Example sentences of "[coord] [noun sg] have [been] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He knew everyone who mattered , and it was luck as much as anything else — what if reggae or jazz-funk had been the dominant force then ? — but Parsons was still capable of grabbing the opportunity when it knocked . |
| 2 | The notion of self-discipline or autonomy has been a central one in recent work on professionalisation . |
| 3 | Their main resource and support has been the voluntary work of bodies like the National Council for Mother Tongue Teaching , the National Association for Multiracial Education ( now the National Anti-Racist Movement in Education ) and the various grouping of teachers and activists promoting the cause of one particular language . |
| 4 | Most camcorders arc designed to be hand-held , so the minimisation of size and weight has been an important consideration . |
| 5 | Up to this period , mining had been essentially a hand-craft where , as in farming , man-power and horse-power had been the chief means of winning the product . |
| 6 | The loss of Batty was a big blow to the midfield but the injuries to both Wallace and Speed have been the big set back this season . |
| 7 | Japanese society has evolved singular features , which must be understood in the context of a very particular historical development , in which a profound sense of uniqueness , separateness and isolation has been a major element . |
| 8 | It is certain , though , that the constructivism that has received the most attention in psychology and philosophy has been the developmental theory of Jean Piaget . |
| 9 | Quick reflexes , intuition and mobility have been the chief assets of Achille Prospero Rosario Maria Giovanni Carlo Bonito Oliva . |
| 10 | Newspapers and television have been a popular subject for content analysis . |
| 11 | An insistence on international support and co-operation had been a central feature of missionary Calvinism from its inception , and during the early seventeenth century it was regarded as essential to the survival of the Reformed faith in the face of the threat from a resurgent counter-Reformation Catholicism . |
| 12 | Ensuring the honesty of those supplying services and advice has been the main raison d'être for regulation . |
| 13 | The relationship between content and style has been a constant and controversial preoccupation of literary critics . |
| 14 | Restoring the balance between prevention , cure and care has been a major or minor theme of health policy ever since . |
| 15 | The match between football and fashion has been a bad one since the Seventies . |
| 16 | In Western music the established framework for stability and order has been the diatonic harmonic system which was developed in the Renaissance . |
| 17 | He explains : ‘ I 'm fitter than ever , physically and mentally , and golf has been a big help . |
| 18 | Female blood shed in menstruation and childbirth has been the particular focus on this definition of woman as polluted , over against male sacrality . |
| 19 | Milton has suggested then that the extreme diversity of plant foods in tropical forests and the way in which they are distributed there in space and time has been a major selective force in the development of advanced cerebral complexity in certain higher primates . |
| 20 | FAILURE to take advantage of science and technology has been a key factor in Britain 's economic decline , it was claimed yesterday . |