Example sentences of "has be a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | It is clear that despite the package of protective designations and institutions created since 1945 , there has been a net decline in the quality of the Welsh countryside and the wider environment for the reasons given . |
| 32 | The information contained in the above tables shows that there has been a long-term trend this century for the proportion of non-manual jobs to increase , and of manual jobs to decrease . |
| 33 | There has been a long-term decline in the number of private shareholders since the Second World War , matched by a rise in the importance of the institutional investor ( eg insurance companies and pension funds ) . |
| 34 | A feature of most high density areas is that there has been a long-term decline in population and density since before the Second World War ( Craig 1986 ) . |
| 35 | There has been a long-term move away from manual and less skilled occupations towards skilled , service , and professional jobs ( Werner 1985 , Boston 1984 , Routh 1987 ) . |
| 36 | Positivist criminology 's almost complete abandonment of the classical concern with the significance of the criminal justice system has been a serious omission . |
| 37 | There has been a serious decline in the number of people qualifying as teachers , down from 25,000 in 1980 to 18,500 in 1988 . |
| 38 | Yet elsewhere in the country there has been a serious decline in the amount of sport in schools . |
| 39 | ‘ The last week has been a total nightmare . |
| 40 | Does the Minister agree that the system has been a total failure , which was one of the reasons why the link steering group used consultants to study the scheme ? |
| 41 | These data show that there has been a posterior transformation of the trigeminal territory to a facial/vestibuloacoustic identity , and illustrates that retinoic acid induces changes in Hox-B1 expression that lead to the duplication of the r4/5 patterns in r2/3 without changing the normal r4/5 domains . |
| 42 | If owning a horse ( or part of a horse — only a minority of owners own a whole horse ) has been a lousy investment , racehorse ownership is also a form of conspicuous consumption and the 1980s were good years for that . |
| 43 | As 105 puts it : It is hard to miss the wit in such poems , or in the earlier profession of incompetence : It would be a dull-witted reader who interpreted such poems literally , or who took au pied de la lettre such conventional statements of bondage as this : Self-depreciation ( sometimes called ‘ the modesty topos ’ has been a rhetorical device since the beginnings of literature and continues in full flourish today . |
| 44 | It has been a rhetorical device , then — necessary because ( my literary friends tell me ) science proceeds by just such rhetoric — but rhetorical nonetheless . |
| 45 | But his work has been a spectacular casualty of the realignment of the contemporary art market , aggravated by disputes about the ownership of his estate ( see The Art Newspaper No.19 , June 1992 , p.20 ) and concern over forgeries . |
| 46 | Is my right hon. Friend aware that the fund-holding system has been a spectacular success — so much so that many of the more trendy , intellectual GPs who were initially sceptical of it now welcome it more and more with open arms ? |
| 47 | Boon 's run-gathering in this series — he is only the fifth Australian after Don Bradman , Kim Hughes , Bob Simpson and Border to score more than 500 in a series against India — has been a spectacular highlight in a summer of relatively poor returns from a supposedly top-flight batting line-up . |
| 48 | The final column reveals that there has been a continued accumulation of assets by the UK , but the variability of these net transactions is clearly considerable , ranging from £0.7 billion to £14.3 billion . |
| 49 | As the Bank of England conducts its money market operations predominantly in such instruments , there has been a continued demand for such paper . |
| 50 | Most of the modernized sector is on industrial estates because industrial land development , particularly by what is now English Estates North , has been a central part of state efforts at modernization since the Special Areas measures of the 1930s . |
| 51 | 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 . |
| 52 | The relationship between syntactic and semantic processing has been a central concern of psycholinguistics for the last two decades . |
| 53 | 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 . |
| 54 | Its demand for cast iron guarantees for a federal-style constitution , as a safeguard against domination by a strong central government , has been a central plank in its negotiating stance . |
| 55 | The definition of work has been a central issue ( Oakley , 1974 ) . |
| 56 | As this series stresses , the uneven social and economic development of places has been a central feature of post-war British society . |
| 57 | The cause of this difference has been a central question in solid Earth geochemistry for two decades . |
| 58 | The ‘ aristocratic ’ character of landowning has been a central basis for social status and political power in Britain for centuries , and the divisions of interest between land and industry have been fundamental to the political development of the upper class . |
| 59 | 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 . |
| 60 | It has been a central theme of this book that traffic restraint in residential areas should reduce the existing discouragement of walking and cycling , with local movement made safer , pollution reduced and so on . |