Example sentences of "have [been] [adj] to the [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | It is in the field of its own procedures that the Court of Appeal , in the past , has been receptive to the claim of substantive justice . |
2 | In reply , Sir Derek said that though he could not speak for other directors , ‘ my resignation has been available to the board from the day all this started . |
3 | So the psychology of the course was created and this has been integral to the development of the tournament . |
4 | The Marquess of Lothian initiated the Country House Scheme , which has been central to the preservation of great houses and their contents . |
5 | Secondly , many of the ideas presented so far derive from a particular perspective in sociology which has been subject to the criticisms noted above . |
6 | Apparently it has been similar to the crew of a huge tanker somewhere on the high seas sailing hither and tither no doubt , for four long years after setting out , and returning just in time for the recent elections . |
7 | This means that most of the recent increase in the proportion of non-manual employment in the employed population has been due to the expansion of service industries and not due to a rise in the number of government employees . |
8 | The weakening of trade union power in the 1980s has been due to the interaction of government legislation , the rise in unemployment , and technological change . |
9 | The demand for control of our landscapes , or environment , in order to preserve or create pleasant amenities has been due to the work of many people organised in groups . |
10 | This has been due to the lack of understanding of the origins of this pottery . |
11 | The sums involved are enormous : 70 per cent of the total growth in the nation 's wealth since 1979 has been due to the rise in value of the housing stock . |
12 | B. Most of the spoliation of our landscapes , coastlines and rivers has been due to the activities of business people during the last 100 years or so . |
13 | The major portion of the consumption of energy over the past 100 years has been due to the industrialisation of what is now called the Developed World . |
14 | The really phenomenal success of these materials during the last thirty years or so has been due to the combination of cheap and rapid mass-production with adequate toughness — added of course to chemical inertness , lightweight and bright and cheerful , not to say garish , colours . |
15 | No doubt the neglect has been due to the absence of knowledge in dealing with these matters , and the ignorance of the right methods and necessary articles for use … |
16 | A recent Bank of England report for analysts concluded : ‘ The sharper fall in unemployment than rise in employment has been due to the introduction of the Restart interviews and stricter availability-for-work tests . |
17 | If the campaign has been logical to the strategists , the public perception is that it has been awful . |
18 | Much of the research into the social psychology of racism has been narrow to the extent to which it has concentrated upon images of outgroups , rather than on the image of ‘ prejudice ’ or ‘ racism ’ itself . |
19 | Sveticic , a near neighbour of fellow Slovenian soloist Tomo Cesen ( ‘ the world 's greatest mountaineer ’ according to Reinhold Messner ) , had earlier soloed the very hard Rolling Stone route on the same face , and has been close to the tops of K2 and Everest . |
20 | Pornographic imagery has been crucial to the success of safer-sex campaigns . |
21 | However , the organization of rural workers has been crucial to the formation of the Salvadorean opposition movement and political repression has been most savage in the countryside . |
22 | The idea of older workers being surplus to labour requirements has been crucial to the development of pensions both in Britain ( the 1925 pensions legislation ) and the United States ( the Social Security Act of 1935 ) . |
23 | This will be used to test the hypothesis that the relationship between state policy and private capital has been crucial to the development of the mineral-energy complex and has been an important factor in the successful capital goods sectors ; this will be supplemented through comparative analysis with other mineral and energy producers in developing economies . |
24 | Again , this is uncertain , although some recent opinion has been favourable to the idea . |
25 | Where the old regime 's power survived intact — eg , in the parliament — that power has been used to the country 's detriment . |
26 | But , if this has happened and the information has been used to the detriment of the person to whom it " belongs " , damages will be available against the person responsible . |
27 | It has been open to the public since 1787 thanks to the efforts of Count Kinský , although its collections have not been added to since 1721 . |
28 | It has been open to the public for some 50 years . |
29 | It was eventually taken into state care in 1912 , and has been open to the public ever since . |
30 | The reaction to the raised premium has been comparable to the furore which broke out over the original introduction of buyer 's charges in London in 1975 . |