Example sentences of "of [noun] has [been] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The prevalence of a low view of art , and especially the art of literature has been a main cause of our defective conception of national education . |
| 2 | The study of attitudes has been a major topic , if not the major topic , in social psychology . |
| 3 | Lack of funds has been a big problem , especially for research , but it always has been . |
| 4 | Matching the change in the range of qualifications of school-leavers has been a dramatic transformation in the youth labour market in a little over a decade . |
| 5 | I very much agree with my hon. Friend that local management of schools has been a great success . |
| 6 | Mining and the condition of miners has been a running sore in Bolivia since the colonial period when Indians were herded off for certain death in the silver mines of Potosí , at that time the wealthiest city in South America . |
| 7 | The definition of work has been a central issue ( Oakley , 1974 ) . |
| 8 | As this series stresses , the uneven social and economic development of places has been a central feature of post-war British society . |
| 9 | The importance of fracturing has been a common theme in writings on the reservoir problem of the Appalachian and Variscan thrust provinces . |
| 10 | THE issue of extradition has been a long-running sore in Anglo-Irish relationships . |
| 11 | The Conservative government , which seeks to reverse this trend , blames the decline on over-regulation and rent controls , although it allows that the relative attractiveness of owner-occupation has been a contributory factor . |
| 12 | Of all its international forays , only Hongkong Bank of Canada has been a clear success . |
| 13 | Rather , the extraction of rights has been a constant struggle and remains a constant struggle — witness the undermining of social rights both in theory and practice . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Bracewell has been a three-times loser in FA Cup finals , but this season his vault of knowledge has been a key factor — especially in the recovery at Stamford Bridge against Chelsea . |
| 16 | The theme of discretion has been a particular concern of the author 's work cited above . |
| 17 | CCG 'S RELENTLESS pursuit of quality has been a vital factor in winning valuable contracts since the quality programme was launched 18 months ago . |
| 18 | The history of devolution has been a chequered one in our country , perhaps since the second world war . |
| 19 | The debate on the rationale of hierarchy has been a heated one . |
| 20 | I had joined a group who are still fixated on a classification of ‘ disorder ’ which homes in on those who attack property , ; and since the amassing of property has been a primary aim of capitalist society , it should come as no surprise to find that to prevent the dispossessed from simply taking from the élite has been the primary structuring principle of policing . |
| 21 | Conceptualizing the nature and significance of markets has been a key element in economic and political thought since Adam Smith 's Wealth of Nations , published in 1776 . |
| 22 | The learning of mathematics has been a particular focus of attention . |
| 23 | After all , when it did come it initially avoided these political problems by the simple device of locating the determinants of crime in the individual 's make-up ( and for that reason the early version of positivism has been a firm favourite with rulers and governments ever since ) . |
| 24 | Another reason for the increased acceptability of the use of executive search firms by a wide range of industries has been a noticeable improvement in their quality . |
| 25 | The lobbying of America has been a curious off-the-books exercise ( see box on next page ) . |
| 26 | Ancient oil fields may ensure Azeri future The oil wealth of Azerbaijan has been a mixed blessing , reports James Meek in Baku , but there are hopes that will change |
| 27 | The People 's Republic of Mongolia has been a multiparty democracy since July 1990 . |
| 28 | The pay of employees has been a traditional and frequent object of intervention , as have a wide range of other industrial relations issues such as closure and redundancy , working practices and dispute settlement . |
| 29 | But if , having served a term in purgatory , if having had the chance to try his arguments on other philosophers , Hegel was not unrepentant , he might agree that there was perhaps something in the alternative view : that each of the factors affecting historical development does have its own authenticity ; that they act upon and react to one another ; that from time to time this or that factor will take on a greater or lesser importance ; that of course — with a nod in the direction of Marx — at least since the neolithic age and the development of agriculture the mode of production has been a major factor ; and that the actions of particular men , Marx among them , have in fact been formative , changing not merely the degree of development of a kind already prescribed by a programme of social evolution , but the kind of development itself . |