Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] been the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not least among its star performers has been the British arm , Vauxhall , which last year achieved record net profits of £152m and record car sales . |
| 2 | The strategic need for diversity and ultimately for the replacement of fossil fuels has been the driving force for the development of nuclear power in the U.K. In turn — since uranium reserves are finite — the efficient exploitation of nuclear power itself ultimately depends on the fast reactor . |
| 3 | The only method previously applied to quantify the abnormal bowel uptake on abdominal scans obtained using either Indium-111 or Tc-99m HMPAO lavelled leucocytes has been the visual comparison of the intensity of bowel uptake with that of liver , spleen and bone marrow . |
| 4 | Dick Hobbs ( 1988 ) lived with thieves and detectives as they set out to ‘ do the business ’ , and perhaps one of the most effective pieces of participant observation in recent times has been the four-volume Policy Studies Institute work on the police in London ( 1983 ) . |
| 5 | One of their long term winners has been the thin , lightweight , but very windproof Ultrafleece . |
| 6 | Among the most frequently condemned aspects have been the following : |
| 7 | Moggach 's last three books have been the social dramas Stolen and To Have and To Hold ( adapted from her own television scripts ) , and the thriller The Stand-In . |
| 8 | The most important , at least numerically , of these jurisdictions has been the unfair dismissal jurisdiction , but other employment disputes within their jurisdiction include discrimination and equal pay claims , redundancy payments claims and claims concerning particulars of contracts of employment . |
| 9 | One positive feature of this transfer of world liquidity to the oil exporting countries has been the corresponding increase in demand for the world 's products by these countries . |
| 10 | A sub-theme of many such articles has been the supposed toughness of the British government 's proposals or policies compared with alleged sloppiness or ineffectiveness elsewhere in Europe . |
| 11 | The effect of Christian Democrat hegemony for four and a half decades has been the perpetual incumbency of a small circle of politicians . |
| 12 | The most striking feature of British economic history over the last two decades has been the stop-go cycle . |
| 13 | Before 1920 , writes Charlie Buchan in his autobiography , ‘ the county leagues had been the happy hunting grounds for the professional clubs . |
| 14 | The main producing areas have been the Northern ( Dunham , 1948 and Dunham and Wilson , 1985 ) and Southern ( Ford , 1976 ) Pennine orefields , North Wales ( Earp , 1958 ) and the Mendips ( Green , 1958 ; Ford , 1976 ) . |
| 15 | For over three decades these two countries have been the unwilling recipients of acid rain ‘ export ’ on a massive scale . |
| 16 | Concerns have been the small number of inter-disciplinary and student-led projects put up for funding . |
| 17 | Green belts have been the major instrument of planning in fringe areas , having long been advocated by leading planning theorists such as Unwin and Howard . |
| 18 | The search for personal inadequacy and behavioural defects has been the key focus of such research and policy . |
| 19 | Perhaps the most important and far-reaching change in nursing in the past ten years has been the wholesale move away from the subservient , passive role of the nurse who was accountable to doctors for any treatments she undertook , and to nursing supervisors for standards of personal conduct and discipline . |
| 20 | Perhaps their most important contribution for Sussex birds in recent years has been the vast increase in the provision of food at bird-tables and feeding stations . |
| 21 | Another feature of building society expansion in recent years has been the increasing concentration of the industry through merger activity . |
| 22 | One of the Territorial Army 's biggest problems in recent years has been the substantial turnover of recruits , which has amounted to as much as 30 per cent . |
| 23 | The most exciting development in recent years has been the illuminated fountain . |
| 24 | The great lie of the last two hundred years has been the mistaken idea that realism is a way of telling the truth . |
| 25 | One of the major features of the growth of our education system over the last thirty-five years has been the enormous increase in provision of higher education . |
| 26 | The art critic , Peter Fuller , considers : " One worrying feature of recent years has been the fashionable appropriation of the language of the " spiritual " to defend work of a numbing vacuity " ( Fuller 1990 : 18 ) . |
| 27 | An outstanding feature of the UK economy in recent years has been the rapid growth in employment in the service industries . |
| 28 | A very useful development in insulin therapy in recent years has been the fixed-dose mixture of insulin , either 30 per cent short-acting and 70 per cent intermediate-acting ( Mixtard ) or equal parts of the two insulins ( Initard ) . |
| 29 | Unfortunately , as some might say , the main objective of most of these excavations has been the military sites , and it is only in comparatively recent years that the civil site has gained its just recognition . |
| 30 | One of its outstanding early proponents had been the French mathematician and philosopher René Descartes ( 1596–1650 ) . |