Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb base] been the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since the pioneering work of Henry Clifton Sorby ( 1851 ) , slices of rock ground thin enough to transmit light have been the staple material of sedimentary petrography . |
| 2 | The major limitations of therapy have been the presence of large stones ( >15–20 mm ) , large and tortuous ducts , non-dilated ducts in which the basket can not expand , and a stricture distal to the stone(s) . |
| 3 | It would not , they say , have abolished competition : his ‘ Grand Lodges ’ , each directing its own industry , would in effect have been the head offices of huge joint stock companies owning the entire means of production and subject to no control by the community ; and they would have been able to revert to the capitalist form of enterprise , admitting fresh generations of workers only as employees and not as shareholders ‘ thus creating at one stroke a new capitalist class and a new proletariat ’ . |
| 4 | ‘ It 's a sad fact that Celtic have taken advantage of their top players , ’ he claimed , in his ghost-written biography , ‘ The kind of players who have supported Celtic and been really loyal to the club have been the ones who have suffered the most . ’ |
| 5 | Both the Listening Test and the Grammar Test have been the subject of rigorous research over a number of years , with up to forty different nationalities of students . |
| 6 | What I 've found to be the most inspiring of his work have been the songs which are ultimately almost meaningless in their simplicity . |
| 7 | In addition , both these areas of law have been the subjects of close scrutiny by the courts over the last few years . |
| 8 | Unemployment , housing , education , and the future of mining have been the issues . |
| 9 | The causes of the development of trade unionism within the public sector have been the subject of a good deal of political debate and social science theorizing . |
| 10 | The major sectors witnessing recovery have been the shipping and the natural resources sectors . |
| 11 | In addition , from the Soviet point of view , ‘ Within the whole spectrum of measures taken to promote trade between the USSR and Latin America , of greatest importance have been the agreements reached between the USSR Chamber of Commerce and Industry and the Chambers of Commerce in some Latin American countries including Argentina , Brazil , Peru , Colombia and Mexico ’ ( Zinoviev : 1981 , pp. 101–2 ) . |
| 12 | All agree that the main beneficiaries of the indigenization process have been the state functionaries and those few Nigerians who now sit on the boards of TNCs ( see Ake , 1985 ; Hoogvelt , 1979 ) . |
| 13 | But Labour Councillor , Tom Richardson , defending his party 's chosen budget says the problems with the Poll Tax have been the government 's own making : |
| 14 | EC plans for a carbon tax have been the cause of prolonged infighting within the commission and several member states as well as European industry . |
| 15 | Included in this overview have been the campaigns against the Thorsen film and James Kirkup 's poem in Gay News , where blasphemy was the central explicit issue ; Mrs Whitehouse 's criticism of television , in particular the BBC 's supposed bias toward ‘ South Bank ’ theology , and Till Death Us Do Part 's irreverence towards Christianity ; the perceived lack of support for the NVALA from Church leaders . |
| 16 | The Willses ' most obvious contributions in the sphere of education have been the founding and development of the University of Bristol . |
| 17 | The nature of these indicators , and related concepts of efficiency , effectiveness and economy have been the focus of much debate . |
| 18 | The reasons for this pattern have been the subject of long and sometimes acrimonious debate ( see Trotter 1949 ; Trotter 1950 ; Jones , 1951 ; Wellman 1950 ) . |
| 19 | However , two changes that have occurred in the power game have been the awakening of concentrated industrial or union power , which rested like a sleeping giant for nearly a century , and the emergence of consumer power . |
| 20 | The conditions of his social scientific success have been the denunciation of the Parisian intellectual avant-garde , which he is at the same time quite integrally part and parcel of . |
| 21 | As the right hon. Gentleman knows , this Conservative Government have been the leader in Europe for the past 12 years . |
| 22 | The only body of people who have been behind the Bill have been the principals of the colleges , and what did they say ? |
| 23 | On the whole , the champions of the literal approach have been the party attempting to strike down a particular clause whilst the object and intent approach tends to favour parties who are attempting to uphold the restraint . |
| 24 | More recently , investments in South Africa , in tobacco and drug companies and in firms using animals for experimentation have been the subject of protest and workers have tried to influence their pension fund managers away from these . |
| 25 | The main barriers to growth have been the complexity of using the systems , their inability to handle anything but the simplest graphics , the high cost of connect-time charging and poor publishing decisions about which databases to offer online . |
| 26 | Picrite basalts from the Karoo flood basalt province have been the subject of extensive geochemical study , in part because they are considered to represent primitive magmas similar to parental liquids that evolve to form the abundant , tholeiitic basalts typical of this and other flood basalt provinces . |
| 27 | Kansas City have been the nearly-men of the American Football Conference for a few seasons . |
| 28 | Kansas City have been the nearly-men of the American Football Conference for a few seasons . |
| 29 | The details of this scheme have been the subject of a paper ( Report on a Study of the Master Farmer System in Lower Saxony , West Germany — October 1983 ) by Ian Dewar , Regional Training Adviser for Scotland . |
| 30 | So far , as I have indicated , nationalism has proved to be , in any direct confrontation , a stronger force ; and it is undoubtedly the case that the most extensive and devastating conflicts of the twentieth century have been the wars between nations , not the struggles between classes . |