Example sentences of "[noun sg] has [be] [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Historically , resource allocation has been the prime objective ( eg in relation to fisheries ) and environmental protection has been no more than a secondary objective .
2 This charming period building has been a free school , public lending library and home for local gentry since 1710 .
3 In many countries in the early stages of industrialization agriculture has been a major source of foodstuffs , exports and labour , but the degree to which agriculture in Japan contributed capital over a sustained period is unusual .
4 This last year all these outgoings have meant that fundraising has been a real necessity and to try to relieve that pressure , the committee have decided to raise the subs .
5 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 .
6 In addition , increasing car ownership and high-speed road provision has been a main factor in the massive increase of rural recreation enjoyed by many people since the 1950s , and discussed in Chapter 7 .
7 This fight has been an expensive business for me personally , but I do not mind that .
8 Functionalists emphasise that inequality has been a prominent feature of past human societies and continues to be so in contemporary societies of West and East .
9 The dominant thread has been a key role for the state in both the accumulation and distribution of wealth echoing the role of pre-colonial states such as Asante , Buganda and UrOzwi discussed in Chapter 4 .
10 From the vast reaches of time , the Serpent has been a potent symbol , reflecting as many aspects and occult meanings as the Garden of Eden itself , with which it was emblematically associated .
11 U2 's progress has been a useful indicator of Eighties mainstream tastes ( white ) .
12 And it is crucial to recognize that widespread racial discrimination has been an important factor in reproducing these patterns of employment and settlement and , as we shall see , also has a significant role in explanations of levels of achievement by black pupils in British schools .
13 The change has been a major exercise , and while the civil war may not be over in the eyes of the excise collectors , the next issue of Guinness Today will carry the story of the people behind the massive change to End Product Duty .
14 Linked with this attitudinal change has been a third major plus — the Government 's reform of trade unions .
15 Theory needs to deal more adequately with how general structural change has been a vital ingredient in the transformation of the role multinationals play in their dealings with states .
16 Perhaps the most obvious feature of this change has been the widespread development of out-of-town superstores and retail parks .
17 The hair rig has been a great leveller of angling ability and because on most waters it is self-hooking this can often lead to complacency on the angler 's part .
18 Community responsibility has been an important part of Guinness ' corporate philosophy since the eighteenth century .
19 Inspection has been a traditional feature of business .
20 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 .
21 The defence has been the strong point of the side recently .
22 The existence of this funding has been the key factor in LEAs ' development of specialist appointments and experimental initiatives .
23 As the former Director of WHO Global Programme on AIDS has said : ‘ Denial at personal , social , national and international level has been a constant problem and remains today a grave threat to public health . ’
24 This participation is demonstrated in several articles , including ‘ Combating inequality ’ on page 11 , which describes how the involvement of local communities in community mapping in the West Bank and Gaza Strip has been an essential part of the process .
25 The Soviet Union 's response has been a relentless increase in its chemical warfare capability .
26 But more characteristically the response has been a massive importation into academic English studies of theories and methods otherwise associated with structuralism , linguistics , semiotics , sociology , marxism , and post structuralism .
27 The most extraordinary feature of the Opposition 's response has been the deafening silence of their principal spokesman in relation to the proposals .
28 Pilkingtons ' marketing response has been the rapid renewal of this technological lead in its basic products and diversification through speciality , high value-added products .
29 The eight-day tie-up has been an agreed method within the Community during the current year .
30 Planning a proper food service facility is an essential aspect of hotel design , but until recently food service consultancy has been a neglected profession .
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