Example sentences of "[noun sg] have be a central " 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 | The relationship between syntactic and semantic processing has been a central concern of psycholinguistics for the last two decades . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The notion of self-discipline or autonomy has been a central one in recent work on professionalisation . |