Example sentences of "the [noun sg] has been [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yes it is , er I mean , what we tried to do was to write er a comedy on a big scale that was n't a marshmallow , er in fact it er the , the comedy deepens and it gets pretty sour , and I think some of the criticism of the play has been that ‘ is it a comedy , or is it a serious play ’ . |
| 2 | He adds : ‘ It has been a good few years since the snow has been this hard which means a lot of walkers are n't used to it . |
| 3 | The result has been that sterling has become very expensive to borrow , but there is still far too much of it , and the supply is still increasing too fast . |
| 4 | The result has been that ‘ investment at the highest levels ever ’ has come from fares , not from any public purse , and that an ‘ economic ’ system has become unsafe as BR and LRT weigh up commercial investment needs against the cost of safety measures and the cost of paying wages sufficient to maintain a safe level of staffing . |
| 5 | The result has been that recent chancellors have been able to give free rein to their tax-reforming ambitions . |
| 6 | The result has been that major reforms are completely avoided and every minor reform is weakened or sabotaged . |
| 7 | The result has been that discount deals have proliferated . |
| 8 | The result has been that solar panels are now comparable in price to wind generators . |
| 9 | The result has been that sea walls have had to take the brunt of the power of waves and currents at high tide , which erodes them and requires rebuilding on an ever larger scale . |
| 10 | The result has been some unbundling , loosening and decentralizing of control in some societies and in some organizations on some tasks . |
| 11 | The rule has been that young people intending to study medicine must forsake the humanities and social sciences for physics , chemistry and biology . |
| 12 | The effect has been that for most of this century Britain has had to hold interest rates higher than has been necessary or desirable . |
| 13 | The outcome has been that , over the past fifteen years , there has been ‘ a huge expropriation of accumulated labour , several times greater than the expropriation which immediately followed the war ’ . |
| 14 | ‘ But if the lad has been any sort of problem in the past I still believe United will get the best out of him and put an end to his wandering . |
| 15 | ‘ The consequence has been that for some time , by mutual agreement , we have led more separate lives . ’ |
| 16 | This has sometimes been justified on security grounds but often the argument has been that disclosure is not in the public interest , that " secrecy is at all times the condition in which the best men make the best decisions . " |
| 17 | The culmination has been this year 's first World Championships in which Andy took 2nd place as well as being co-sponsor with Palm . |
| 18 | The criterion governing the choice has been that which has directed Ortiz 's own collecting : aesthetic quality , with the additional requirement that the works of art should be representative of the best of their culture . |
| 19 | The implication has been all along that they 're using the same United States manufacturing source but in fact there are one or two discrepancies here , erm , because the value is so high , I 'm actually sort of going through and looking at everything pretty closely , and they 've changed the basis so wow , . |
| 20 | Suspicions have sometimes been voiced that , whenever government has supported civic education , the reason has been that learning of this kind has been interpreted as supportive of a respectful attitude . |