Example sentences of "[noun sg] have [been] a [adj] cause " in BNC.
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| 1 | The prevalence of a low view of art , and especially the art of literature has been a main cause of our defective conception of national education . |
| 2 | The international competitiveness of British industry has been a major cause of concern for some considerable time . |
| 3 | In contrast to perceptions of nature , the issue of animal suffering has been a periodic cause for concern throughout recorded history . |
| 4 | The development of the public enterprise sector has been a major cause of the crisis of state expenditure in Spain . |
| 5 | Mr. Simon Hughes As the Minister 's first answer made it clear that a price differential has been a major cause of the substantial increase in sales of unleaded petrol , and as the Secretary of State is on record as saying that the market has a role to play in cutting the use of petrol across the market in the United Kingdom , by what figures does the Department currently estimate that petrol prices will increase over the next few years ? |
| 6 | Mrs Thatcher 's staff will today be scanning Mr Bush 's televised Thanksgiving address to the nation last night , in which the President emphasised the continued US commitment to the Nato alliance and the defence of Western Europe , stressing that Nato 's fortitude has been a prime cause of the transformations in Eastern Europe . |
| 7 | In sum , there are strong grounds for arguing that , together with business organisation and management , the higher civil service has been a major cause of Britain 's comparatively poor economic performance . |
| 8 | There was a widely held view amongst sentencers at the time that these powers were too limited ; while the furtherance of types of punishment not necessitating the deprival of liberty had been a perennial cause of penal reformers . |