Example sentences of "have been [noun] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The main problem has been lack of support , both in attendance and especially help . |
| 2 | One source of instability , you rightly note , has been lack of competitiveness in countries like Italy , whose unit labour costs rose by 10% compared with those of other industrial countries between 1987 and August 1992 . |
| 3 | Secondly the deliveries of the equipment from the equipment suppliers who had been selected er generally fell behind the promises which they had made , so the main reason for the technical delays has been lack of equipment of the correct standard to proceed with the integration programme erm the erm the problems which beset the programme in nineteen ninety two after the German minister started questioning its future clearly had a direct bearing on that because many of the equipment suppliers , particularly those in Germany , suddenly began to think hey this programme is not going anywhere , why should we invest a lot of effort and and money into it and they slowed down so that has had a knock on effect in in terms of delaying the total programme and erm the result of all of that has been that the current development programme schedule which we have supplied to the committee is probably about as fast as the programme is capable of running . |
| 4 | There has been conflict about access from the Meadowell through this development to Percy Main and , remarkably , the Labour-controlled authority have agreed to this being blocked off . |
| 5 | The first documentary reference is in the Domesday Book of 1086 , but there has been evidence of Roman and Saxon occupation . |
| 6 | Carole Hillenbrand since 1979 has been lecturer in Arabic at the University of Edinburgh , where here husband Robert , is Professor of Islamic Art . |
| 7 | In 1984 Young married Lilian Lawson , another prelingually deaf person of Scottish birth , who has held administrative posts since 1981 and has been Head of Administration since 1988 . |
| 8 | The second major contextual change has been shifts in government policy , operating in the context of large scale youth unemployment . |
| 9 | There has been progress in design , but no progress in accomplishment , specifically because there has been equal progress in design on both sides of the arms race . |
| 10 | This is an extension of the principle discussed above , but has been subject of comment ; see P. W. Ferguson , " Nemo Iudex in Sua Causa ? " 1987 S.L.T. ( News ) 149 . |
| 11 | If there was actual combustion of the damaged goods , however caused , there has been damage by fire . |
| 12 | Suffice to say , however , that there has been noise deletion ( pertaining to the surface noise from both lacquer and tape masters ) and there has been adjustment of level by way of compensation . |
| 13 | But that is neither the history nor the practice of our professional system , not just er for accountants but for the legal system as well and I think it has stood the test of time , er he will know that there has been er there is a procedure for the joint disciplinaries scheme er which enables the er institute to investigate whether there has been compliance by member firms with the standards promulgated er with er er by the er er auditing practices board and that seems to me to be the er right way forward . |
| 14 | Since 1988 he has been chairman of CAFOD . |
| 15 | For more than forty years American football has been symbol of patriotism at the Upper Heyford airbase . |
| 16 | A former teacher , journalist and Euro-MP , Mrs Clwyd has been MP for Cynon Valley , Mid-Glamorgan , since a by-election in 1984 , when she became the first woman to represent a South Wales mining valley . |
| 17 | There has been difference of opinion not merely over the content of any explanation , but also over what would count as an explanation . |
| 18 | In Chemicals Manufacturing at Royston and Brimsdown it has been time for change . |
| 19 | Finally Northern Ireland shows that there has been decline in output over the preceding four months and the only region t t to say that erm it 's fair to say that North Northern Ireland has been a weak region throughout er the recession erm and although in this survey optimism has climbed up a bit so it 's close to the U K average , it 's nevertheless a part of the U K which has really been behaving er rather differently from the rest of the economy reflecting its sort of , i its particular problems and the fact that it 's not part of the mainland economy . |
| 20 | Basic training and anti-racist training are two areas about which there has been debate in order to reach a national consensus for good practice . |
| 21 | He has been Professor of Architecture at the University of Belgrade , and was also for a brief period in the early 1980s the Mayor of the city . |
| 22 | Mr Palumbo said he was delighted with the decision , and that the cost of delays has been £1million per day . |
| 23 | The mineralogical modification of the clays has been montmorillonite to illite , kaolinite to illite below about 3000 m , and illite to sericite and chlorite at greater depths . |
| 24 | Now , that is something , that one would find difficult to accept normally , erm , but seeing as our Councillor has been chair of transportation , I believe in the past and also leader of the County Council , that then it it does make one wonder about erm , bud bud budgeting and raising expectations of people around the county unnecessarily . |
| 25 | Mr Andrew Mitchell , prosecuting , said : ‘ There has been no loss to the British Government but there has been avoidance of currency restrictions . ’ |
| 26 | His statement continued : ‘ Caldaire appreciates that monetary problems and not bloody-mindedness are the cause of the problem , but financial hardship never has been justification for non-payment of debt . |
| 27 | Does my right hon. Friend agree that the problem faced by the United Nations in recent decades has been entanglement in east-west confrontation and that at this stage of its development it does not need to embark on an extremely controversial and difficult period of structural reform but should make greater use not only of the United Nations charter but of the existing United Nations machinery ? |
| 28 | According to Dugald Mackie , until recently a senior administrator at Strathclyde University , there has been tension between accountability and autonomy as the introduction of new management systems has worked itself out throughout Scotland . |
| 29 | Also at this scale has been research on precipitation areas which has shown that the vertical air motion responsible and the areas themselves are organized into a hierarchy according to the horizontal size . |
| 30 | Even where there has been continuity in party organization changes of orientation have occurred . |