Example sentences of "[adj] [pron] has been a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Alongside this there has been a move towards non-elected and usually specialist forms of local government . |
| 2 | Since the 1980's there has been a renaissance of interest in ethnography . |
| 3 | Since 1979 there has been a loss of over 1.5 million manufacturing jobs ; by 1987 manufacturing accounted for only 22 per cent of the British workforce , ‘ a figure more typical of countries with large fishing or agricultural sectors ’ . |
| 4 | Since 1979 there has been a reversal in regional policy . |
| 5 | This is another welcome return as having been available running under SuperCalc 5 there has been a period in which this was no longer available . |
| 6 | Since the 1970s there has been a movement to bring art into hospitals , to sugar the pill , to the advantage of both patients and artists . |
| 7 | Since the 1970s there has been a move towards financial devolution in many countries worldwide . |
| 8 | Paul Hoggett ( 1987 ) , for example , has sought to explain changes in the organization of local government largely in terms drawn from debates within economics and the sociology of work ( see , for example , Massey , 1988a ; Meegan , 1988 ) , which suggests that since the early 1970s there has been a move away from Fordist towards post-Fordist methods of production . |
| 9 | There was growth here between 1966 and 1976 , but since 1976 there has been a decline of more than 10% in total employment in these sectors . |
| 10 | Since 1978 there has been a full-time secretary ( previously half-time ) , with part-time assistance . |
| 11 | And in Britain between nineteen eighty eight and nineteen ninety one there has been a doubling of racist attacks in large areas of London it is now commonplace for such attacks to take place . |
| 12 | Rising unemployment among school-leavers is sadly a national trend , and in particular there has been a lack of training opportunities and apprenticeships ( see chapter 8 ) . |
| 13 | Since the 1950s and 1960s there has been a weakening of the norms of ‘ good ’ congressional behaviour which , by obliging most members to conform , had in the past helped to bring some order into the legislature . |
| 14 | So since 1983 there has been a possibility that any estimate may be subjected to critical review by the House of Commons . |
| 15 | During the 1980s there has been a proliferation of schemes , courses and activities for unemployed people in many parts of the country organised by a wide range of adult education agencies and voluntary organisations . |