Example sentences of "[noun] have be the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The loss of Batty was a big blow to the midfield but the injuries to both Wallace and Speed have been the big set back this season . |
| 2 | Concerns have been the small number of inter-disciplinary and student-led projects put up for funding . |
| 3 | Green belts have been the major instrument of planning in fringe areas , having long been advocated by leading planning theorists such as Unwin and Howard . |
| 4 | So far , the most successful renewable energy plants have been the ten hydro electric stations in Scotland providing around 2 per cent of the country 's electricity . |
| 5 | We have already noted that two key ingredients contributing to this crisis have been the burgeoning remand population during the 1990s and , closely linked with and contributing to this , the explosion in the number of committals for trial to the Crown Court . |
| 6 | Although the Student Tutoring Scheme and the Enterprise Studentships have been the main focus of Student Enterprise activities within Napier over the last year , students have been involved in ‘ enterprising ’ activities elsewhere : |
| 7 | Traditionally , individuals have been the central feature of attempts to understand corporate crime , but unfortunately for criminology , it was their pathological characteristics which were advanced as the cause of their deviations . |
| 8 | Among the more successful privately owned terminals have been the Glaswegian trio of Deanside , Mossend and Law junction , all of which ( but especially the first two ) have attracted healthy quantities of regular traffic . |
| 9 | Two important initiatives in community economic development have been the National Association of Development Trusts for England and Wales and also an investigation into the strategic needs of community enterprises called Investing in Community Enterprise . |
| 10 | Market trends indicate that imported wines have been the main winner — Scotch Whisky the main loser . |
| 11 | Lending to small business owners has become an important profit centre for banks and the importance of establishing an efficient means of raising finance is also vital to the economy , because ‘ recent evidence shows that small firms have been the major creator of new jobs in the 1980s ’ . |
| 12 | Earth-based radar studies have determined the topography and the texture of about 25% of the Cytherean surface , but radar studies from spacecraft have been the main source of such information . |
| 13 | Flat batteries have been the only problem . |
| 14 | Outside Europe the main developments have been the gradual relaxation in Japanese exchange controls and the steady move into foreign assets by the main United States institutions , particularly pension funds . |
| 15 | These are questions which were first posed over fifty years ago , but they have obviously made little lasting impact on a literature where the expenditure flows depicted in elaborations of the model have been the principal focus of attention . |
| 16 | For a century , after all , the bicheiros have been the closest thing in Brazil to a robber aristocracy . |
| 17 | Its markets have been the developed world and its aim a quick profit . |
| 18 | Although slides and photos have been the traditional medium , and are widely accepted as substitutes for the landscape ( Shuttleworth , 1980b ) , Kreimer ( 1977 ) has also argued that they need to be put more fully into their context . |
| 19 | For too long women have been the hidden gender in rock , all too often fixed in the position of worshippers at the phallic shrine , bewitched by their own male idols . |
| 20 | Yet , and particularly in the North where lost jobs , lost homes and lost hope have been the real consequence of this disastrous period , the answer is a resounding ‘ no ’ or an attitude of resigned apathy . |
| 21 | But for O'Conor , one suspects , following Field 's flights of fancy have been the best part . |
| 22 | And my experience has been that virtually all rape cases have been the forcible interference with a woman . |
| 23 | In Sussex most conservation work has been carried out to conserve particularly vulnerable habitats , in which birds are often an important element , and in a few cases the birds have been the main reason for the conservation work . |
| 24 | Staple features of the church plan since early Christian times have been the cruciform shape and the division of the interior into a high central nave , flanked on either side by lower aisles . |
| 25 | Problems with maintenance on timber cladding have been the main reason why upvc ( unplasticised polyvinyl chloride ) versions have been gaining popularity in recent years . |