Example sentences of "[verb] been the [noun] [prep] this " in BNC.

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1 So rapid has been the development of this dimension of public relations that the Public Relations Consultants Association recently formed a Creative Group to publicise and focus attention on the importance of the creative process in mounting quality campaigns .
2 She has been the guardian of this wishing tree in the English churchyard since anyone alive can remember , though before that , the rumour was that she had lived in a wild state , before the islands were properly civilised .
3 Indeed , the comparative analysis of two versions of the same text may be undertaken from a number of linguistic perspectives ; it has been the concern of this article to suggest but two of this range of possible models .
4 That , too , has been the message of this Revolution Day — back to Lenin and 1917 , to a ‘ radical renewal of socialism ’ as one slogan put it .
5 And as we saw in our review of the history of delinquency , this has been the case throughout this century .
6 Mr McDermott has been the editor of this section of the Financial Times for the past four years , and has written two books on Egypt and peace keeping in the Middle East .
7 Local involvement has been the essence of this project , and the lesson that : —
8 That has been the focus of this course and we hope we have managed to provide a framework for practice within which this can be achieved .
9 ‘ I might say this in closing , ’ he said , ‘ … as far as foreign policy goes , Mr Kissinger ( Mr Ford 's secretary of state ) has been the president of this country .
10 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 .
11 It would be unwise for the hon. and learned Gentleman or for anyone else to draw conclusions about what might have been the cause of this accident .
12 Even more revealing , had I been asking the questions now ( the year of the miners ' strike ) , would have been the reaction to this one , suggested by Griffiths and Howson .
13 Rostovtzeff identified the head he thought had been the top of this object as that of Commodus , and that it was associated with the cult of Commodus-Hercules .
14 Domestic life with his father had been the training-school for this distinctively Lewisian vision .
15 Such had been the history of this camp up to the time I arrived there .
16 Some element beyond simple senility had been the cause of this .
17 As in the NUM strike of 1984 , the women have been the backbone of this struggle : dressed in camouflage and calling themselves the Daughters of Mother Jones , after the legendary union organiser from the turn of the century , they have walked the picket lines , sat in front of coal trucks , and been arrested .
18 Rape trials have been the subject of this analysis of these changes over time so far .
19 They say this to the very people who have been the bedrock of this organization , the very people that built the organization .
20 Periodic bouts of fixed or artificially determined exchange rates have been the curse of this country for almost a hundred years — by pricing our goods out of world markets and , through high interest rates , by forcing up the cost of capital here .
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