Example sentences of "have [adv] been the [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Secondly , admission to a psychiatric unit has presumably been the result of distress which in many cases will persist after admission . |
| 2 | Although it has rarely been the subject of judicial pronouncement the conceptual basis of the " conventional " sums awarded by the courts in respect of non-pecuniary losses appears to be that such sums are what are considered fair and reasonable compensation in the social , economic and industrial conditions which prevail in England and Wales . |
| 3 | ‘ On a number of occasions he has personally been the target of attack from either snipers , antitank fire or from mortar bombardment . |
| 4 | But the meeting understood that " It has hitherto been the policy of this HQ and remains ( it is understood ) the advice of the British Resident Minister and the US Political Adviser that all classes and types of dissident and anti-Tito Jugoslavs who fall into the hands of Allied Forces either in Italy or in Austria should not be forced to return to Jugoslavia … " |
| 5 | Of course , the UK has long been the home of large companies exploiting ‘ primary products ’ ( plantation crops , furs , timber and minerals ) in different parts of the Commonwealth and the world . |
| 6 | The Faculty is one of the oldest in the University and has long been the home of many outstanding legal scholars and practitioners . |
| 7 | Drafix CAD is an MS-DOS based CAD drawing package that has long been the choice of users who have been unwilling to pay the price demanded for the industry standard — AutoCad . |
| 8 | It involves the use of DMSO ( dimethyl sulphoxide ) , which has long been the centre of controversy . |
| 9 | CITY UNDER SIEGE London has long been the centre of European finance , but the slide in business now could just be the start of a lasting loss of market share . |
| 10 | In both French and British space programmes , keeping up with — or at least not falling further behind — the USA and USSR space efforts has long been the name of the game . |
| 11 | ‘ Whether the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel or the Stanze of Raphael should be regarded as the culminating effort of modern art , has long been the subject of controversy ’ ; but they both received double asterisks . |
| 12 | The coco-de-mer grows only on Praslin and its neighbour Curieuse and has long been the subject of legends and superstitions . |
| 13 | The automatic recognition of human speech has long been the subject of science-fiction fantasy and ( more recently ) the subject of extensive scientific investigation . |
| 14 | The special salience of a radical French petite bourgeoisie has long been the subject of commentary for historians and political scientists . |
| 15 | The lighting in the station approach has long been the subject of complain and the Association is actively pursuing the matter with BR . |
| 16 | Dietary therapy has long been the cornerstone of diabetic management . |
| 17 | It has long been the view of central government that these forecasts are much more accurate if they are made at a local rather than at a national level ( Hammond , 1984 ) . |
| 18 | There has long been the counting of people as one of the first activities of states ( as we shall see in Chapter 4 ) . |
| 19 | ‘ To save from the wreck of time and the busy hand of man ( ‘ man out of his place ’ ) the best specimens of this mountain architecture , by a series of representations , on a scale adequate to their beauty and importance , has long been the wish of the writer , who , for such a purpose , has already proposed to publish |
| 20 | The consumer market excites boundless excitement in the multimedia industry and so far has merely been the source of disappointments . |
| 21 | The growth of what is usually called the middle class has largely been the result of the increasing amount of white-collar work . |
| 22 | The central issue raised by the appeal is whether a plea of autrefois convict can be sustained by anything less than evidence that the offence with which the defendant stands charged has already been the subject of a complete adjudication against him by a court of competent jurisdiction comprising both the decision establishing his guilt ( whether it be the decision of the court or of the jury or the entry of his own plea ) and the final disposal of the case by the court by passing sentence or making some other order such as an order of absolute discharge . |
| 23 | The guidance will bring together for the first time all the relevant existing guidance into one statement and has already been the subject of previous consultation in a green paper . |
| 24 | If my memory serves me correctly , my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for the Environment said that Humberside would be the first because it has already been the subject of a local government boundary commission report . |
| 25 | Bartram , 24 , who joined Bournemouth from Wolves last year , has already been the target of a £300,000 bid from Blackburn during the summer . |
| 26 | Boston-born Bobby who shot to fame after escaping a life of petty crime , has already been the victim of one gangland shooting . |
| 27 | One wonders how many firms believe this requirement has actually operated , for no urban initiative has ever been the subject of so much formal and informal evaluation . |
| 28 | If your painting or other work of art has ever been the subject of a theft in the past then you may not now be the true owner even if you bought it in good faith ; you may be forced to hand it back to the original owner , or his heirs , depending on the relevant jurisdiction . |
| 29 | As with the centesimal system the time will depend on the acuteness of the symptoms , the chronicity of the complaint and the vitality of the patient but there has always been the question of when to repeat the remedy if the response is insufficient having regard to the severity of the symptoms . |
| 30 | One important problem has always been the question of how groups operate and to what effect . |