Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] have [been] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oral contraceptives have been a common and important cause of secondary hypertension , which may become irreversible and occasionally lethal . |
| 2 | Unlike most European countries where a close association between unions and political parties has been a longstanding phenomenon , US unions have little close and direct connection with political parties and have relied very heavily on collective bargaining rather than political activity as the means of achieving their ends . |
| 3 | Some observers went further and criticised him for seemingly assuming that progress from civil through political to social rights has been a painless historical process . |
| 4 | French-style café-bars have been a runaway success over here because they address a market which had previously been actively excluded by the ‘ pub tradition ’ — namely women . |
| 5 | Hip dysplasia in breeds such as Retrievers and German Shepherds has been a weighty and controversial subject for decades . |
| 6 | Studies of social change in rural communities have been a major theme in rural community work since the early 1950s , when the first typologies ( some of which have already been discussed in Chapter 4 , and notably in Tables 4.6 and 4.7 were developed . |
| 7 | A possible explanation of this is that Ecgberht was indeed regarded as Ealhmund 's heir and that Ealhmund in turn inherited from King Ecgberht of Kent a local overlordship of south-eastern England which in varying forms had been a recurring feature of historical development in the area since the time of Aethelberht , son of Eormenric . |
| 8 | The Bosnian refugees have been a pitiful sight to the world during the months of conflict with Serbian Militia . |
| 9 | Question answering systems have been a central project within natural language understanding . |
| 10 | To make the most of beneficial planetary influences had been a principal object of Marsilio Ficino ( 1433–99 ) , one of the first scholars to give the practice of magic the semblance of respectability . |
| 11 | Cloke ( 1980a , p. 98 ) suggests that this may be because the concept of ‘ key settlements has been a cosmetic justification for a policy created merely out of economic expediency and administrative pragmatism ’ . |
| 12 | Three All Black thrashings have been a cross Welsh rugby has had to bear alone , as in the same period , since June 1987 , this is three times more than any other home country has had to bear . |
| 13 | Glyn and Sutcliffe ( 1972 ) argued that low profits have been a major factor in low levels of investment in the UK . |
| 14 | The distribution of the special ZIMSCI materials has been a major headache . |
| 15 | The failure to specify clearly the timing of important events has been a limiting factor in research , since it has not allowed predisposing factors to be distinguished from precipitating events . |
| 16 | Finding the missing parts has been a lucky blending of good fortune and good detective work . |
| 17 | He is convinced that the introduction of lightweight monofilament nylon into coastal gill-net fisheries has been a global disaster for many coastal species of dolphins and porpoise . |
| 18 | The barbarian kings had been a great source of perplexity to the Christian bishops of the early Middle Ages . |
| 19 | The narrowness of the academic content of many ‘ A ’ level courses has been a constant cause of complaint and concern over several years . |
| 20 | One encouraging feature of period-instrument performances in recent decades has been a growing concern with reliable and authoritative editions . |
| 21 | Filippo Pandolfi , vice-president of the European Commission in charge of research , has further remarked that the adopted procedures may help to avoid errors and falsification of research , which in recent years has been a controversial issue in the US . |
| 22 | Restrictions on external dealings have been a recurrent prescription for the cure of British economic ills . |
| 23 | One of the most eloquent critics has been a conservative writer , Charles Murray . |
| 24 | Sporting endeavours have been a major feature of the activities undertaken so far ( see Update ) . |
| 25 | He called on their respective governments to cut their public spending by up to 18 per cent , to exercise monetary restraint ( banknote issuing by local authorities having been a major factor in the inflationary spiral of the previous year ) , and to co-operate more fully with national policy decisions . |
| 26 | Courtrooms The lack of sufficient courtrooms had been a continuing problem , but should be resolved when the new courts in the Thomas More Building came into use in January 1990 . |
| 27 | If these outcomes had not been possible , would protest by sufficient members have been a significant factor in determining that the organisation had acted contrary to its constitutive treaty ? |
| 28 | Brainstorming on creative tasks has been a major activity in the advertising business where it began in the 1930s . |