Example sentences of "[noun] have [been] [adj] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Motability has been one of the few established successes of a mixed economy . |
| 2 | For many , the whole idea of using Marxist concepts of analysis is out of the question for a Christian and the spectre of communism has been one of the most divisive aspects . |
| 3 | Muller , in fact , played off-season for the Greystones club in Ireland and by all accounts has been one of the most successful migratory players to visit the island . |
| 4 | His Excellency has been one of the best Ambassadors Spain has ever sent us , and his very dear wife has given him so much support . |
| 5 | The general pattern of change has been one of upward mobility . |
| 6 | The company 's Special Catering Division has been busy of late , arranging catering at a wide variety of functions including dinner for 400 in the magnificent setting of the Old Library at the Guildhall and two days celebrations abroad a new Geest Line Ship , moored on the Thames , off Greenwich . |
| 7 | For many years Serge Moscovici has been one of the leading critics of orthodoxies in social psychological thinking . |
| 8 | Defence has been one of the big strong points of Widnes performances this season . |
| 9 | In fact , Mr Shiratori has been one of Japan 's representative 's on the IASC since 1984 and is well versed in all the issues ; he is also well aware that he has taken up the reins of office at a critical time for the IASC . |
| 10 | Mr Haskins has been one of the most outspoken critics of the MMB plan to turn its other functions over to the new Milk Marque co-op . |
| 11 | ON the basis that ‘ forewarned is forearmed ’ the fundamental principle underlying the Companies Acts has been that of disclosure . |
| 12 | The new approach to assessment has been one of the most important changes in vocational education and training over the last ten years . |
| 13 | The relationship between linguistics and literature has been one of the most widely discussed issues in modern literary theory . |
| 14 | " As you know , Sara , your aunt 's income has been dwindling of late years — she was very careless of investments and spent too much of her capital . |
| 15 | Well some of the football Leicester have played in this opening twenty o twenty minutes has been some of the best I 've seen them . |
| 16 | Tumin claims that the American Medical Association has been guilty of this practice . |
| 17 | All I will say is that in attempting to develop theories about the alleviation of neurological dysfunction as she has , Dr Hari has been one of very few medical scientists to address an important ‘ black hole ’ in the research agenda . |
| 18 | Most of the time since we arrived back in England my mind has been full of thoughts about Fiona . |
| 19 | Dixons has been one of the first retail chains to suffer from the slowing of retail demand . |
| 20 | The lads were ‘ bang up for it — Talking Heads has been one of our favourite bands for a long time ’ , and another odd musical alliance was struck up , adding to a curious list of collaborations including the Velvet Underground 's John Cale ( who produced ‘ Squirrel And G-Man ’ ) and Donovan ( who supported them on tour ) . |
| 21 | In the twentieth century the most dramatic political collapse has been that of the Liberal Party . |
| 22 | Fraud has been one of the problems that the factors/invoice discounters have had to tackle during the recession . |
| 23 | For Dollimore , whose reading of the play in Radical Tragedy has been one of the more persuasive recent accounts , Faustus is the site of a power struggle between God and Lucifer , both equally responsible for his destruction . |
| 24 | It is an impossibly restricted view , therefore , to imagine a universal approach to landform study being based only upon consideration of historical development … the physical and the resulting psychological , inability of geographers to handle successfully the simultaneous operation of a number of causes contributing to a given effect has been one of the greatest impediments to the advancement of their discipline . |
| 25 | Britain 's growth rate has been one of the lowest of any major Western economy since 1961 , that Britain 's share of investment has been one of the two lowest , that Britain 's share of world trade has been falling while others have had rising shares and that Britain 's rate of inflation has been one of the fastest in the Western world . |
| 26 | Terry Hands , retiring director of the RSC , will be facing up to Douglas Mason of the Adam Smith Institute , whose Expounding The Arts has been one of the most interesting discussion documents of recent years . |
| 27 | The New Right emphasis on adversary politics and an overload of demands has been more of a critique of democracy in Britain than it has ever been a rigorous description of , and explanation for , British politics . |
| 28 | ‘ I 'm sure that not eating has been one of your problems , ’ she informed me . |
| 29 | 1991 in many respects has been one of the toughest years in Hygiene but despite that we will have achieved our budgeted target and increased our profit by 40% over 1990 — a truly excellent performance ! |
| 30 | The authors go on to offer examples of students whose transition from college has been one of experiencing limited choice and often unsuitable placements . |