Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] have [been] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The prevalence of a low view of art , and especially the art of literature has been a main cause of our defective conception of national education . |
| 2 | It might of course have been a more acceptable blue when it was put on because it changes |
| 3 | That was so even though the breach of contract had been a negligent one . |
| 4 | All that I ever learned at college of philosophy had been a conception of the external world as a colourless and soundless wilderness whose true nature one could never know , which one could not even imagine — but which I did , none the less , imagine as a vast landscape of polar spaces in whose eternal twilight one wandered , preoccupied and deluded by a flicker of magic-lantern pictures which danced inside one 's mind and for ever remained private to oneself . |
| 5 | The definition of work has been a central issue ( Oakley , 1974 ) . |
| 6 | The importance of fracturing has been a common theme in writings on the reservoir problem of the Appalachian and Variscan thrust provinces . |
| 7 | THE issue of extradition has been a long-running sore in Anglo-Irish relationships . |
| 8 | But there is a peculiar Irishness about the controversy which has come with this ; the focus of attention has been a sideshow — an interesting sideshow , but a sideshow nonetheless . |
| 9 | The Conservative government , which seeks to reverse this trend , blames the decline on over-regulation and rent controls , although it allows that the relative attractiveness of owner-occupation has been a contributory factor . |
| 10 | Bracewell has been a three-times loser in FA Cup finals , but this season his vault of knowledge has been a key factor — especially in the recovery at Stamford Bridge against Chelsea . |
| 11 | They are credit-wary , because their experience of credit has been a very adverse one in recent times . |
| 12 | The theme of discretion has been a particular concern of the author 's work cited above . |
| 13 | However , this therapeutic range , obtained in studies conducted in patients with asthma , should not be used as a reference in patients with chronic obstructive airways disease , in which the use of theophylline has been a subject of controversy . |
| 14 | Sheldukher 's choice of bodyguard had been a good one . |
| 15 | CCG 'S RELENTLESS pursuit of quality has been a vital factor in winning valuable contracts since the quality programme was launched 18 months ago . |
| 16 | Moreover , stage performances of opera had been a rarity during the war . |
| 17 | The history of devolution has been a chequered one in our country , perhaps since the second world war . |
| 18 | The promotion of an improvement in the management of government has been a hallmark of the Conservative Administration since 1979 . |
| 19 | In fact their total experience of Spanish had been a two-and-a-half-month deep immersion course , which they had both undergone only three months before my visit . |
| 20 | The debate on the rationale of hierarchy has been a heated one . |
| 21 | I had joined a group who are still fixated on a classification of ‘ disorder ’ which homes in on those who attack property , ; and since the amassing of property has been a primary aim of capitalist society , it should come as no surprise to find that to prevent the dispossessed from simply taking from the élite has been the primary structuring principle of policing . |
| 22 | As the boats began to leave the mouth of the River Tees , where they had been barring the way to Teesport , they claimed their eight-hour show of strength had been a success . |
| 23 | John Elsley spoke for many booksellers up and down the country : ‘ Unemployment and the fear of unemployment have been a major adverse factor , during the year and particularly in the period up to Christmas . ’ |
| 24 | This kind of repetition has been a method of construction used by composers from Franck , through the French Impressionists , to such as Delius and Lennox Berkeley , and Ravel found it so fruitful that phrase repetition runs through entire movements of his music : In this example the melody does not change on repetition , and Ravel uses the technique to create a series of semi-static periods . |
| 25 | The learning of mathematics has been a particular focus of attention . |
| 26 | The role of symbol had been a necessary and successful one for de Gaulle up to this point , but it now became much more problematic . |
| 27 | There was a widely held view amongst sentencers at the time that these powers were too limited ; while the furtherance of types of punishment not necessitating the deprival of liberty had been a perennial cause of penal reformers . |
| 28 | Considering the Statue of Liberty has been a beacon of hope for generations of newly-arrived immigrants , it 's appropriate that Mario arrived in New York with his parents 30 years ago . |
| 29 | After all , when it did come it initially avoided these political problems by the simple device of locating the determinants of crime in the individual 's make-up ( and for that reason the early version of positivism has been a firm favourite with rulers and governments ever since ) . |
| 30 | In very general terms , what has characterized recent tendencies in the theoretical study and the practical teaching of language has been a distrust of authority and of the rules and conventions through which it is exercised . |