Example sentences of "[art] [adj] [verb] been [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Several factors have contributed to this , but the government 's attitude to the unemployed has been the most crucial factor . |
| 2 | In the north midlands , the dominant figure in the 1460s had been the king 's brother Clarence , who had been granted the important duchy of Lancaster estates in the region centred on the honour of Tutbury ( Staffs . ) . |
| 3 | In the north midlands , the dominant figure in the 1460s had been the king 's brother Clarence , who had been granted the important duchy of Lancaster estates in the region centred on the honour of Tutbury ( Staffs . ) . |
| 4 | To a considerable extent the Europe of the Six had been a Christian Democrat creation . |
| 5 | The second has been the sheer number of institutions calling themselves tribunals . |
| 6 | The first has been fighting a ( largely losing ) battle against social condemnation of " stealing other people 's homes " ; the second has been the mechanism by which to carry out government 's policies to protect some short-term occupiers ( tenants , with exclusive possession ) but not others ( licensees ) . |
| 7 | A consistent theme within English studies since the 1970s has been the call for a " methodology " capable of describing and analysing the " nature of the knowledge specific to English as a discourse " , or at least offer a " fully articulated and logically coherent appraisal which could count as indubitable knowledge about a given literary work " . |
| 8 | Children and the elderly have been the main victims . |
| 9 | However , on Oct. 6 following talks on the same day with Sirimavo Bandaranaike , the leader of the opposition Sri Lanka Freedom Party ( SLFP ) , President Ranasinghe Premadasa agreed to consider the formation of an interim all-party administration and the holding of a referendum on the country 's executive presidential system ; the latter had been a major demand of the SLFP , which opposed the concept of the executive presidency . |
| 10 | Among the former have been the national trends towards acceptance of credit accumulation and transfer and all that they imply ; among the latter have been the effect of a tightening national steer on undergraduate student numbers in particular subjects . |
| 11 | The latter has been the chosen course , with the Federal government establishing welfare programmes , and guidelines for their operation , whereby part ( if not all ) of the costs of programme implementation are met from Federal money , and allocated to the State governments to be used for the defined purposes . |
| 12 | The latter has been the main advocate of the project , which would greatly improve the republic 's electricity supply . |
| 13 | A fine , family-run hotel , the Majestic has been a favourite with Citalia customers for over 25 years , enjoying a privileged position close to the centre of the resort on its own sandy beach . |
| 14 | The lives of the great had been the main subject of their stories , in romance , in drama , and subsequently in the novel . |
| 15 | The nine-year-old has been a fine servant for trainer David Nicholson and , although a few pounds below the very best over two miles , he picks up enough prize-money each year to comfortably pay his oats bill . |
| 16 | The correlation of old marine terraces and various phases in the Pleistocene has been a particularly fruitful source of disagreement among glacial geologists and geomorphologists . |
| 17 | So what you 're saying is that Cabinet government in the eighties has been a matter of trench warfare with exchanges conducted in the shape of mortar fire . |
| 18 | Sudan 's greatest economic asset since the 1920s has been the Gezira Scheme , comprising nearly 2 million acres under irrigation , growing a variety of cash crops , notably cotton . |
| 19 | The most fertile birth cohort of women since the 1920s has been the women born around 1937 , who would mostly have married by the early 1960s . |
| 20 | The first has been the slow change-over from travel by train to travel by car . |
| 21 | The first has been the link between the work of some tribunals and the development of a fully-fledged system of administrative law in England and Wales . |
| 22 | The ruling People 's Democratic Party of Afghanistan ( PDPA ) held its second congress on June 27-29 ( the first having been the founding congress in January 1965 ; for national conferences in 1982 and 1987 see pp. 31541 ; 35783-84 ) . |
| 23 | The reason for the increasing size of forecasts of the demand for HE into the 1990s has been the recognition of the offsetting effects of a number of factors on the falling numbers of eighteen-year-olds . |
| 24 | Among the former have been the national trends towards acceptance of credit accumulation and transfer and all that they imply ; among the latter have been the effect of a tightening national steer on undergraduate student numbers in particular subjects . |
| 25 | ALL the fun of the fair has been the order of the week at this year 's Ballyclare May Fair . |
| 26 | Their plans were strategic in the sense that an idealized future ( say 20 years hence ) was projected which would accommodate all assumptions as to likely change : there would be no great population growth ( why should there be ? — the 1930s had been a decade of population stagnation , if not decline ) ; inter-war regional drift would be halted ; the housing shortage would be made good ; the necessary population redistributions would be implemented , so reducing densities to an acceptable level in the inner districts ; areas for suburban expansion would be identified and selected against a background of open space and protected countryside ; lines for improved road communication would be safeguarded and the commercial areas , particularly town centres , would be better defined and made architectural show-pieces . |
| 27 | The record of the peace movement in the 1930s has been a favoured weapon in the arsenal of its opponents ever since , and an astonishing amount of nonsense has been talked on the subject . |
| 28 | The long birdie putt Beck had earlier holed for an eagle three at the 13th had been a turning point , but for Norman , who does not normally play the week before the Masters , this must have also given him encouragement . |
| 29 | What to do for the best has been the subject of much discussion at local aquatic societies over the years . |
| 30 | There , funerals for the martyred and the massacred have been a daily fact of life . |