Example sentences of "[prep] [noun pl] has been " in BNC.
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| 1 | Increased co-operation between states has been a significant feature of the post-1945 world order , reflecting the reduced ability of states to act autonomously in the global arena . |
| 2 | A comprehensive energy efficiency labelling scheme for houses has been launched by MVM , a consultancy specialising in property and planning information . |
| 3 | The design process has been unnecessarily slow on many projects because the exchange of information between designers has been ineffective . |
| 4 | The argument advanced by the anthropologist Clifford Geertz that human societies needed to be interpreted as texts has been especially influential on New Historicist thought . |
| 5 | Demand for prospectuses has been such that an Independent scribe seeking a Warburgs telephone number for publication was told the firm really would prefer that it did not appear in print . |
| 6 | It 's the same story up the road in Blaisdon … a village that for decades has been famed for its plums . |
| 7 | SOCIO-SEXUAL anxiety about Blacks has been a distinctive feature of British society since the first encounters between merchant adventurers and Africans . |
| 8 | But while a sophisticated series of discourses has been developed to analyse the problems and conflicts in women 's experience , and especially the pain and anguish of women 's social , domestic , emotional , and sexual lives , the reasons why most women continue to define ourselves , and to practise as heterosexual have remained unexplored . |
| 9 | A committee of experts has been set up by the Russian Ministry of Culture to look into the problem of such articles within its borders . |
| 10 | At the suggestion of the European Community , which had been asked to mediate by the Czechoslovak and Hungarian governments , a panel of experts has been set up to assess the situation . |
| 11 | A broad spectrum of projects has been supported , including repair yards for fishing boats , bulb growing , hotels , craft industries and an aluminium smelter . |
| 12 | In periods of rapid expansion an increase in their own scale of operations has been paralleled by an expansion of output in smaller affiliated companies . |
| 13 | Two fundamental trends are at work : employee numbers are being gradually but drastically reduced — the Army alone is facing a 30 per cent by 1995 ; and all three services are coming to terms with their obligation to ‘ market test ’ support services with the result that a steady trickle of contracts has been going to the private sector since the early 80s . |
| 14 | A network of contacts has been built up . |
| 15 | Stubbs makes some effort to link the conventions for the use of writing to general linguistic characteristics of writing , but finds it difficult to establish any hard and fast rules since different cultures see different characteristics as significant and so a variety of literacies has been developed . |
| 16 | The company 's belief in growth from within ensures that , once the right calibre of personnel has been recruited , the opportunities for personal development within the company are enormous . |
| 17 | The result is that the townscape of houses has been spreading further outwards and now , in places , the rurban fringe of one town meets that of another . |
| 18 | Whichever set of rules has been adopted , nothing in Article 15 prevents a court in the state of origin from taking , in case of urgency , any provisional or protective measures . |
| 19 | Although a standardized set of rules has been formulated by WUKO , karate associations in countries outside their jurisdiction do not have to abide by them . |
| 20 | But once some set of rules has been established in this way , we might well think it more important that these rules be publicly regarded as settled , so that people can plan accordingly , than that they be the best rules that could have been found ; this provides a reason why courts should leave the rule untouched even when they think the wrong choice was made in the first instance . " |
| 21 | This adaptable group of birds has been very successful at exploiting food resources made available by humans . |
| 22 | The determination of the MMD by conventional fractionation techniques is time consuming , and a rapid , efficient and reliable method which can provide a measure of the MMD in a matter of hours has been developed . |
| 23 | Wherever I have observed transactions of this kind the balancing of accounts has been very carefully worked out . |
| 24 | That oldest of disciplines has been neglected by 20th-century educationalists . |
| 25 | The study of attitudes has been a major topic , if not the major topic , in social psychology . |
| 26 | A series of meetings has been arranged throughout the city and Mrs. Ruth Wilson will attend the meeting to be held on Thursday 26th November in St. Cuthbert 's R.C. Primary School Hutchinson Crossway . |
| 27 | A series of meetings has been arranged throughout the city and Mrs. Ruth Wilson will attend the meeting to be held on Thursday 26th November in St. Cuthbert 's R.C. Primary School Hutchinson Crossway . |
| 28 | However , notation is never added to the schedules until the basic order of subjects has been determined . |
| 29 | In the ambience and tradition to which I am referring personality is defined in terms of breadth and contrast ; the effect is at once stereophonically-internal — a number of speakers has been installed , so to speak — and invasive . |
| 30 | Governments , however , have on occasions intervened in foreign exchange markets to influence their respective rates of exchange , although a greater variety of currencies has been used now that exchange rates are no longer pegged exclusively to the dollar . |