Example sentences of "this [verb] been [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This has been central to the Catholic tradition as we well know . |
| 2 | I 've never entirely agreed with the policy of restricted entry , although one knows all the arguments why this has been necessary . |
| 3 | This has been little more than an annotated table of contents of a programme that should extend to 1995 and culminate in WACC 's second World Congress . |
| 4 | Paralleling this has been increasing acceptance of artificial insemination by donor although little is known of how the private citizen and the community at large view this , in vitro fertilisation and other similar medical techniques . |
| 5 | I would be interested to know whether this has been successful in reducing speed and accidents , but my impression is that it has worked very well . |
| 6 | The EURODASS consortium led by Marconi Defence Systems Limited offered a solution , and this has been subject to rigorous scrutiny to confirm that it meets the necessary technical criteria . |
| 7 | This has been invaluable in challenging simplicities about , say , the ‘ repression ’ of sexuality in nineteenth-century Europe , and in questioning the teleological view which sees a gradual climb towards permissiveness from Victorian darkness . |
| 8 | Now I do n't know if you think this has been useful |
| 9 | This has been extraordinary . |
| 10 | So the psychology of the course was created and this has been integral to the development of the tournament . |
| 11 | One negative consequence of this has been that positive Christian theology on the one hand and the study of religion on the other have very largely tended to go their separate ways ; and this too does little to resolve the problem posed by Troeltsch himself . |
| 12 | One result of this has been that theology itself has become ecumenical in a fashion undreamt of a century ago , and many of the main fronts in theological debate and controversy now run across rather than along denominational boundaries . |
| 13 | This has been one of the central preoccupations of ethnographic police research , especially that inspired by phenomenology and ethnomethodology , and so apposite is policing to this focus that many theoreticians from within phenomenology and ethnomethodology have used it for the application of their ideas ( Cicourel 1968 ; Pollner 1987 ; Sacks 1972 ; Sudnow 1965 ) . |
| 14 | The problem of deliberate self-poisoning and self-injury has placed enormous pressure on the stiff ( physicians , nurses , psychiatrists ) and services ( casualty and emergency departments , medical admission units , psychiatric and social work departments ) involved in the care of patients who take overdoses or injure themselves , and this has been one of the factors that has promoted a re-examination of previously accepted policies for the management of attempted suicide patients . |
| 15 | This has been one reason for the increasing prominence of work groups at local level often demanding greater autonomy and a more active role in policy formulation than that provided by the official union structure . |
| 16 | This has been one of my great disappointments , ’ he says . |
| 17 | This has been one of the most controversial clauses in the Act and was deleted in the House of Lords but reinstated by the government . |
| 18 | Women as authors are n't unveiled any longer ; this has been one of the marked developments of the last decade . |
| 19 | Key to all this has been one of Davidson 's major responsibilities , the development of a highly sophisticated system of strategic , operational and individual business plans and performance monitoring and review . |
| 20 | This has been one of the best Friday debates that I have attended for a long time . |
| 21 | This has been one of the happiest days of my life , ’ Margrida declared , her voice becoming choky , ‘ and when you and Vitor get married that will be — ’ |
| 22 | Consistently over the last number of years this has been one of the events to sell out most quickly in the entire Festival programme . |
| 23 | And if you also look the most the the the clearest change that 's happened on the outside of this building , if you look at that window , if you if you follow the edge of the window the original window came all the way down to this point , and then across and up , and this has been all blocked up . |
| 24 | Erm and if it 's not it 's er I 'm not going to deny the fact that some people say you know this has been good for me for the last eighteen months erm I 'm er I 'm used to being self employed I 'm going to stay that way but I 'm looking at other avenues . |
| 25 | ‘ This has been such a dreadful shock for the community . |
| 26 | Winter wheats are slightly backward because of cold weather , but the benefit of this has been disease-free crops with good root development . |
| 27 | This has been undesirable , but not of critical importance because our income from invisible exports has made good the difference . |
| 28 | In part this has been due to a failure to look at the right parts of the higher order visual cortex , using the right stimuli . |
| 29 | This has been due to the lack of understanding of the origins of this pottery . |
| 30 | In part this has been due to budget reformers making overenthusiastic claims for overelaborate systems . |