Example sentences of "[coord] [noun sg] have [be] [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their dedication and support have been invaluable in both accounting for the Association 's funds and managing them effectively . |
| 2 | The history of Glasgow Rangers Football Club , for example , makes it clear that riots , violence and vandalism have been well-established since at least the 1870s . |
| 3 | In recent years the Employment Department and the Department of Trade and Industry have been responsible for appropriate interventions but they have been more of a fire fighting nature than a sustained development of policy and role — which in any case , has not been the way government departments have tended to behave since they are organised to implement government policy in the immediate rather than long term . |
| 4 | The ‘ aristocratic ’ character of landowning has been a central basis for social status and political power in Britain for centuries , and the divisions of interest between land and industry have been fundamental to the political development of the upper class . |
| 5 | whether your job performance and attitude have been satisfactory over the years ; |
| 6 | The role of music , song , and poetry have been important to the YCCC as well , and this too is a central theme of Highlander . |
| 7 | The material conditions of production and distribution have been crucial for the perpetuation of the romance form , and the romance form continues to thrive because it so well answers the commercial demands of a mass-market paperback and communications industry . |
| 8 | Traditionally , releases of major pollutants to air , land and water have been subject to separate controls . |
| 9 | Over the years the weather and man have been responsible for destroying parts of the forested areas and , although some re-afforestation has taken place , large areas have remained depleted for many years . |
| 10 | For the past 43 years , since the Town and Country Planning Act of 1947 , agriculture and forestry have been exempt from most of the Act 's planning controls . |
| 11 | Swindon and Speedway have been synonymous since 1949 . |
| 12 | In my attempt at a wide-angled overview , however , I shall argue that the camera has not just two but many sides , and that feminist film criticism and theory can only benefit from casting its eye outside a field of vision in which the theory of the gaze and questions of representation and power have been dominant for too long . |