move puts new pressure on Metromedia 's partner in the New York franchise , LIN Broadcasting , which has been the object of a hostile tender offer by McCaw since early summer .
30 This has been the cry of Lebanon 's distress since 1945 .
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