Example sentences of "[verb] been [det] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Undoubtedly the most significant of these in the context of lasers has been that of inhomogeneous broadening , to which we will return . |
| 2 | This desolate landscape has been that of much of the earth for the greater part of its history . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | My experience has been that for many people there is not all that difference between bringing ‘ God ’ in and touching wood . |
| 5 | The effect has been that for most of this century Britain has had to hold interest rates higher than has been necessary or desirable . |
| 6 | ‘ The consequence has been that for some time , by mutual agreement , we have led more separate lives . ’ |
| 7 | well they were having a biology lesson , she 'd been all about these , they 'd been this biology |
| 8 | ‘ He must have been all of 40 , 50 … at least 60 yards out . ’ |
| 9 | Much of Sussex 's early medieval wealth was built on the close relationship between farming life and industry ; although many villages had specialists in each there must have been many with dual occupations , men able to shift from one to the other as the season or demand dictated . |
| 10 | There would n't have been many at that time in the morning . |
| 11 | There might have been more of these . |
| 12 | The above-mentioned aerodromes are only two I have selected , but they could have been any of many in both countries . |
| 13 | The programmers who designed them may have been any of these things , but that is irrelevant . |
| 14 | He assumed the visit must be one of Isobel 's whims , and there had been many of those . |
| 15 | But that had been all of thirty years ago , and very quickly these demands had multiplied , absorbing more and more time and energy , so that the moments of evening meditation were soon subsumed into the preoccupations and stresses of an active Christianity . |
| 16 | Arthur had been all of those things himself : hunter , warrior , then king . ’ |
| 17 | When ( Labour ) tries to define a programme capable of rallying the masses at the next general election , it falls back , not on a specifically socialist programme , but on the old programme that half a century ago had been that of bourgeois liberalism in England . |
| 18 | The actual sphere of competence the church had sought to monopolize had been that of sexual morals , temperance , the semi-private sphere of the family , and education . |
| 19 | He reacts strongly to any suggestion — and there have been several over recent months — that his emotional ups and downs are part of a manic-depressive syndrome . |
| 20 | IF Evander Holyfield 's fists prove as fast and slick as the promoters ' tongues have been these past few days , his world heavyweight title defence against Riddick Bowe tonight promises to be a masterpiece . |
| 21 | That 's quite good because y often there is a country though , we have n't had many campaigns on countries sort of lately have we , it 's been more on different aspects on Amnesty 's work so they 're obviously going back to picking on countries where they deal , that 'll . |