Example sentences of "[det] [noun pl] has [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 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |