Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] been [adj] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For years the result has been frequent power blackouts for Orcadians as the birds ' elaborate home-making habits — incorporating everything from barbed wire and steel mesh to tin cans and nails — caused the electricity supply to short-circuit . |
| 2 | The result has been that discount deals have proliferated . |
| 3 | The result has been that sea walls have had to take the brunt of the power of waves and currents at high tide , which erodes them and requires rebuilding on an ever larger scale . |
| 4 | The Urban Programme has been one policy instrument through which the government has been able , if only at the margins , to influence the position of black people in the major conurbations . |
| 5 | In recent years this department has been busier repaying savings to the public than attracting them . |
| 6 | For over 25 years the department has been pioneering AI teaching . |
| 7 | A recurring complaint from industry has been that pension funds are too short-term orientated , to the detriment of the companies in whose shares they deal . |
| 8 | Oxfords and brogue styles have been standard office issue for most of this century , but in the last 30 years the loafer has — thanks to its American and Italian perfectors — become a relaxed and stylish alternative to lace-ups , but there are purists who still harbour doubts about its suitability for the boardroom . |
| 9 | Although climatic changes undoubtedly occurred during the post-glacial , it appears that the principal determinants of regional vegetational change in the Outer Hebrides have been natural soil changes , with widespread leaching , podsolisation , and bog development beginning at about 7000 B.P. From about 5000 B.P. or even earlier ( Bohnke , 1988 ) , human influence has also been an important factor . |
| 10 | But some are also saying , it 's been a missed opportunity to make a more radical shake up to a shadow cabinet where some members performances have been notable lack lustre . |
| 11 | Members of the Worcester Park Machine Knitters Club have been busy knitting items for the Special Care Baby Unit at Kingston Hospital in Surrey . |
| 12 | Middlesbrough-born Alf has been chief personnel officer with Middlesbrough council since 1974 and before that he worked for Teesside county borough council . |
| 13 | Despite appointing a succession of managers his only return has been one League Cup triumph . |
| 14 | Although we did not foresee any difficulties , we were astonished to hear that the Secretary of the Cabinet , Sir Robert Armstrong , had asked for the programme on the Suez operation of 1956 , in which Mountbatten had been First Sea Lord , to be deferred ‘ possibly for some months ’ . |
| 15 | In a world where few computer companies have been good computer users , IBM 's increasing tendency to practise what it preaches has helped maintain its advantage . |
| 16 | Most influential absentee has been top scorer Brett Angell . |
| 17 | Most influential absentee has been top scorer Brett Angell . |
| 18 | In many cases the consequence has been large scale redundancy , and a reduction in size , or contraction , of the organisation . |
| 19 | For more than 40 years , Don Williams has been growing Christmas trees at Leigh Sinton farms near Malvern . |
| 20 | Newcastle upon Tyne had been an important medieval borough ; other places had been small market centres whose burgesses had obtained some measure of independence from their manorial lords . |
| 21 | Most of these thriving places had been old market centres ; only Oldham had grown from a few scattered moorland hamlets . |
| 22 | The past few years have been poor snow years for frustrated skiers . |
| 23 | Since then the only world motorcycling champion to show promise on four wheels has been Venezuelan Johnny Cecetto . |
| 24 | The tree had been another meeting place of their childhood , and she knew the flaky bark and cracked pavement by heart . |
| 25 | Certainly the Armstrongs had been famous Border Reivers , or cattle rustlers , in the Debatable Land of Border Ballads and Sir Walter Scott 's romances . |
| 26 | PHYSIOTHERAPY experts at Teesside Polytechnic have been busy helping pupils from a Middlesbrough school make a video about the dangers of developing brittle bones through unhealthy diets . |
| 27 | That prospect has been worrying bond investors . |
| 28 | Cramming in the goodies but keeping the price below the £19,250 tax barrier has been occupying car makers , Saab among them . |
| 29 | All are back with Parramatta and their father Les has been first grade manager . |
| 30 | In the studies with gastrin and its analogues an often uncontrolled variable has been gastric acid secretion , although the presence of gastric acid is not essential for a colonic response as it is not abolished by total gastrectomy . |