Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] been a [adj] problem " in BNC.
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| 1 | The growing number of life sentence prisoners has been a considerable problem for the prison service for some years now . |
| 2 | Lack of funds has been a big problem , especially for research , but it always has been . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | As lack of resources has been a perennial problem since the beginning the boost given to the financial status of the BDA by the patronage of The Princess of Wales has been of incalculable value . |
| 5 | There was no lack of enterprise in founding monasteries or endowing them ; it seems likely that if spinsters had been a serious problem to the fathers of the age , more convents of nuns would have appeared . |