Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] [noun sg] [verb] been [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pre-Windscale , he recalled , two Secretaries of State had been on a collision course . |
| 2 | Dividing the colony will merely make its members more vulnerable , they argue , while previous efforts to breed rhinos in captivity have been at best unreliable . |
| 3 | The main areas of growth have been in inter-bank deposits , certificates of deposit and the foreign currency markets . |
| 4 | Within these phenomena four main areas of study have been of interest to rural geographers ; first , and most enduring of all , the study of rural population change ; second , and more recent in its concern , the study of rural communities ; third , and of more general relevance to other chapters in this book , the classification and definition of rural areas by both their population and employment characteristics ; and fourth , the study of employment in rural areas . |
| 5 | During this time I was able to develop some understanding of the sorts of backgrounds my interviewees came from , what their hopes , fears , values and experiences of life had been like before they joined the movement and how these might have changed since . |
| 6 | Declining costs of information have been of critical importance in spurring the international growth of service firms and the service functions within manufacturing firms . |
| 7 | His first feelings of love had been for that gloriously liberated and beautiful tomboy . |
| 8 | Similar changes in attitude have been in evidence throughout the training of these recruits , so much so that the unenlightened diehard points indignantly to an apparent decline in discipline and general standard . |
| 9 | Thus , a government report in 1970 concluded that , for the period 1954–68 , ‘ the underlying upward trend in the percentage of the manual labour force on shifts in manufacturing has been about 1 per cent per annum . ’ |
| 10 | The research is designed to investigate the changing organisation of service sector employment nationally , the particular impact of its expansion in East Anglia , where rates of growth have been above the national average , and to establish the consequence of this growth for class and gender relations in the two local labour markets of Norwich and Ipswich . |
| 11 | The most rapid rates of growth have been in the professional and scientific services , in insurance and other financial services , in miscellaneous services and in public administration and defence , while employment in distribution and transport has stagnated or declined . |
| 12 | When she comes to Henry VIII in her History of England , she observes that ‘ nothing can be said in his vindication , but that his abolishing Religious Houses & leaving them to the ruinous depredations of time has been of infinite use to the landscape of England in general ’ . |
| 13 | Later theoretical developments of psychoanalysis have been by analysts who have largely given up this second requirement of a theoretical conceptualization , yet it was a fundamental one for Freud himself . |
| 14 | The final attempts at explanation have been in terms of ‘ cultural defence ’ and see moral protest groups arising in response to broader cultural changes , as opposed to changes in class structure or the role of religion . |
| 15 | Most records of movement have been to the west , which may not be significant . |
| 16 | The class struggles of history have been between minorities . |