Example sentences of "been the [noun] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the event , the results have been the opposite of those originally envisaged . |
| 2 | And it had been the experience of that war that convinced Richard Cobden of ‘ the utter uselessness of raising one 's voice in opposition to war when it has once begun . ’ |
| 3 | Such had been the history of this camp up to the time I arrived there . |
| 4 | In the years since 1981 the one consistent response to urban unrest has been the provision of more resources , more training , and more equipment to the police . |
| 5 | The 14th has been the graveyard of many an aspiring champion 's hopes . |
| 6 | However , The Times warned that the deal took Citizens into a much larger market in Massachusetts , ‘ a state that has been the graveyard of more banks than the federal authorities would care to remember . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ This has been the dream of many an entrepreneur and researcher for years . |
| 8 | Even the wild surmise occurred to me that Leslie might have lost his memory ; but commonsense reasserted itself , and I realised that this could not have been the fate of all his men . |
| 9 | The pros and cons of feeding hedgehogs have been the subject of much debate , but scientific evidence suggests that , even if supplementary food is put out for hedgehogs , they will still hunt on their own account . |
| 10 | This report , of the Medical Royal Colleges and their Faculties in the United Kingdom , concerns itself with the diagnosis of brain death , but at the outset acknowledges that ‘ the dilemma of when to switch off the ventilator has been the subject of much public interest . ’ |
| 11 | As stated above , the problem of desertification has been brought to public attention by famines that have resulted in immense loss of life , especially in the Sahel-Saharan zone of Africa ( reviewed in Glanz 1987 and Mortimore 1989 ) , the causes of which have been the subject of much debate and have recently been reviewed by Hulme ( 1989 ) . |
| 12 | Minor tranquillizers , in particular , have been the subject of much criticism in view of the extent of their prescribing in general practice , their doubtful efficacy and the risks associated with their use ( Catalan and Gath 1985 ) . |
| 13 | Hermit crabs are able to make a rapid assessment of whether a particular shell is of an appropriate size or not , and how they do this has been the subject of much study . |
| 14 | Elizabeth 's intentions in 1558 have been no more clear to historians than they were to contemporaries , and have been the subject of much debate and discussion . |
| 15 | What to do for the best has been the subject of much discussion at local aquatic societies over the years . |
| 16 | The arrangements for selecting presidential candidates that produced Ronald Reagan in 1980 have been the subject of much criticism . |
| 17 | The nature of this formal regulation has been the subject of much debate . |
| 18 | Such accounts can be renegotiated , and indeed have been the subject of much discussion between the fans and ourselves . |
| 19 | One closely related question has also been the subject of much recent discussion . |
| 20 | The homologies of these parts have been the subject of much controversy . |
| 21 | It has however been the subject of much criticism , which has grown substantially during the second half of the present century . |
| 22 | Deaf education itself has been the subject of much dispute relating to the ‘ how ’ of education — that is , primarily , what method of communication do we use to educate deaf people ? |
| 23 | All the cases of leukaemia in Thurso were centred on this estate , which lies just within 12.5 km of Dounreay , so that the excess there was much higher than in the next cumulative zone , which included the eastern half of the town ( within 16.6 km ) , a difference that has been the subject of much comment . |
| 24 | This proposition has been the subject of much empirical debate , but at present there seems no overwhelming consensus as to its veracity . |
| 25 | The ballot has been the subject of much hostile comment . |
| 26 | During the winter of 1908–9 , however , Picasso produced two very large canvases ( larger than any he was to produce until the summer of 1914 ) which seem to stand out from others that surround them and which have been the subject of much stimulating argument and discussion . |
| 27 | The DMS itself , as the major vehicle of such provision , has been the subject of much debate during the last decade , principally about its nature and content . |
| 28 | The conduct of the trial itself had also been the subject of much speculation when it became evident that most of the prosecution witnesses were detainees . |
| 29 | That such an organism existed , or exists , has been the subject of much speculation by palaeobiologists and geochemists interested in the origin of the so-called banded iron formations ( BIFs ) ; these are sedimentary ores typically composed of alternating layers of silica- and iron-rich minerals that can often be traced as discrete units over hundreds of kilometres . |
| 30 | The origin of these cells has been the subject of much debate . |