Example sentences of "[noun] [vb base] been a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Bidston Dock cranes have been a feature of the Wallasey landscape but unpopular with some local residents who regarded them as an eyesore and the cause of television reception problems . |
| 2 | DAIRYLEA triangles have been a must in lunch boxes for years . |
| 3 | House prices have fallen less and job losses have been a fraction of those in the rest of Britain . |
| 4 | High-tech companies have been a bit better , but even there , says Sir Eric , there is a serious question as to whether they have recruited anything like enough graduates . |
| 5 | As Shahid himself admits , the sight of Ian Salisbury wheeling away so productively at Lord 's might have been a factor in this sudden show of faith . |
| 6 | With this challenge , family gatherings have been a bit strained . |
| 7 | Helen 's main problems since she moved into her own home have been a period of illness , which caused her much discomfort , and a spate of difficulties in accepting personal care from temporary staff . |
| 8 | AMERICAN businessmen have been A turning up their noses at video conferencing because they can not smell each other . |
| 9 | Our lives have been a picture torn in two . |
| 10 | The activities of the far right have been a cause for concern over here for a while now . |
| 11 | The last four years have been a nightmare that would n't go away , no matter what I did . |
| 12 | Oh yes , of course it was , the last three years have been a recession , what else would you expect . |
| 13 | Colleagues , as the resolution says and as we all know , we 've all experienced it , the last fourteen years have been a catalogue of disaster after disaster for all sections of the society , and especially the disadvantaged , those the young , the elderly , the disabled and the unemployed , all been attacked . |
| 14 | Syn-gas and carbon monoxide have been a mainstay of the heavy organic chemicals industry around the world for some years . |
| 15 | In the last three decades , Freire 's educational ideas have been a catalyst for worldwide programs in literacy ( Fiore and Elsasser , 1982 ) ; English as a Second Language ( Auerbach and Wallerstein , 1987 ) ; health education ( Minkler , 1985 ; Werner and Bower , 1982 ) ; youth programs ( Alschuler , 1980 ) ; workplace health and safety ( Wallerstein and Weinger , 1992 ) ; college courses ( Shor , 1987 ) ; and community development ( Hope and Timmel , 1984 ; Barndt , 1989 ; Arnold et al , n.d. , Freire and Horton , 1990 ) . |
| 16 | The plays have been a focus not only of critical activity employing new models for interpretive inquiry but also of scholarly activity which has contested many previous assumptions about how plays were performed , codified into texts , and circulated within society . |
| 17 | But it 's still considered that Balcerowicz 's reforms have been a success . |
| 18 | If central actors have not been literally squalid , the results of their actions have been a mess through their failure to comprehend the differentiated nature of the system ’ ( 1985 , p. 55 ) . |
| 19 | By the way , I know things have been a bit strained at Elland Road in recent weeks , but did the last record to be played before the team came out on saturday REALLY have to be Bruce Springsteen singing ‘ Glory days — well , they pass you by … ’ |
| 20 | ‘ Things have been a bit intense , with a lot happening on and off the park , ’ said Crosby . |
| 21 | Erm the parts of the country where things have been a bit flat seem to be the north and the south west and both of those are regions in which export orders received fell in the previous two surveys so that seems to be consistent although in the north they seem to have picked up somewhat in this survey erm and optimism is also erm er stronger in this survey than it was in the previous one . |
| 22 | Actually , we 've been here for 5 days already , but things have been a bit hectic . |
| 23 | FOR FAR too long , glasses have been a matter of seeing well rather than looking good . |
| 24 | Mr Savimbi 's whereabouts have been a mystery since the battle for Huambo , Unita 's headquarters , began on 9 January . |
| 25 | The main features have been a decrease in the proportion of family cases ; an increase in the proportion of criminal cases ; and , over the last few years , a slight increase in the proportion of welfare benefits cases . |
| 26 | Neath have been a force in the Welsh game for most of its 120 years but were never , until lately , the force . |
| 27 | I think I 'll be on the next plane , but erm what about prices because that , again looking from the point of view of the recession , people have been a bit hard pressed for cash . |
| 28 | Although residential and day-care staff have been a priority target for training in many departments , the vast majority are untrained , except for the offices in charge . |
| 29 | Women 's bodies have been a focus of attention through the women 's movement at the different points in its history . |
| 30 | But the Chinese Muslims are spread throughout the country , from Xinjiang in the north-west right along the Great Wall of China as far as Peking and dotted throughout Ningxia province , including such key cities as Xian , home of the famous terracotta army , where the Chinese-style pavilions of the Great Mosque have been a place of worship for Muslims since the eighth century . |