Example sentences of "[noun] [noun sg] have been a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The hair rig has been a great leveller of angling ability and because on most waters it is self-hooking this can often lead to complacency on the angler 's part . |
| 2 | For those who are capable of learning how to modify diet and insulin dose to suit prevailing circumstances and want to do so , the ability to determine their own blood glucose has been a major step forward , permitting more satisfactory glycaemic control and a more adventurous approach to many activities ( Skyler et al , 1978 ; Sonksen et al , 1978 ; Walford et al , 1978 ) . |
| 3 | Nonetheless , although for many people the rise in car ownership can be seen as a great success , for a significant minority either unable to drive or unable to afford a car , notably the old , the young , the unemployed , the housewife ( left at home without a car ) and the disabled the corollary of increased car ownership has been a rapid decline in rural public transport , a concentration of services into ever more remote central places with increased journey lengths as shown in Table 6.1a , and a real sense of isolation and deprivation . |
| 4 | The Board 's General Manager Tom Frawley said today that the decision to close the Shantallow home had been a difficult one , but claimed it was the only possible course of action ‘ in light of the increase over the last few years in the level of nursing home accommodation and the reduced demand for residential accommodation which has come about as a result of improvements in housing in general and the development of sheltered accommodation and other community alternatives . ’ |
| 5 | Data processing has been a key employment growth area in Britain over the past decade . |
| 6 | She hit upon a pair of corduroy breeches which would fit snugly at the waist but balloon over the hips , with highly-polished brown leather boots for a touch of chic , a maroon Italian sweater , which at 15p at a jumble sale had been a real snip , and a jaunty maroon beret . |
| 7 | The Government 's introduction of general practitioner fundholding has been a clear success , a fact confirmed in the independent academic research undertaken by Professor Glennerster of the London school of economics reported today by the King 's Fund . |
| 8 | Good example in ninety two if Harlow council had been a whole er whole council election in nineteen ninety two it 's highly likely the Conservatives would have taken control . |
| 9 | If the increase in child benefit had been a real increase , there might have been some logic in that . |
| 10 | A confidential internal Bank report leaked to Friends of the Earth commented that " absence of comprehensive forestry sector work has been a marked shortcoming in Bank operations " . |
| 11 | One benefit from the Mephistco takeover has been a definite improvement in remote capability . |
| 12 | When she had finished her course at the university , the pull of her home town had been a strong one . |
| 13 | Vitor 's pretend engine sound had been a throaty , very Portuguese purr , and he had reproduced it exactly . |
| 14 | Our intention is to demonstrate that work organization has been a central strand of each of the otherwise contrasting change strategies ; namely , the evolutionary development of Pilkingtons , the total process perspective of RX , and Employee Involvement with Ford . |
| 15 | ‘ The winter sale has been a big disappointment . |
| 16 | The Nuffield Press has been a leading British print supplier for seventy years . |
| 17 | Overlaps in the tax payment transfer receipt system have been a focal point for much discussion in the 1980s with various sorts of ‘ traps ’ identified . |
| 18 | The public sector unions will be cross at the failure of their political favourites , and control of public sector pay has been a conspicuous government failure in the last two years . |
| 19 | The primate house has been a key stage in the zoo 's development and we have been able to plan and equip the house and enclosure to the very highest standards , pooling animal management expertise and design ideas . |
| 20 | This charming period building has been a free school , public lending library and home for local gentry since 1710 . |
| 21 | The evening tide had been a modest eighteen footer and had ebbed to low water an hour ago . |
| 22 | The Highlands regional convener , Duncan McPherson , said : ‘ Team work has been a key feature of our approach and any success we can achieve will be through joint action . ’ |
| 23 | For years lunch had been a twenty-minute affair . |
| 24 | The textbook issue had been a persistent irritant in relations between Japan and its neighbours . |
| 25 | Tax reform had been a major campaign commitment in 1976 , but four years later very little progress had been made on this matter . |
| 26 | Meanwhile he says todays news has been a major setback in his own recovery . |
| 27 | Even in peacetime the London-Scotland journey had been a long one , but in wartime it was dreadful . |
| 28 | For many years secondment has been a local activity of variable quality and quantity . |
| 29 | The business sponsorship incentive scheme has been a great success and I am giving further encouragement to sponsorship of the arts by increasing its budget by £1 million a year to £4.5 million . |
| 30 | Novell 's relationship with Unix Systems Labs and their Univel Inc/Destiny joint venture for the desktop market has been a sore point for Sun , which wanted a Novell/Solaris-on-Intel distribution pact for itself . |