Example sentences of "has been a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Every game between the teams since has been a struggle for superiority and status with Dundee in the role of the local aristocrat and St Johnstone the perennial grousebeater . |
| 2 | Well , young lady , I wanted to be good when I was younger , but life has been a struggle for me , and I 've become as hard and tough as a rubber ball . |
| 3 | Cheap solar energy conversion has been a dream of some scientists since the first oil crisis back in the late 1970s . |
| 4 | THERE HAS BEEN A CONSENSUS among European drug researchers for many years over the value of needle exchanges , but US politicians ignored their recommendations . |
| 5 | Following the work of Rawls , however , there has been a profusion of important contributions to liberal political philosophy . |
| 6 | It is not just a can of worms that the professor has been a digging . |
| 7 | This is especially true in the context of Latin America where this kind of duality and fusion has been a feature of culture from the time of the conquest right up until today — both on the popular and the intellectual level . |
| 8 | Frequent tinkering with the system has been a feature of politics in France , where it is possible to change the constitution by simple majority . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | In the last decade , the ouija board has been a feature in several serious crimes . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | One form of horizontal devolution has been a feature of the constitution of the United Kingdom for centuries . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Officially known as the Place Du Caire , the Slaves ' Market has been a feature of Paris ' Le Sentier quarter for years . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Such a festival has been a feature of every subsequent Congress . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | This requirement has been a feature of the Companies Acts since 1900 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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. |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | It has been a feature of English commercial and legal practice for at least 250 years . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | The demise of quality education , once the jewel in Britain 's crown , has been a feature of the three Conservative administrations since 1979 . |
| 28 | 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 ) . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | There has been a revival of catastrophe theory , a return to doctrines over 200 years old , to explain extinctions . |