Example sentences of "of [noun sg] have [been] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the chief reasons for its loss of support had been the protracted struggle between Prime Minister David Lange and his Finance Minister , Roger Douglas , the architect of Labour 's laissez faire approach to the economy , colloquially known as " Rogernomics " . |
| 2 | The prevalence of a low view of art , and especially the art of literature has been a main cause of our defective conception of national education . |
| 3 | That was so even though the breach of contract had been a negligent one . |
| 4 | On the other hand , Maryon Lane , one of two further South African girls ( the other being Patricia Miller ) who joined in August 1947 , thinks the chief cause of ill-will had been the obnoxious behaviour of one person , and says she herself never suffered from resentment but was accepted by the company where everyone seemed like family . |
| 5 | The definition of work has been a central issue ( Oakley , 1974 ) . |
| 6 | The one subject on which there seems to be unanimity , is that purity of insulin has been an important advance ( Andreani et al , 1977 ) . |
| 7 | The importance of fracturing has been a common theme in writings on the reservoir problem of the Appalachian and Variscan thrust provinces . |
| 8 | THE issue of extradition has been a long-running sore in Anglo-Irish relationships . |
| 9 | The Conservative government , which seeks to reverse this trend , blames the decline on over-regulation and rent controls , although it allows that the relative attractiveness of owner-occupation has been a contributory factor . |
| 10 | An additional source of business has been the increased use of external bank finance by non-oil LDCs in financing their economic development . |
| 11 | Bracewell has been a three-times loser in FA Cup finals , but this season his vault of knowledge has been a key factor — especially in the recovery at Stamford Bridge against Chelsea . |
| 12 | The theme of discretion has been a particular concern of the author 's work cited above . |
| 13 | Another , more important reason for the escalating cost of this form of welfare has been the increasing number of people buying their own home . |
| 14 | Sheldukher 's choice of bodyguard had been a good one . |
| 15 | CCG 'S RELENTLESS pursuit of quality has been a vital factor in winning valuable contracts since the quality programme was launched 18 months ago . |
| 16 | The introduction of bells into all the steeples of Christendom had been an early factor in regularizing the habits of the people — their first lesson in working to the clock . |
| 17 | One manifestation of this statement in terms of policy has been the Technical and Vocational Education Initiative ( TVEI ) funded by the MSC . |
| 18 | The history of devolution has been a chequered one in our country , perhaps since the second world war . |
| 19 | Another aspect of government policy that has contributed to the growth of homelessness has been the combined effect of reduced entitlement to housing benefit and higher rents . |
| 20 | In fact their total experience of Spanish had been a two-and-a-half-month deep immersion course , which they had both undergone only three months before my visit . |
| 21 | The debate on the rationale of hierarchy has been a heated one . |
| 22 | In many of the lower-wage countries the growth of this type of employment has been the only real employment growth . |
| 23 | The whole history of science has been the gradual realization that events do not happen in an arbitrary manner , but that they reflect a certain underlying order , which may or may not be divinely inspired . |
| 24 | I had joined a group who are still fixated on a classification of ‘ disorder ’ which homes in on those who attack property , ; and since the amassing of property has been a primary aim of capitalist society , it should come as no surprise to find that to prevent the dispossessed from simply taking from the élite has been the primary structuring principle of policing . |
| 25 | John Elsley spoke for many booksellers up and down the country : ‘ Unemployment and the fear of unemployment have been a major adverse factor , during the year and particularly in the period up to Christmas . ’ |
| 26 | In the more sculptural , formal , Negroid paintings the starting point for the investigation of form had been the logical or rational division of the human form and face into their component parts . |
| 27 | The learning of mathematics has been a particular focus of attention . |
| 28 | The role of symbol had been a necessary and successful one for de Gaulle up to this point , but it now became much more problematic . |
| 29 | There was a widely held view amongst sentencers at the time that these powers were too limited ; while the furtherance of types of punishment not necessitating the deprival of liberty had been a perennial cause of penal reformers . |
| 30 | After all , when it did come it initially avoided these political problems by the simple device of locating the determinants of crime in the individual 's make-up ( and for that reason the early version of positivism has been a firm favourite with rulers and governments ever since ) . |