Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb base] be [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Duke of Northumberland 's Archive ( Alnwick and Middlesex ) The Percy family and its successors have been prominent in English history since the thirteenth century , firstly as earls , and later as dukes , of Northumberland . |
| 2 | Fans have been constant in their opposition to all-seater . |
| 3 | Visitors through the centuries have been impressed by the beauty and harmony of these proportions . ’ |
| 4 | In its November 1987 Offer For Sale Eurotunnel stated that ‘ safety and security considerations have been central to the overall design of the System and the plans for its operation ’ . |
| 5 | Fortunately , major contemporary building styles have been subject to detailed analysis in terms of their social significance . |
| 6 | There is currently a move towards Community Education in the Urban and Burgh schools ; rural schools have been involved in this , informally for a long time . |
| 7 | We shall see below how different schools have been involved in one or more of these types of situation , but for the present two illustrations should suffice to demonstrate the potential of this classification . |
| 8 | In Tasmania , however , schools have been responsible for allocating resources for some time . |
| 9 | The stables have been open for one year this November . |
| 10 | These solutions have been successful in providing users with the ability to fire off queries to multiple databases . |
| 11 | These solutions have been successful in providing users with the ability to fire off queries to multiple databases . |
| 12 | Because of these difficulties artificial bile solutions have been prepared to a total ionic strength of 0.295 mmol/l . |
| 13 | Monetarists have been hostile to Keynesian attempts at demand management in principle , arguing that they are inflationary . |
| 14 | The women 's organizations have been instrumental in promoting women 's rights , particularly the need to train women , to assume responsibilities outside the domestic sphere , They are running various workshops and co-operatives which were initially started through the financial support of women 's groups in Europe and elsewhere . |
| 15 | And it has repeatedly bragged that its fighters have been responsible for the mounting attacks on policemen , 226 of whom were killed last year . |
| 16 | The developed nations have been lavish with advice . |
| 17 | Thus one often encounters the claim that a large number of Quakers ( and other dissenters ) contributed significantly to eighteenth- and nineteenth-century physical science and that Jews have been preeminent in mathematics , physics , and psychiatry in the twentieth century . |
| 18 | Safe as the Mark 3 coaches have been , however , their designers have been responsible for actually causing one or two accidents because straps and fixings holding underfloor equipment were inadequate and worked loose , allowing major items to fall off . |
| 19 | The fact that such apparently simple management methods work is astonishing to some parents . |
| 20 | And there has been an unexpected spin-off — because SNIA Fibre is a subsidiary of a chemicals group controlled by Fiat , cars have been available for UK Novaceta workers at discounted prices . |
| 21 | Cardboard cutout policemen have been known to reduce shoplifting in supermarkets , and cardboard patrol cars have been effective at slowing down motorway speeders . |
| 22 | Cars have been popular in the movies since Mack Sennett was wrecking them around 1914 in such shorts as Lizzies of the Field — not funny to some members of early audiences , who were trying to save up for a Ford Model T or ‘ tin Lizzy ’ . |
| 23 | Already in the sixth century BC , at the time when Buddha and Mahavira lived , that part of India was ruled by the Achaemenids of Iran , and Iranian influences have been important in India ever since . |
| 24 | Some parties have been assiduous in doing so , others have not . |
| 25 | Indians of many parties have been terrified by the prospect of escalating Hindu-Muslim violence , highlighted in Meerut in Uttar Pradesh during the first round of voting , when 19 people were killed . |
| 26 | in choosing a laterality index subsequent authors have been interested in the statistical correlation between various indices of laterality and overall accuracy . |
| 27 | Inevitably single women with children and elderly women form an important part of this group , and indeed , housing associations and co-ops have been important in providing groups with an opportunity to live collectively as a positive alternative to the nuclear family . |
| 28 | Many Branches have been fortunate in making successful collections in their local Tesco stores for several years . |
| 29 | These changes have also been socially differentiated , because in-migrants and out-migrants have been selective in terms of age , sex and socio-economic characteristics . |
| 30 | The lads have been great in helping me to settle in . |