Example sentences of "[been] [num] of [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fraud has been one of the problems that the factors/invoice discounters have had to tackle during the recession . |
| 2 | That has been one of the problems of local government , not what the hon. Gentleman has referred to . |
| 3 | The Tatars had been one of the groups expelled from their traditional homelands in 1944 on grounds of alleged Nazi sympathies ( and a certain amount of active collaboration ) . |
| 4 | Two days earlier , Democratic Platform had been one of the groups responsible for organizing a demonstration by around 50,000 people in Moscow 's Manezh Square in protest at the CPSU . |
| 5 | However , the conference decided that the government should take action against those guilty of the deaths of Sikhs in the aftermath of Indira Gandhi 's assassination in 1984 [ see pp. 33220-21 ] , which had been one of the Sikhs ' main demands . |
| 6 | He had slipped up in using Tweed 's name because it had sounded as though he 'd been one of the casualties . |
| 7 | Water quality in the Danube has been one of the casualties of the war between Croatia and Serbia , according to the UN Industrial Development Organisation ( UNIDO ) . |
| 8 | Clause 9 of the Party programme could not be blamed , as Rosa Luxemburg argued , for the disintegration of the old Russia ; it had been one of the resources for saving what had been saved . |
| 9 | Now she was smiling , accompanied by a very young Italian who might have been one of the waiters her old school-friend saved for the last . |
| 10 | Traditionally , the Tyne has been one of the bastions of British maritime power . |
| 11 | The issue on CD of these recordings which one tended lovingly on LP for so long has been one of the joys of my collection . |
| 12 | The Sun has not been one of the newspapers which has in any way suggested that either the Queen or the Duke of Edinburgh have been other than supportive to the Princess of Wales . ’ |
| 13 | Over the same period , Joe has been one of the players who helped it develop from its infamy as the so-called sign of a mis-spent youth to become a symbol of sporting success . |
| 14 | Bishop Wilkins thought that had Baxter ‘ lived in the primitive times , he would have been one of the fathers of the church ; and that it was enough for one age to produce such a person as Mr. Baxter . ’ |
| 15 | Mungo wondered whether she had been one of the girls who was ‘ sweet ’ on Jos . |
| 16 | In a series of other cases from eyres where Mettingham had been one of the justices the auditors accepted his ‘ record ’ that he had not been sitting in the court when the case concerned was decided . |
| 17 | About 400 sick conscripts were discharged ( this having been one of the demonstrators ' demands ) , as were those who had served 18 months of their two-year service . |
| 18 | After death the heart becomes a pyramid ( it has always been one of the wonders of the world ) ; but even in life the heart was never heart-shaped . |
| 19 | Restraint on overheads has been one of the secrets of Headline 's success . |
| 20 | This had indeed been one of the aims of the scientific societies of the seventeenth century , such as the Royal Society ; and it was best realized in the superb plates in the Encyclopèdie of Diderot and d'Alembert which show French manufactures in the middle of the eighteenth century , before the industrial revolution changed techniques . |
| 21 | Others present included , a great supporter of the Arts and many good causes ; , whose husband is Rector of the Imperial College ; , he is Chairman of London Weekend Television ; , who is a member of the Council of the College ; , who was over from Kenya ; , who had been one of the judges . |
| 22 | Mr. R. A. McNeile said that the availability of water in the town to supply 10,000 people had been one of the reasons for attracting the company . |
| 23 | It had been one of the reasons their marriage had failed . |
| 24 | But some things never change and the appalling weather might just have been one of the reasons why the Romans abandoned the village and Britain , 1,500 years ago . |
| 25 | But some things never change and the appalling weather might just have been one of the reasons why the Romans abandoned the village and Britain , 1,500 years ago . |
| 26 | He does not greatly care for the dark purplish bathroom suite ( ‘ Damson ’ , the estate agent 's brochure had called the shade ) but it had been one of the things that attracted Marjorie when they bought the house two years ago — the bathroom , with its kidney-shaped handbasin and goldplated taps and sunken bath and streamlined loo and bidet . |
| 27 | Eggs had not been one of the things left by her unknown benefactor and there had been complaints about the absence of toast soldiers . |
| 28 | Probably that had been one of the things which Aunt Ruth , who had little dress sense , so disliked about her . |
| 29 | The free magazine had been one of the perks of British Airways Club Class travel — and one she now regretted having enjoyed ! |
| 30 | Could it have been one of the footpads who tried to ambush me earlier that day ? |