Example sentences of "have been the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lending to small business owners has become an important profit centre for banks and the importance of establishing an efficient means of raising finance is also vital to the economy , because ‘ recent evidence shows that small firms have been the major creator of new jobs in the 1980s ’ . |
| 2 | The breakdown of traditional national markets , in terms of taste and fashion , coupled with the need to cope with a Europe without internal frontiers in 1992 have been the major stimuli towards growing internationalisation . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Indeed , it is the implications of the changing age structure of the population of pensionable age and the likelihood of a continuation of that trend into at least the first decade of the twenty-first century which have been the chief concern of social planners and welfare economists , rather than the proportion of the total population entitled to draw retirement pensions . |
| 5 | Quick reflexes , intuition and mobility have been the chief assets of Achille Prospero Rosario Maria Giovanni Carlo Bonito Oliva . |
| 6 | In the West at least people have identified with a threatened world and the pressure groups have been the first instruments of that identification . |
| 7 | Outside Europe the main developments have been the gradual relaxation in Japanese exchange controls and the steady move into foreign assets by the main United States institutions , particularly pension funds . |
| 8 | ‘ Cara , this time I have been the one wrestling with the problem of trust . |
| 9 | There have been the predictable complaints that people increasingly prefer to watch than to play , that we are producing a generation of armchair athletes . |
| 10 | Giving further solidity to the PTGI set-up have been the recent moves into the fields of distribution and having a wider portfolio of products with the United Distillers range of spirits brands . |
| 11 | But for O'Conor , one suspects , following Field 's flights of fancy have been the best part . |
| 12 | Predictably , the main sufferers since fighting flared once more in June 1990 have been the civilian populations — Tamil , Sinhalese and Moslem . |
| 13 | The influence of these doctrines on modern analytical thought has been profound and lasting , and so , alas , have been the philosophical misconceptions which these doctrines tended to engender . |
| 14 | I 've met some wonderful people , Bob Hope and Nat King Cole who much have been the nicest person I have ever seen |
| 15 | The main sources of regional tension in the 1980s have been the civil war in El Salvador , where the United States has provided ever-increasing amounts of military aid to a succession of right-wing governments , and the role of the United States and the US-backed Contras in undermining the Sandinista government in Nicaragua . |
| 16 | Celtic 's problem is that Rangers are one of the tiny minority and they have been the pre-eminent team on a domestic level , while the other half of the Old Firm have gone four years without winning anything . |
| 17 | Has the British embassy in Germany made it clear to the German authorities how deeply shocking and despicable have been the racist attacks by Nazi thugs there ? |
| 18 | For over three decades these two countries have been the unwilling recipients of acid rain ‘ export ’ on a massive scale . |
| 19 | Complex cases , or those where the sum at stake is above a specified limit , have been the sole province of the High Court . |
| 20 | To claim that Britain has nurtured something in a matter ultimately pertaining to worship ( the choral singing of cathedral and chapel ) which is purified and controlled beyond anything possessed by Catholic Europe , which is purged of excessive artifice and rhetoric ( Continental reviewers consistently find English a cappella performances impassive ) and whose excellence gives Britain a mission these are among the ideas that have been the principal source of British national identity since the Act of Union in 1707 and were a foundation stone of English identity long before . |
| 21 | These are questions which were first posed over fifty years ago , but they have obviously made little lasting impact on a literature where the expenditure flows depicted in elaborations of the model have been the principal focus of attention . |
| 22 | Kurdish journalists , local politicians and members of the Turkish Human Rights Association have been the principal victims of extra-judicial executions . |
| 23 | It was argued earlier that man , a creature with unprepossessing qualities for higher social development , became capable of that development because of traumatic social changes which occurred in the past but whose impact was so immense that they have shaped human nature down to the present and have been the determining influences on the evolution of culture , whose function , by and large , is the transmission of the consequences of these primal , traumatic experiences to subsequent generations in the form of ego , and , most especially , superego , development . |
| 24 | Concerns have been the small number of inter-disciplinary and student-led projects put up for funding . |
| 25 | For a century , after all , the bicheiros have been the closest thing in Brazil to a robber aristocracy . |
| 26 | He was referring to that curious mixture of kings , lords and commons which have been the essential elements of Britain 's unwritten — and until now unchallenged — constitution . |
| 27 | Traditionally , individuals have been the central feature of attempts to understand corporate crime , but unfortunately for criminology , it was their pathological characteristics which were advanced as the cause of their deviations . |
| 28 | Yet , and particularly in the North where lost jobs , lost homes and lost hope have been the real consequence of this disastrous period , the answer is a resounding ‘ no ’ or an attitude of resigned apathy . |
| 29 | ‘ We 've played Bristol three times this season and they have been the better side each time . |
| 30 | Especially as we have been the better side 3 out of 4 matches . |