Example sentences of "[noun] [noun] have been the " 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 | The Hercules aircraft has been the workhorse of the RAF for twenty five years . |
| 3 | Some of the greatest guitar songs have been the riff songs , so I immediately thought of Paul Rogers . |
| 4 | For twenty years Marcus Judge had been the most powerful figure on Jubilee Wharf , second only to the Wharfmaster himself . |
| 5 | Despite targeting this relatively small but high risk group , such screening programmes have been the subject of criticism . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | One of their long term winners has been the thin , lightweight , but very windproof Ultrafleece . |
| 8 | The Festival 's come of age of late and I am more than happy that my sax playing has been the soundtrack for the Festival 's cinema trailer in recent years . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Agricultural export subsidies had been the crucial stumbling block on which this round of GATT talks foundered in December 1990 [ see p. 37930 ] . |
| 11 | Enlarged access resources By far the most important supplement to the Funds resources has been the enlarged access facility , available since March 1981 . |
| 12 | Another important reason for the trend to eurosterling bonds has been the growth in interest-rate swaps . |
| 13 | Car sales had been the one area of consumer spending undented by the Chancellor 's high interest rates strategy . |
| 14 | A dollop of cranberry sauce has been the traditional accompaniment to turkey since the Pilgrim Fathers ate what they called crane berries ( the flowers resemble cranes ) — probably in the form of a sauce — with turkey at the Thanksgiving feast , celebrating their survival of the first winter spent in America . |
| 15 | Miss Gracie had been the last governess , a pale sad woman who had lived for the brief holidays she could get away to spend with a beloved brother and his family in Stirling . |
| 16 | ‘ David McCallen has been the big difference to Bangor . |
| 17 | I do not believe that altruism , good neighbourliness or even the visions of Jean Monnet have been the motivation behind the EC but simply hard-headed self interest . |
| 18 | Anther limiting factor in studying the properties of human gall bladder epithelium has been the lack of normal tissue . |
| 19 | Central to the application of these techniques in renewal tissues has been the isolation and maintenance ex vivo of progenitor or pluripotent stem cells , which by definition have the capacity for both self maintenance and for production of distinct functional cell lineages . |
| 20 | Kansas City have been the nearly-men of the American Football Conference for a few seasons . |
| 21 | Kansas City have been the nearly-men of the American Football Conference for a few seasons . |
| 22 | In a ferocious attack on President de Klerk , he said that the Boipatong killings had been the work of " faceless murderers who work closely with Mr de Klerk " . |
| 23 | Until now , fostering economic growth through export expansion has been the easiest and safest thing to do politically . |
| 24 | Another major area of United States dominance has been the computer industry , on which more shortly . |
| 25 | His particular research interest has been the subtle interplay of structure and soil , the total behaviour of the designed building and the soil on which it rests . |
| 26 | From the time when endoscopic examination was started , 100% penetrance has been the rule . |
| 27 | Lawrence spent his final days in the company of Mabel Dodge Luhan — the heiress whose home in Greenwich Village had been the spawning ground of some of America 's most famous pre-World War I radical and literary figures — and , thus , provided an oddly suitable setting for the desolate position in which Hopper found himself . |
| 28 | For many years the standard IR spectrometer has been the dispersive scanning spectrophotometer . |
| 29 | Florence Nightingale has been the inspiration for twentieth-century nursing ; every now and then a historian attempts to point out that there may have been aspects of her life which were not quite so saintly as we believe , but this does not shatter her image . |
| 30 | And my experience has been that virtually all rape cases have been the forcible interference with a woman . |