Example sentences of "have [been] [adj] of [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | LIBERALISATION has been one of the key concepts of eighties ' economics , a word which has acquired such power in Anglo-Saxon officialdom that there is virtually no argument about its virtues . |
| 2 | Indeed , costs of originating and authoring good interactive video together with the high cost of equipping trainees with laser disc players has been one of the key reasons why the commercial market for such applications has remained relatively small . |
| 3 | Stone is not alone in noting the ‘ discrepancy ’ ( p. 420 ) between this and the apparent economic drawbacks of divorce for women ( the increase in divorce has been one of the major factors contributing to the ‘ feminization of poverty ’ ) . |
| 4 | The population explosion has been one of the major phenomena in Latin America this century . |
| 5 | Acquiring a dominant position by merger has been one of the major routes to achieving dominance in recent experience in the UK and US . |
| 6 | Centralisation gained considerable impetus from the government 's attack on local authorities which , as we saw in Chapter 2 , has been one of the major features of Conservative policy . |
| 7 | As we have seen , the establishment of the four Institutes of Higher Education has been one of the major developments in Welsh further education in recent years . |
| 8 | Surely that has been one of the major changes of Government policy over the last few years . |
| 9 | The 26-year-old 's ability to run with the ball and poach spectacular goals has been one of the major factors behind QPR 's impressive start to the season . |
| 10 | I mean Cyprus has been one of the major growth destinations in the last year or so and erm people stopped going there from the day war broke out . |
| 11 | It has been one of the traditional strengths of the structural-functional approach to explore the relationships between beliefs and the social nexus to which they belong , finding meaning not only in cultural form , but also in social content . |
| 12 | Dixons has been one of the first retail chains to suffer from the slowing of retail demand . |
| 13 | The Bodrum peninsular , within sight of the Dodecanese islands of Greece , has been one of the first areas of Turkey to attract British tourists . |
| 14 | Recently Thresher has also been involved in the development of a national vocational qualification at levels 1–4 through the retail Certificate and it has been one of the first of three British companies to offer an opportunity for staff to obtain NVQ recognition through all stages . |
| 15 | Since the National Party came to power in South Africa in 1948 , the education system has been one of the principal instruments through which the apartheid system has been sustained and perpetuated . |
| 16 | The large conservatory market has been one of the largest growth areas for the refurbishment of pubs , hotels and restaurants to increase space and to create breakfast or dining areas . |
| 17 | This has been one of the central preoccupations of ethnographic police research , especially that inspired by phenomenology and ethnomethodology , and so apposite is policing to this focus that many theoreticians from within phenomenology and ethnomethodology have used it for the application of their ideas ( Cicourel 1968 ; Pollner 1987 ; Sacks 1972 ; Sudnow 1965 ) . |
| 18 | From its earliest beginnings , the Garden has been one of the central features in Scotland 's scientific history . |
| 19 | Knowing who we are as humans has been one of the great vexed questions , searched after and written about down the centuries . |
| 20 | The unravelling of their chemistry has been one of the great achievements of 20th century science , a large part of it due to sir Norman Haworth , whose studies in this field spanned more than 30 years . |
| 21 | ‘ It has been one of the great enjoyments of my life recently . ’ |
| 22 | Mimesis has been one of the great seminal works for the study of literary style , and on that ground I am discussing it here ; for a number of reasons , however , it now seems to stand on the margins of modern approaches to literature . |
| 23 | ‘ I was a bit worried about taking a show that has been one of the great musical hits of all time , which I felt was a bit of fluff with one big smash song , ’ he said . |
| 24 | Britain 's growth rate has been one of the lowest of any major Western economy since 1961 , that Britain 's share of investment has been one of the two lowest , that Britain 's share of world trade has been falling while others have had rising shares and that Britain 's rate of inflation has been one of the fastest in the Western world . |
| 25 | She has been one of the liveliest , most controversial and forthright MPs at Westminster during her ten years in the House . |
| 26 | It has been one of the saddest episodes in the whole climbing-village soap-opera . |
| 27 | Hinkley Point B , for example , has been one of the best . |
| 28 | His Excellency has been one of the best Ambassadors Spain has ever sent us , and his very dear wife has given him so much support . |
| 29 | This has been one of the best Friday debates that I have attended for a long time . |
| 30 | Indeed , tourism has been one of the crucial components in the west 's construction of the east , and a passage from Thomas Cook 's brochure for tours of Egypt and Palestine in 1925 encapsulates the Orientalist attitude : ‘ Native life and manners as seen from the steamer are as quaint a study as can well be imagined . |