Example sentences of "[noun sg] has be [adj] [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The course has been invaluable in terms of awareness and spotting hazards . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ The field has been open to females only during the past year but we soon expect at least 10 per cent of dog-training course applicants will be female . ’ |
| 3 | Most of the time since we arrived back in England my mind has been full of thoughts about Fiona . |
| 4 | Historically the industry has been better at peripherals than add-ins , but it contends that the elements are now in place for redressing the balance . |
| 5 | All my work has been involved with estates where game birds were the prime consideration . |
| 6 | The paper 's letters column has been full of old-soldiers ' memories and tales of cover-ups and super-weapons . |
| 7 | The health of my husband , my son and myself has suffered ( my husband was on sick leave for two months ) , and the tension in our home has been extreme at times . |
| 8 | In Eastern Europe , parliamentary scrutiny and criticism of bureaucracy has been strongest during periods of party weakness and resurgent democracy — Yugoslavia in 1963 , Czechoslovakia in 1968 and Poland in 1980 , for example . |
| 9 | The post has been vacant for months and the lack of suitable candidates puzzled officials as the job proved the starting point for such politicians as Mr Chris Patten , Mr Iain Macleod and Mr Reginald Maudling . |
| 10 | The post has been vacant for months and the lack of suitable candidates puzzled officials as the job proved the starting point for such politicians as Mr Chris Patten , Mr Iain Macleod and Mr Reginald Maudling . |
| 11 | Dounreay has been involved in discussions with Atomic Energy Canada Ltd. about the possibility of reprocessing spent fuel rods from AECL 's NRX , NRU and Slowpoke-2 research reactors , five more Slowpoke-2s from universities and colleges — from Toronto , Montreal , Halifax , Edmonton and Kingston — and yet another Slowpoke-2 at the Saskatchewan research council in Saskatoon . |
| 12 | This process has been short-circuited on occasions by well-known public figures , but it is inconceivable that a person unknown as a national party figure could , within the space of two or three years , become that party 's leader as Carter did in the United States . |
| 13 | Dundee United have been the corner shop competing with the hypermarkets of Glasgow , and business has been brisk with pockets of profitability . |
| 14 | Such monomania has been useful to warriors since long before the silicon age . |
| 15 | You see impressionism is n't art about anything very much , it 's art as description — a very lively , lovable form of description , pure and simple — whereas normally art has been full of messages and meaning and didacticism if you like — full of morality and sermonizing very often , and that is normal for art . |
| 16 | This neglect of walking has been apparent for years . |
| 17 | As part of this procedure the Authority has been involved in meetings with parents and governors of the schools concerned . |
| 18 | Although the Museum has put on a large number of successful temporary exhibitions , the display of its permanent collection has been subject to difficulties and delays . |
| 19 | Thirty police officers , some of them armed , have surrounded the two bedroomed bungalow , and the area has been sealed-off to members of the public and the media . |
| 20 | Scotland has never been a stranger to drug-related violence , though our favourite drug of choice has been legal for centuries . |
| 21 | Your own life has been remarkable for tragedies , and triumphs — it would make a good movie and a good book , are either of those things planned ? |
| 22 | The indoor section of Chimp World has been open to visitors for some time , but the full complex also includes new outdoor accommodation . |
| 23 | But Mark 3 stock in its conventional form has been involved in accidents , and has been found to stand up with little crushing and buckling in potentially horrific situations where in older stock casualties might have been high . |
| 24 | The health and safety line has been ill-received by drinkers , who also rejected the offerings as small beer . |
| 25 | There are 3 indirection operators : The examples that follow assume that a DIM statement has been used to reserves an area of memory and store the address of the first byte of the memory in a variable called " mem " . |
| 26 | In Cuba , the former has been emphasised with marked success , while economic growth has been subject to fluctuations . |
| 27 | His motive for doing so is that he thinks that English verse has been ill-served by prosodists in the past . |
| 28 | For example , the Rowntree Trust Family Fund has been helpful to families with severely handicapped children . |
| 29 | ‘ My family has been sterile for generations . ’ |