Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [been] [art] main [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In addition , increasing car ownership and high-speed road provision has been a main factor in the massive increase of rural recreation enjoyed by many people since the 1950s , and discussed in Chapter 7 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | While male homosexuality has been the main subject of this chapter , it is worth noting that ‘ male beauty and narcissism , playing with ‘ self ’ and sexual ambiguities , still indicates a male privilege in public life . |
| 4 | Safety has been the main obstacle . |
| 5 | The way the floorboards had been laid , I saw , had meant that the doctored beam had been a main load-bearer . |
| 6 | Although the Student Tutoring Scheme and the Enterprise Studentships have been the main focus of Student Enterprise activities within Napier over the last year , students have been involved in ‘ enterprising ’ activities elsewhere : |
| 7 | The under-funding of the N H S has been the main cause of our having reached this crisis point . |
| 8 | Sihanouk said that he was particularly pleased with Qian 's announcement that China would restore aid to all four factions through the SNC ; previously , China had been the main backer of the Khmers Rouges . |
| 9 | Market trends indicate that imported wines have been the main winner — Scotch Whisky the main loser . |
| 10 | ‘ The economy has been a main topic of discussion at all meetings we have had in Europe in recent months . |
| 11 | Grass has been the main diet for horses since the horse evolved and although it varies in nutritional quality throughout the year it does provide a balanced diet for most animals who are not working or breeding . |
| 12 | Mr Chambers ' name and virtues had been the main topic of her mother 's conversation for the last two months , and no matter how many times Honor expressed her dislike of the man , Flora continued to press the subject . |
| 13 | Earth-based radar studies have determined the topography and the texture of about 25% of the Cytherean surface , but radar studies from spacecraft have been the main source of such information . |
| 14 | American firms have been luckier : their interest rates have been falling , so the state of their cash flow has been the main worry . |
| 15 | Their essentialism has been the main focus of criticism from other feminists . |
| 16 | Up to this point , variety had been the main source of income for the Firm . |
| 17 | CAMBODIA has been the main subject of my mailbag this week . |
| 18 | He writes that the issue of women priests had been a main cause of the Crockford 's row . |
| 19 | It was widely thought that discussions over his release had been the main obstacle in the talks between Meyer and Ramaphosa . |
| 20 | Sodium carbonate had been the main product of the alkali industry but Gossage saw a need to develop sodium hydroxide ( caustic soda ) and pursued this . |
| 21 | In Sussex most conservation work has been carried out to conserve particularly vulnerable habitats , in which birds are often an important element , and in a few cases the birds have been the main reason for the conservation work . |
| 22 | Snowdonia ) the greatest losses have been due to afforestation ; in SW England and southern Wales , agricultural conversion has been the main cause , whereas in intermediate areas such as the Cambrian Mountains of mid Wales , moorland has been lost to both . |
| 23 | So the Fosse Way , which at one time had been the main road from medieval Coventry to Leicester , was ordered in the Sharnford award of 1765 to be ‘ of the same width as it hath heretofore usually been ’ . |
| 24 | In fact Trieste , which under the Austro-Hungarian Empire had been the main port of Middle Europe , had diminished in importance as far as Italy was concerned : Genoa had effectively taken its place . |
| 25 | Problems with maintenance on timber cladding have been the main reason why upvc ( unplasticised polyvinyl chloride ) versions have been gaining popularity in recent years . |