Example sentences of "[noun sg] have [been] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their main resource and support has been the voluntary work of bodies like the National Council for Mother Tongue Teaching , the National Association for Multiracial Education ( now the National Anti-Racist Movement in Education ) and the various grouping of teachers and activists promoting the cause of one particular language . |
| 2 | Perhaps the most obvious feature of this change has been the widespread development of out-of-town superstores and retail parks . |
| 3 | A superbly organised defence has been the key factor so far and even now at the zero hour , the men at the back are steeling themselves for a final defiant gesture . |
| 4 | The defence has been the strong point of the side recently . |
| 5 | The existence of this funding has been the key factor in LEAs ' development of specialist appointments and experimental initiatives . |
| 6 | The most extraordinary feature of the Opposition 's response has been the deafening silence of their principal spokesman in relation to the proposals . |
| 7 | Pilkingtons ' marketing response has been the rapid renewal of this technological lead in its basic products and diversification through speciality , high value-added products . |
| 8 | Its traditional power base has been the rural cattle-owning sector . |
| 9 | And ‘ knowledge ’ is not restricted to facts and logical rules ; reasoning with the hunches and educated guesses of human expertise has been the key idea behind expert systems . |
| 10 | What has really unnerved the once dominant majority has been the decade-long fight by immigrant groups to have their languages taught in the schools . |
| 11 | The bridgehead has been the small Western community , which now has the use of a state-of-the-art office services joint venture to be found at 50 Gorky Street in central Moscow , as well as ‘ Reprotsentr ’ , in which Rank Xerox is a partner . |
| 12 | For many years the standard IR spectrometer has been the dispersive scanning spectrophotometer . |
| 13 | The price which has been paid for the lower rate of tax on income has been the additional National Insurance charge and also the locking up of the profits in excess of the salary of £43,500 as retained profit in the company . |
| 14 | The overall result has been the successful promotion of a positive attitude in relation to bicycle use in general , a result which in space and time has impacts beyond the immediate locality of the routes . |
| 15 | The result has been the ultimate short-term short-life celluloid product , the generic mishmash hung round a gimmick . |
| 16 | The prohibition can be contested in the Court , but the overall result has been the widespread abandonment of resale price maintenance and a fundamental change in the pattern of retail distribution , as new types of outlet developed and replaced the older , small , independent , specialist stores . |
| 17 | For example , students , both at secondary school and university , for whom activism rather than strategic thinking has been the prime consideration in the struggle , have to be persuaded to co-operate . |
| 18 | YWA 's answer to the Guest Tea has been the annual Treasure Hunt and Barbecue which has been enjoyed by many Edenderry members and friends in recent years . |
| 19 | Football has been the other major sport and has always produced good teams , and Halling must have been among the first to play under floodlights . |
| 20 | Throughout history football has been the favoured sport of the artistic community . |
| 21 | The organisation 's second point , as the chart shows , is that industry has been the unintended victim of high inflation , which has led to a significantly higher corporate tax take than the Lawson reforms of 1984 intended . |
| 22 | Although recently wound up , one spin-off has been the in-house desk-top publication of the Technical Bulletin itself — the excellent colour illustrations have been printed from computer digitised colour images taken from high quality transparencies . |
| 23 | The most publicised aspect of the North-South divide has been the wide disparity between house prices in different regions of the country . |
| 24 | One force has been the phenomenal growth in part-time employment . |
| 25 | For it remains a curious anomaly that although the marathon has been the classic test of long distance endurance throughout nearly a century of Olympic history , the fastest timings have never enjoyed the status of world records . |
| 26 | Up to this period , mining had been essentially a hand-craft where , as in farming , man-power and horse-power had been the chief means of winning the product . |
| 27 | Before long , the diocese appointed a sub-warden , a Canadian priest with a splendid knowledge of the Old Testament , and a ‘ ’ young'' Anglo-Indian priest whose main study had been the New Testament . |
| 28 | A sense of insecurity and emotional tension had been the permanent feature of Christian existence during most of the previous three centuries . |
| 29 | The territory affected by the secession had been the British Somaliland Protectorate until July 1960 , when it had merged with the territory to the south — which had been a UN trust territory , and before that an Italian colony , known as Somalia — to form an independent Somalia . |
| 30 | Some of the changes were felt to be long overdue , such as a scale 3 second in department for English , and it was not always clear whether the appraisal had been the driving force behind a particular change or whether it had simply brought some long-standing problems to urgent attention . |