Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] been a [adj] [conj] " 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 | Perhaps one of the most important developments of the last few years has been a steady but widespread trend towards protectionism . |
| 3 | A stress on responsibilities as well as rights has been a significant and long-standing feature of the British culture and has been well imbued by a large part of the nation 's political elite . |
| 4 | By now , the negotiations had been a long and tedious process . |
| 5 | Though she told her husband ‘ shrewdly and shortly ’ that she thought she had married beneath her , he proved on the whole a sympathetic and supportive husband in what can not by any standards have been a normal or comfortable married life . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Hip dysplasia in breeds such as Retrievers and German Shepherds has been a weighty and controversial subject for decades . |
| 8 | The Evergreens had been a large and comfortably rustic dwelling , too big and rambling to be a house but too small and unpretentious to be a mansion . |