Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] have been [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Everyone , it seemed , was doing well out of the erosion of the 1878 settlement except the Russians , for whom that settlement had been a defeat in the first place . |
| 2 | The result in each case had been the conversion of my patient into pork pies and a drastic plummeting of my self-esteem . |
| 3 | Underlying the work reorganization in each case has been the exposure of line management and shopfloor workers to market pressures , either by organizational restructuring , as in RX , or , as at Pilkingtons and Ford , through the demonstration effects of large-scale rationalization . |
| 4 | It was accepted without question , even by the Copts , that Zoser had been the Zikr 's killer and the Moslems were pleased that the matter had ended in such a satisfactory and clean-cut way . |
| 5 | The guiding principle of that research has been the idea that the personality differences partly reflect underlying physiological differences in the brain , each person having a characteristic temperamental make-up that is represented at the biological level as a ‘ type of nervous system ’ . |
| 6 | But the most devastating effect has been the reduction of the water table . |
| 7 | The legislative measures corresponding to this change had been the Reform Act of 1832 and the repeal of the Corn Laws in 1846 , which recognised that the price of bread could no longer be controlled in the interest of British grain producers . |
| 8 | The forerunner to this change has been the decision of the Jockey Club with its fairly visionary determination to give Sunday racing a kick start with the experimental meetings . |
| 9 | The implications of this change have been the subject of intense debate since 1978 . |
| 10 | Antics of this kind had been the stuff of carnival throughout western Europe for centuries . |
| 11 | One of the principal means of fulfilling this responsibility has been the development of the concept and practice of ‘ multicultural ’ education , which the Swann Report endorsed . |
| 12 | A welcome innovation in this field has been the production of a catalogue of equipment now issued by Boots the Chemists . |
| 13 | I too had a strong urge to rise up and say , ‘ My lord , this trial has been a farce , and you are the chief clown ! ’ but , I think wisely , refrained . |
| 14 | What if the plaintiff in this case had been a tradesperson ( i.e a lawful visitor to the premises , but one who was not in a contractual relationship with the hotel ) who was injured whilst trying to escape from the fire ? |
| 15 | This case has been the occasion of some powerful comment in the press . |
| 16 | However one chooses to interpret it , the mystical experience has been a fact of life , once human consciousness has developed to a particular point . |
| 17 | A further change has been the growth of liberal theology within the Irish Roman catholic intelligentsia . |
| 18 | Another change has been the centralisation of the various head office functions into new Glasgow offices , which Sir Lewis hopes will boost staff morale . |
| 19 | This provision has been the subject of wide-ranging criticism ( Norman , 1980 ; Greengross , 1986 ) . |
| 20 | The primary objective of this study had been an investigation into the in-house language training programmes of leading , multinational German manufacturing companies . |
| 21 | The aim of this study has been the use of in situ hybridisation to detect mRNAs for three specific macrophage products ( lysozyme , interleukin 1Β , tumour necrosis factor α ) in endoscopic biopsies of patients with ulcerative colitis or Crohn 's disease . |
| 22 | Whether to reclaim or reject this term has been a matter of some debate in Black communities . ) |
| 23 | The Public Enemy had been a Warner Bros film and that studio soon went on to consolidate its reputation as one specializing in contemporary themes by releasing I am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang . |
| 24 | A considerable impetus behind this research has been the concern of the DES and HMI to improve the quality of schooling , allied with the efforts of educational researchers and practitioners to tackle the persistent problem of the underachievement of many children attending inner city or urban schools . |
| 25 | The main thread running through this chapter has been the difficulty of testing hypotheses that link the reform of science to the reform of religion . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Secondly , mirroring the extension of the law 's concern to notions of social harm has been a widening of the conceptions of deviant and enforcer to include not only individual actors but also organizations . |
| 28 | But the female body tortured by sexual violence has been the object of pornography , not sacrament . |
| 29 | This programme has been the subject of several pieces of geographical research , notably by Wohlenberg ( 1976a , 1976b , 1976c ) and Kodras ( 1986a ) . |
| 30 | This programme has been the model for governments across the whole world . |