Example sentences of "[noun] have [been] a central [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | The pardon had been a central demand of previous Army mutinies , and the prospect of its being announced was thought to have encouraged the loyalty of the Army in putting down the Dec. 3 carapintadas rebellion . |
2 | The definition of work has been a central issue ( Oakley , 1974 ) . |
3 | The cause of this difference has been a central question in solid Earth geochemistry for two decades . |
4 | As this series stresses , the uneven social and economic development of places has been a central feature of post-war British society . |
5 | The relationship between syntactic and semantic processing has been a central concern of psycholinguistics for the last two decades . |
6 | An insistence on international support and co-operation had been a central feature of missionary Calvinism from its inception , and during the early seventeenth century it was regarded as essential to the survival of the Reformed faith in the face of the threat from a resurgent counter-Reformation Catholicism . |
7 | The relationship between society and the state has been a central concern of western political and social thought for the last four hundred years , one crucially bound up with attempts to understand and evaluate the character of new social , political , economic and intellectual forms associated with the development of a capitalist world economy . |
8 | Our intention is to demonstrate that work organization has been a central strand of each of the otherwise contrasting change strategies ; namely , the evolutionary development of Pilkingtons , the total process perspective of RX , and Employee Involvement with Ford . |
9 | While understanding such economies has been a central aim of Western economists for two hundred years there is a great deal which has not yet been understood . |
10 | Question answering systems have been a central project within natural language understanding . |