Example sentences of "[conj] have been the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For some I know this is simply not enough , but as the years go by I find that Chopin 's ultra-refined eloquence of utterance responds more readily to an unforced , more integrated style than the ferocious changeability that has been the very kernel of Chopin playing for the last twenty or thirty years . |
| 2 | Yet it is migration to and from rural areas that has been the main concern of rural geographers in the last century , and so attention is now turned to the first major theme of this chapter , rural population change . |
| 3 | The squad I ran became what can only be described as more ‘ disordered ’ and ‘ polluted ’ than had been the accepted norm , and we exhibited many verbal and nonverbal signals of this divergent nature . |
| 4 | Following the meeting a revised order was issued which , while not complying with all of the islanders ' requests , was considerably more acceptable to them than had been the original directive . |
| 5 | It was ancient , a nest of shining metal that had been the first cis-lunar colony , the first man-made world that orbited around mankind 's ancestral home . |
| 6 | They looked about them a bit hazily and then at the bleeding half-thing that had been the young boy and scuttled into a corner . |
| 7 | It was here , on the ground floor of the east wing , that Louise Taylor had been found , in the same room that had been the royal family 's drawing-room . |
| 8 | The protection suit that had been the sacrificial dummy was no longer that . |
| 9 | Yes , that had been the happiest time of her life . |
| 10 | In this way the autonomy and spontaneity of the individual subject that had been the original goal of enlightenment might be retrieved . |
| 11 | To claim that Britain has nurtured something in a matter ultimately pertaining to worship ( the choral singing of cathedral and chapel ) which is purified and controlled beyond anything possessed by Catholic Europe , which is purged of excessive artifice and rhetoric ( Continental reviewers consistently find English a cappella performances impassive ) and whose excellence gives Britain a mission these are among the ideas that have been the principal source of British national identity since the Act of Union in 1707 and were a foundation stone of English identity long before . |
| 12 | In evaluating these arguments it is relevant to distinguish between regimes that have been the constitutional and established government of a state and a regime which is seeking to achieve that position either displacing a former government or to fill a vacuum . |
| 13 | Altdorf is the seat of the Emperor Karl Franz and has been the Imperial capital since the accession of Wilhelm Prince of Altdorf . |
| 14 | Of course the phenomenological approach has been with us for a long time , and has been the primary source of evidence in the psychoanalytic tradition . |
| 15 | LUBAINA HIMID is a lecturer in Fine Art at Lancashire Polytechnic and has been the main force behind the flowering of Blackwomen 's Art in Britain . |
| 16 | It is an American gun and has been the main weapon of the Official IRA . |
| 17 | This fact , together with the facts mentioned above , that Fahreddin Acemi appears to have been the first to hold the office of Mufti without an accompanying kadilik and to have been the first to receive a salary specifically in respect of the Muftilik , makes it a reasonable assumption that he was the first Mufti in the sense commonly understood in later times . |
| 18 | This collaboration , it claimed , had brought the country to the brink of " collapse and disaster " , and had been the principal reason for the suspension of US$100,000,000 in US aid in late May . |
| 19 | In April of 1925 a vacancy for the post of superintendent nurse was advertised and the appointment went to Miss May W. Hall , who was 32 years old , and had been the assistant tutor and deputy superintendent nurse at St.James ' Hospital , Chester . |
| 20 | It had been a village of thatched cabins , with virtually no other buildings at all , and had been the original Galway town before De Burgo came . |
| 21 | It was where the bedrooms had been ; they were later to discover that it was where the Romanovs had lived for a century and a half and had been the favourite apartments of Nicholas I. |
| 22 | And have been the nineteen ninety one based , correc local correction factors . |
| 23 | It was argued earlier that man , a creature with unprepossessing qualities for higher social development , became capable of that development because of traumatic social changes which occurred in the past but whose impact was so immense that they have shaped human nature down to the present and have been the determining influences on the evolution of culture , whose function , by and large , is the transmission of the consequences of these primal , traumatic experiences to subsequent generations in the form of ego , and , most especially , superego , development . |
| 24 | YTP is the Northern Ireland equivalent of the YTS , but has been the joint responsibility of the Northern Ireland Departments of Economic Development and of Education , not the MSC or the Training Agency . |
| 25 | He regarded being chief secretary , with its need to cut departmental spending throughout Government , as having been the toughest of the jobs ‘ in terms of sheer workload ’ . |
| 26 | Scott and his friend returned year after year in search of poetic treasure , and Scott is recorded as having been the first man ever to tackle the rough tracks into Liddesdale in a carriage . |
| 27 | I regard as having been the greatest achievement of the English courts in my judicial lifetime . |
| 28 | Also , the wardens of the Forest of Dean , and of the forests between Oxford and Stamford bridges , were required to account directly at the Exchequer for the revenues of their bailiwicks , instead of farming them as had been the previous practice . |