Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [be] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | How word meanings combine is a key question when attempting to account for the way discourse is understood . |
| 2 | This charming period building has been a free school , public lending library and home for local gentry since 1710 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Increased co-operation between states has been a significant feature of the post-1945 world order , reflecting the reduced ability of states to act autonomously in the global arena . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Since his arrival at the agency in 1986 , Baulk has been a key figure in putting in place , through acquisition , below-the-line services . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | U2 's progress has been a useful indicator of Eighties mainstream tastes ( white ) . |
| 12 | The change has been a major exercise , and while the civil war may not be over in the eyes of the excise collectors , the next issue of Guinness Today will carry the story of the people behind the massive change to End Product Duty . |
| 13 | Linked with this attitudinal change has been a third major plus — the Government 's reform of trade unions . |
| 14 | Theory needs to deal more adequately with how general structural change has been a vital ingredient in the transformation of the role multinationals play in their dealings with states . |
| 15 | The study of attitudes has been a major topic , if not the major topic , in social psychology . |
| 16 | The hair rig has been a great leveller of angling ability and because on most waters it is self-hooking this can often lead to complacency on the angler 's part . |
| 17 | Inspection has been a traditional feature of business . |
| 18 | As the former Director of WHO Global Programme on AIDS has said : ‘ Denial at personal , social , national and international level has been a constant problem and remains today a grave threat to public health . ’ |
| 19 | Rush hour crowding was a serious hazard , and the station was 39 per cent understaffed . |
| 20 | The Soviet Union 's response has been a relentless increase in its chemical warfare capability . |
| 21 | But more characteristically the response has been a massive importation into academic English studies of theories and methods otherwise associated with structuralism , linguistics , semiotics , sociology , marxism , and post structuralism . |
| 22 | Gathering the right cast a mix of straight theatre , dance and mime performers has been a major task . |
| 23 | Planning a proper food service facility is an essential aspect of hotel design , but until recently food service consultancy has been a neglected profession . |
| 24 | Smoking has been a useful earner for the government . |
| 25 | This saga since this recession has been a sorry tale . |
| 26 | For the college , the experience of developing and mounting the course has been a beneficial one , although at times it felt like self-inflicted punishment ! |
| 27 | Electricity generator PowerGen Plc said Sir Graham Day is to retire as its chairman and that Sir Colin Southgate , chairman and chief executive of Thorn EMI Plc , will succeed him ; Sir Colin has been a non-executive director of PowerGen since the firm was created in 1990 . |
| 28 | The growing number of life sentence prisoners has been a considerable problem for the prison service for some years now . |
| 29 | His own position has been greatly strengthened and the election has been a personal triumph for him . |
| 30 | The effect of mesalazine treatment on renal function has been a particular concern as mesalazine has structural similarities to aspirin and phenacetin , both of which have been implicated in analgesic nephropathy . |