Example sentences of "and [noun sg] have [be] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Newspapers and television have been a popular subject for content analysis . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The relationship between content and style has been a constant and controversial preoccupation of literary critics . |
| 5 | Restoring the balance between prevention , cure and care has been a major or minor theme of health policy ever since . |
| 6 | The match between football and fashion has been a bad one since the Seventies . |
| 7 | He explains : ‘ I 'm fitter than ever , physically and mentally , and golf has been a big help . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | FAILURE to take advantage of science and technology has been a key factor in Britain 's economic decline , it was claimed yesterday . |