Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun] [vb base] been [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Both the ICL New Range and the IBM 360 computer projects have been the subject of historical studies , the former at a strategic level ( Campbell-Kelly 1989 ) and the latter in very much more detail ( Pugh 1991 ) . |
| 2 | Some of the greatest guitar songs have been the riff songs , so I immediately thought of Paul Rogers . |
| 3 | Despite targeting this relatively small but high risk group , such screening programmes have been the subject of criticism . |
| 4 | Often the purpose has been to encourage wage restraint ; the size and shape of investment programmes have been the subject of ministerial concern ; in the past the National Coal Board has been dissuaded from closing uneconomic pits . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The Bidston Dock cranes have been a Birkenhead landmark for many years . |
| 7 | Syn-gas and carbon monoxide have been a mainstay of the heavy organic chemicals industry around the world for some years . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Rape trials have been the subject of this analysis of these changes over time so far . |
| 10 | Periodic bouts of fixed or artificially determined exchange rates have been the curse of this country for almost a hundred years — by pricing our goods out of world markets and , through high interest rates , by forcing up the cost of capital here . |
| 11 | Two local village churches have been the recipients of the Group 's generosity : in 1958 the Church of St. James , Thrapston , received the pews which had previously been installed in the Chelveston base chapel and the tower of the Church of St John the Baptist in nearby Caldecott-cum-Chelveston was restored with the help of the 305th . |
| 12 | House prices have fallen less and job losses have been a fraction of those in the rest of Britain . |
| 13 | Marketing Boards have been an instrument favoured by most African governments as a means of ensuring that farmers have an outlet for their crops , and that urban consumers pay for basic foodstuffs at a controlled , often subsidized , price . |
| 14 | Some of the important matters that the hon. Gentleman raises have been the concern of several Select Committees . |
| 15 | Right from the beginning the Immigration Laws have been an attack on black people as workers . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | All agree that the main beneficiaries of the indigenization process have been the state functionaries and those few Nigerians who now sit on the boards of TNCs ( see Ake , 1985 ; Hoogvelt , 1979 ) . |
| 19 | Since then , cavity walls have been the norm as they offer better resistance to rain and damp penetration and have better sound and thermal characteristics . |
| 20 | In Scotland , Co-ordinated Land & estates ( CLE ) is usually associated with developments such as Clydebank Business Park but in fact property audits have been a metier of this company for the past decade . |
| 21 | Picrite basalts from the Karoo flood basalt province have been the subject of extensive geochemical study , in part because they are considered to represent primitive magmas similar to parental liquids that evolve to form the abundant , tholeiitic basalts typical of this and other flood basalt provinces . |
| 22 | COMMANDER George Ness , head of Scotland Yard 's Flying Squad and tactical firearms unit , retires next week and takes up a new post with Securicor — whose cash delivery vans have been the target of the armed robbers his detectives risk their lives hunting down . |
| 23 | Health and medicine , environment , labourers ' rights , witchcraft , land rights and the caste system have been the subject of many seminars throughout the region . |
| 24 | But Labour Councillor , Tom Richardson , defending his party 's chosen budget says the problems with the Poll Tax have been the government 's own making : |
| 25 | The school fees have been a bit of a pain , but everyone finds that . |
| 26 | With this challenge , family gatherings have been a bit strained . |
| 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 | However , two changes that have occurred in the power game have been the awakening of concentrated industrial or union power , which rested like a sleeping giant for nearly a century , and the emergence of consumer power . |
| 29 | For both TNC and ISS the suggested time allocations have been a source of controversy . |
| 30 | Four of these task forces have been the Planning Task Force , the Instructional Theory Task Force , the National Programs Task Force and the National Programs Study Task Force . |