Example sentences of "[noun] have [been] [det] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | ON the basis that ‘ forewarned is forearmed ’ the fundamental principle underlying the Companies Acts has been that of disclosure . |
| 2 | Well some of the football Leicester have played in this opening twenty o twenty minutes has been some of the best I 've seen them . |
| 3 | In the twentieth century the most dramatic political collapse has been that of the Liberal Party . |
| 4 | The New Right emphasis on adversary politics and an overload of demands has been more of a critique of democracy in Britain than it has ever been a rigorous description of , and explanation for , British politics . |
| 5 | Another rare loss has been that of Mark Weedon , the Managing Director in London until the autumn of 1988 , now at Heidrick and Struggles . |
| 6 | The Secretary of State has pretensions as a political heavyweight , but his performances have been more of a light banterweight . |
| 7 | ‘ The earls of Warwick have been some of the most powerful men in English history . |
| 8 | He says the last few months have been some of the driest since records began . |
| 9 | Perhaps one of the most creative and imaginative responses has been that of the Lucas Workers with their corporate plan for socially useful production . |
| 10 | An aim of educational policy in this and many other countries has been that of enhancing equality of opportunity . |
| 11 | In more recent times , the most highly developed exposition has been that of Wilhelm Reich ( 1897–1957 ) . |
| 12 | However , his appearance had been that of an eighteen-year-old , which makes nonsense for a second time of the press claims that Lord Haw-Haw was as puny in appearance as he had been in his human sympathies . |
| 13 | According to Lévy , ‘ The only galleries of modern and contemporary art in Geneva have been those of Daniel Varenne and Jan Krugier . |
| 14 | It is perhaps not surprising , therefore that from the early days when the state became involved in the education of the masses one of the principal aims of the curriculum enunciated by successive Presidents of the Board of Education , Ministers of Education and Secretaries of State for Education has been that of the preparation for citizenship . |
| 15 | An important explanatory concept has been that of ‘ divergent thinking ’ ; or what de Bono in a different context has called ‘ lateral ’ thinking . |
| 16 | Arthur had been all of those things himself : hunter , warrior , then king . ’ |
| 17 | In both instances , the main markets targeted for development have been those of the US and Western Europe . |
| 18 | In the last decade a new basis for argument has been that of consumerism and accountability . |
| 19 | Undoubtedly the most significant of these in the context of lasers has been that of inhomogeneous broadening , to which we will return . |
| 20 | One of the most fruitful recent contributions to Marxist theory has been that of autonomist writers who have identified the centrality of reproduction to capitalism and extended the concept of the proletariat beyond the directly employed worker to include the social proletariat ( see Negri , 1979 ) engaged in the reproduction of labour power . |
| 21 | One of the most recent contributions to this debate has been that of Gerland Ledger , in his book Recounting Plato . |
| 22 | In Italy , as elsewhere , the modern industrial strategy has been that of fragmenting and dispersing labour . |
| 23 | The career of Miller had been that of a classic party functionary rising to PUWP central committee secretary and politburo member , whereas Kwasniewski , who came up through the editorship of party youth wing newspapers to become Minister of Youth and Sports from 1985 , had made his name as a pragmatist and advocate of co-operation with Solidarity in the 1989 round table talks . |
| 24 | Of all the proposed mega-mergers this year , the only success has been that of Ernst & Young , which merged all its significant practices expect for Canada . |
| 25 | And for two thousand years every Government has been that of an invader . ’ |
| 26 | One of your major interests has been that of the relationship of allegory |
| 27 | One of your major interests has been that of the relationship of allegory |
| 28 | In many regions drought has been less of a problem for lawns this year , and the mowing programme continues |
| 29 | Another line of attack has been that of some psychologists who have concentrated their fire on the question whether the type of experimental procedure designed to produce associative learning in Aplysia can ‘ really ’ be said to fulfil the conditions required for classical conditioning . |
| 30 | ’ One traditional way of discovering God 's will had been that of the biblical sortes — the question would be posed and the Bible then opened at random . |