Example sentences of "[noun sg] have been [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Historically , resource allocation has been the prime objective ( eg in relation to fisheries ) and environmental protection has been no more than a secondary objective . |
| 2 | This charming period building has been a free school , public lending library and home for local gentry since 1710 . |
| 3 | The hotel stands right in the middle of the village , where the old part of the building has been the centre of village life for hundreds of years . |
| 4 | The building has been the subject of controversy ever since locals were told that it was to be turned into a clinic for twenty six convicted sex offenders . |
| 5 | In many countries in the early stages of industrialization agriculture has been a major source of foodstuffs , exports and labour , but the degree to which agriculture in Japan contributed capital over a sustained period is unusual . |
| 6 | I am sure that the hon. Gentleman recognises that increasing productivity in agriculture has been a feature in the past , both in good years and in bad . |
| 7 | This last year all these outgoings have meant that fundraising has been a real necessity and to try to relieve that pressure , the committee have decided to raise the subs . |
| 8 | In the United States allergy has been a specialty for decades . |
| 9 | ‘ Edinvar has been serving tenants for 20 years and Link has been a landlord for nearly 30 years , so we both have a long history of putting tenants first . ’ |
| 10 | But the crucial missing link has been the failure to recognise the user need to develop unambiguous specifications which can be used by IT suppliers as a target for IT products and services . |
| 11 | As far as capital gains tax is concerned , it is considered that the gain referrable to the wife 's share in the house will be free from a charge to capital gains tax if the house throughout the term of the settlement has been the wife 's only or main residence ( Taxation of Chargeable Gains Act 1992 , s222 ) . |
| 12 | A related weakness has been the lack of effective co-operation between industry and higher education . |
| 13 | Organizationally , the weakness has been the failure to develop an appropriate management structure . |
| 14 | One pitfall has been the temptation to adopt a ‘ lowest common denominator ’ approach to unit length and course delivery , leading to a set of central ‘ modular ’ regulations which , in their efforts to retain local features of individual cases , present the student with an overall scheme of mind-boggling complexity . |
| 15 | But he added : ‘ However , there has been a heavy price to pay and the continual publicity has been particularly hard on my wife Pam , whose fierce and unswerving support has been a very significant factor in the outcome . |
| 16 | Their main resource and support has been the voluntary work of bodies like the National Council for Mother Tongue Teaching , the National Association for Multiracial Education ( now the National Anti-Racist Movement in Education ) and the various grouping of teachers and activists promoting the cause of one particular language . |
| 17 | Running alongside this financial support has been an attempt to promote industrial cooperatives where small firms would share distribution facilities or share the production of one brand name . |
| 18 | Removing body hair has been a custom for centuries . |
| 19 | Another success story has been the collaboration , since 1985 , with Ingres . |
| 20 | Well the day 's major national story has been the Rugby International at Twickenham , a reminder of the scoreline ; England twenty one , France nineteen . |
| 21 | Under this Government , the rise has been a little over 2 per cent . |
| 22 | In addition , increasing car ownership and high-speed road provision has been a main factor in the massive increase of rural recreation enjoyed by many people since the 1950s , and discussed in Chapter 7 . |
| 23 | This provision has been the subject of wide-ranging criticism ( Norman , 1980 ; Greengross , 1986 ) . |
| 24 | This fight has been an expensive business for me personally , but I do not mind that . |
| 25 | A representative assessment is that given by the library manager : I would say that one of the biggest advantages was the fact that senior management … from the Head down , from the very word go , were after making it a success … one thing we have got is a greater awareness from a greater number of staff , because they come in here to supervise and help [ and ] get involved … but I think the biggest advantage has been the fact that time devoted to … library skills for all the first year … [ has ] been extended to an hour a week … |
| 26 | Inequality of power and advantage has been an extremely common , if not universal , feature of human societies , even if the degree of inequality has varied very greatly . |
| 27 | Functionalists emphasise that inequality has been a prominent feature of past human societies and continues to be so in contemporary societies of West and East . |
| 28 | The dominant thread has been a key role for the state in both the accumulation and distribution of wealth echoing the role of pre-colonial states such as Asante , Buganda and UrOzwi discussed in Chapter 4 . |
| 29 | From the vast reaches of time , the Serpent has been a potent symbol , reflecting as many aspects and occult meanings as the Garden of Eden itself , with which it was emblematically associated . |
| 30 | U2 's progress has been a useful indicator of Eighties mainstream tastes ( white ) . |