Example sentences of "[vb base] been important [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Research sections have been set up at the Institutes of Education in Kenya and Sierra Leone and there have been important regional conferences on educational evaluation ( at Dar es Salaam in April 1975 ) and on the growth of scientific and mathematical concepts in East African children ( Nairobi , September 1974 ) .
2 The extension of assured tenancies and the deregulation of rents have been important contributory factors in the increased use of the Business Expansion Scheme ( BES ) in the private rented sector .
3 Secondly , there have been important conceptual advances .
4 But these latter in their occupation of positions in the academic field , as university teachers and as students , have provided a sort of bas-clergé for the new institutions and subjects , and have been important institutional mediators for the pervasion , previously of Marxism and now of postmodernism , in the intellectual field .
5 While there have been important pioneering studies , the hinterland of the Edwardian Conservative party and its ideological structures remain to be explored .
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