Example sentences of "the [noun sg] has [been] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The winner has been apathy and the loser democracy . |
| 2 | During all of that time my greatest ally and adviser in moulding the laws passing through the Parliament has been Nigel G M B's Director of Health , Safety and the Environment . |
| 3 | Where trade has proved damaging for whatever reason , the result has been estrangement . |
| 4 | The result has been fragmentation in political life . |
| 5 | The reasons for the shift from regarding sign language as one universal form of communication to seeing sign languages as highly different from each other are easy to understand , but the result has been confusion over what questions remain to be asked about the differences between sign languages . |
| 6 | The review has been treasury driven rather than defence driven . |
| 7 | Sadly the Committee has been side tracked from that task by diversionary arguments about employed lawyers in criminal cases . |
| 8 | A central figure in the campaign has been Celia Stubbs , Blair Peach 's common law widow . |
| 9 | " The outcome has been incoherence and immobilism ; drift , not mastery . |
| 10 | Much of the work involved in setting up the business has been research into the complex safety requirements . |
| 11 | However , I buy this product regularly and for the last three months the price displayed on the shelf has been £1 . |
| 12 | Since then the site has been home to a nursery and more lately a garden centre , attracting more than 20,000 visitors a year . |
| 13 | The cost of this project to the town has been £20,698 and Mr. Downham hoped that it would not only give much enjoyment , but would be treated with respect by all , so that it can be enjoyed for many years . |
| 14 | The rains have been good this year , and the crop has been bumper , but tobacco is fetching only 93 American cents a kilo at international auctions — less than half the price expected . |
| 15 | The facility has been purpose built to process a wide range of geological materials , including rocks , drill core , soils , stream sediments and panned concentrates , in a closely supervised and clean environment . |
| 16 | Acting as midwife to the enterprise has been Alvar Gonzalez-Palacios who was assisted by Roberto Valeriani . |
| 17 | Their leader since the beginning has been Fr Joe Dunn . |
| 18 | The commission has been non-committal over whether there should be Chinese walls between the issuing and trading sides of Wall Street firms ' junk-bond desks . |
| 19 | Patronage by the Church has been part of the musical world for centuries , and in the past many of the greatest composers have depended upon it for their livelihood . |
| 20 | Leading the effort has been Tadahiro Sekimoto , chairman of NEC , Japan 's fourth biggest computer company . |
| 21 | This time around , the star has been Nikolaj Hubbe , and he , too , will leave at the end of the festival to join NYCB . |
| 22 | For the last few years the sum has been £1 0 . |
| 23 | This reversal of the questions which dominated the field at the turn of the century has been characteristic of the main movement in Protestant theology in the last sixty years . |
| 24 | The company has been Beta testing the product for several months and , now that it 's launched , is hoping to implement it in the new year . |
| 25 | The heart of the problem has been governments ' concern with social justice and an egalitarian distribution of income which has led them into passing legislation which has increased the costs of doing business . |
| 26 | Surprisingly , the outspoken defender of the unsophisticated user on the ASB has been Robert Bradfield , of stockbrokers Cazenove & Co , who , one would have thought , had a vested interest in complexity . |
| 27 | At the last the weather has been descent enough for some of the crags to dry out long enough for the new routers to get busy . |
| 28 | Yes , the world is losing its precious rainforest : in Central America , for example , the decline has been 38% in just over 30 years . |