Example sentences of "[noun] [noun pl] have [been] a [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 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | This link between the Indian Ocean and Persian Gulf regions has been a consistent theme in Soviet statements . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The last locomotive off the shed in BR days had been a Black Five , No. 45156 , in 1966 , when the shed closed . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The explosion of television outlets has been a key factor in this trend . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The rationalisation remits have been a notable success enabling Johnson Matthey to maintain growth in profits during a long and deep worldwide recession . |
| 14 | Up until this point in the design , the manufacturing constraints have been a secondary consideration . |
| 15 | The subject of travel concessions has been a controversial one for the last few months . |
| 16 | And a handful of critics is beginning to wonder whether Ireland has not concentrated a little too hard on attracting inward investors at the expense of building a strong home-grown computer and electronics industry : after all , the policy of rallying all centres of higher education to turn out highly-skilled hardware and software engineers has been a great success , but should n't more of those people be working for Irish companies ? |
| 17 | He writes that the issue of women priests had been a main cause of the Crockford 's row . |
| 18 | Both local and national industrial action by prison officers has been a recurrent event . |
| 19 | Notwithstanding problems of this kind there has been undoubted improvement in VDU design and it has been speculated that trade union pressure for high design standards has been a major stimulus to companies marketing their products on the basis of user acceptability . " |