Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] [vb -s] been [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Organizationally , the weakness has been the failure to develop an appropriate management structure . |
| 2 | Common to much of the literature has been a notion … that these kids — and many others like them — have been trying to ‘ recover magically ’ territory , both physical and cultural , that they have lost and to appropriate in the same way territory that has never been theirs . |
| 3 | In fact , the opposite has been the case with a trend towards ethnic consolidation . |
| 4 | we have found that the opposite has been the situation . |
| 5 | Acquired by the Getty Museum in 1985 ( supposedly for a sum of nearly $9 million ) the statue has been the subject of extensive scientific tests and scholarly debate ever since . |
| 6 | As far as capital gains tax is concerned , it is considered that the gain referrable to the wife 's share in the house will be free from a charge to capital gains tax if the house throughout the term of the settlement has been the wife 's only or main residence ( Taxation of Chargeable Gains Act 1992 , s222 ) . |
| 7 | A consequence of the recession has been a reduction of just over six per cent in the 5,000 worldwide workforce in the past 12 months . |
| 8 | The worst feature of the recession has been the need to reduce the number of staff , including some with very long service . |
| 9 | The building has been the subject of controversy ever since locals were told that it was to be turned into a clinic for twenty six convicted sex offenders . |
| 10 | The hotel stands right in the middle of the village , where the old part of the building has been the centre of village life for hundreds of years . |
| 11 | At the same time the imbalance between expenditure and revenue has resulted in high interest rates and the deficit has been an engine driving inflation — as the monetisation of government debt is one cause of excessive money supply growth . |
| 12 | The play has been a year in the making . |
| 13 | in Ex parte Handscomb , 86 Cr.App.R. 59 , 82 , already cited concerning the duty of the Secretary of State when receiving advice from the judiciary on the tariff has been the subject of judicial comment . |
| 14 | The result has been a consolidation of their power as men , over heterosexual women and lesbians , within the work , and the organization . |
| 15 | The result has been a reduction in party funds , which have been almost exclusively derived from membership , of about 15 per cent . |
| 16 | The result has been a PR triumph for BP , and a commercial success for the partners . |
| 17 | The result has been a halving of sulphur dioxide emissions in the flue gases . . |
| 18 | The result has been a saving on energy of Aus$90,000 a year and a sharp reduction in emissions of carbon dioxide . . |
| 19 | The result has been a compression of childbearing into ages 22–30 to a degree never seen before ; about two-thirds of all births ( figure 4.10 ) . |
| 20 | The result has been a theory to explain what would in any earlier age have been inexplicable : the birth of the universe . |
| 21 | The result has been a duplication of administrative personnel in a society that is ‘ already exhausted by the increase in its apparatus of officials ’ . |
| 22 | The result has been a shambles . |
| 23 | The students conducted a market research campaign for suggestions about environmental improvements , and the result has been a wildlife garden and a flower and bird project . |
| 24 | The result has been a hunger to worship God and express love and affection in song and words . |
| 25 | Despite this the result has been a travesty of democracy in that the permanent minority of Catholics and Irish nationalists have been excluded from the Protestant Unionist conception of " the people " , called in this case " the people of Ulster " . |
| 26 | The result has been a loss of confidence in the purity of our tapwater . |
| 27 | The result has been a policy see-saw , with governments alternating between periods of centralisation , the better to gain control , followed by a decentralising reaction against the rigidities which are caused as a consequence . |
| 28 | With little to buy in the shops , the result has been the build-up of a huge ‘ monetary overhang ’ . |
| 29 | The result has been the stimulation of the perfectly natural reaction for those who rely on the priesthood for guidance in these matters , to become suspicious of the integrity of that hierarchy and , as more enlightened thinking proves to be less of a sin than is often implied , lose what faith had been generated . |
| 30 | The result has been the Cashline availability has gone up from 92 per cent to 97 per cent in the last eighteen months . ’ |