Example sentences of "of the [noun sg] have be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The government was well aware that the very survival of the church had been in no small degree due to the coherence and discipline imparted by the episcopate . |
| 2 | Certainly the growth of the church has been in part due to the excellence of its leadership . |
| 3 | The implications of family life and upbringing in the sexual development of the individual have been in the forefront of considerations throughout this book . |
| 4 | He had filled his pockets with stones , but the drama of the landscape had been beyond his understanding . |
| 5 | Thirdly , some of the legislation has been on the statute books for a considerable time , perhaps long after the original and primary intention of the law had been forgotten , e.g. the Vagrancy Acts of 1824 and 1838 . |
| 6 | The foursome , whose single End Of The Road has been at number one in the States for the last three weeks , were barred from entering New Orleans to do their live satellite link-up with the Beeb show . |
| 7 | ( 1982 ) have shown that about three-quarters of the change has been to woodland , as shown in Figure 8.4 , and that this pattern is fairly geographically even , except for Dartmoor as shown in Table 8.4 . |
| 8 | If on the other hand the latest version of the module had been in state 15 ( above the state inheritance boundary ) then a new unapproved version of the module would not inherit state and would enter state 10 ( the inheritance boundary ) . |
| 9 | Since the news had spread about him working on the case , the whole of the station had been in a state of excitement . |
| 10 | ‘ That is how vital the help of the Mirror has been in this crisis . |
| 11 | Until the sixties the headquarters of the Legion had been at Side Bel Abbe s in Algeria , the country which for 150 years had been the Legion 's home . |
| 12 | More sensitive than their counterparts at the beginning of the decade had been to the technical qualities of Hollywood films , the critics of the time constantly drew attention to the gap between the aspirations and the achievements of British films . |
| 13 | Fourteen per cent of the sample had been in a mental hospital at some point . |
| 14 | Most of the assistance has been for the purchase of new or secondhand fishing boats , including the virtual rebuilding of the Western Isles fleet . |
| 15 | Well nowadays I do n't know whether you should record this or not , but nowadays erm they 'll not go unless they 've been to the bar or something before that well unfortunately Leslie 's not able to drink now , he ca n't after his operation , he ca n't take , it just upsets him altogether so he ca n't go to the bar and all the rest of the company have been to the bar and they 're in a different mood than what Leslie is , so Leslie 'll just not go , and it just , it 's kind of , cut him off |
| 16 | Thirty-eight per cent of the workforce had been in the company for 32 years or more and 55 per cent of them were 50 years old or over ( RENFE 1984b : 160–1 ) . |
| 17 | Her memory of the room had been of a dingy , barrack-like hall with fine plaster swags , marred by the fact that chunks of them had been missing , and they , and the room , not improved by having been painted in a weird mixture of colour : purple , pink , green , ochre , rather like the bike belonging to the old man on the S-Bahn . |
| 18 | Where the petitioner is found not to be entitled to have presented a petition or wished to withdraw his petition or allow it to be dismissed or fails to attend on the hearing , the court may substitute as petitioner any creditor who has given notice of intention to appear , wishes to prosecute the petition and is a creditor who would at the date of presentation of the petition have been in a position himself to present a petition against the debtor ( ie is presently owed more than £750 ) ( r 6.30 ) . |
| 19 | The Garlands , and their shop with the rooms over , were out of period , relics of a time when the business and management of the town had been in the hands of a few prosperous traders . |
| 20 | James Hansen of the Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York , one of the first to warn of the dangers of global warming , agrees that most of the warming has been at night but expects warming factors eventually to overtake cooling factors , leading to significant rises in daytime temperatures . |
| 21 | The submission of the father had been to the effect that the court should leave open the opportunity for him to apply for custody of the children in the divorce proceedings then pending . |
| 22 | While the debate surrounding this reform has been extensive , there is reason to argue that ‘ Most of the debate has been about controlling local authority expenditure , about voters , about redistribution among households and about administrative issues ’ ( Muellbauer 1987 , p. 7 ) . |
| 23 | It is inevitable that much of the debate has been on the European Community and on what my right hon. Friend the Foreign Secretary said in his opening speech . |
| 24 | Most of the talk has been on the Rocastle situation . |
| 25 | Most of the restoration has been on the exterior of the buildings ; most of the interiors are still as they were the day the Germans were defeated . |
| 26 | The last occasion upon which a Canadian Prime Minister had attempted to use the British monarch to alter the composition of the Senate had been in 1874 , when Queen Victoria had rejected a request from Alexander Mackenzie . |
| 27 | Secondly , whereas the predominant concern in the care of elderly people has been the prevention of an unnecessary move into institutional care , in mental health care much of the focus has been upon the closure of long-stay hospitals . |
| 28 | But , in common with most other work in this area , the majority of the effort has been upon expert systems . |
| 29 | One way out of the dilemma has been for larger Japanese companies to reduce transaction costs with outside suppliers by promising continuity in their subcontracting arrangements . |
| 30 | It has been three years since the galleries were last open , but according to Dr Mino , most of the material has been in the basement for half a century . |