Example sentences of "[det] [noun pl] have [been] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The house price collapse of the last few years has been a terrible dose of cold turkey for the home owning classes , but has it been a long enough agony to drive out the idea that there 's something inherently beneficial about rising house prices . |
| 2 | Perhaps one of the most important developments of the last few years has been a steady but widespread trend towards protectionism . |
| 3 | But these last few years have been a potent reminder of what the union movement was originally about in terms of ensuring just reward for work , and enlightened protection for workforces . |
| 4 | All the sound and fury of the past few days has been a desperate diversion designed first to draw attention away from the unemployment figures , the inflation figures , and the figures for businesses closed and homes repossessed ; and , secondly , to draw attention away from what the Labour party is actually saying , and for the simplest of all reasons — they know it makes sense . |
| 5 | ‘ These past few days have been a living hell for you and for me . ’ |
| 6 | Watching on for the past few weeks have been a small handful of experts , among them Jim Railton of The Times , who 's been following the Boat Race for twenty years . |
| 7 | Although such linkages have been a key feature of the development work done in the Central Institutions , linkages have also been set up between HNC/D courses in Further Education Colleges and both CIs and Universities . |
| 8 | While understanding such economies has been a central aim of Western economists for two hundred years there is a great deal which has not yet been understood . |
| 9 | The gymnasium , swimming pool and even classrooms have been given a new lease of life as part of a timeshare development — such facilities having been a positive attraction to buyers . |
| 10 | The welfare of these hens has been a controversial issue for many years , and for the past five years we in the Department of Animal Husbandry have been conducting research into ways of improving their welfare . |
| 11 | The insights of the church growth movement in showing the impact of culture in these areas has been a major contribution to the Church 's understanding of its missionary task in recent decades . |
| 12 | The background to these concerns has been a deepening crisis in the capitalist economic system — to which some argue the growth and behaviour of the state sector has itself contributed . |
| 13 | The policy of developing a diverse range of domestic uses by a moderate price policy and vigorous but selective appliance sales promotion might in these conditions have been a reasonable one . |
| 14 | They had tried to head these off , but because they could slip into the lanes and wynds of the town , this had proved difficult , Ramsay interrupted to demand whether one of these fugitives had been a tall man in shirt and breeches ; but they said that in the darkness they could not tell . |
| 15 | The repeal of these laws had been a persistent demand of human rights and opposition groups . |
| 16 | Many secondees had been a considerable time in their pre-secondment posts and were looking for variety . |
| 17 | Housing of all types has been a significant source of work for Grove in 1992 , ranging from the Housing Association project at St James ’ Hospital , London to the infrastructure at Maidenbower Village in Crawley where the design of the major relief road in the town centre is now about complete . |
| 18 | Those limitations had been a great attraction to Anna , when they first met . |
| 19 | Forty thousand pounds he had paid for it , a sum which now seemed laughably small , but which in those days had been a vast amount to pay for a private house , even in such a prime position . |
| 20 | 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 . |