Example sentences of "have been the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So it could 've been the feathers . |
| 2 | It must 've been the pipe . |
| 3 | But the other one I would 've er suggested would 've been the schools . |
| 4 | To headline that , mate , would 've been the tops . |
| 5 | So if if the cadres had taken the law and 's speech there should n't 've been the sorts of problems that , that we came up against . |
| 6 | For the Modular Course one response has been the centralization of liaison and decision-making in a single senior tutor . |
| 7 | The general theme for all the festivals has been the country and the city . |
| 8 | Ever since the days of Noah 's swimming regattas , the common feature of all sports has been the requirement for physical fitness and the general rule that the fitter you are the better you will perform . |
| 9 | An important factor in achieving this success has been the requirement that management should report progress against financial targets on a monthly basis to a Committee which I chair and also at regular meetings of the Board . |
| 10 | The Festival 's come of age of late and I am more than happy that my sax playing has been the soundtrack for the Festival 's cinema trailer in recent years . |
| 11 | What has been the attitude of successive Governments while all this has gone on ? |
| 12 | A related weakness has been the lack of effective co-operation between industry and higher education . |
| 13 | Another frightening development since Mrs Thatcher went has been the lack of genuine economic debate in Whitehall . |
| 14 | One of the problems facing libraries in the use of video material has been the lack of standardization between different systems . |
| 15 | As far as evaluation efforts by academic librarians in general are concerned , the primary problem has been the lack of student response to the process and the consequent impossibility of reaching sufficiently valid conclusions on the basis of small evaluation returns . |
| 16 | One of the major problems with electric vehicles has been the lack of a battery with a high power-to-weight ratio . |
| 17 | Until now , the only problem with this theory has been the lack of evidence , apart from the impossibility of finding anyone who admits to having voted Tory . |
| 18 | Such has been the lack of literary models , though , that the nearest parallel is not with any literary bratpack but rather with the new wave of black film-makers in the States . |
| 19 | One surprise has been the lack of Saxon settlements beneath the medieval villages which have been excavated . |
| 20 | One of the constraints in planning R&D has been the lack of a convincing model of the process . |
| 21 | Anther limiting factor in studying the properties of human gall bladder epithelium has been the lack of normal tissue . |
| 22 | A major difficulty in genetic studies of peptic ulcer disease has been the lack of subclinical markers . |
| 23 | The difficulty with this has been the lack of confidence in building budget forecasts for 1993–4 out of not very precise market-mapping exercises done with only 1992–3 figures . |
| 24 | In the years since 1981 the one consistent response to urban unrest has been the provision of more resources , more training , and more equipment to the police . |
| 25 | One field in which there has been misunderstanding , and which has attracted some adverse publicity , has been the provision of sheltered housing . |
| 26 | A more important factor , however , has been the provision of government support for collective bargaining . |
| 27 | One of the few creditable responses of the outside world in this dismal war has been the provision of food and medical help . |
| 28 | The third has been the provision of an ever-increasing variety of financial instruments needed to support the growing complexity of cross-border transactions . |
| 29 | A growing feature of the employment contract over the years has been the provision of occupational pension schemes for retirement and sickness . |
| 30 | A genuine and pleasant surprise has been the development of Motherwell , previously forced to carry the banner of the most boring team in the League . |