Example sentences of "[noun sg] has been [verb] [det] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The result has been to destroy much of the progress in health care over the years preceding each dispute . |
| 2 | The cumulative effect has been to remove much of the archaeological evidence for settlement from the slopes and uplands , leaving behind only the remnants of flint implements and pottery and the deepest post holes . |
| 3 | The Metropolitan Museum has been examining some of its most treasured paintings with the aid of the latest technology , and it has come up with a result which confounds the hitherto accepted history of art . |
| 4 | I do not claim to be comprehensive in what follows , rather my aim has been to assess some of the main features of kin support in the past which have particular relevance to the central theme of this book — how important are duty , obligation and responsibility in motivating the support which people give to their relatives ? |
| 5 | The purpose of this paper has been to review some of the legal issues that organisations need to address when operating in an electronic documentation environment . |
| 6 | Apparently the old man has been hammering this into them for weeks . ’ |
| 7 | I hear you say , DTP has been doing that for years Yes — but moving ones ? |
| 8 | It is in the USA that residential preference has been invoked most as an explanation for decentralization ( Berry 1976 ) , perhaps partly as a return to old ideas of the frontier and the rural idyll , as Champion ( 1987 ) suggests . |
| 9 | Donaghy is 12 years older than anyone else in Chelsea 's back four , but the newly converted left-back has been playing some of the best football of his career since his £100,000 move from Manchester United in the summer . |
| 10 | My task has been to reconsider some of those complicated but always significant histories wherein differences conflict and converge as desire itself . |