Example sentences of "[noun sg] have [been] [adj] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | For many , the whole idea of using Marxist concepts of analysis is out of the question for a Christian and the spectre of communism has been one of the most divisive aspects . |
| 2 | His Excellency has been one of the best Ambassadors Spain has ever sent us , and his very dear wife has given him so much support . |
| 3 | The general pattern of change has been one of upward mobility . |
| 4 | The company 's Special Catering Division has been busy of late , arranging catering at a wide variety of functions including dinner for 400 in the magnificent setting of the Old Library at the Guildhall and two days celebrations abroad a new Geest Line Ship , moored on the Thames , off Greenwich . |
| 5 | Defence has been one of the big strong points of Widnes performances this season . |
| 6 | The new approach to assessment has been one of the most important changes in vocational education and training over the last ten years . |
| 7 | The relationship between linguistics and literature has been one of the most widely discussed issues in modern literary theory . |
| 8 | " As you know , Sara , your aunt 's income has been dwindling of late years — she was very careless of investments and spent too much of her capital . |
| 9 | Tumin claims that the American Medical Association has been guilty of this practice . |
| 10 | Most of the time since we arrived back in England my mind has been full of thoughts about Fiona . |
| 11 | In the twentieth century the most dramatic political collapse has been that of the Liberal Party . |
| 12 | Fraud has been one of the problems that the factors/invoice discounters have had to tackle during the recession . |
| 13 | For Dollimore , whose reading of the play in Radical Tragedy has been one of the more persuasive recent accounts , Faustus is the site of a power struggle between God and Lucifer , both equally responsible for his destruction . |
| 14 | It is an impossibly restricted view , therefore , to imagine a universal approach to landform study being based only upon consideration of historical development … the physical and the resulting psychological , inability of geographers to handle successfully the simultaneous operation of a number of causes contributing to a given effect has been one of the greatest impediments to the advancement of their discipline . |
| 15 | Britain 's growth rate has been one of the lowest of any major Western economy since 1961 , that Britain 's share of investment has been one of the two lowest , that Britain 's share of world trade has been falling while others have had rising shares and that Britain 's rate of inflation has been one of the fastest in the Western world . |
| 16 | ‘ I 'm sure that not eating has been one of your problems , ’ she informed me . |
| 17 | The authors go on to offer examples of students whose transition from college has been one of experiencing limited choice and often unsuitable placements . |
| 18 | The Great Tower of Magdalen College has been one of Oxford 's best known sights since the fifteenth century . |
| 19 | Another rare loss has been that of Mark Weedon , the Managing Director in London until the autumn of 1988 , now at Heidrick and Struggles . |
| 20 | The college had been one of the last to open its doors to women students , and she could see why . |
| 21 | If they were implicated in the cover-up it seemed inconceivable that the President had been unaware of what was going on . |
| 22 | Professional organisations like the Library Association have been conscious of the problem , and have issued a useful policy directive on the dispersal of valuable books . |
| 23 | Thus the retailing scene has been one of dynamic change which has affected ways in which salespeople now operate . |
| 24 | Over the past 200 years turning has been one of the most highly skilled jobs to be found in engineering workshops . |
| 25 | On other occasions committees have been generally in support of government action but have urged that it be undertaken more vigorously : the Defence Committee has been critical of the Ministry of Defence when it has spent less than the sums provided in the annual estimates . |
| 26 | Hard work has been one of the main reasons — and Kristian is back in the swing with no regrets about leaving Neighbours . |
| 27 | Stone is not alone in noting the ‘ discrepancy ’ ( p. 420 ) between this and the apparent economic drawbacks of divorce for women ( the increase in divorce has been one of the major factors contributing to the ‘ feminization of poverty ’ ) . |
| 28 | ‘ It was n't a discovery exactly , because it 's something humanity has been aware of in metaphor and myth since … well , forever , I guess . |
| 29 | X for Sparc and iAPX-86 has been one of the company 's most important achievements to date . |
| 30 | Within Greater York the general philosophy embodied in both the Greater York study and the structure plan has been one of restraint . |