Example sentences of "have been an [noun] in [noun sg] " 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 | there has been an increase in water metering . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | There has been an increase in prostitution because of the recession . ’ |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | In the insurance market , there has been an upsurge in activity . |
| 14 | There has been an upsurge in theft of cars and their contents . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | In Posidonius there seems to have been an excursus in honour of M. Claudius Marcellus , the hero of the second Punic War . |
| 18 | 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 ) . |
| 19 | The feedback suggested that attitudes had been changed and that there had been an increase in knowledge and skills . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |