Example sentences of "have be a [adj] [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rather it points to the fact that there has been a subtle change in the composition of the teaching force . |
| 2 | Self taught , Albert , who is a relative of George Barron , of BBC TV 's Beechgrove Garden fame , has been tending the gardens for 16 years and has been a consistent winner in the gardens competition over the years . |
| 3 | Since then ‘ Charity Golf ’ has been a consistent element in the Ladies ' calendar . |
| 4 | There has been a consistent increase in the number of well qualified applicants of about 30% to the Royal Free Hospital School of Medicine , and we are able to admit only one in 18 applicants . |
| 5 | The regular CBI surveys and the regular Department of Employment labour force survey show that over the 1980s — this is the answer to the hon. Member for Newport , East ( Mr. Hughes ) — there has been a consistent increase in employers ' commitment to training , even in this current recession . |
| 6 | This link between the Indian Ocean and Persian Gulf regions has been a consistent theme in Soviet statements . |
| 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 | There has been a political revolution in Paddock Wood in Kent , though it has got marginally less press coverage than the fall of the Berlin Wall or the failed Russian coup . |
| 9 | Thus there has been a net gain in jobs from the small-firm sector , in the USA at least . |
| 10 | It is clear that despite the package of protective designations and institutions created since 1945 , there has been a net decline in the quality of the Welsh countryside and the wider environment for the reasons given . |
| 11 | There has been a long-term decline in the number of private shareholders since the Second World War , matched by a rise in the importance of the institutional investor ( eg insurance companies and pension funds ) . |
| 12 | A feature of most high density areas is that there has been a long-term decline in population and density since before the Second World War ( Craig 1986 ) . |
| 13 | There has been a serious decline in the number of people qualifying as teachers , down from 25,000 in 1980 to 18,500 in 1988 . |
| 14 | Yet elsewhere in the country there has been a serious decline in the amount of sport in schools . |
| 15 | Boon 's run-gathering in this series — he is only the fifth Australian after Don Bradman , Kim Hughes , Bob Simpson and Border to score more than 500 in a series against India — has been a spectacular highlight in a summer of relatively poor returns from a supposedly top-flight batting line-up . |
| 16 | Its demand for cast iron guarantees for a federal-style constitution , as a safeguard against domination by a strong central government , has been a central plank in its negotiating stance . |
| 17 | The cause of this difference has been a central question in solid Earth geochemistry for two decades . |
| 18 | Maybe modern man is more stoical of nature , or perhaps , and this is more likely , there has been a real change in the symptom-producing capabilities of the gonococcus . |
| 19 | Within this party , however , there has been a real move in that direction . |
| 20 | Moreover , in a study by Smith-Goosne and Bennett ( 1988 ) , it was suggested that there has been a major rise in work-effort in recent years . |
| 21 | So that there has been a major breakthrough in the appreciation of English music , but it 's not quite , it 's still on the periphery , I think , of erm music as far as the Germans , the French and the Italians are concerned . |
| 22 | This is not just of interest to professional politicians or academic specialists ; local government has become front-page news , its leading politicians such as Ken Livingstone , David Blunkett and Derek Hatton have been catapulted to national fame and the local-central government conflict detailed in Chapter 4 has been a major issue in three successive general elections . |
| 23 | Meanwhile he says todays news has been a major setback in his own recovery . |
| 24 | Nonetheless given all the complexity of the above , and consequent disagreements over dates and magnitudes , there has been a major change in the importance of manufacturing within the UK economy . |
| 25 | And , least definably , there is the cultural nationalism , the concept of ‘ Englishness ’ that , from the beginning , has been a major element in the subject . |
| 26 | The fact that these efforts go unrecognised has been a major element in the ‘ failure ’ labels attached to many deaf schoolchildren . |
| 27 | ‘ He has jolted me into new experiences , obliging me to reconsider old questions about good and bad , beautiful and ugly , vulgar and elite , ’ and ‘ has been a major innovator in exploring new visual sources , new media , new thresholds of propriety ’ . |
| 28 | This has been a major problem in Kent , Essex , Suffolk , and Norfolk , and most notoriously at Halvergate , where there have also been acidity problems , causing some farmers to have to jet their drains every year . |
| 29 | Stainrod has scored six goals from just five starts and has been a major influence in Dundee 's recent run of good form . |
| 30 | Brainstorming on creative tasks has been a major activity in the advertising business where it began in the 1930s . |