Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun sg] [vb base] been [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Syn-gas and carbon monoxide have been a mainstay of the heavy organic chemicals industry around the world for some years . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 ) . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Health and medicine , environment , labourers ' rights , witchcraft , land rights and the caste system have been the subject of many seminars throughout the region . |
| 7 | 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 : |
| 8 | 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 . |