Example sentences of "[noun] [noun pl] have be [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed the ability to produce a range of returns on value for money indices has been a major factor in securing continued treasury funding . |
| 2 | The growing number of life sentence prisoners has been a considerable problem for the prison service for some years now . |
| 3 | One of their long term winners has been the thin , lightweight , but very windproof Ultrafleece . |
| 4 | Agricultural export subsidies had been the crucial stumbling block on which this round of GATT talks foundered in December 1990 [ see p. 37930 ] . |
| 5 | Enlarged access resources By far the most important supplement to the Funds resources has been the enlarged access facility , available since March 1981 . |
| 6 | In the UK , and up to December 1984 when grant levels were reduced , investment grants have been a considerable incentive towards first-time conversion of moorlands and rough grasslands in the LFAs . |
| 7 | And my experience has been that virtually all rape cases have been the forcible interference with a woman . |
| 8 | The E. Walters clothing factories have been the second biggest employers in the north Herefordshire town of Kington for the past thirty years . |
| 9 | The study of groups in work situations has been an important activity of behavioural scientists ever since the pioneering work of the Hawthorne Researchers over fifty years ago . |
| 10 | Whilst we recognize the conceptual problems associated with rules and their application , the approach in the ethogenic study of the football and classroom cultures has been a pragmatic one . |
| 11 | This link between the Indian Ocean and Persian Gulf regions has been a consistent theme in Soviet statements . |
| 12 | Over the years , the expansion in the size and competence of the Party 's control apparatus has more than kept pace with the growth of the General Staff , and the proliferation of in-house staff supporting Politburo and Secretariat members has been a noteworthy aspect of the process . |
| 13 | Although the Student Tutoring Scheme and the Enterprise Studentships have been the main focus of Student Enterprise activities within Napier over the last year , students have been involved in ‘ enterprising ’ activities elsewhere : |
| 14 | His methods are still used today and it can reasonably be claimed that the influence of the eighteenth-century cattle breeders has been a major one worldwide . |
| 15 | Changing the style and responsibilities of health service managers has been an important theme of Conservative health policy . |
| 16 | The abolition of one or other of the energy standing charges has been a popular mission for many people for many years , but abolition would undoubtedly lead to a higher unit cost and as many of the most vulnerable people use the most electricity or the most fuel generally , they would in fact be net losers and not net beneficiaries . |
| 17 | As noted earlier , in relation to Figure 3.1 , the service industries have been an important provider of jobs in the UK economy since the last century . |
| 18 | Traditionally the merchant banks have been the main financial advisers in a merger or acquisition deal — they traded very much on their reputation for knowing all the right people and being able to approach them at any time . |
| 19 | The last locomotive off the shed in BR days had been a Black Five , No. 45156 , in 1966 , when the shed closed . |
| 20 | Although this analysis is not strictly accurate — there is always a compression/decompression overhead of about 5 per cent — the benefits and potential cost savings are substantial and compression techniques have been a major field of development from the time of the very earliest digital databases . |
| 21 | The explosion of television outlets has been a key factor in this trend . |
| 22 | The star publicly admitted that he had the disease only 24 hours before he died last November , but his friend , David Minns , said media rumours had been a constant worry to him . |
| 23 | The strategic need for diversity and ultimately for the replacement of fossil fuels has been the driving force for the development of nuclear power in the U.K. In turn — since uranium reserves are finite — the efficient exploitation of nuclear power itself ultimately depends on the fast reactor . |
| 24 | The rationalisation remits have been a notable success enabling Johnson Matthey to maintain growth in profits during a long and deep worldwide recession . |
| 25 | One positive feature of this transfer of world liquidity to the oil exporting countries has been the corresponding increase in demand for the world 's products by these countries . |
| 26 | Up until this point in the design , the manufacturing constraints have been a secondary consideration . |
| 27 | In the West at least people have identified with a threatened world and the pressure groups have been the first instruments of that identification . |
| 28 | Not least among its star performers has been the British arm , Vauxhall , which last year achieved record net profits of £152m and record car sales . |
| 29 | Before 1920 , writes Charlie Buchan in his autobiography , ‘ the county leagues had been the happy hunting grounds for the professional clubs . |
| 30 | Another characteristic of this recession is that financial and property businesses have been the first to feel the pain of collapsing prices and profits . |