Example sentences of "have been the [noun] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a special three-year programme , supported by WACC , the Lanka Guardian aims to help restore the moral values , human rights and spirituality which , in the past , have been the foundation stones of Sri Lankan society . |
| 2 | These have been the building blocks of client server . |
| 3 | It would not , they say , have abolished competition : his ‘ Grand Lodges ’ , each directing its own industry , would in effect have been the head offices of huge joint stock companies owning the entire means of production and subject to no control by the community ; and they would have been able to revert to the capitalist form of enterprise , admitting fresh generations of workers only as employees and not as shareholders ‘ thus creating at one stroke a new capitalist class and a new proletariat ’ . |
| 4 | The most important have been the Dolgellau area of North Wales , where auriferous quartz veins in Cambrian shales have yielded a total of about 4 tonnes of gold , and the Pumpsaint area of Central Wales where auriferous quartz veins cut pyritic Silurian shales . |
| 5 | Rent from landownership and shares in the profits of companies have been the twin foundations of the wealthy upper class . |
| 6 | Further unrest was expected in the town last night , as evenings have been the peak periods for the protests over the past five days . |
| 7 | The Darulhadis would thus , arguably , have been the ranking medrese in Edirne at the time . |
| 8 | The Gallery is an independent trust but up to the present its trustees have been the College Governors of Dulwich College , acting as trustees of the Picture Gallery . |
| 9 | Since the pioneering work of Henry Clifton Sorby ( 1851 ) , slices of rock ground thin enough to transmit light have been the staple material of sedimentary petrography . |
| 10 | ‘ Both are built on seven hills , both have been the pleasure centres of mighty empires . |