Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb -s] [be] [verb] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the most significant results of the repression in the Baltic states has been to recreate an alliance between Russian radical politicians and Baltic nationalists . |
| 2 | Degas ' sculpture is on the move : literally , in the sense that a complete set of the artist 's bronzes has been travelling the world for the past five years , turning up in Verona , Florence , Amsterdam and Japan ; metaphorically , in a sudden resurgence of interest in the sculptures themselves , after more than four decades of academic neglect . |
| 3 | A hard core of nine fell walkers has been keeping the Company flag flying across the country . |
| 4 | This web of relationships has been called the role-set . |
| 5 | But the court 's discretion under this rule only arises if the applicant has sought a declaration , an injunction or damages ; and even if one of these remedies has been claimed the court may , in cases raising complex factual issues , refuse to exercise the discretion in the applicant 's favour on the basis that it would be better if the case were started afresh by writ . |
| 6 | Perhaps the greatest mistake in the application of GIS has been to allow the glamour of the technology to distract attention from the more mundane , yet vital , aspects of data acquisition and verification . |
| 7 | The Council of Science and Technology Institutes has been awarded a contract by the Employment Department to commission a major six-month study into the employment pattern of scientists . |
| 8 | THE RISE and rise of Tranmere Rovers has been given the Saint 's blessing . |
| 9 | A panel of European judges has been visiting a town carrying Britain 's hopes in Entente Florale . |
| 10 | A key theme of policy in recent years has been to maximise the extent to which other agencies than government itself can be held responsible for inadequacies in public sector services . |
| 11 | All of this and he 's not even recovering from any broken bones ( Ben 's specialty over the last few years has been to break a bone and then come back and do or repeat the world 's hardest route ! ) |
| 12 | The overall effect of this hedging activity in recent years has been to reduce the group 's interest charge . |
| 13 | The way in which the argument has been couched in Goody 's work over the years has been to construct an apparatus of grand distinctions on which discussion of literacy could be based . |
| 14 | The strategy over the past few years has been to establish the University more actively in research , whilst retaining its commitment to excellence in teaching . |
| 15 | To this view in recent years has been added the opinion that great benefits would be attached to stabilising Britain 's currency by linking it to the Deutschmark . |
| 16 | The response of most governments has been to manipulate the economy in order to secure some trade-off between the conflicting economic objectives . |
| 17 | One of the main changes has been to allow the establishment or revival of private schools , previously not permitted to operate . |
| 18 | Now I suppose that kind of model of what goes on in families has been disrupted a bit in the last few years because increasingly people have drawn attention to the way in which um often the person doing the abuse is the most powerful person within that family situation . |
| 19 | Ironically , at the eleventh hour the plight of the belugas has been given a boost by the success of whale-watching cruises in the St Lawrence . |
| 20 | One solution increasingly adopted by farmers has been to return the land to grass again . |
| 21 | The response of governments to such problems has been to redefine the relationship between control and autonomy by providing a more formal framework for enterprises to operate in . |
| 22 | This attempt to ‘ define ’ by inclusions has been carried a stage further by the Financial Services Act which , for its purposes , employs both inclusions and exclusions . |
| 23 | Local journalist Mike Stairs has been following the story closely , but says it was n't until the mid-'80s that it was given national attention . |
| 24 | One of Britain 's most popular athletes has been sharing the secret of his success with a group of schoolchildren . |
| 25 | J CALE 's laconic blend of rock , Country and blues has been influencing the way other axemen think for years . |
| 26 | It seems that with such a background the theme of your thoughts during the course of these symposiums has been getting the message across , and certainly when you turn to the one that you have this time , of the media , you are really getting involved in getting the message across . |
| 27 | Conversely , a spirit of self-criticism and renewal can hardly be said to be absent from the religious sphere when one of the problems faced by institutionalized orthodoxies has been to contain the eruption of reform and sectarian revolt . |
| 28 | British Rail Transport Police has been running the anti-vandal and trespass trains in blackspots since the early 1970s . |
| 29 | British Rail Transport Police has been running the anti-vandal and trespass trains in blackspots since the early 1970s . |
| 30 | To the charge that Victorians sentimentalised the deaths of their children has been added the allegation that they may have inflicted psychological damage by bringing them prematurely into contact with death . |