Example sentences of "[noun] have been [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | According to an evaluation report this may reflect an unwillingness to admit that in the past schools have been sex biased ( Payne , Cuff and Hustler , 1984 ) . |
| 2 | For example , Figure 8.5 shows that this can vary from landscape improvement to recreation , and that the two main spatial units have been kilometre squares and landscape tracts ( Penning-Rowsell , 1975 ) . |
| 3 | Very broadly , the accountants determine whether the right accounting methods have been usedfor instance in dealing with such matters as rates of depreciation and work-in-progress . |
| 4 | Among recent subjects have been council house sales , public attitudes to embryo research and the effects of unemployment on young women . |
| 5 | I 'm afraid we have to accept the fact that Marius did die from natural causes , and that all our suspicions of Nigel have been slander , just based on dislike and nothing else . ’ |
| 6 | The last days have been hell . |
| 7 | These past two days have been hell . ’ |
| 8 | We have already noted in our examination of CD-ROM markets ( see 2.7 ) that libraries have been pioneer users of CD-ROMs . |
| 9 | This is not to deny the discoveries that have been made , but to state that the purposes that have given meaning to the scientists ' pursuit of truth have been success in and the sustaining of the scientific establishment . |
| 10 | It was over for weeks ago that we last publishd a programe , as finansises have been moch two tite for such extragavance . |
| 11 | Once again these hidden costs have been part of the investment-need right from the beginning — it is just that they have not been looked at closely enough . |
| 12 | The book indicates that duelling and gambling have been co-ordinate activities : both , we may feel , are poised on a knife-edge between accident and intention . |
| 13 | Consequently the basic concepts have been division of labour , organisational structure , job descriptions , but above all — hierarchy . |
| 14 | According to Sunkel , the major changes have been industrialisation , urbanisation and an expansion of the economic and social activities of government which have , together , brought an improvement in the standard of living of urban middle-sector groups . |
| 15 | To overcome the problem PMMA lenses have been surface modified with a radiation grafted hydrogel coating of poly ( vinyl pyrrolidone ) which appears to improve biocompatibility and reduces endothelium damage . |
| 16 | And it is no bad thing that Karajan , whose concerts have been gala occasions now for the best part of forty years , also sold around one hundred million records since he began recording in earnest in 1946 . |
| 17 | Its most obvious difficulties have been lack of scale and disappointing growth . |
| 18 | And so far things have been jus ' fine . |
| 19 | The two figures have been kind of squelched together just as in , in Exodus there are two , sorry in erm in er Genesis there are two er Garden of Eden stories so they claim there are two Moses figures who have been erm as it were compounded together , but both of them says Freud were powerful religious leaders and they probably did give their followers moral principles , perhaps not exactly as we have but something very like it and so Freud is not sceptical about that . |
| 20 | In many other trades , crafts and professions , vocational qualifications have been part of their prosperous development and I therefore commend to you that we be attentive . |
| 21 | Because very often on courses we find that people have been sort of nominated to go on courses , and quite honestly they do n't actually want to be there and they 're looking at their watch and as soon as they can get away that , that 's better . |
| 22 | Though people have been bungee jumping in Britain for 12 years , most notably from the Clifton suspension bridge in Bristol , it is only recently that commercial operators have begun to spring up . |
| 23 | The targets of these attacks , beatings , kidnappings and murders have been trade unionists , peasants ( especially those involved in campaigns for land redistribution and resistance to recruitment into civil defence patrols ) and Indians who have given themselves up to the army and been taken to resettlement areas after years of living in hiding in the mountains . |
| 24 | Quality Assurance : a number of activities in the Department of Highways have been quality assured in the past year . |
| 25 | In the evening I went out to a club , stayed up all night , was late for work the next morning , got sacked and ever since then the rest of the staff have been kind enough to pretend that I 'm still one of them . |
| 26 | ‘ A lot of our patients have been country people and can remember having collies on their farms . |
| 27 | His previous interests have been science fiction and drugs , and I suspect his present passion for radical politics will pass . |
| 28 | The only jackpot Charlton fans have hit this season … is the pools their last five matches have been score draws … lets hope tomorrow though its a home win … |
| 29 | Some of history 's worst decisions have been group decisions . |
| 30 | But of forty-nine ministers in Northern Ireland ( which includes one retired man and three students ) , only six have held elected office , only eleven in total have been office holders in the DUP , and only fifteen in total are members . |