Example sentences of "this have [been] the " in BNC.
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1 | This has been the experience of the Thirties Society in fighting for the retention of the main plan features of the Nag 's Head , one of the few listed pubs of the period . |
2 | The best example of this has been the deployment of the HST fleet . |
3 | This has been the cry of Lebanon 's distress since 1945 . |
4 | ‘ This has been the worst year for me , ’ Leconte said , recounting his six months out of the game with back trouble . |
5 | The most immediate effect of all this has been the announcement of increased mortgage rates . |
6 | This has been the principal objective of President Doe of Liberia , himself of tribal origin . |
7 | Thorne , the world No.9 , admitted after a lacklustre display last night : ‘ This has been the worst year of my life . ’ |
8 | Thorne , the world No.9 , admitted after a lacklustre display last night : ‘ This has been the worst year of my life . ’ |
9 | This has been the year of Russian exhibitions , generally better the older the art . |
10 | Since the 1950s this has been the nub of the strategic and commercial argument for developing fast reactors , and it has not changed . |
11 | This has been the case with three out of the past four successful Labour by-election candidates : a slow but novel way for Mr Kinnock to stamp out dissent in his parliamentary party . |
12 | This has been the result partly of monetary deflation , but also of a muddle-headed confusion about the meaning of economy — namely . |
13 | This has been the subject of a number of House of Lords decisions , and yet the definition is still not clear and settled . |
14 | ‘ This has been the most disappointing season of my managerial career as it was my ambition to lead Notts County to the Premier League . ’ |
15 | The early strains used were not highly active against some major lepidopterous pests , but the discovery of the HD1 strain in 1969 gave rise to products with a broad activity spectrum against many pest species and , until very recently , this has been the basis of all commercial products for caterpillar control . |
16 | At the heart of this has been the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority . |
17 | This has been the saddest day of my life … |
18 | This has been the practice followed on the eastern side of the county at Adamthwaite in the Howgills and is explained in the INTRODUCTION . |
19 | This has been the strangest , the most bizarre thing I have ever witnessed . |
20 | All this has been the consequence of Christ 's death on account of our sins , and now of our experience of resurrection with him . |
21 | Until very recently no women have been ordained as priests , but we need to ask ourselves why this has been the case . |
22 | This has been the procedure followed by the Yugoslav statisticians for many years . |
23 | This has been the case in libraries , where the Association of Assistant Librarians themselves came forward with policies they wanted to see implemented because they knew better than most how the arrangement of shelving , as well as the provision of good lighting , seating and magnifies influences the amount libraries are used . |
24 | This has been the basis of destructive neurosurgery for pain which is now largely abandoned because the pain recurs after some time . |
25 | And as we saw in our review of the history of delinquency , this has been the case throughout this century . |
26 | This has been the problem confronting the Catholic hierarchy in countries where devotion to shrines and alleged miracles have got a little out of hand . |
27 | This has been the aim of a large part of mankind 's intellectual and moral striving but it is our self-awareness and not intellectual procrastination which is the key that opens the door to the self . |
28 | While this has been the intention in the NHS , the reality has been different , partly because ministers have to be seen to respond to public concerns . |
29 | A further and more complex instance of this has been the National Accelerated Development Programme ( NADP ) . |
30 | One example of this has been the production of specific antibodies ( monoclonals ) made by fusing tumour cells and lymphocytes . |