Example sentences of "have been [noun] [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Firstly , it is a family archive covering the period since the thirteenth century ; secondly , the dukes of Norfolk have been Earls Marshal and Hereditary Marshals of England for many centuries ; and finally , as the family has adhered to the old religion , many documents have an important bearing on English ( Roman ) Catholic history . |
| 2 | ‘ A lot of our patients have been country people and can remember having collies on their farms . |
| 3 | More recent casualties have been Asil Nadir and Roger Levitt , whose groups have now crashed with stunning speed . |
| 4 | 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 ) . |
| 5 | We may note from Table 9.6(a) that equity financing never exceeded 34 per cent of the total , indeed the primary sources of finance have been bank advances and ‘ other ’ ( Euroloans etc. ) over the entire period covered by the table . |
| 6 | In the majority of studies the most frequently used drugs have been thiazide diuretics and beta-blocking agents . |
| 7 | Among those who have studied at the University in past centuries have been James Boswell and Oliver Goldsmith , Charles Darwin and James Clerk Maxwell , Joseph Lister and James Simpson , Walter Scott , Robert Louis Stevenson and Arthur Conan Doyle . |
| 8 | The most recent approaches have been language laboratories and computer-based instruction . |
| 9 | There have been coal stations and milk stations . |
| 10 | Of those English cricketers to have played in one-day internationals , the most successful have been Graham Gooch and Allan Lamb , both of whom average around 40 with the bat . |
| 11 | Previous Asian winners have been Salman Rushdie and Ruth Prawerjhabvala . |
| 12 | His previous interests have been science fiction and drugs , and I suspect his present passion for radical politics will pass . |