Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] have [been] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The defence has been the strong point of the side recently . |
| 2 | But more characteristically the response has been a massive importation into academic English studies of theories and methods otherwise associated with structuralism , linguistics , semiotics , sociology , marxism , and post structuralism . |
| 3 | The study by the transport economist Mr Bill Tyson also shows that fares have risen , and the overall savings to the tax-payer have been a modest £23 million . |
| 4 | From the vast reaches of time , the Serpent has been a potent symbol , reflecting as many aspects and occult meanings as the Garden of Eden itself , with which it was emblematically associated . |
| 5 | The change has been a major exercise , and while the civil war may not be over in the eyes of the excise collectors , the next issue of Guinness Today will carry the story of the people behind the massive change to End Product Duty . |
| 6 | I 'd just about got a speech arranged when you announced that the afternoon had been no big deal ! ’ |
| 7 | Ward , 53 , had maintained throughout that the money had been a legitimate success fee for his vital role in the bitterly-fought takeover bid . |
| 8 | The bridgehead has been the small Western community , which now has the use of a state-of-the-art office services joint venture to be found at 50 Gorky Street in central Moscow , as well as ‘ Reprotsentr ’ , in which Rank Xerox is a partner . |
| 9 | According to their former captain and hooker , Douglas Livingstone , McPherson 's influence both on and off the field has been a major factor in what has been a very successful season . |
| 10 | His own position has been greatly strengthened and the election has been a personal triumph for him . |
| 11 | And though the objects of our gaze have been varied , the experience has been a unified one , for they were the result of one artistic mood , erected within a few years almost 2,500 years ago . |
| 12 | Excited to find she could just make out traces of narrow fields with dividing banks and walls , she ventured further towards a rounded mound which could well have been an Iron Age barrow , and just beyond it she found the standing stone , where she shivered pleasurably , her imagination running riot about the monolith 's precise function in the days when the settlement had been a live , thriving community . |
| 13 | As to the restaurant itself , I recall that we had to shuffle and wriggle our way out between the crowded tables , and that the noise had been a little taxing on the nerves . |
| 14 | A consequence of these changes to the control of the curriculum has been a considerable increase in the number of legal provisions . |
| 15 | For the college , the experience of developing and mounting the course has been a beneficial one , although at times it felt like self-inflicted punishment ! |
| 16 | Mrs Duffy left at once , but Clare felt it would be more polite to linger for a while , rather than rush out after the couple , as if the wedding had been an annoying chore . |
| 17 | Some of the changes were felt to be long overdue , such as a scale 3 second in department for English , and it was not always clear whether the appraisal had been the driving force behind a particular change or whether it had simply brought some long-standing problems to urgent attention . |
| 18 | ‘ In all those years the Echo has been a necessary part of a busy daily life and even more so in retirement . |
| 19 | It was two years since I had stood on this spot on the way from Tan Hill to Hawes ; then the force had been a sluggish trickle after a dry spring , now , two years later almost to the day , it was a respectable torrent . |
| 20 | The burial had been a small affair . |
| 21 | It was normal to tear the shawl first so that its value would not tempt a profane person to violate the tomb ; but the shawl had been a beautiful one and he had not been able to bring himself to do that . |
| 22 | For it remains a curious anomaly that although the marathon has been the classic test of long distance endurance throughout nearly a century of Olympic history , the fastest timings have never enjoyed the status of world records . |
| 23 | The result has been a substantial increase in homelessness and deprivation . |
| 24 | The result has been a two-way movement . |
| 25 | The result has been a noticeable increase in the number of pilots who suddenly find themselves faced with a situation far beyond their control , usually a situation that they had not even considered at the start of the flight . |
| 26 | Lawyers are currently handling a record number of claims against doctors , and the result has been a dramatic shift towards ‘ defensive ’ medicine US-style . |
| 27 | The result has been a high number of vacant buildings and the under-use of others . |
| 28 | The result has been a steady decline in membership as members began to demand the type of facilities that they saw in squash and golf clubs . |
| 29 | The result has been a rapid spread of unsightly buildings across the countryside . |
| 30 | The nearest comparable company , GGT , was more aggressive withe regard to acquisition and diversification , but the result has been a weakened balance sheet . ’ |