Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb -s] been [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Controlling current spending by local authorities has been central government 's major headache ever since it decided in 1961 that local government expenditure was part of public expenditure and therefore should be controlled by the Treasury . |
| 2 | Since last November the average settlements recorded by Rewards ' clients has been 5 p.c . |
| 3 | One of the world 's greatest classical violinists has been surprising audiences at a top JAZZ club . |
| 4 | The biggest event in recent months has been full sectorisation and the change of name from Provincial to Regional Railways . |
| 5 | The running of multiple sessions has been another means of saving which , though not always a problem , has led to truncated teaching sessions , late-coming and absenteeism on the part of teachers and pupils . |
| 6 | ‘ The argument for the reformers has been that punishment simply does not work . |
| 7 | The effect of falling school rolls and DES cuts in teacher-training quotas has been some reduction in the numbers of students on courses ; however , recruitment in 1981 was still considerable and , in 1981 , the polytechnics had 1,300 students enrolled on to teacher-training courses . |
| 8 | THINKING , talking and working along European lines has been second nature to Mike Ward for many years now . |
| 9 | If history is any guide , the average length of a recession in the past 60 years has been 18 months , with the average bear market wiping out about half the gain made during the bull market it succeeded . |
| 10 | The dominant linguistic school over the last thirty years has been generative linguistics which has its foundation in Chomsky 's revolutionary Syntactic Structures ( Chomsky , 1957 ) . |
| 11 | What she has known most intimately these last years has been intense pain . |
| 12 | Within the public sector one of the implications of attempts by government to reduce the size and change the structure of public sector organisations has been declining morale — or so commentators would have us believe . |
| 13 | Since then the only world motorcycling champion to show promise on four wheels has been Venezuelan Johnny Cecetto . |
| 14 | And a key man involved in all these developments has been Australian Rugby Football Union president and chairman , Joe French , who has worked actively , but without recognition , behind the scenes for several years . |
| 15 | Since 1940 , the retirement age for women has been 60 years , five years earlier than for men . |