Example sentences of "been the [noun] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A major difficulty in genetic studies of peptic ulcer disease has been the lack of subclinical markers . |
| 2 | Another frightening development since Mrs Thatcher went has been the lack of genuine economic debate in Whitehall . |
| 3 | Anther limiting factor in studying the properties of human gall bladder epithelium has been the lack of normal tissue . |
| 4 | A related weakness has been the lack of effective co-operation between industry and higher education . |
| 5 | One surprise has been the lack of Saxon settlements beneath the medieval villages which have been excavated . |
| 6 | Such has been the lack of literary models , though , that the nearest parallel is not with any literary bratpack but rather with the new wave of black film-makers in the States . |
| 7 | The thought of ‘ New Liberalism ’ was shaped by the fact that during the period 1880–1914 a great deal of interventionist legislation had been enacted , much of which had been the responsibility of Liberal governments . |
| 8 | The second influence has been the expansion of international regulation into areas which were previously not regarded as within international competence . |
| 9 | The third factor has been the democratisation of civil liberties . |
| 10 | In the event , the results have been the opposite of those originally envisaged . |
| 11 | Procrastination , compromise and delay had been the response of successive governments of both political parties . |
| 12 | One of the most interesting and welcome results of literary feminism has been the reprinting of forgotten texts , usually by women but occasionally by men . |
| 13 | Equally exciting has been the finding of large numbers of discarded carved and painted stones from Jocelyn 's church , which were re-used in the foundations of the elongated crypt built by Bishop Bondington in the mid 13th century . |
| 14 | 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 . ’ |
| 15 | This after all has been the experience of traditional paper archives and libraries in the recent past . |
| 16 | Certainly this has not been the experience in other jurisdictions . |
| 17 | The history of ‘ civilised ’ society , for Marx , has been the history of different forms of class exploitation and domination . |
| 18 | Such had been the history of this camp up to the time I arrived there . |
| 19 | A growing feature of the employment contract over the years has been the provision of occupational pension schemes for retirement and sickness . |
| 20 | One field in which there has been misunderstanding , and which has attracted some adverse publicity , has been the provision of sheltered housing . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | The 14th has been the graveyard of many an aspiring champion 's hopes . |
| 23 | 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 . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ This has been the dream of many an entrepreneur and researcher for years . |
| 25 | A BOAT that can run swiftly and silently without a churning propeller has been the dream of naval commanders ever since the first submarine slid gurgling beneath the waves . |
| 26 | In more recent times this theory ( which has been the orthodoxy of post-war European Communist parties and Stalinist accounts of modern capitalism ) has been further refined to take account of the ever-increasing directive interventions of the state into the private economy , on top of earlier moves to provide social welfare concessions . |
| 27 | But the most important aspect of the project has been the excavation of domestic buildings built between the fifteenth and nineteenth centuries . |
| 28 | As finch ( 1989 ) describes , it is commonly asserted that this century has seen the demise of the extended family structure which is commonly assumed to have been the norm at previous points in time . |
| 29 | But of course , if Watson 's The Double Helix is to be taken seriously , competitiveness has been the norm since 1953 . |
| 30 | Beards had been the norm in Classical Greece for portraits of politicians and philosophers . |