Example sentences of "been the [noun] [prep] this " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such had been the history of this camp up to the time I arrived there . |
| 2 | Rape trials have been the subject of this analysis of these changes over time so far . |
| 3 | Rostovtzeff identified the head he thought had been the top of this object as that of Commodus , and that it was associated with the cult of Commodus-Hercules . |
| 4 | Twenty-three years in the business has all been the build-up for this , as I take on my most challenging role ever — bloody prompter ! ’ |
| 5 | Indeed , the comparative analysis of two versions of the same text may be undertaken from a number of linguistic perspectives ; it has been the concern of this article to suggest but two of this range of possible models . |
| 6 | They say this to the very people who have been the bedrock of this organization , the very people that built the organization . |
| 7 | And as we saw in our review of the history of delinquency , this has been the case throughout this century . |
| 8 | She has been the guardian of this wishing tree in the English churchyard since anyone alive can remember , though before that , the rumour was that she had lived in a wild state , before the islands were properly civilised . |
| 9 | As in the NUM strike of 1984 , the women have been the backbone of this struggle : dressed in camouflage and calling themselves the Daughters of Mother Jones , after the legendary union organiser from the turn of the century , they have walked the picket lines , sat in front of coal trucks , and been arrested . |
| 10 | So rapid has been the development of this dimension of public relations that the Public Relations Consultants Association recently formed a Creative Group to publicise and focus attention on the importance of the creative process in mounting quality campaigns . |
| 11 | If if she 'd of had her way she would of been the dictator of this |
| 12 | THE hardest part of the buckminsterfullerene story to accept has always been the formation of this highly symmetric molecule in condensing carbon vapour . |
| 13 | It has always been the law in this country — including under the previous Labour Government , even when the right hon. Member for Blaenau Gwent ( Mr. Foot ) held my office — that if people broke their contract of employment and went on strike , it was legitimate for them to be dismissed . |
| 14 | Domestic life with his father had been the training-school for this distinctively Lewisian vision . |
| 15 | That , too , has been the message of this Revolution Day — back to Lenin and 1917 , to a ‘ radical renewal of socialism ’ as one slogan put it . |
| 16 | Mr McDermott has been the editor of this section of the Financial Times for the past four years , and has written two books on Egypt and peace keeping in the Middle East . |
| 17 | Periodic bouts of fixed or artificially determined exchange rates have been the curse of this country for almost a hundred years — by pricing our goods out of world markets and , through high interest rates , by forcing up the cost of capital here . |
| 18 | Even more revealing , had I been asking the questions now ( the year of the miners ' strike ) , would have been the reaction to this one , suggested by Griffiths and Howson . |
| 19 | Our name derives from abrogating the title police surgeon several years ago ; the main argument against a full-time service has always been the loss of this independence . |
| 20 | S&N did not buy a beer , they bought a name and the price of Masham 's survival has been the marketing of this name . |
| 21 | ‘ I might say this in closing , ’ he said , ‘ … as far as foreign policy goes , Mr Kissinger ( Mr Ford 's secretary of state ) has been the president of this country . |
| 22 | Some element beyond simple senility had been the cause of this . |
| 23 | It would be unwise for the hon. and learned Gentleman or for anyone else to draw conclusions about what might have been the cause of this accident . |
| 24 | Local involvement has been the essence of this project , and the lesson that : — |
| 25 | But the meeting understood that " It has hitherto been the policy of this HQ and remains ( it is understood ) the advice of the British Resident Minister and the US Political Adviser that all classes and types of dissident and anti-Tito Jugoslavs who fall into the hands of Allied Forces either in Italy or in Austria should not be forced to return to Jugoslavia … " |
| 26 | That has been the focus of this course and we hope we have managed to provide a framework for practice within which this can be achieved . |