Example sentences of "[noun] have [be] [art] [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Bidston Dock cranes have been a feature of the Wallasey landscape but unpopular with some local residents who regarded them as an eyesore and the cause of television reception problems . |
| 2 | Electoral changes and their relationship to the political parties have been the subject of much recent analysis and debate . |
| 3 | The major limitations of therapy have been the presence of large stones ( >15–20 mm ) , large and tortuous ducts , non-dilated ducts in which the basket can not expand , and a stricture distal to the stone(s) . |
| 4 | House prices have fallen less and job losses have been a fraction of those in the rest of Britain . |
| 5 | Some of the important matters that the hon. Gentleman raises have been the concern of several Select Committees . |
| 6 | Both the Listening Test and the Grammar Test have been the subject of rigorous research over a number of years , with up to forty different nationalities of students . |
| 7 | Rape trials have been the subject of this analysis of these changes over time so far . |
| 8 | Few other areas have been the subject of systematic epidemiological studies : in the United Kingdom such studies include those of Dounreay , of Aldermaston and Burghfield , and of nuclear installations generally . |
| 9 | The Conservatives have been the party of Britain in Europe for 30 years . |
| 10 | Helen 's main problems since she moved into her own home have been a period of illness , which caused her much discomfort , and a spate of difficulties in accepting personal care from temporary staff . |
| 11 | The causes of the development of trade unionism within the public sector have been the subject of a good deal of political debate and social science theorizing . |
| 12 | Two players tested positive in the first two months and since then speculation , rumours , rows and ructions have been the order of the day . |
| 13 | ‘ For most of the last 1,000 years , the universities have been an engine of social mobility ; they are now , thanks to the funding system , a means to ensuring that the graduate class is hereditary , ’ Sir John said . |
| 14 | Given that suspended particulates have been the subject of pollution control policies dating back to the nineteenth century , it is not surprising that total emissions and average urban concentrations of particulates have decreased markedly during the past few decades . |
| 15 | Starting from the classical theories of elasticity such questions as the prediction of elastic moduli from the inter-atomic forces and the part played by crystal structure and crystal defects have been the subject of research for a great many years . |
| 16 | First-time buyers have been the target of the most numerous offers . |
| 17 | The brightest sports have been the expansion of the Institute 's international work and the expectation of a successful merger with the Chartered Building Societies Institute . |
| 18 | Colleagues , as the resolution says and as we all know , we 've all experienced it , the last fourteen years have been a catalogue of disaster after disaster for all sections of the society , and especially the disadvantaged , those the young , the elderly , the disabled and the unemployed , all been attacked . |
| 19 | He believes that the three major influences on the middle market sector in the past 50 years have been the growth of Chinese restaurants in the 1950's , Berni Inns and McDonald 's . |
| 20 | The Lawrentian hero of A. Alvarez 's first novel , Hers ( 1974 ) , makes a broadly similar choice , selling off his hardbacks as a final gesture of abandonment ; and when the hero of Michael Frayn 's The Trick of It ( 1989 ) beds a lady whose writings have been the subject of his lectures and publications , he finds the experience amorously disappointing . |
| 21 | Syn-gas and carbon monoxide have been a mainstay of the heavy organic chemicals industry around the world for some years . |
| 22 | EC plans for a carbon tax have been the cause of prolonged infighting within the commission and several member states as well as European industry . |
| 23 | These targets have been the subject of successive initiatives in Britain , for example , since the 1960s . |
| 24 | ‘ In fact our regulations have been the envy of other companies , and we 're constantly striving to find ways of improving things . ’ |
| 25 | Within the arable area the greatest changes have been the increase of cereals and the decline of the one-year clover ley . |
| 26 | The Southern Alps have been the subject of a number of studies examining the relationship between tectonics and landforms ; these include those by Adams ( 1985 ) , Basher et al. |
| 27 | Tomorrow the agenda focuses specifically on violence in prisons , something that 's been a problem at Long Lartin jail in Worcestershire where prison officers have been the subject of attacks by prisoners in recent months . |
| 28 | The older and higher marine terraces have been the subject of a very great amount of research in Britain , though there is less general agreement on their interpretation . |
| 29 | Although family farmers and part-time farmers have been the subject of many studies little information exists on their training needs or their capacity to utilise training . |
| 30 | The case study is typical of the TPS in action where priorities have been the developing of effective communication and the reinforcing of the concept of teams within teams . |