Example sentences of "[noun pl] have been [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At present the advent of the All Blacks is concentrating the national rugby mind wonderfully and all four provinces have been in early-season action . |
| 2 | Foreigners are flooding the market — in the last three weeks alone , six Norwegians have been to Premier League clubs on trial . |
| 3 | In their centenary year of nineteen eight eight they won the league and cup double , but since then honours have been in short supply . |
| 4 | Fire crews have been at full stretch dealing with flooded houses mainly in the Cotswolds . |
| 5 | Certainly the solutions to the ‘ black problem ’ of the past 200 years have been of limited vision — hostile , intolerant and frequently brutal . |
| 6 | Books by , and about , lesbians have been in comparative abundance in the last 5 years or so but it 's debatable whether this literary output has served as insular affirmations or taken lesbian sexuality a little further down the road of acceptance . |
| 7 | Irvin and Martin 's assessment techniques have been in great demand abroad , even as the British science establishment closes ranks against it . |
| 8 | From the end of the Permo-Carboniferous ice age 250 million years ago to about 20 million years ago , polar regions have been without permanent ice . |
| 9 | As Table 6.1 b shows , however , bus journeys have been in rapid decline , and as a consequence ‘ many rural bus services have been reduced severely in frequency and part routes and whole routes have been withdrawn ’ ( Knowles , 1978 , 668 ) . |
| 10 | Friends have been of paramount importance to her in the last ten years and she has not deserted them . |
| 11 | Nicholson 's horses have been in sparkling form this season since he moved to his new yard and Baydon Star was sent off a surprisingly generous 13-8 favourite . |
| 12 | Both horses have been in bad health recently , so the organisers made the course as easy as possible . |
| 13 | As the only such secondee in the UK , 's services have been in great demand . |
| 14 | Traditional peg tiles have been in great demand since the storms of the past few years , so for Tenterden tile makers Spicer , the clouds had a silver lining . |
| 15 | In any case , if enterprise zones are the model , the overwhelming evidence is that financial incentives have proved the driving force , and that liberalized planning regimes have been of limited significance . |