Example sentences of "[noun pl] [noun] have [been] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For years lunch had been a twenty-minute affair . |
| 2 | Meanwhile he says todays news has been a major setback in his own recovery . |
| 3 | For many years secondment has been a local activity of variable quality and quantity . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | That the restrictions are at last to be lifted in part reflects universal acknowledgement that terror of the communications revolution has been a prime contributor to the technological backwardness of the country . |
| 6 | British Coal spokesman Eddie Mardell said : ‘ The police operation has been a complete success . |
| 7 | Until recently the issue of human resources in information systems security has been a neglected area . |
| 8 | He writes that the issue of women priests had been a main cause of the Crockford 's row . |