Example sentences of "[noun sg] have been a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This charming period building has been a free school , public lending library and home for local gentry since 1710 . |
| 2 | In many countries in the early stages of industrialization agriculture has been a major source of foodstuffs , exports and labour , but the degree to which agriculture in Japan contributed capital over a sustained period is unusual . |
| 3 | This last year all these outgoings have meant that fundraising has been a real necessity and to try to relieve that pressure , the committee have decided to raise the subs . |
| 4 | In addition , increasing car ownership and high-speed road provision has been a main factor in the massive increase of rural recreation enjoyed by many people since the 1950s , and discussed in Chapter 7 . |
| 5 | Functionalists emphasise that inequality has been a prominent feature of past human societies and continues to be so in contemporary societies of West and East . |
| 6 | The dominant thread has been a key role for the state in both the accumulation and distribution of wealth echoing the role of pre-colonial states such as Asante , Buganda and UrOzwi discussed in Chapter 4 . |
| 7 | From the vast reaches of time , the Serpent has been a potent symbol , reflecting as many aspects and occult meanings as the Garden of Eden itself , with which it was emblematically associated . |
| 8 | U2 's progress has been a useful indicator of Eighties mainstream tastes ( white ) . |
| 9 | The change has been a major exercise , and while the civil war may not be over in the eyes of the excise collectors , the next issue of Guinness Today will carry the story of the people behind the massive change to End Product Duty . |
| 10 | Theory needs to deal more adequately with how general structural change has been a vital ingredient in the transformation of the role multinationals play in their dealings with states . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Inspection has been a traditional feature of business . |
| 13 | As the former Director of WHO Global Programme on AIDS has said : ‘ Denial at personal , social , national and international level has been a constant problem and remains today a grave threat to public health . ’ |
| 14 | The Soviet Union 's response has been a relentless increase in its chemical warfare capability . |
| 15 | But more characteristically the response has been a massive importation into academic English studies of theories and methods otherwise associated with structuralism , linguistics , semiotics , sociology , marxism , and post structuralism . |
| 16 | Planning a proper food service facility is an essential aspect of hotel design , but until recently food service consultancy has been a neglected profession . |
| 17 | Smoking has been a useful earner for the government . |
| 18 | This saga since this recession has been a sorry tale . |
| 19 | His own position has been greatly strengthened and the election has been a personal triumph for him . |
| 20 | The effect of mesalazine treatment on renal function has been a particular concern as mesalazine has structural similarities to aspirin and phenacetin , both of which have been implicated in analgesic nephropathy . |
| 21 | According to their former captain and hooker , Douglas Livingstone , McPherson 's influence both on and off the field has been a major factor in what has been a very successful season . |
| 22 | Fatima has been a good wife to you . |
| 23 | The prevalence of a low view of art , and especially the art of literature has been a main cause of our defective conception of national education . |
| 24 | A consequence of these changes to the control of the curriculum has been a considerable increase in the number of legal provisions . |
| 25 | In the USA the absence of a socialist party , the weakness and declining influence of the trade unions in electoral politics , and the enormous costs of political campaigning have meant that throughout the post-war period access to money has been a critical determinant of how politicians are selected ( Bretton , 1980 ; Drew , 1983 ) . |
| 26 | The fully carved Victorian style of rocking horse has been a favourite child 's plaything for generations . |
| 27 | Securing public funds made available for urban regeneration has been a key target . |
| 28 | Adultery has been a hanging matter — both in this and in the usual sense of the phrase — for the literature of the past , and perhaps it could be suggested that both senses may at times be presented to the mind by what Amis does with the subject , and that there is no striking difference in this respect between what he did in the Sixties and what he has done in the Eighties . |
| 29 | All through the 1960s to the present there have been numerous minor changes of staff but the net result has been a gradual increase in numbers of the field staff to meet the ever growing commitments . |
| 30 | The result has been a noticeable increase in the number of pilots who suddenly find themselves faced with a situation far beyond their control , usually a situation that they had not even considered at the start of the flight . |