Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [been] an [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Interaction within groups has been an important focus of study by behavioural scientists . |
| 2 | The lot of the Jews had been an uneasy one for many centuries ; now , for the first time , they were massacred in western Europe . |
| 3 | For Diana , the last few months had been an emotional rollercoaster as she had tried to come to terms with her new life as a public figure and the suffocating publicity as well as her husband 's ambiguous behaviour towards her . |
| 4 | Contract bombing of buildings has been an excellent source of income for the Provisional IRA . |
| 5 | The significance to be attached to the social origins of public officials has been an inseparable part of this controversy in the history of Marxist analysis of the state . |
| 6 | The strongest weapon the Serbian state has employed against the Albanians has been an economic one . |
| 7 | Changing the style and responsibilities of health service managers has been an important theme of Conservative health policy . |
| 8 | Interpretation of the results of these studies has been an important battleground for theoretical disputes over the nature of perceptual learning . |
| 9 | The insistence on separate sources had been an ill-judged reaction to the Reformation Scriptura sola ; now , by viewing both Scripture and Tradition as dynamic realities , they can be seen as intimately connected , gifts of the one Spirit , in a way that satisfied not only almost all the Council 's members , but even the Reformed observers ( Schutz and Thurian , 1968 , ch. 2 ) . |
| 10 | The problems of small firms have been an increasing focus for the state in most economies following the crisis of the 1970s , and in some ways this is a gesture of concern to those who have been most affected . |
| 11 | The study of groups in work situations has been an important activity of behavioural scientists ever since the pioneering work of the Hawthorne Researchers over fifty years ago . |
| 12 | However , rising populations have been an underlying influence for increasing trade in , in all products , not just in er , agricultural products . |
| 13 | The last two unionist mayors have been an independent and a DUP councillor , making an Ulster Unionist the favourite this time round . |
| 14 | This debate between pluralist or behaviourist and radical/Marxist accounts of power in capitalist societies has been an important one in political sociology with Marxist writers such as Westergaard and Resler ( 1975 ) arguing that pluralist accounts did not get to the roots of the power of capital . |
| 15 | The three men had been an advance squad ; trained technicians . |
| 16 | However , without exception , all the women had to make some economies because their wages had been an essential part of the household economy and their benefits were too low to compensate for their lost earnings . |
| 17 | Vecchi had been an interested party . |
| 18 | The counselling by social services had been an enormous help . |
| 19 | As noted earlier , in relation to Figure 3.1 , the service industries have been an important provider of jobs in the UK economy since the last century . |
| 20 | Throughout the autumn the great majority of Spotted Redshanks in Sussex are found at Thorney Island , where flocks of 30 to 60 birds have been an annual occurrence since 1965 ; the highest count so far was of 69 there on 8 August 1967 . |
| 21 | Counteracting my cancer cells has been an evolutionary process in which a whole series of different ‘ attacks ’ have been launched depending upon the information I have on myself , how and what I feel . |
| 22 | Interesting to me , that is , because my only previous contact with the world of spirits had been an eerie couple of evenings spent with two schoolgirl friends , when we were all sixteen , ‘ table tapping ’ . |
| 23 | In many areas , the recovery has been so slow that cultivators have been able to move in , while fires have been an added retardant to recovery , sometimes resulting in the familiar Imperata savanna . |