Example sentences of "[verb] [been] that [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A main reason for this has been that developments have concentrated on creating ‘ single-purpose ’ areas , for example only office blocks , shopping areas or housing estates rather than a mixture . |
| 2 | The main difficulty has been that teachers allocated to rural schools , especially local district council schools , found themselves virtually without back-up . |
| 3 | Whether the party in office has been Conservative or Labour , the first consideration has been that Ulster policies must never injure electoral prospects . |
| 4 | The effect of these Standing Committees has been that debates have been of a much more highly focused and objective quality . |
| 5 | One outcome of these severe inequalities , sustained over many years by a small privileged élite , has been that opponents of these regimes have resorted to armed struggle . |
| 6 | A major impetus has been that users found this detailed budgetary accounting confusing . |
| 7 | The Government 's official position , dictated by the Prime Minister , has been that Britain will join the ERM when ‘ the time is ripe ’ . |
| 8 | The problem has been that descriptions of language in general tended to be based on these special cases . |
| 9 | The consensus among observers has been that IBM Corp will find it needs to cut many more than the 25,000 positions it is targeting for this year , so there was little surprise when both the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal last week came out with independent stories saying the cuts would go much higher . |
| 10 | A frequent methodological problem in electrophysiological experiments has been that experimenters have either failed to exercise any control whatever over their subjects ' cognitive strategies or else have relied simply on instructions to subjects to engage in a particular mental activity . |
| 11 | The additional fear has been that properties sold in attractive rural settings may eventually become ‘ second homes ’ for rich urban dwellers . |
| 12 | An actual criticism of the ley theory , as opposed to mental attitude , has been that lines on the plane surface of a map can not accurately represent alignments on the curved surface of the Earth . |
| 13 | The only positive news has been that America 's Digital Equipment has raised its stake in Olivetti ahead of schedule , taking it to almost 10% . |
| 14 | My experience has been that entertainers who come for just the show have maximum impact and cause great excitement , especially if they arrive dressed up . |
| 15 | So far , the thrust of the analysis has been that firms are likely to want vertical integration and that , though in many cases it would be socially desirable , in some it may not be . |
| 16 | The lesson since Bismarck has been that France can not compete politically , militarily or economically with a united Germany . |
| 17 | The principal counter-argument has been that Essex has enjoyed the benefit of a former tutor-organiser as Federation chairman and that , in the absence of an equivalent person to give a lead elsewhere , tutor-organisers have continued to be essential . |
| 18 | Within this tradition , the argument has been that Simmel 's The Philosophy of Money provides an important critique of alienation , which , unfortunately , the author perceived as a condition of modernity itself instead of a specific attribute of capitalism ; but , once his philosophy is directed back to its proper object , there is much to be learnt from his examples . |
| 19 | The underlying philosophy has been that schools require more INSET to be school-focused , linking the enhancement of a teacher 's individual professional skills with the defined needs of the school as a whole ; and further that the capacities of a school staff to evaluate their own strengths and weaknesses must be improved and result directly in more effective forward planning to remedy recognized weaknesses . |
| 20 | Their strength has been that recruits came to them already vetted and character-tested through membership of a church or Orange lodge . |
| 21 | The prospect has been that atoms cooled to microkelvin temperatures , with an arrangement called an atomic fountain , would allow orders-of-magnitude improvements in frequency standards . |
| 22 | The BMA working party refers to ‘ alternative medicine ’ — misleading terminology since the medical establishment 's greatest fear in the past has been that therapists would influence patients to treat it as just that and reject orthodox medicine . |
| 23 | The result has been that sales of diesel cars in Britain last year reached a record 139,810 , or 8.8 per cent of a smaller total market , compared with 128,167 ( 6.38 per cent ) in 1990 . |
| 24 | In British social anthropology , the implicit assumption has been that humans are violent , and that society in various ways controls and constrains . |
| 25 | The result of all this has been that proponents in the press of the fashionable pro-government doctrine of ‘ new realism ’ have somehow found themselves spending most of their time constructing and then reporting on a fantasy world . |
| 26 | It may have been that Morse had smiled a little at the question . |
| 27 | The conclusion might have been that Ealhfrith abdicated in a voluntary acceptance of the religious life were it not for Bede 's silence on the matter and his statement that Oswiu was attacked in the course of his reign by the Mercians , his nephew , Oethelwald , and by his own son , Ealhfrith ( HE III , 14 ) . |
| 28 | It may have been that Harvey enjoyed such seniority in the Church that in his case such deviation was permitted , but given that two or three other committed Free Presbyterians have been active in the Official Unionist Party ( in 1985 there were two Free Presbyterians in local government as Official Unionist councillors ) , it is more likely that the Church leadership was genuinely able to maintain some distance from Paisley 's politics . |
| 29 | It may have been that writers felt that every variation in their particular game had been played , but recognised that a public appetite for detection had been created and would repay feeding . |
| 30 | For example , it could well have been that families of cave dwellers came to realise that it was possible that they could agree to respect the privacy and boundaries of their respective homes , and by so doing relieve themselves of the eternal vigilance likely to be necessary in the absence of such agreement . |