Example sentences of "of [noun pl] have [be] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The traditional external source of funds has been bank loans , and despite some recent reduction in bank dependence as internal reserves or retained profits have increased in importance , higher levels of bank debt is still a characteristic of Japanese company finance . |
| 2 | The last couple of weeks has been dust everywhere |
| 3 | Quality Assurance : a number of activities in the Department of Highways have been quality assured in the past year . |
| 4 | Mr Palumbo said he was delighted with the decision , and that the cost of delays has been £1million per day . |
| 5 | Most of the warlords whose campaigns of destruction have shaken the world and threatened the destruction of the realms of Men have been Orcs rather than Goblins . |
| 6 | A recent study by the North London Polytechnic shows that about 27 per cent of men have been victims of some unwanted sexual contact before they are 18 , compared to over 50 per cent for women . |
| 7 | The main individual characteristics that have been incorporated , under neoclassicism , as making a difference to the culpability of offenders have been age , mental capacity and intent ( for instance , degree of premeditation ) . |
| 8 | The Merseyside Crime Survey found , for example , that 44 per cent of interviewees had been victims of crime in the last twelve months , and a quarter had been victimized twice or more . |