Example sentences of "have been [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Surprisingly , considering how successful he had been , this was Beerbaum 's first victory in a World Cup qualifier , ‘ though I have been second more times than I know ’ , he added .
2 ‘ And indeed we might say that the very greatest soldiers — Joshua , David , Alexander — who lent me one of my Christian names — Caesar , of course , our own great Alfred — the only king we call Great — Edward — and we could extend the list into the present — all have been scholars in some manner .
3 There have been grade-A hypocrites all through history .
4 It is not surprising , given the political climate of the 1980s , that there have been moves to improve the administration of public services by introducing management techniques more often associated ( in the eyes of government supporters at least ) with private enterprise .
5 So , although there have been moves to improve the BBC 's financial plight the essential character of the inequalities inherent in the broadcasting system remains .
6 The bulk of it was unprocessed but there have been moves towards processing it away from Japan and the industrialized countries of the region .
7 Within living memory there have been cathedral organists who have taught their skills to articled pupils .
8 Notable amongst these have been companies involved in defence contracting , transport and telecommunications .
9 Assuming the Daventry nuns have been subject only to the same controls being applied to all other British egg producers , the protest by the United Kingdom Egg Producers ' Association ( Ukepra ) , the only organisation within the UK egg industry not represented among BEIC members , is potentially damaging both to egg consumers and to egg producers .
10 Local authorities have been subject of budget cuts , rate cutting and unfortunately redundancies over the last dozen years or more .
11 That prison has been well governed by both governors while I have been Member of Parliament for Portsmouth , South .
12 Eurosterling bonds were first issued in 1972 ; they have all the characteristics of eurobonds rather than those of domestic or bulldog bonds , and the main issuers have been UK building societies , seeking long-term funds to finance their home loans .
13 Although there have been cases of viruses spreading on shrink-wrapped software , these are relatively rare .
14 As I said earlier , name identification campaigns are routine in the United States but not so common in Europe , although there have been cases where a candidate has been so successfully promoted that he has won , despite his local party 's unpopularity at the time .
15 The process usually involves the stimulation of indigenous subsurface microorganisms to degrade chemicals on-site , although there have been cases in which microorganisms with some specialised metabolic capabilities have been added .
16 There have been cases , fortunately rare , where children have been indecently assaulted at school by parent helpers .
17 But from time to time there have been cases where ministers , or more often officials , decide that listing is undesirable for what are , frankly , purely political grounds .
18 There have been cases reported of gonorrhoea being passed on within four or five hours of its having been acquired , so , unlike the case with syphilis , there is no ‘ safe ’ period between catching and giving the infection .
19 But the many miles of treeless river inhibits recolonization by otters , and even in the 1980s there have been cases of water authority workmen felling known otter holts .
20 Certainly there have been cases after Alladice , including the one in which these remarks were made , where infraction of the rules has led to the resultant evidence being declared inadmissible .
21 Apparently there have been cases here but Horizon was not forthcoming on these and , apparently , the DHSS is not forthcoming either .
22 Some people are wary of keeping Plecs in an aquarium with Discus as there have been cases of Plecs grazing off the sides of the Discus and leaving sucker marks on them but I have not seen any evidence of this from the Spotted Orange Pleco .
23 ( There have been cases , for example , of child deaths in supposedly supervised foster homes . )
24 There h have been cases where the person 's back muscles have pulled up so tight that their they 've formed an arch .
25 In other parts of the world there have been cases where it was desired to combine a system of local independent governments with a unifying central administration which would provide strength especially for foreign affairs and defence .
26 At the same time , there have been cases in which ‘ the inference of illegal conspiracy ’ has been drawn from ‘ detailed similarity of behaviour ’ .
27 There have been cases in cashmere relating to an earlier period and we are pursuing those actively with the EC authorities .
28 And time after time after time , there have been cases prepared and whenever they came to court , there was nobody prepared to go into that courtroom .
29 Gastrointestinal involvement by amyloid has been reported in dialysis patients , and there have been cases of intestinal infarction associated with massive amyloid deposits in the muscle layers of the bowel .
30 Even before the 1977 Act , computer programs were not generally patentable per se , but there have been cases , both in the United Kingdom and in the United States , where computer programs have been granted patents indirectly , usually as being part of a piece of machinery or an industrial process .
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