Example sentences of "[noun pl] have been the " in BNC.
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| 1 | A major user of NASA data and skills has been the UN Environment Programme . |
| 2 | A recent development with current accounts has been the introduction of debit cards . |
| 3 | The crucial factor in the development of bureaucracy in communist states has been the impossibility of democratizing administration , of throwing it open to literate lay people as Lenin wanted . |
| 4 | One of their most interesting projects has been the Rulor programme for owner Robin Clabburn . |
| 5 | A feature of these forms has been the increase in those aspects which relate to procedure rather than to strict contract conditions . |
| 6 | One of SAVE 's strongest suits has been the readiness , when other alternatives have been exhausted , to initiate legal action . |
| 7 | ONE of SAVE 's strongest suits has been the readiness , when all other alternatives have been exhausted , to resort to legal action . |
| 8 | Another consequence of the new policies has been the decision to charge user fees for state education , so that an increasing financial burden falls on families . |
| 9 | One outcome of these policies has been the establishment of large-scale North American-style cattle ranching . |
| 10 | Framing the articles of incorporation for the non-profit foundation and its initial policies has been the responsibility of Dr Steven Mansbach , currently Associate Dean of the National Gallery of Art 's Center for Advanced Studies in the Visual Arts . |
| 11 | Not least among its star performers has been the British arm , Vauxhall , which last year achieved record net profits of £152m and record car sales . |
| 12 | The impact of the rise of the English Arminians and the scale of their departure from pre-1625 theological norms has been the subject of some considerable historical debate over the last few years . |
| 13 | The only method hitherto available for the quantification of bowel activity on abdominal scans has been the grading of the bowel uptake by visually comparing it with that of the spleen , liver , and bone marrow . |
| 14 | Co-incidental with the growth of judicial review by the domestic courts has been the growth in the volume of applications by private individuals seeking redress from the European Commission and Court of Human Rights at Strasbourg . |
| 15 | The strategic need for diversity and ultimately for the replacement of fossil fuels has been the driving force for the development of nuclear power in the U.K. In turn — since uranium reserves are finite — the efficient exploitation of nuclear power itself ultimately depends on the fast reactor . |
| 16 | The only method previously applied to quantify the abnormal bowel uptake on abdominal scans obtained using either Indium-111 or Tc-99m HMPAO lavelled leucocytes has been the visual comparison of the intensity of bowel uptake with that of liver , spleen and bone marrow . |
| 17 | Key to the improvements has been the reduction of bureaucracy and paperwork previously required for each truck load . |
| 18 | The main problem in the past for systems using lexical checks has been the amount of memory available for the representation of the word list . |
| 19 | Dick Hobbs ( 1988 ) lived with thieves and detectives as they set out to ‘ do the business ’ , and perhaps one of the most effective pieces of participant observation in recent times has been the four-volume Policy Studies Institute work on the police in London ( 1983 ) . |
| 20 | It stands at a point where firm ground lies close to the river Derwent , and from olden times has been the site of an important river crossing , first by ferry , later by bridge . |
| 21 | Interaction within groups has been the subject of study by social scientists , and a number of different behaviour categories have been isolated . |
| 22 | The opportunity , rather , is this : apart from lean production and quality control , one of the big domestic advantages of the best Japanese manufacturers has been the way they garner information within their own firm and use it to take decisions . |
| 23 | The fact is , I fear , that the " itching ear " which popular election has created in most people for hearing candidates has been the ruin of many a parish , and threatens to be the curse of many more . |
| 24 | The chusing too high subjects has been the ruin of many a tolerable Genius ’ . |
| 25 | Balancing the books has been the toughest part . |
| 26 | 3.20 An interesting and important recent development in the assessment of general damages for pain and suffering and loss of amenities has been the publication of " Guidelines for the Assessment of General Damages in Personal Injury Cases " . |
| 27 | A further source of bank losses has been the acceptance of foreign exchange deposits from domestic residents , which have also been used to make dinar loans . |
| 28 | A very important aspect of our work over the last nine months has been the development of the new general SVQs . |
| 29 | One of their long term winners has been the thin , lightweight , but very windproof Ultrafleece . |
| 30 | Wilikins had been the name of her first husband , Henry , who had been at King 's School , Birmingham with Swan in the 1960s . |