Example sentences of "[noun] have been [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | The second major contextual change has been shifts in government policy , operating in the context of large scale youth unemployment . |
| 2 | The result has been fragmentation in political life . |
| 3 | Those qualities owed little to the opportunities provided by formal schooling or family background : the Pooles had been tanners in the Stowey area since at least the early eighteenth century , and Tom Poole 's father , the eldest of four gifted brothers , ran a large and thriving tanning business from his Castle Street home . |
| 4 | Saddened that polytechnics have been unable to throw off the second-class public image , Teesside University 's director , Dr Michael Longfield said : ‘ The three polytechnics in the North-East have been universities in all but name for many years . ’ |
| 5 | The most serious impact on the community sector has been cuts in local authority spending — the largest source of revenue for most local organisations . |
| 6 | Like other sections of the popular movement the health sector has been years in the growing and in establishing work practice and vital organizations . |
| 7 | Does my right hon. Friend agree that the problem faced by the United Nations in recent decades has been entanglement in east-west confrontation and that at this stage of its development it does not need to embark on an extremely controversial and difficult period of structural reform but should make greater use not only of the United Nations charter but of the existing United Nations machinery ? |
| 8 | Karl Barth had been pastor in Safenwil since 1911 . |
| 9 | Until this time , the mainstay of treatment for syphilis had been mercury in some form or other , either by internal administration or in the form of unctions . |
| 10 | Though most enterprises in developing countries have been by-standers in many rounds , more are now coming forward to play their part for the future . |
| 11 | Even though their main aim has been consolidation in the league , a win today could even make them title outsiders . |
| 12 | So did Kiffin Rockwell , the twenty-one-year-old medical student from North Carolina , both of whose grandfathers had been officers in the Confederate Army . |
| 13 | The major exceptions have been counties in the mining areas where there has been a basis for Labour support . |
| 14 | This is not to deny the discoveries that have been made , but to state that the purposes that have given meaning to the scientists ' pursuit of truth have been success in and the sustaining of the scientific establishment . |
| 15 | Well , education having been oversold in that way , erm the pendulum swung very strongly in the opposite direction , and I think , for a while , starting with the so-called ‘ Great Debate ’ under James Callaghan , education became very undersold . |
| 16 | as if it had happened a few years ago , Mr Donal John MacLennan , leaning on his metal gate as his sheep thronged the pens of today 's farm at Corry , knew that Johnson and Boswell had been guests in this place , and that they had had good times here . |
| 17 | The increased output achieved on assisted farms has been 14% in cattle numbers and 27% in sheep numbers(23) . |
| 18 | Many of these teachers had been learners in the original literacy campaign . |
| 19 | This was directed particularly at the sheriff , William Crowmer , and his father-in-law , Lord Say , who as Sir James Fiennes had been sheriff in 1442 . |
| 20 | While in the 1930s the CEB men had been leaders in advocating larger-scale power generation , with the undertakings sometimes dragging their feet , by the time of nationalisation they pinned their faith more on the benefits of standardising on 30MW and 60MW sets as a means of both cutting costs and overcoming the capacity shortage ( see pp. 24–5 , above ) . |
| 21 | Measures which other researchers have described as corresponding to subjective risk have been changes in heart rate or GSR and subjective estimates of the chances of being involved in a near miss ( Watts & Quimby , 1980 ) . |
| 22 | Accounts published during the bankruptcy proceedings in 1935 suggested that the subscription income had been £6,848 in 1925 , £604 in 1928 and afterwards less than £400 a year . |
| 23 | Perhaps even more significant for the globalization thesis have been changes in the operational strategy of many of the larger TNCs , involving both production and exchange . |
| 24 | Income inequalities among those in employment have been widened by inequitable wages policies , but even more important than wages policies as a means of promoting inequality have been changes in the tax system . |
| 25 | Yes , the world is losing its precious rainforest : in Central America , for example , the decline has been 38% in just over 30 years . |
| 26 | His family had been landowners in Wales and Shropshire . |
| 27 | All the cases discussed in this section have been ones in which words addressed to one person were held to make another person a trustee either for the first person or for a third party . |
| 28 | Erm , I think the charge that has been laid against myself personally and my myself and my colleagues is the charge of vacillation and changing our mind and I and I am grateful to c my colleague David for reminding us that we have in this county had two years two years when the Labour party and the Conservative party have been hand in glove , absolutely determined that the way forward in relation to homes , elderly persons homes , not that 's not to close any and now we 've had a complete volte face when they 've changed their minds and they 've come along with us . |