Example sentences of "[vb base] been the [noun] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the event , the results have been the opposite of those originally envisaged . |
| 2 | As in the NUM strike of 1984 , the women have been the backbone of this struggle : dressed in camouflage and calling themselves the Daughters of Mother Jones , after the legendary union organiser from the turn of the century , they have walked the picket lines , sat in front of coal trucks , and been arrested . |
| 3 | Although family farmers and part-time farmers have been the subject of many studies little information exists on their training needs or their capacity to utilise training . |
| 4 | Health and medicine , environment , labourers ' rights , witchcraft , land rights and the caste system have been the subject of many seminars throughout the region . |
| 5 | The pros and cons of feeding hedgehogs have been the subject of much debate , but scientific evidence suggests that , even if supplementary food is put out for hedgehogs , they will still hunt on their own account . |
| 6 | As stated above , the problem of desertification has been brought to public attention by famines that have resulted in immense loss of life , especially in the Sahel-Saharan zone of Africa ( reviewed in Glanz 1987 and Mortimore 1989 ) , the causes of which have been the subject of much debate and have recently been reviewed by Hulme ( 1989 ) . |
| 7 | Minor tranquillizers , in particular , have been the subject of much criticism in view of the extent of their prescribing in general practice , their doubtful efficacy and the risks associated with their use ( Catalan and Gath 1985 ) . |
| 8 | Elizabeth 's intentions in 1558 have been no more clear to historians than they were to contemporaries , and have been the subject of much debate and discussion . |
| 9 | The arrangements for selecting presidential candidates that produced Ronald Reagan in 1980 have been the subject of much criticism . |
| 10 | Such accounts can be renegotiated , and indeed have been the subject of much discussion between the fans and ourselves . |
| 11 | The homologies of these parts have been the subject of much controversy . |
| 12 | During the winter of 1908–9 , however , Picasso produced two very large canvases ( larger than any he was to produce until the summer of 1914 ) which seem to stand out from others that surround them and which have been the subject of much stimulating argument and discussion . |
| 13 | Electoral changes and their relationship to the political parties have been the subject of much recent analysis and debate . |
| 14 | Rape trials have been the subject of this analysis of these changes over time so far . |
| 15 | The various forms of Al locative discrimination which operate against black students have been the subject of several investigations . |
| 16 | Some of the important matters that the hon. Gentleman raises have been the concern of several Select Committees . |
| 17 | They say this to the very people who have been the bedrock of this organization , the very people that built the organization . |
| 18 | The nature of these indicators , and related concepts of efficiency , effectiveness and economy have been the focus of much debate . |
| 19 | None of the peptides from the three sporozoite antigens , which have been the focus of most previous work , elicited CTL responses . |
| 20 | They have been the nucleus of several hundred self-employed artisans manufacturing these bicycle attachments who can be seen on open sites across Nairobi . |
| 21 | It is not just cost that has made the DIY holiday so popular , although traditionally they have been the break for those on a tight budget . |
| 22 | Part-time , low-paid , flexi-hour jobs have been the lot of many women in West Belfast with other ( unpaid ) women in the family and the community taking care of the children . |
| 23 | Periodic bouts of fixed or artificially determined exchange rates have been the curse of this country for almost a hundred years — by pricing our goods out of world markets and , through high interest rates , by forcing up the cost of capital here . |
| 24 | Still , the taboos have been the source of much mirth : the stand-up 's traditional reliance on smut and mothers-in-law could only exist in a largely sex-negative society . |
| 25 | ‘ Doctors have been the cause of many people dying . ’ |
| 26 | This is somewhat ironical in that , as we shall see , it is Engels 's anthropological enthusiasm and his trust in Morgan which has been the source of many of the points in his work which appear now as unacceptable to anthropologists and which have been the cause of some of the most damaging objections to his theories . |
| 27 | A recent study suggested that as many as 1 in 6 women have been the victims of some form of domestic abuse , which means that many are suffering in silence . |
| 28 | If you have been the victim of any kind of personal attack , call the police immediately . |
| 29 | Now the trouble is that we have been the victim of those successes . |