Example sentences of "been [art] [noun] [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since April 1986 , the whole of the twenty-eight weeks of sickness benefit has been the responsibility of employers , and all twenty-eight weeks is taxable . |
| 2 | Those hospitals which formerly had been the responsibility of Boards of Guardians and later of the local authorities , together with the development of those hospitals which the local authorities brought about , including maternity hospitals , passed to the State under the National Health Service Act 1946 , and are now managed by selected and not by elected authorities . |
| 3 | To a large extent the areas nearest to the Mediterranean were the most civilized , but there were cities further north with important cultural traditions , including Lyons , Bordeaux and Autun , and there were other cities , including Trier and Paris , which had at times been the residences of emperors . |
| 4 | However , 50 million years ago creatures would look much less like they do today : for example horses would have been the size of wolves and have had only three toes . |
| 5 | Drafix CAD is an MS-DOS based CAD drawing package that has long been the choice of users who have been unwilling to pay the price demanded for the industry standard — AutoCad . |
| 6 | It 's home to The Ski School Of Great Britain and nearby Murren has been the backdrop for films including James Bond 's On Her Majesty 's Secret Service — remember the revolving restaurant ? |
| 7 | To take a concrete example , an established characteristic of the pricing decision across many Western economies over several decades has been the tendency for firms , particularly firms in the manufacturing sector , to set prices as a mark up over variable costs , the most prominent among which is the money wage . |
| 8 | The robotic replacement or adaptation of man has been the dream of inventors and film-makers for decades — eg the bionic man and other similar imaginative creations . |
| 9 | Of great significance has been the influence of ideologies of modernization , both liberal and Marxist , which essentially equate progress with Western conceptions of social , political and economic development . |
| 10 | We talked about things going wrong , one of the things that 's disturbed me about the tone of the discussion has been the emphasis of rights . |
| 11 | Animal welfare had been the subject of discussions with several leading UK retailers and the Danish industry had offered assurances about the way in which animals are produced and reared there . |
| 12 | The answer is that the London Rubber Company , Hoffman LaRoche , Kelloggs , the Central Electricity Generating Board , and the National Coal Board have all been the subject of investigations by the Monopolies and Mergers Commission . |
| 13 | When buying extended works , the collector should make sure that they have not been the subject of depredations of this nature . |
| 14 | The coco-de-mer grows only on Praslin and its neighbour Curieuse and has long been the subject of legends and superstitions . |
| 15 | The bill had been the subject of months of debate both inside and outside the National Assembly . |
| 16 | It had then been the subject of negotiations with Palestinian and other militia leaders in the area . |
| 17 | Tomorrow the agenda focuses specifically on violence in prisons , something that 's been a problem at Long Lartin jail in Worcestershire where prison officers have been the subject of attacks by prisoners in recent months . |
| 18 | Malaysian logging policies and practices have been the subject of protests by indigenous peoples as well as environmentalists . |
| 19 | In a move that had been the subject of rumours for many months , Jeffrey Archer has gone from Hodder to HarperCollins in a two-book deal . |
| 20 | Neil had taken their advice , and there had been the exchange of missives which , I gathered , served in Scotland as a binding contract . |
| 21 | Particularly disastrous , but not uncommon , have been the effects of landslips and rock-falls into bodies of water . |
| 22 | What have been the effects of cutbacks to the Housing Executive budget ? loss of jobs poorer quality of repairs employment of lowest tender firms lack of adequate re-building programme increasing waiting list homelessness rundown of other services offered by the Housing Executive |
| 23 | Like the siting of settlements , attempts to examine and understand the patterns , and the distribution of settlements across the landscape , have traditionally been the preserve of geographers . |
| 24 | At its most blatant , posts which had once been the preserve of dons from Oxford or Cambridge were now given to businessmen . |
| 25 | What has been the contribution of sociologists to social policy and reform , and what can they realistically expect to do in these areas ? |
| 26 | A further reported development has been the addition of enzymes to slurry . |
| 27 | The flaunting of symbols has so often been the occasion for counter-demonstrations and rioting that the government has often banned parades or re-routed them away from particularly sensitive areas . |
| 28 | Second , prices are available that have previously been the privilege of firms with the buying power of the Big Six . |
| 29 | It might have been the stories about businessmen roaming the streets with half a million pounds in carrier bags . |
| 30 | Within the arable area the greatest changes have been the increase of cereals and the decline of the one-year clover ley . |