Example sentences of "have been a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Formal planning has been a feature of many schools and local authorities for a number of years now , and for those who have yet to embark , DES Circular 7/88 , The Education Act : Local Management of Schools has now made this a statutory requirement . |
| 32 | In the last decade , the ouija board has been a feature in several serious crimes . |
| 33 | The obsession with homogeneous populations and monocultural , monolingual societies has been a feature of life only since capitalist economics forced a uniformity of workforces and markets . |
| 34 | One form of horizontal devolution has been a feature of the constitution of the United Kingdom for centuries . |
| 35 | It should be realised that the explosion of extreme-right support that has been a feature of most western European countries in greater or lesser degree throughout the 1980s is far from a totally homogeneous phenomenon . |
| 36 | Officially known as the Place Du Caire , the Slaves ' Market has been a feature of Paris ' Le Sentier quarter for years . |
| 37 | It also brings out further one character 's idée fixe ( stonework ) , and develops the theme of racial tension/personal harmony which has been a feature of this relationship in the story for some time . |
| 38 | The main worry is that modular schemes might undo the progress towards an integrated approach to first degree studies which has been a feature of some professional subjects in recent years , notably in post-Finniston engineering courses . |
| 39 | Such a festival has been a feature of every subsequent Congress . |
| 40 | Goldsmith ( 1986 , p. xv ) observes that concern with legislation as a means of controlling central-local government relations and the parallel use of the courts to enforce government intentions has been a feature of post-1979 Conservative governments . |
| 41 | This requirement has been a feature of the Companies Acts since 1900 . |
| 42 | In the case of Mercury it is estimated that , just as is the case today ( Figure 8.2 ) , the slightly higher cratering rate than on the Moon has been a feature of the last few 1000 Ma . |
| 43 | First , we can investigate empirically the consequences of alternative assumptions about incidence , and this has been a feature of the work of Musgrave et al. |
| 44 | Maybe introducing a touch of that pragmatic responsible approach to financial control which has been a feature of this Union 's development over the years . |
| 45 | I am sure that the hon. Gentleman recognises that increasing productivity in agriculture has been a feature in the past , both in good years and in bad . |
| 46 | A paternalistic concern for the well-being of the nation has been a feature of most if not all monarchs and has been associated with a particular and often predominant tradition within the Conservative party . |
| 47 | It has been a feature of English commercial and legal practice for at least 250 years . |
| 48 | The lack of support from the home fans , which has been a feature at Feethams for weeks , culminated on Saturday with calls for the dismissal of manager Frank Gray . |
| 49 | The demise of quality education , once the jewel in Britain 's crown , has been a feature of the three Conservative administrations since 1979 . |
| 50 | The exceptions to this rule are that the plaintiff can disclose the fact that there has been a payment in into court , and how much it is , on the hearing of an application for an interim payment ( Fryer v London Transport Executive ( 1982 ) The Times , 14 December ( see Kemp & Kemp , vol 1 , para 14 – 066 for discussion of this case ) . |
| 51 | In the UK , there has been a revival in the traditional art of sausage-making and strict regulations now dictate the maximum quantity of cereal filler allowed in the not-so-humble British banger . |
| 52 | There has been a revival of catastrophe theory , a return to doctrines over 200 years old , to explain extinctions . |
| 53 | One of the less savoury aspects of the recently concluded World Cup has been a revival of the old xenophobic clichés . |
| 54 | There has been a revival of er , of some of those old fash , for instance , Beltane |
| 55 | In the older nation states , after the war , fascist parties disappeared ( although they have begun to re-emerge on a small scale in recent years ) , regional and nationalist parties have been formed within existing states , there has been a succession of new political parties ( and destruction of them by military intervention ) in Latin America , while in some European countries there has been a revival of liberal and ‘ centre ’ parties and the emergence of ‘ green ’ parties . |
| 56 | Although this is generally considered a thing of the past , there has been a revival in the popularity of the solidly built , veneered Thirties suite with its square lines . |
| 57 | Other features do not agree with this , and recently there has been a swing to favour the lungfishes as nearer the origin of amphibians and , ultimately , ourselves . |
| 58 | If , over the years , you suspect that there has been a swing to or away from attending more than once a Sunday , you may want to take the trouble of further refining your data . |
| 59 | In the analysis of how schools transmit culture , there has been a swing away from the idea that schools were gender-neutral conveyors of ‘ objective ’ knowledge to the view that schools , through the way they structure knowledge , are almost complete reproducers of societal divisions — including sex role stereotypes . |
| 60 | Where there has been a gang fight , as a result of which one of the participants is injured , it is sometimes impossible to prove who was responsible for causing the injury ( because of the general mêleé , and because of identification difficulties when the incident occurred at night ) . |