Example sentences of "[noun] [vb -s] been a [adj] feature " in BNC.
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| 1 | Increased co-operation between states has been a significant feature of the post-1945 world order , reflecting the reduced ability of states to act autonomously in the global arena . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Inspection has been a traditional feature of business . |
| 4 | The Highlands regional convener , Duncan McPherson , said : ‘ Team work has been a key feature of our approach and any success we can achieve will be through joint action . ’ |
| 5 | SOCIO-SEXUAL anxiety about Blacks has been a distinctive feature of British society since the first encounters between merchant adventurers and Africans . |
| 6 | As this series stresses , the uneven social and economic development of places has been a central feature of post-war British society . |
| 7 | Late-night scheduling has been a consistent feature of lesbian and gay programming , exploiting the gay audience 's motivation to watch these programmes while keeping them on the edges of broadcasting . |
| 8 | Such an orientation to problem-solving has been a distinctive feature of English political culture for many centuries , discernible , I would suggest , since at least the thirteenth century . |
| 9 | However letter-bombing has been a consistent feature — one device addressed to the then Prime Minister , Margaret Thatcher , in the mid 1980s injured a Downing Street worker . |
| 10 | As noted in section 5.2 , the emergence of excess capacity in bond ( and equity ) markets located in London has been a notable feature of recent years . |
| 11 | This European collaboration has been a key feature of the major fundraising operation undertaken by Oxford University since 1988 . |