Example sentences of "have [been] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So it could 've been the feathers . |
| 2 | But the other one I would 've er suggested would 've been the schools . |
| 3 | To headline that , mate , would 've been the tops . |
| 4 | So if if the cadres had taken the law and 's speech there should n't 've been the sorts of problems that , that we came up against . |
| 5 | In different parts of the world I have seen many gardens and sometimes the most delightful aspect has been the sounds of birds and insects that add another dimension to the colours and fragrance . |
| 6 | MARK MELTON has been the Musicians ' Union 's music business adviser since 1987 . |
| 7 | A part of the history of perceptions of people has been the changes in the labels that have been used over the years . |
| 8 | But surely the fact that Rowell has been the brains behind the most successful side in modern British rugby , as well as the man who managed to mesh the England Students into a force so strong that they were able to play World Cup quarter-finalists Canada on their home turf this summer and lose by less than 20 points , puts him on a par with Best . |
| 9 | I think it 's fair to say that the only significant report from the Operations Information Officer during this tour has been the dates of the first flights bringing Swedish holidaymakers to Larnaca . |
| 10 | After all , if anyone has flourished in the past 13 years it has been the supermarkets . |
| 11 | Another very popular focus for the new studies of memory has been the molluscs , for the reasons discussed in Chapter 7 , and in particular because of their large neurons and accessible nervous systems . |
| 12 | The most fertile birth cohort of women since the 1920s has been the women born around 1937 , who would mostly have married by the early 1960s . |
| 13 | Here it has been the archivists who have had to confront the difficulties posed by record retention as they attempt to fulfil their statutory duties . |
| 14 | More often it has been the engineers and the ecologists who have done so with lawyers , economists and political scientists sometimes joining in ( Hare , 1980 , p. 381 ) . |
| 15 | The industrial machine that we have followed so far has been the philosophies of the Enlightenment embodied and incarnated in the economic mode of capitalism . |
| 16 | has been for , that has actually been the case , has been the problems in terms of actually getting nurses to actually come out and doctors and pharmacists to actually come out publicly . |
| 17 | The only possible exception to the rule of fitting standard gear has been the masts : the die for the masts had to be bought from Proctor so that 11 could be built . |
| 18 | To date it has been the keepers of the government 's cheque books rather than those who conduct the nation 's health checks who have dictated policy over drinking water . |
| 19 | Implementation of the design and construction has been the Highways Department . |
| 20 | Perhaps his greatest tribute , however , has been the comments made by so many people in the organisation : ‘ Peter always took time to listen ’ . |
| 21 | Those who subscribe to the Institute 's Proceedings say that one of the most valuable contributions it makes has been the books that are reviewed by our members and this listing of books recently published or announced . |
| 22 | But the government believes that the penalties have not been high enough and that hitherto it has been the workers and not company owners , the real culprits , who have been punished . |
| 23 | What has perhaps been accorded less attention has been the ways in which policy and implementation have involved a feedback from implementation as policies have been found inadequate to meet the demands of ‘ good professional practice ’ . |
| 24 | The only division to show a fall-off in profits has been the foods ingredients where profits fell from £10.8 million to £9.1 million because of difficulties in the bread market and the temporary impact of the closure of the Gainsborough plant . |
| 25 | And er , that we have , we have been largely on target with those items that were put forward , as has been the objectives and , and some of the targeting of the agreement itself . |
| 26 | I think one of my main fears has been the children moving away now that they are grown up . |
| 27 | One of the most dramatically changing aspects of the context and content of education recently has been the expectations and especially the control of teacher 's work . |
| 28 | The use of either cendres-noires or organic manure is generally preferred today , but in the past the most popular fertiliser has been the boues de ville , quite literally , town refuse . |
| 29 | One preoccupation of the sociology of industrial work has been the causes of job dissatisfaction . |
| 30 | A notable exception has been the guides produced by Open University teams ( involving academic staff and librarians ) and published as separate units for particular courses . |