Example sentences of "have been an [noun] in [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The result has been an expansion in diesel motoring at a time when other sales have been down . |
| 2 | There has been an upturn in demand on the east coast of the US , but in the UK , bulk building materials and plant hire remain moribund . |
| 3 | It seems clear that , despite the Conservative government 's emphasis on decentralization and accountability as objectives of abolition in London , the net result has been an increase in centralization and a reduction of both financial and democratic accountability . |
| 4 | self-sufficient in poultry meat , although there has been an increase in imports of whole frozen chickens , which have penetrated the market . |
| 5 | there has been an increase in water metering . |
| 6 | Although the incidence of gastric cancer is declining worldwide , especially in the developed countries of North America , Europe , and Japan , there have been several recent reports showing that there has been an increase in carcinomas of the cardia compared with carcinomas in the antrum . |
| 7 | There has been an increase in life expectancy , with the result that not only are there more elderly people , but there is also a greater likelihood that children will have left home long before the parents ' death . |
| 8 | There has been an increase in prostitution because of the recession . ’ |
| 9 | The tenure data for the rings shows that here there has been an increase in owner-occupation at the expense of ‘ other tenures ’ which in these former coal field areas included colliery housing . |
| 10 | As table 12.1 shows , there has been an increase in party unity in the last ten years in the house , but not in Senate . |
| 11 | One effect of the serious level of unemployment among school leavers has been an increase in demand for GCE courses in colleges , by as much as 20 per cent in some colleges , and also for college components of YOP programmes . |
| 12 | One of the direct results of science and technology has been an increase in production , and a ‘ spin-off ’ or yield of such things as anaesthetics , principles of bacteriology and immunology and hygiene , better control of health and illness , the provision of machines to do what women and children were earlier forced to do , cheaper paper , vast presses to permit the masses to read , followed by other mass media , much better conditions in homes and factories and cities — and on and on in a never-ending list . |
| 13 | It also shows that , since 1974 , before every increase in consumer spending there has been an increase in consumer confidence — that the one always follows the other . |
| 14 | Either there has been a real fading , or ( more probably ) there has been an error in recording or interpretation , though it is true that Megrez has been suspected of slight variability in modern times . |
| 15 | In the insurance market , there has been an upsurge in activity . |
| 16 | There has been an upsurge in theft of cars and their contents . |
| 17 | What has happened over the course of this century has been an improvement in people 's states of fitness at particular ages so that whereas at the beginning of the century people in their sixties were regarded as being old , it is clear that people who survive into their sixties are now mainly , as is described below , generally quite fit . |
| 18 | He has been an instrument in God 's hands . |
| 19 | I have always found the quality to be of an extremely high standard and presumed that with the publicity generated by the 150th anniversary celebrations last year , there would have been an increase in interest in the magazine . |
| 20 | For the most part they will have a full complement of spines but this year there seems to have been an increase in hedgehog baldness . |
| 21 | In Posidonius there seems to have been an excursus in honour of M. Claudius Marcellus , the hero of the second Punic War . |
| 22 | Throughout May there had been an increase in army counterinsurgency missions and in attacks by the guerrilla Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia ( FARC ) and National Liberation Army ( ELN ) , combined in the Simón Bolívar National Guerrilla Co-ordinating Board ( CNGSB ) . |
| 23 | The feedback suggested that attitudes had been changed and that there had been an increase in knowledge and skills . |
| 24 | The background to the situation which I have described is that in December 1990 and January 1991 there had been an uprising in Somalia in the course of which the President , Siad Barre , had been overthrown . |
| 25 | Afterwards , rehabilitated in the German Navy , he had been an admiral in NATO 's northern naval command . |
| 26 | His maternal uncle , William Dauney , had been an architect in Aberdeen . |
| 27 | Prager ( who died aged 54 in 1972 ) had been an actor in Fox films in the forties , directed Neil Simon 's first Broadway play , Come Blow Your Horn , and had helmed the popular TV comedy Car 54 , Where Are You ? |
| 28 | First , there 's been an increase in tension in the Middle East after an Israeli gunman shot dead seven Palestinian workers outside Tel Aviv at the weekend . |
| 29 | And with our growing appreciation of the importance of language , there 's been an upsurge in language that is sexless , reinforcing the belief that both male and female are equal . |
| 30 | it might not be blatantly obvious to them that there , there 's been an improvement in communications . |