Example sentences of "have [been] a [adj] feature " in BNC.
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| 1 | Late-night scheduling has been a consistent feature of lesbian and gay programming , exploiting the gay audience 's motivation to watch these programmes while keeping them on the edges of broadcasting . |
| 2 | However letter-bombing has been a consistent feature — one device addressed to the then Prime Minister , Margaret Thatcher , in the mid 1980s injured a Downing Street worker . |
| 3 | As this series stresses , the uneven social and economic development of places has been a central feature of post-war British society . |
| 4 | Functionalists emphasise that inequality has been a prominent feature of past human societies and continues to be so in contemporary societies of West and East . |
| 5 | This European collaboration has been a key feature of the major fundraising operation undertaken by Oxford University since 1988 . |
| 6 | The Highlands regional convener , Duncan McPherson , said : ‘ Team work has been a key feature of our approach and any success we can achieve will be through joint action . ’ |
| 7 | A more general factor influencing the future prospects of the eurobond market is convergence between domestic and eurobond markets , which has been a strong feature of recent years . |
| 8 | Rich , handsome and intensely ambitious , Mr Stein 's failure to run a real race — after more than 20 years in New York politics — has been a baffling feature of the election from its outset . |
| 9 | SOCIO-SEXUAL anxiety about Blacks has been a distinctive feature of British society since the first encounters between merchant adventurers and Africans . |
| 10 | Such an orientation to problem-solving has been a distinctive feature of English political culture for many centuries , discernible , I would suggest , since at least the thirteenth century . |
| 11 | Inspection has been a traditional feature of business . |
| 12 | That such a mood , primarily among prosecutors , judges and defence lawyers , has been a critical feature of the recent decline in the prison population of the Federal Republic of Germany is now well established ( Feest 1988 , Rutherford 1988 ) . |
| 13 | As noted in section 5.2 , the emergence of excess capacity in bond ( and equity ) markets located in London has been a notable feature of recent years . |
| 14 | But it has been a universal feature of modernity that the larger family unit , the so-called ‘ extended ’ family , has given way to a much smaller unit , the ‘ nuclear ’ family . |
| 15 | This ‘ self-periodization ’ has been a constant feature of the nouveau roman since the 1950s : literary-historical arguments are frequently deployed by these novelists as a means of both affirming their radical modernist credentials and validating and valorizing their transgressive devices . |
| 16 | That has been a big feature of today 's debate , so I want to take the matter a bit further . |
| 17 | Increased co-operation between states has been a significant feature of the post-1945 world order , reflecting the reduced ability of states to act autonomously in the global arena . |
| 18 | It is arguable that the friction between locals and newcomers which has been a common feature of village life in recent years is only a temporary problem brought about by the dislocation of established social patterns which have been hard for the social life of the village to digest , and that once the newly arrived population has either taken over entirely or ‘ settled down ’ to a rural existence many of the initial problems will be reconciled . |
| 19 | There was nothing unusual in this , visits to and from relatives having been a common feature of my childhood . |
| 20 | Nor is this likely to have been a novel feature of the tenth and eleventh centuries , whose rulers were building on traditions of public authority already old . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | It had been a conspicuous feature of the Wesleyan and Evangelical revival to illustrate the operation of God 's grace by drawing attention to divine intervention in the lives of the elect . |
| 23 | A possible explanation of this is that Ecgberht was indeed regarded as Ealhmund 's heir and that Ealhmund in turn inherited from King Ecgberht of Kent a local overlordship of south-eastern England which in varying forms had been a recurring feature of historical development in the area since the time of Aethelberht , son of Eormenric . |
| 24 | The final set of arguments emphasises the limited leadership qualities and organisational deficiencies that have been a historic feature of the extreme right in Great Britain . |
| 25 | Hence they have only contributed in a limited way to post-war housing , but they have been a major feature of a commitment to planned decentralization , even though , as Aldridge ( 1979 ) concludes , by the end it was a programme without a policy . |
| 26 | Sporting endeavours have been a major feature of the activities undertaken so far ( see Update ) . |
| 27 | Although such linkages have been a key feature of the development work done in the Central Institutions , linkages have also been set up between HNC/D courses in Further Education Colleges and both CIs and Universities . |
| 28 | The Big Trams are back with a layout by Bob Hill of Altrincham , trams have been a regular feature of this show and always prove a popular attraction . |
| 29 | ‘ Panics over juvenile crime have been a recurrent feature in Britain for at least the last 150 years , ’ Mr Bowman claimed . |
| 30 | Personally , I sincerely hope that we will be able to continue with these open lectures , which I think have been a significant feature of the university 's life and of our relationships with the community . |