Example sentences of "[prep] [noun pl] have be [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Increased co-operation between states has been a significant feature of the post-1945 world order , reflecting the reduced ability of states to act autonomously in the global arena . |
| 2 | SOCIO-SEXUAL anxiety about Blacks has been a distinctive feature of British society since the first encounters between merchant adventurers and Africans . |
| 3 | The study of attitudes has been a major topic , if not the major topic , in social psychology . |
| 4 | Lack of funds has been a big problem , especially for research , but it always has been . |
| 5 | Matching the change in the range of qualifications of school-leavers has been a dramatic transformation in the youth labour market in a little over a decade . |
| 6 | I very much agree with my hon. Friend that local management of schools has been a great success . |
| 7 | Mr Major told MPs that the awarding of honours had been a valued part of British life for centuries but the system must from time to time be reviewed . |
| 8 | Mining and the condition of miners has been a running sore in Bolivia since the colonial period when Indians were herded off for certain death in the silver mines of Potosí , at that time the wealthiest city in South America . |
| 9 | Contract bombing of buildings has been an excellent source of income for the Provisional IRA . |
| 10 | As this series stresses , the uneven social and economic development of places has been a central feature of post-war British society . |
| 11 | Other resolutions included : the adoption of a Common Resident Card for all citizens and measures to facilitate travel and residence rights and the movement of goods by road within the community ; the establishment of a Standing Mediation Committee in response to the conflicts between member states ; the eventual establishment of a single economic community in West Africa ; the approval of a new assessment of members ' contributions to the budget — once again , non-payment of contributions had been a contentious issue ; and agreement to ratify all protocols by Dec. 31 , 1990 . |
| 12 | Rather , the extraction of rights has been a constant struggle and remains a constant struggle — witness the undermining of social rights both in theory and practice . |
| 13 | As lack of resources has been a perennial problem since the beginning the boost given to the financial status of the BDA by the patronage of The Princess of Wales has been of incalculable value . |
| 14 | In every case television in its full variety of formats has been the primary influence in projecting the parties ' images . |
| 15 | Conceptualizing the nature and significance of markets has been a key element in economic and political thought since Adam Smith 's Wealth of Nations , published in 1776 . |
| 16 | Another reason for the increased acceptability of the use of executive search firms by a wide range of industries has been a noticeable improvement in their quality . |
| 17 | Interesting to me , that is , because my only previous contact with the world of spirits had been an eerie couple of evenings spent with two schoolgirl friends , when we were all sixteen , ‘ table tapping ’ . |
| 18 | The pay of employees has been a traditional and frequent object of intervention , as have a wide range of other industrial relations issues such as closure and redundancy , working practices and dispute settlement . |
| 19 | Services for people with disabilities have been a low priority over many years , and the inadequacy of provision — both in quantity and quality — is well known . |
| 20 | Interaction within groups has been an important focus of study by behavioural scientists . |
| 21 | There was nothing unusual in this , visits to and from relatives having been a common feature of my childhood . |
| 22 | The cards and calls from well-wishers have been a real pick-me-up and I want to thank everyone for their concern and support . ’ |
| 23 | The British obsession with betting on homes has been a prime cause of Britain 's boom-bust cycles . |
| 24 | Whilst uncertainty about the volume and growth of defence spending is unlikely to be resolved unless the Soviet regime changes its character , few would dispute that the military 's traditional claim on resources has been a major burden on the civilian economy . |
| 25 | The high correlation of bursts of rapid eye movements with intense dreaming tended to encourage early investigators in their impression that the eye movements were following the actions of 70–80 per cent of vivid dreams.19 However , when blind matches of EOG records with dream narratives have been made simply on the basis of written evidence and the polygraphic record , matching of reports to records has been no better than chance . |
| 26 | One of the most puzzling features for historians has been the apparent rise in illegitimacy , a European-wide phenomenon , in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century , which has given rise to various interpretations of working-class sexual life . |
| 27 | Neither the researches funded by charities specifically directed towards cancer nor the great drives sponsored by governments and planned by committees have been a fruitful source of new treatments . |