Example sentences of "have [been] [art] main [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In addition , increasing car ownership and high-speed road provision has been a main factor in the massive increase of rural recreation enjoyed by many people since the 1950s , and discussed in Chapter 7 . |
| 2 | A bridge over the river at Halling has been a debating point for a great number of years and it is a wonder , considering that here has been a main crossing place for hundreds of years and possibly a few thousand , that some structure has not been built . |
| 3 | ‘ The economy has been a main topic of discussion at all meetings we have had in Europe in recent months . |
| 4 | The prevalence of a low view of art , and especially the art of literature has been a main cause of our defective conception of national education . |
| 5 | Certainly it has been a main object of Derrida 's texts to show how philosophers , from plato to Husserl , have striven and failed to suppress the signs of rhetorical disruption in the discourse of philosophic reason . |
| 6 | CAMBODIA has been the main subject of my mailbag this week . |
| 7 | While male homosexuality has been the main subject of this chapter , it is worth noting that ‘ male beauty and narcissism , playing with ‘ self ’ and sexual ambiguities , still indicates a male privilege in public life . |
| 8 | American firms have been luckier : their interest rates have been falling , so the state of their cash flow has been the main worry . |
| 9 | That has been the main probem problem with the delay , can you confirm that erm assuming the the software is er is actually rated flight safe er that there are other stages yet , we 've still got to integrate the weapons systems , sensors and everything else . |
| 10 | Yet it is migration to and from rural areas that has been the main concern of rural geographers in the last century , and so attention is now turned to the first major theme of this chapter , rural population change . |
| 11 | She says shopping I think has been the main problem . |
| 12 | It would seem that the special state character of Northern Ireland , with its very legitimacy always under threat , has been the main reason for the maintenance of this pattern of politics . |
| 13 | It is their opposition to private placement bureau , which they see as undermining the public employment service , which has been the main explanation for trade union hostility to agency working and , until recently , for their reluctance to recruit or organise agency workers ( on this last see Towers/Harrison 1981 ) . |
| 14 | What is the economic effect of these changes on countries such as India , Turkey , Pakistan and Algeria whose industrialisation , particularly in the field of heavy engineering , has been the main outcome of such Soviet co-operation ? |
| 15 | If Mr Takeshita ditches his predecessor he can say goodbye to his party 's fragile unity , which , until now , has been the main basis of his own power . |
| 16 | It is an American gun and has been the main weapon of the Official IRA . |
| 17 | It has been the main argument of this book , however , that this objection ought not to be allowed to have the last word . |
| 18 | Safety has been the main obstacle . |
| 19 | It has been the main source of advice to successive governments on all matters nuclear . |
| 20 | His first published book , Syntactic Structures ( 1957 ) has been the main source for ideas about this method of descriptions . |
| 21 | Grass has been the main diet for horses since the horse evolved and although it varies in nutritional quality throughout the year it does provide a balanced diet for most animals who are not working or breeding . |
| 22 | Snowdonia ) the greatest losses have been due to afforestation ; in SW England and southern Wales , agricultural conversion has been the main cause , whereas in intermediate areas such as the Cambrian Mountains of mid Wales , moorland has been lost to both . |
| 23 | The under-funding of the N H S has been the main cause of our having reached this crisis point . |
| 24 | LUBAINA HIMID is a lecturer in Fine Art at Lancashire Polytechnic and has been the main force behind the flowering of Blackwomen 's Art in Britain . |
| 25 | Their essentialism has been the main focus of criticism from other feminists . |
| 26 | The latter has been the main advocate of the project , which would greatly improve the republic 's electricity supply . |
| 27 | He 'd been the main front-man each evening . |
| 28 | So came into existence the ‘ Harborough Arm ’ a branch that should have been a main line . |
| 29 | The ‘ dig ’ carried out in 1984 brought to light what could have been the main centre of administration in Anglo-Saxon times and could well have been the site for the ancient ‘ Dic Ring ’ from which Dickering got its name . |
| 30 | Although the rebels ' demands for personal freedom are conspicuous in the chronicles , this can hardly have been the main motive of the Kentishmen , one of the most prominent groups among the peasants , because in Kent there was no serfdom . |