Example sentences of "[noun prp] have be the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The back-to-back Grand Slam and a place in the final of the World Cup in November have been the triggers for a vast increase in recruitment . |
| 2 | The Southern Alps have been the subject of a number of studies examining the relationship between tectonics and landforms ; these include those by Adams ( 1985 ) , Basher et al. |
| 3 | For soccer skills , we 've always looked to the Brazilians ; in cricket , the West Indies have been the power . |
| 4 | But the Wandjina have been the subject of special interest and speculation to anthropologists , ethnologists and certain writers who have linked them with visitors from space due to their resemblance to astronauts . |
| 5 | Studlar ( 1984 ) has remarked that all established institutions in Britain have been the objects of critical attack in recent times except for the monarchy : ‘ Only the monarchy seems safe from challenge , secure in its substantive weakness ’ ( p. 5 ) . |
| 6 | By contrast , almost the only areas of decline in Britain have been the conurbations and some of the older established industrial areas in South Wales , Scotland and the North of England . |
| 7 | Well , Oxford have been the favourites for months ; they always are , but as the tide changes so do their chances . |
| 8 | If America and Eastern Europe have been the world leaders , the only countries in the world that can claim to be clean are those where the athletes are too poor to afford the drugs . |
| 9 | I do not believe that altruism , good neighbourliness or even the visions of Jean Monnet have been the motivation behind the EC but simply hard-headed self interest . |
| 10 | Indigenous people in the Americas have been the victims of gross human rights abuses ever since Christopher Colombus landed on the island of Hispaniola on 12 October , 1492 . |
| 11 | The batsmen of England , Australia , India and New Zealand have been the patsies . |