Example sentences of "[noun sg] have [been] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | In the United States allergy has been a specialty for decades . |
| 3 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 4 | Removing body hair has been a custom for centuries . |
| 5 | André Leon Talley of American Vogue has been a friend since he headed the Womenswear Daily bureau in Paris in the Seventies . |
| 6 | Although funding has been a problem for some flexible trainees in the past , these new arrangements should improve this aspect of the arrangements considerably . |
| 7 | The issue of potency level has been a source of the bitterest argument between practitioners since Homœopathy began . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Mum has been a lot more cheerful since Quigley was declared bankrupt , insane and guilty of fraud . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | But where music has been a constant right through the ages , cinema has been a product of its time . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | In the last decade , the ouija board has been a feature in several serious crimes . |
| 15 | ‘ 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 . |
| 16 | However one chooses to interpret it , the mystical experience has been a fact of life , once human consciousness has developed to a particular point . |
| 17 | Common to much of the literature has been a notion … that these kids — and many others like them — have been trying to ‘ recover magically ’ territory , both physical and cultural , that they have lost and to appropriate in the same way territory that has never been theirs . |
| 18 | The play has been a year in the making . |
| 19 | The government claim that GP fund-holding has been a success . |
| 20 | I too had a strong urge to rise up and say , ‘ My lord , this trial has been a farce , and you are the chief clown ! ’ but , I think wisely , refrained . |
| 21 | Alameda has been a navy town since the second world war . |
| 22 | Every religion has been a tradition of response to him , however darkly it groped towards him , however anxiously it shied away from him . ’ |
| 23 | Where perhaps a defendant has been a passenger and is not accused of reckless driving . |
| 24 | In both 1988 and 1989 , combatting racial violence has been a priority for the Metropolitan Police . |
| 25 | The result has been a consolidation of their power as men , over heterosexual women and lesbians , within the work , and the organization . |
| 26 | But given the fixed level of those overall resources , the inevitable result has been a reduction in resources for the remainder of the school population . |
| 27 | The result has been a reduction in party funds , which have been almost exclusively derived from membership , of about 15 per cent . |
| 28 | The result has been a saving on energy of Aus$90,000 a year and a sharp reduction in emissions of carbon dioxide . . |
| 29 | The result has been a compression of childbearing into ages 22–30 to a degree never seen before ; about two-thirds of all births ( figure 4.10 ) . |
| 30 | Despite this the result has been a travesty of democracy in that the permanent minority of Catholics and Irish nationalists have been excluded from the Protestant Unionist conception of " the people " , called in this case " the people of Ulster " . |