Example sentences of "[noun] [vb -s] been [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The second major contextual change has been shifts in government policy , operating in the context of large scale youth unemployment . |
| 2 | Britain 's premier clubs has been doings its own campaigning on a very different manifesto — and very successful it has been , too . |
| 3 | The most serious impact on the community sector has been cuts in local authority spending — the largest source of revenue for most local organisations . |
| 4 | Like other sections of the popular movement the health sector has been years in the growing and in establishing work practice and vital organizations . |
| 5 | In all these sports I have mentioned England has been masters and had all the top players . |
| 6 | Coward discusses , for instance , the importance of the fact that one of the biggest growth areas in publishing in recent years has been women 's romantic fiction . |
| 7 | ‘ Faye 's been inches from death twice before with this disease , I 've seen other patients die — not many these days , thank God — and even if it was ‘ only ’ the baby she lost … ’ |
| 8 | The only consistent area of preference in British policy has been satellites ; the other two major components of launchers and ground stations have ( contrary to French doctrine ) been left to others . |
| 9 | Its most striking answer in International Relations has been systems theory , which we shall examine in the next chapter . |
| 10 | 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 . |