Example sentences of "[noun sg] have [been] a [adj] feature " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Inspection has been a traditional feature of business . |
| 3 | ‘ Panics over juvenile crime have been a recurrent feature in Britain for at least the last 150 years , ’ Mr Bowman claimed . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | This European collaboration has been a key feature of the major fundraising operation undertaken by Oxford University since 1988 . |