Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] have [been] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the area of hydrology have been some of the most specific contributions made by physical geographers including the analysis of increased discharges ( Hollis , 1975 ; Walling and Gregory , 1970 ; Walling 1979a ) , investigation of sediment yield ( Walling , 1974 ) , research extending into the area of water quality and pollutants related to urban source areas ( Ellis , 1979 ) and analysis of river channel changes downstream from urban areas ( Leopold 1973 ; Gregory , 1981 ) . |
| 2 | In the immediate post-war years , the Minister of Defence had been little more than the co-ordinator of the three autonomous Service Ministries and the Ministry of Supply . |
| 3 | The progression of destructionn moves from affecting the capacity for a full range of emotional feelings and then into affecting intellectual processes and finally affecting physical health , although ther will of course have been many episodes of some damage to physical well-being throughout the progress of the disease . |
| 4 | But pressing the case for disclosure of APR has been such a long , hard battle that there is an obvious temptation to feel that — now the battle has been won — we can all sit back and sigh with relief . |
| 5 | Her teeth crunched down on her lower lip as the whirlpool of her desire sped her back to Seville when this sort of contact had been enough to … |
| 6 | But the major tradition which has queried this view of self has been that which derives from psychoanalysis . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The traditional attitude of government has been that official information should remain secret unless the government chooses to make it available . |
| 9 | Elsewhere , the rate of growth has been such that ancient parishes have been carved into much smaller units so that new churches could serve the expanding population . |
| 10 | Until recently , the acoustic analysis of speech has been such a slow and laborious business that only small samples of speech could be analysed , but recent developments in the use of computers are making it possible to carry out analysis on a much larger scale . |
| 11 | The most common use of context has been some measure of how letters may legally combine to form words . |
| 12 | In both instances , the main markets targeted for development have been those of the US and Western Europe . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | In the last decade a new basis for argument has been that of consumerism and accountability . |
| 15 | A recurring complaint from industry has been that pension funds are too short-term orientated , to the detriment of the companies in whose shares they deal . |
| 16 | Ethridge writes that although expenditure on education increased during the 1980s , ‘ the increase in enrolment has been such that the average per-pupil expenditure actually decreased ’ . |
| 17 | Over the past two years , she pointed out , Saatchi had purchased major works by many of those British painters whose rise to prominence has been such a striking feature of recent years : Saatchi has bought work by , among others , Frank Auerbach , Lucian Freud , Leon Kossoff and Howard Hodgkin . |
| 18 | The highest level of information used in processing to date has been some form of lexical look-up . |
| 19 | Amongst the industries most affected by deregulation have been those involved in innovatory technological activity . |