Example sentences of "have been the " in BNC.
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| 1 | If he 'd been convinced , he would 've been the first to nab the Cap'n . |
| 2 | It must 've been the pipe . |
| 3 | To headline that , mate , would 've been the tops . |
| 4 | " Funny , I did n't think I 'd hit him , but I suppose I must have — must 've been the second shot . |
| 5 | But the other one I would 've er suggested would 've been the schools . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | I do n't know if that would 've been the right thing to do there . |
| 8 | So it could 've been the feathers . |
| 9 | Tazmamert has been the great forbidden subject in Morocco . |
| 10 | It would seem that the special state character of Northern Ireland , with its very legitimacy always under threat , has been the main reason for the maintenance of this pattern of politics . |
| 11 | What has been attempted in this chapter has been the clarification that so far the traditional values of catholic nationalism are still dominant among the Roman catholics of Ireland , even if they are severely contested by a significant minority from among them and lukewarmly subscribed to by a further significant minority . |
| 12 | A further change has been the growth of liberal theology within the Irish Roman catholic intelligentsia . |
| 13 | A notable achievement of ACT has been the passing of the Education ( Northern Ireland ) Act of 1978 , permitting the establishment of multi-denominational schools where such is desired by adequate numbers of parents . |
| 14 | Though ambition has been the grave of many minor artists , it is also that without which no artist can be called major — with all the provisos about art , artists , major , minor , already touched on . |
| 15 | The procreative metaphor , he typed ( as Harsnet had written ) , has been the bane of art . |
| 16 | This has been the experience of the Thirties Society in fighting for the retention of the main plan features of the Nag 's Head , one of the few listed pubs of the period . |
| 17 | The Festival 's come of age of late and I am more than happy that my sax playing has been the soundtrack for the Festival 's cinema trailer in recent years . |
| 18 | Helen Mirren plays the role of Detective Chief Inspector Jane Tennison who for years has been the victim of sexual discrimination in the police force . |
| 19 | It has been the word used to describe the style of today , a style that pervades everything from clothes to waste-paper bins . |
| 20 | A snap decision to turn has been the cause of many serious stalling and spinning accidents , often when , in fact , there was ample room for a landing ahead . |
| 21 | They have been inferring that applying the opposite rudder has been the cause of reversing the spin , whereas the real cause of this happening must be the failure to unstall the wings . |
| 22 | Dick Hobbs ( 1988 ) lived with thieves and detectives as they set out to ‘ do the business ’ , and perhaps one of the most effective pieces of participant observation in recent times has been the four-volume Policy Studies Institute work on the police in London ( 1983 ) . |
| 23 | I had joined a group who are still fixated on a classification of ‘ disorder ’ which homes in on those who attack property , ; and since the amassing of property has been a primary aim of capitalist society , it should come as no surprise to find that to prevent the dispossessed from simply taking from the élite has been the primary structuring principle of policing . |
| 24 | ‘ The Name ’ has been the Holy of Holies to all Jews since it was given to Moses as a special revelation of the divine essence ; all other holinesses merely subserve it . |
| 25 | It is certain , though , that the constructivism that has received the most attention in psychology and philosophy has been the developmental theory of Jean Piaget . |
| 26 | Yet all we seem to have heard , either from a few of the more militant leading players or their representatives in recent months , has been the cry ‘ We want more . ’ |
| 27 | The women 's game is much more open today and Gabriela Sabatini has been the best player on the women 's tour this year . |
| 28 | The best example of this has been the deployment of the HST fleet . |
| 29 | SUCH has been the scale of reopenings ( not to mention survivals ) of lines and stations in the 1980s that to put matters in perspective it is necessary to go back a bit in history . |
| 30 | There is always a moment of silence before the audience respond , so strong has been the tension . |