Example sentences of "been [prep] [art] forefront " in BNC.
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| 1 | The province has since been in the forefront of China 's efforts to reassure foreign businessmen that its door will be staying open for ‘ business as usual ’ . |
| 2 | ‘ The Port of Larne has always been in the forefront of development and modernisation . |
| 3 | Due , to a large extent , to the activities of the voluntary organisations , who have always been in the forefront in guiding policy on this issue , much has been achieved . |
| 4 | A successful conference took place in April ; a research project is currently under way ; a valuable reference work is under production ; and BFRC has also been in the forefront of the important material developments which have taken place in the industry . |
| 5 | The Town and Country Planning Association has been in the forefront of plans to promote a change in government policy on the North-South Divide . |
| 6 | Eddie Tonks , the NZRFU council chairman , has been in the forefront of the renewal of playing contact with South Africa . |
| 7 | On the contrary , West Ham had been in the forefront of relief , but had been obstructed by a government enjoying full support of the Alliance ( SE 28 September 22 ) . |
| 8 | As with sign language research , Scandinavia and the USA have been in the forefront of developments , though each draws on different traditions , the first for the recognition of language difference needs , the second for the equalisation of society and integration of minority groups . |
| 9 | They had been in the forefront of developments since the late 1940s , progressing far beyond what other states , for varying reasons , were prepared to accept . |
| 10 | Most of the supply industry 's generating expertise had previously been in the larger power companies and municipalities ( which had been in the forefront of developing the more advanced power stations ) , but the first power company engineer they recruited as head of generation design fell ill shortly afterwards and died . |
| 11 | It has been in the forefront of the WCC 's conciliar process on Justice , Peace and Integrity of Creation . |
| 12 | The implications of family life and upbringing in the sexual development of the individual have been in the forefront of considerations throughout this book . |
| 13 | Black artists , photographers , film makers and cultural critics have been in the forefront of demands and attempts to break the bounds of an aesthetic of ‘ positive images ’ . |
| 14 | For example , newcomers have been in the forefront of the many campaigns to obtain by-passes for those villages which have a main road running through them . |
| 15 | North Africa has been in the forefront of these protests . |
| 16 | ERC has also been in the forefront of developing and implementing industry standards . |
| 17 | Those proposals are now being developed and the United Kingdom has been in the forefront of police co-operation in Europe to combat the growing evil of international crime . |
| 18 | It is interesting that Britain and Denmark — the two most recent members — have been in the forefront of its reform . |
| 19 | This issue ( together with the long-running territorial dispute over the disputed Senkaku islands ) soured relations somewhat with China towards the end of 1990 , even though earlier in the year Japan had been in the forefront of those countries arguing for a resumption of the aid to China which had been suspended after the Tiananmen Square massacre in June 1989 . |
| 20 | This was particularly embarrassing for Bolger as he had been in the forefront of those who had castigated former Labour Prime Minister David Lange for bowing to French economic pressure by releasing Alain Mafart and Dominique Prieur , the two saboteurs who were tried and sentenced for the crime . |
| 21 | He stressed that Columbus had brought the " precious seed of faith " to the Americas , which he characterized as one of " the greatest events in history " , and that the Church had also been in the forefront of efforts to curb the abuses of the colonists . |
| 22 | We as a trade union have been in the forefront of campaigning and supporting the Labour Party , not just as , in its election battle , but in attempting to modernize the Party 's thinking , the Party administration , be it on the issue of quotas for women , on policy making , on finances and on the block vote . |
| 23 | Oxford has been in the forefront of this research , which has shown why certain surgical procedures for the relief of epilepsy or for the removal of brain tumours in people can have disastrous effects on certain types of memory . |
| 24 | Since its acquisition two years ago of Consumers Gas of Canada , a company with nearly ten years experience in NGV development , British Gas has been in the forefront of NGV research — in which it invests over £1 million a year in the UK . |
| 25 | Now we 're delighted to see you here because we know that the , the G M B shares this view and we know that you 've also been in the forefront of introducing technology , er and we know also that having you here er , having your conference here , helps us enormously to continue this process of raising the profile of the trades unions , the trades council , the labour movement in the city . |
| 26 | The appeal court took the view that a speaker must take the audience as he or she finds it — this contradicted Beatty v. Gillbanks and revived all the fears about ‘ mob rule ’ which had been to the forefront of the judges ' minds in that case . |
| 27 | Congress , G M B has been to the forefront of the campaign to ensure that the laws of this country are brought into line with European legislation . |
| 28 | Ever since the first distant sounds of music and odd snatches of alien speech began interrupting the 1920s ' world of Morse , better ( and louder ) reproduction of audio has been at the forefront of development priorities for engineers . |
| 29 | Rifkin has been at the forefront of the struggle to make biotechnology accountable to the public since 1977 , when he invaded the stage at a conference of the National Academy of Sciences , brandishing a banner reading ‘ Do n't tread on my genes . ’ |
| 30 | There was even a clip from his commando days in Borneo — although the Liberal Democrats ' policy on Dyaks has hardly been at the forefront of the campaign . |