Example sentences of "[verb] been the [noun sg] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the years since 1981 the one consistent response to urban unrest has been the provision of more resources , more training , and more equipment to the police . |
| 2 | But to my mind even more sinister has been the development of some forms of ‘ industrial ’ fishing . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 ) . |
| 5 | ‘ This has been the dream of many an entrepreneur and researcher for years . |
| 6 | Throughout all our travails we have always known we wished to stay in the business which is the repository of our Organic Chemical skills and has been the parent of many of our best operations . |
| 7 | Whether platelet endo-peroxides have a proaggregatory role in their own right or only when converted to thromboxane A 2 has been the subject of many studies ( Bunting et al , 1983 ) . |
| 8 | This report , of the Medical Royal Colleges and their Faculties in the United Kingdom , concerns itself with the diagnosis of brain death , but at the outset acknowledges that ‘ the dilemma of when to switch off the ventilator has been the subject of much public interest . ’ |
| 9 | Hermit crabs are able to make a rapid assessment of whether a particular shell is of an appropriate size or not , and how they do this has been the subject of much study . |
| 10 | What to do for the best has been the subject of much discussion at local aquatic societies over the years . |
| 11 | The nature of this formal regulation has been the subject of much debate . |
| 12 | Deaf education itself has been the subject of much dispute relating to the ‘ how ’ of education — that is , primarily , what method of communication do we use to educate deaf people ? |
| 13 | All the cases of leukaemia in Thurso were centred on this estate , which lies just within 12.5 km of Dounreay , so that the excess there was much higher than in the next cumulative zone , which included the eastern half of the town ( within 16.6 km ) , a difference that has been the subject of much comment . |
| 14 | This proposition has been the subject of much empirical debate , but at present there seems no overwhelming consensus as to its veracity . |
| 15 | The ballot has been the subject of much hostile comment . |
| 16 | The DMS itself , as the major vehicle of such provision , has been the subject of much debate during the last decade , principally about its nature and content . |
| 17 | That such an organism existed , or exists , has been the subject of much speculation by palaeobiologists and geochemists interested in the origin of the so-called banded iron formations ( BIFs ) ; these are sedimentary ores typically composed of alternating layers of silica- and iron-rich minerals that can often be traced as discrete units over hundreds of kilometres . |
| 18 | The origin of these cells has been the subject of much debate . |
| 19 | The cause and definition of enteropathy associated T cell lymphoma ( EATCL ) and its relation to coeliac disease has been the subject of much debate recently . |
| 20 | The meaning of the phrase " touch and concern the land " , which derives from a decision in Spencer 's Case ( 1583 ) 5 Co Rep 15a , has been the subject of much academic and judicial debate . |
| 21 | Even the awkward , the misfits , the discontented , feel a lessening of their misery when they realize they have a place , specially set for them , at a dinner which has been the subject of much thought , care , and several hours of preparation . |
| 22 | This has been the subject of much debate and controversy , however , and we consider it in Chapter 22 . |
| 23 | THE RISE of sea level predicted as a consequence of global warming has been the subject of some spectacular doom-mongering since the greenhouse effect leapt to prominence . |
| 24 | The importance of this development has been the subject of some debate . |
| 25 | Why some of these experiments should be more successful than others at revealing group differences has been the subject of some experimental investigation . |
| 26 | It has been the subject of some concern by those who feel that local authority officers should be completely divorced from party political connections . |
| 27 | In recent months the presidential asset has been the subject of some distinctly unflattering news articles , including a long Vanity Fair magazine story that painted her as an autocrat angry with her husband and out of touch with her family . |
| 28 | The impact of the rise of the English Arminians and the scale of their departure from pre-1625 theological norms has been the subject of some considerable historical debate over the last few years . |
| 29 | The nature of the nasal sacs in heterostracans has been the subject of some debate . |
| 30 | Inheritance has been the subject of some of the most important scientific discoveries of the past century . |