Example sentences of "[noun] have been a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cleanliness in TDC institutions has been a priority with the administration since Ellis 's time at least . |
| 2 | I am sure that the hon. Gentleman recognises that increasing productivity in agriculture has been a feature in the past , both in good years and in bad . |
| 3 | In the United States allergy has been a specialty for decades . |
| 4 | ‘ Edinvar has been serving tenants for 20 years and Link has been a landlord for nearly 30 years , so we both have a long history of putting tenants first . ’ |
| 5 | Running alongside this financial support has been an attempt to promote industrial cooperatives where small firms would share distribution facilities or share the production of one brand name . |
| 6 | Removing body hair has been a custom for centuries . |
| 7 | CPRW has been a member of the EEB for many years and works through it to influence European and global environmental policies . |
| 8 | Mr Ferguson has been a fan of Schmeichel for four years , but it was not until last summer that he could persuade Denmark 's top club , Brondby , to accept an offer . |
| 9 | The school magazine put it in writing : ‘ R. Jenkins has been a tower of strength in Rugby and under normal circumstances would probably have gained an International cap . |
| 10 | Jim has been a newspaper seller in Swindon for 25 years and now for the first time in his life , he 's made the front page . |
| 11 | Testing by employers has been an issue around which , in the past , hostile stereotypes have been constructed . |
| 12 | ( First Edition ) FOR YEARS , Bulent Ersoy has been a source of confusion to music-loving Turkish Muslims . |
| 13 | André Leon Talley of American Vogue has been a friend since he headed the Womenswear Daily bureau in Paris in the Seventies . |
| 14 | Although funding has been a problem for some flexible trainees in the past , these new arrangements should improve this aspect of the arrangements considerably . |
| 15 | The issue of potency level has been a source of the bitterest argument between practitioners since Homœopathy began . |
| 16 | Anne Hayward has been a member for 15 years and re-reads the Lord of the Rings annually in three or four days . |
| 17 | This is how one of the more sceptical psychiatrists involved later described the patient 's case : ‘ I must admit that such a remarkable response has been a surprise to me . |
| 18 | The key to the problems facing Sheffield has been a lack of sponsorship by commercial companies . |
| 19 | At the same time the imbalance between expenditure and revenue has resulted in high interest rates and the deficit has been an engine driving inflation — as the monetisation of government debt is one cause of excessive money supply growth . |
| 20 | A consequence of the recession has been a reduction of just over six per cent in the 5,000 worldwide workforce in the past 12 months . |
| 21 | Mum has been a lot more cheerful since Quigley was declared bankrupt , insane and guilty of fraud . |
| 22 | Peggy has been a member of the union for twenty three years been a shop steward for eleven years the last nine at K P Foods and also branch quality officer , been a branch committee member and a member of the Midland and East Coast regional council member of the regional Labour women 's conference and she 's been to G M B congress , congress on a number of occasions . |
| 23 | This last index has been a boon to many UK fund managers concerned over relative performance , since it has been weighed down by the Tokyo market , which has been in sustained fall for a period of nearly three years . |
| 24 | Gary has been a pit deputy at Whitemoor for four years . |
| 25 | The major demographic change occurring in recent decades within the cities has been a decline in absolute population levels ( Redfern , 1982 ; Champion , Coombes and Openshaw , 1983 ) . |
| 26 | But where music has been a constant right through the ages , cinema has been a product of its time . |
| 27 | The difficulties in authorising one version of a play which has a multiple existence has been a preoccupation of Shakespearean editors over the last decade . |
| 28 | In the last decade , the ouija board has been a feature in several serious crimes . |
| 29 | ‘ The whole experience has been a lot of fun and the crew have been fantastic , especially in the very beginning because I was nervous for the first few days . |
| 30 | However one chooses to interpret it , the mystical experience has been a fact of life , once human consciousness has developed to a particular point . |