Example sentences of "[adj] have been [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two of the most important exceptions to this have been works by the cultural historians , T. J. Clark and Carl Schorske . |
| 2 | Even more elusive have been facts about retrieving nuclear depth charges from lost helicopters . |
| 3 | and what our boys … our volunteers … the boys all say they are looking forward to it some have been canoeing and they expect it to be fast and bumpy … |
| 4 | Some have been managers : Andy Beattie , Bobby Brown and Ally McLeod . |
| 5 | Some have been classics of their genre ( some of our reggae and C&W compilations , for instance ) , some have captured , however controversially , the spirit of the age and set the debate buzzing ( ‘ C86 ’ ) and others just made piles of dosh . |
| 6 | With boundaries go hedges , and some of those still remaining have been part of the farmed landscape since Saxon , or possibly even earlier , times . |
| 7 | Three have been members of the Independent Orange Order and one has resigned . |
| 8 | All three have been members of Middlesbrough council since it was formed in 1974 and they served on the authorities which preceded it . |
| 9 | So on the FGM all three have been countersunk by an extra few mm , meaning that the pickup mounting rings sit flush with the body , which does n't look half as odd as you 'd imagine . |
| 10 | These have been colour coded as above to help you identify when they are available . |
| 11 | As a result of the policy of police primacy , an increasing proportion of these have been members of the RUC and RUC Reserve . |
| 12 | Notable amongst these have been companies involved in defence contracting , transport and telecommunications . |
| 13 | ‘ These have been Jeremy 's best sessions so far , and hopefully if his luck changes the team will not be surprised if he should get into the points . |
| 14 | Because some of these have been issues in this country , this work . |
| 15 | The consequences of state intervention since 1964 have been use fully summarized in a recent report of the Sports Council on ‘ The Impact of the Sport For All Policy , 1966–84 ’ . |
| 16 | Many have been councillors , schooled in the hard practicalities of the town hall . |
| 17 | The most convincing of the latter have been sentence completion methods like cloze procedure . |
| 18 | ‘ 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 . |
| 19 | The poor have been students in Oxford and Cambridge continuously since the Middle Ages , and some of their ancient colleges were founded with statutes that explicitly excluded the rich . |
| 20 | While the efforts of the Government 's privatization proposals have been weighted towards the small investor , there is little evidence that the poor have been beneficiaries . |
| 21 | However , the disciplines which have been particularly important to these courses almost since the foundation of the Centre in 1962 have been History , Politics , Social Anthropology , and Education . |
| 22 | Ten have been members of the Orange Order but nine have resigned . |
| 23 | But far more numerous have been depictions in light entertainment shows : often with regular ‘ gay ’ characters : the suggestion of a relationship between Hugh Lloyd and Terry Scott in ‘ Hugh and I ’ ( early sixties BBC1 ) , and the John Inman character in ‘ Are You Being Served ? ’ |
| 24 | His Institutes of Polity also repeatedly refers to the need for justice , saying that of the reeves since Edgar 's death more have been robbers than righteous men , and his Sermon of the Wolf , probably written in 1014 , complains of many injustices ( unrihta ) and shameful laws . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | We have had 23 this year , of which 13 or 14 have been works Bills . |
| 27 | Neither man , however , is solely motivated by local concerns : both have been hawks on the deficit and would like to see Mr Clinton cut it more . |
| 28 | We have used the outside scale so far because all the angles left-right have been turns from left to right looking from the base line . |
| 29 | But most have been members of that lonely fraternity of misfits called goalkeepers . |
| 30 | The 1970s and 1980s have been decades of unparalleled growth . |