Example sentences of "been [art] [noun] of [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Until now , the only problem with this theory has been the lack of evidence , apart from the impossibility of finding anyone who admits to having voted Tory . |
| 2 | Of course in the past this has often been the lack of interest which has been shown by district councils , who have tried to ignore the existence of the press . |
| 3 | As far as evaluation efforts by academic librarians in general are concerned , the primary problem has been the lack of student response to the process and the consequent impossibility of reaching sufficiently valid conclusions on the basis of small evaluation returns . |
| 4 | The difficulty with this has been the lack of confidence in building budget forecasts for 1993–4 out of not very precise market-mapping exercises done with only 1992–3 figures . |
| 5 | One of the problems facing libraries in the use of video material has been the lack of standardization between different systems . |
| 6 | Surfing Hawaii was like being in the Blitz , and it may have been the thought of death that made me think of love . |
| 7 | Of course the answer is changing the myth would have made Moses Hebrew and not Egyptian , because if Moses had been the daughter of Pharaoh he would had to been Egyptian and that the Hebrews could n't tolerate because at a later stage their religion became strongly ethnic and racially divided , you really got to be born Jewish to be Jewish , so they could n't tolerate their , their founding fathers of not being anything but Jewish , so they altered it , they changed the records and they falsified the myth , but they left this glaring inconsistency in it , so the myth is no longer it 's er rewritten and this is one of the little bits of evidence and now of course erm if you do n't take psychoanalyst insights into the family romance seriously , that may not cut much ice for you , but if you erm appreciate the force of these unconscious stereotypes in creating this like this , it 's cert it 's a quite potent piece of evidence because you think well why should the , the Bible change the myth , why ca n't it just put up with the normal myth . |
| 8 | In their view a major cause of the decline in profits has been the ability of labour , during the post-war years of high employment , to increase its share of value added at the expense of profits . |
| 9 | A major task has been the removal of asbestos insulation . |
| 10 | Another boost to the market has been the removal of turnover tax at the beginning of this year , which tripled volumes . |
| 11 | The stones may have been the origin of market sites , and have been the focus , or ompholos , around which market towns grew up . |
| 12 | This has been the experience of power companies in the United States , where such schemes have been tried on a larger scale . |
| 13 | A more important factor , however , has been the provision of government support for collective bargaining . |
| 14 | One of the few creditable responses of the outside world in this dismal war has been the provision of food and medical help . |
| 15 | Michael Phizacklea , the Institute 's director of finance , replies : The overriding consideration in the preparation of the Institute 's accounts has always been the provision of information to members . |
| 16 | Most significant however has been the donation of time and expertise by the many members of the wider research community who have served on the TEI 's Working Committees and Working Groups . |
| 17 | One problem has been the payment of income support two weeks in arrears . |
| 18 | Black has been the colour of evening suits since the 19th century , but in the Thirties , smart gents followed the Prince of Wales 's liking for midnight blue instead of black . |
| 19 | In the majority of cases however , the valuation engagement will be value added , where the firm uses information , which may already have been the subject of validation , enquiry and analytical procedures or information gathering work , to derive a conclusion in the form of an estimated value or range of values for a particular purpose . |
| 20 | What has been the subject of radical , almost revolutionary , change over the past decade or so has not been the civic culture but the perceptions of that culture . |
| 21 | The regulation of these issues has been the subject of activity by the European Community institutions and by the Council of Europe . |
| 22 | The decision of the European Court of Justice in the Torfaen case has been the subject of exposition in two cases in this country , W. H. Smith Do-It-All Ltd. v. Peterborough City Council [ 1991 ] 1 Q.B . |
| 23 | The Salvage Shop deals in goods that have been the subject of insurance claims , fire , flood and bankruptcy . |
| 24 | But this issue has not been the subject of legislation , nor previously been considered by this court or the House of Lords , and in such circumstances the alternatives are either to dismiss the appeal despite the relevance of article 10 and wait for Parliament to reconsider the state of the law ; or , as the courts have from time to time demonstrated their ability and willingness to do , venture into relatively unchartered waters and declare the present state of the law . |
| 25 | The present monarch of Great Britain has recently been the subject of criticism for failure to all make her collection readily available to her subjects . |
| 26 | The UK system of income taxation and income support measures has been the subject of criticism from many quarters for a variety of reasons . |
| 27 | Despite targeting this relatively small but high risk group , such screening programmes have been the subject of criticism . |
| 28 | The socialist credentials of its present leader , John Hume , have been the subject of derision ever since the formation of the SDLP in 1970 . |
| 29 | Athletics meetings , tennis tournaments and horse-races have all been the subject of sponsorship . |
| 30 | So perhaps the sort of thing that might happen is what we found wholly by chance , in the personal interviews which we conducted with people who had been the subject of judgement summonses ( Appendix II , section 5 ) . |