Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] have [be] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | The first few months had been sheer bliss . |
| 2 | The past few years have been poor snow years for frustrated skiers . |
| 3 | How different things had been last spring , for all their difficulties . |
| 4 | THINKING , talking and working along European lines has been second nature to Mike Ward for many years now . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | But there are two further points which emerge from considerations of a wide range of literature relating to public enterprise : big investment decisions have been complicated and delayed as a result of having to be considered by a number of government departments ; such decisions have been easy prey to party political pressures when they have involved the location of new plants and/or closure of old ones [ Knight , 1974 ] . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The national papers have been busy printing their obiturary and the faithful fans are still in mourning following last Saturday 's dismal defeat against West Hartlepool . |
| 9 | Two other manufacturing industries illustrate how market-seeking investors have been shifting attention to efficiency-seeking investments as competition has intensified . |
| 10 | For the previous ten months London and provincial cities had been bombed night after night ( on 10 May , three thousand Londoners were killed in the raids ) ; although the worst of the blitz was now over , no one knew it then , and at this perilous juncture in the war Eliot had been anxiously writing against time . |
| 11 | Most of these thriving places had been old market centres ; only Oldham had grown from a few scattered moorland hamlets . |
| 12 | Twentieth Century Fox executive Tom Sherak estimated the return would have been £25 million-plus if all tickets had been full price . |
| 13 | The biggest event in recent months has been full sectorisation and the change of name from Provincial to Regional Railways . |
| 14 | 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 ) . |
| 15 | Newcastle upon Tyne had been an important medieval borough ; other places had been small market centres whose burgesses had obtained some measure of independence from their manorial lords . |
| 16 | It is quite usual to find large joints of roast beef and pork for slicing on the delicatessen counter , but two of the more interesting meats to reach us in recent years have been smoked turkey and pastrami . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | He was a countryman at heart , and although these past weeks had been tremendous fun , it was lovely to see the grass and trees and a blue sky unclouded by smoke . |
| 19 | What she has known most intimately these last years has been intense pain . |
| 20 | Most Christian communicators have been more message than receptor oriented . |
| 21 | But , with some few exceptions , the main results had been disputatious wrangling . |