Example sentences of "been [art] [noun pl] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | How important have been the constraints of history and of resources ? |
2 | What have been the reasons for unemployment in Lancashire , Merseyside and Greater Manchester ? |
3 | At the heart of these have been the institutions of church and family and a code of behaviour based on personal honour . |
4 | The 1970s and 1980s have been the decades of feminism . |
5 | Equity — what have been the consequences of regeneration for job creation for local people and for social housing provision ? |
6 | The indigenous peoples have ‘ always been the instruments of labour and of production , but not the recipients of social benefits from the government ’ . |
7 | For centuries , the Clan Campbell had been the enemies of Clan Macdonald and to ensure that no mercy was shown to the Macdonalds of Glencoe , the Campbells of Glen Lyon were instructed by Dalrymple to enforce the orders . |
8 | How different have been the needs of peacetime [ Robbins , 1947 ] . |
9 | One preoccupation of the sociology of industrial work has been the causes of job dissatisfaction . |
10 | They have not only been the channels of communication and administration from the centre to the periphery , but also the voice of the periphery , or of particular interests at the periphery ; they have been a means of overcoming local particularities , but also platforms for their expression , instruments of central control and obstacles to it . |
11 | There had been the protests about waste dumping , and the steady leaking of Windscale/Sellafield . |
12 | Those who had been obliged to pay for their own lunches had managed to keep awake ; those who had been the beneficiaries of hospitality of one kind or another , had dozed gently , helped by the lights and the warmth of so many . |
13 | In the 1920s the enemy was Labour and the aim was to encourage the desertion of the middle and lower middle classes and the ‘ black-coated ’ workers who had once been the foot-soldiers of Liberalism . |
14 | More recently , there have been the objections against council housing developments by environmentalists seeking to halt urban encroachment , and existing owner occupied rural dwellers who want to halt particular forms of residential development . |
15 | Added to that have been the cuts in funding ; the attack on the ‘ book health ’ of schools has been considerable . |
16 | What he had said of her had hardly been the words of love . |
17 | Earlier had been the months in bed on traction , then being encased in plaster , and later figure-moulded ( embarrassing ! ) suit of plastic armour which at least allowed me to undo it and bath occasionally . |
18 | Many had been the voyages of discovery she had made in this — the most powerful spacecraft that had never been built , and never will be . |
19 | The money was said to have been the profits from drug-trafficking and kidnappings . |
20 | Such research has purported to show that abusing parents are more likely to have , for example , personality problems ( Loss and Glancy , 1983 ; Kokkevi and Agathonos , 1987 ) , low IQ ( Oliver , 1977 ) and have been the victims of abuse themselves ( Kempe and Kempe , 1978 ) . |
21 | Of the ethnic minority population , 10.8 per cent had been the victims of assault as opposed to 5.5 per cent of whites . |
22 | Of a random sample of 644 female householders who were or had been married , 87 or 14% had been the victims of rape or attempted rape by their husbands or ex-husbands . |
23 | Delinquents have more commonly been the victims of adult assaults — often of a vicious , persistent and even calculated nature — than non-delinquents . |
24 | There had been no problems at home . |
25 | There had been no reports of wildlife or fish being affected , said the spokesman . |
26 | Marie had slept well last night : there had been no dreams of violence . |
27 | There have been no claims of responsibility for the Bombay or Calcutta blasts . |
28 | There have been no letters of support . |
29 | The intercept is the expected return on the security which implies that even if the return on this factor was zero ( as in the case of the other three ) , the actual return would be equal to that expected , there have been no deviations in reality from what had been expected . |
30 | Mr Barber said : ‘ In the East Anglian Customs and Excise region there have been no arrests in relation to these imports but there have been some seizures of alcohol at boot sales in Norfolk and Suffolk . ’ |