Example sentences of "it have been the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He says that it has been the foundation of Europe 's post-war success , the implication being that we must adopt the same system in Britain if we are to become a modern , prosperous nation . |
| 2 | Their effects can not be isolated from the HLCA system ; in essence it has been the availability of substantial levels of grant plus the guarantee of HLCAs on the increased numbers of animals which can be kept on the agriculturally improved grassland , which together have constituted a substantial incentive for such capital improvements . |
| 3 | It has been the fate of the Lebanese militias to inhabit the very ramparts of their own history . |
| 4 | Since the destruction of the Temple in 70 AD , it has been the synagogue that has kept the Jewish faith alive throughout the centuries even to the present day . |
| 5 | If one were looking for the reasons for the present situation , does my right hon. Friend agree that it has been the departure of the building societies and other lenders from the traditional concept of not lending more than 75 per cent . |
| 6 | In BR especially , it has been the vehicle for the comprehensive internal regulation of railway affairs and for the resolution of both collective and individual conflicts . |
| 7 | More often it has been the engineers and the ecologists who have done so with lawyers , economists and political scientists sometimes joining in ( Hare , 1980 , p. 381 ) . |
| 8 | It has been the cutting of a cord that was instantly and for ever knotted again inextricably . ’ |
| 9 | The tent is warm , and I have taken everything off , even though it has been the norm to sleep in our thermals and a pile fibre hood . |
| 10 | In recent years it has been the guitar that has been changing most rapidly . |
| 11 | In relation to churches serving other denominations , it has been the case until recently that Roman Catholic churches have rarely fallen out of use , although the general decline in religious observance is beginning to affect some of these buildings too . |
| 12 | Therefore it would also seem possible to learn a functional sign language without a positive desire to become deaf on the part of the hearing learner ; nevertheless , it has been the case in the past that those who have learned sign language have often been cast in the integrative mould and have had their views devalued by the hearing community because of it . |
| 13 | But , although Marxists have been able to refute empiricist critiques of their theories by these methods , it has been the case that the original theory has come under severe strain , and this is one reason for the development of the modern structuralist approaches . |
| 14 | Throughout the film , it has been the man , the dominant male , who got the woman to act out his wishes and fantasies . |
| 15 | Alternatively , in some countries previously without a daily paper it has been the government which has started one : there would probably be no daily newspaper in the Central African Republic , Botswana , Niger , Mauritania or Chad had each of these countries ' governments not decided to finance one . |
| 16 | For the last twenty years it has been the government policy in both countries to er protect their civilian populations against these weapons and the potential use of them by er terrorists or a hostile force . |
| 17 | Here it has been the archivists who have had to confront the difficulties posed by record retention as they attempt to fulfil their statutory duties . |
| 18 | After all , if anyone has flourished in the past 13 years it has been the supermarkets . |
| 19 | For forty three years it has been the jewel in the crown of the Labour Party legislation and for forty three years the Labour Party has defended the National Health Service against all comers . |
| 20 | Indeed , the comparative analysis of two versions of the same text may be undertaken from a number of linguistic perspectives ; it has been the concern of this article to suggest but two of this range of possible models . |
| 21 | It has been the subject of some concern by those who feel that local authority officers should be completely divorced from party political connections . |
| 22 | The law as so stated has , I think , been so understood for most of this century , at least at the level of the Court of Appeal ; but it has been the subject of increasing criticism by academic lawyers , and has been departed from in significant respects in some Commonwealth countries , both by legislation and by judicial development of the law . |
| 23 | The Act is of mammoth proportions with profound implications for every sector of education , and it has been the subject of intense discussion both inside and outside Parliament . |
| 24 | The history of it has been the subject of a lot of work just recently , in fact , from an archaeological standpoint by Professor Cunliffe . |
| 25 | The system is based around Siemens ' Vision Optimised Network Evolution programme , although GEC Plessey says that it has been the developer of the services to be offered and will manage the planned Asynchronous Transfer Mode evolution . |
| 26 | Since the publication in 1932 of Berle and Means ' study of American capitalism , The Modern Corporation and Private Property , it has been the orthodoxy that in the majority of large public companies managements have escaped effective shareholder control . |
| 27 | It has been the making of the kid from the comedy family . |
| 28 | It has been the IPC 's policy this year to try and raise the Bar 's profile abroad and enhance its influence . |
| 29 | It was going to be used as a gardening shed for tomatoes but for me it has been the history and finding out about its past that has been the fun . |
| 30 | It has been the word used to describe the style of today , a style that pervades everything from clothes to waste-paper bins . |