Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb base] been [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Scotland and the South-West have been exceptions , moving against the national trend since 1981 with an upturn in their population fortunes . |
| 2 | What we can say , though , is that juvenile crime and street violence have been characteristics of British society over hundreds of years , rather than being indicative of a contemporary moral and social disintegration . |
| 3 | Saddened that polytechnics have been unable to throw off the second-class public image , Teesside University 's director , Dr Michael Longfield said : ‘ The three polytechnics in the North-East have been universities in all but name for many years . ’ |
| 4 | Those classed as ‘ other homes ’ included convalescent homes , a rehabilitation centre , an assessment centre , a holiday home for the disabled and rest homes which may in practice have been homes for older people ( the classification was made on the basis of the information given by the person interviewed ) . |
| 5 | Other Australians to have finished second have been Jack Newton ( 1980 ) , Bruce Crampton ( 1972 ) and Jim Ferrier ( 1950 ) . |
| 6 | Another important element is the chairman : successive chairmen of the Treasury Committee have been Sir Ernest du Cann and Mr Terence Higgins and their stature , experience and ability added greatly to the weight of this committee . |
| 7 | She says the pumps and other equipment have been damaged.But the pub hopes to reopen on Monday . |
| 8 | This is not to deny the discoveries that have been made , but to state that the purposes that have given meaning to the scientists ' pursuit of truth have been success in and the sustaining of the scientific establishment . |
| 9 | With effect from the start of an insolvent liquidation of the vendor , unless the court grants leave , the vendor 's company name may not be used by the purchaser if the purchaser or directors of the purchaser have been directors or shadow directors of the vendor during the twelve months preceding the liquidation . |
| 10 | The book indicates that duelling and gambling have been co-ordinate activities : both , we may feel , are poised on a knife-edge between accident and intention . |
| 11 | While it is true that many of the great names of the past have been theists rather than atheists , their orientation has often been unorthodox when judged against the norms of their day . |
| 12 | ‘ We all think that the professions , academia , is such a special , desirable place to be , but some of the best-rounded people I 've ever met in my life have been businessmen , because of a very wide range of experience they have . |
| 13 | But of forty-nine ministers in Northern Ireland ( which includes one retired man and three students ) , only six have held elected office , only eleven in total have been office holders in the DUP , and only fifteen in total are members . |
| 14 | Dixie 's free-taking and Jim 's pace have been features of Maghery 's progress to date but the Lough shore men know that Clans represent a massive hurdle . |
| 15 | Both the first church and the present church have been Memorial churches . |
| 16 | But the main items of most concern have been grants for surface cultivation ( ploughing and rotovation ) , drainage and fertilisers , whether paid under Development Plans or as one-off capital aids ( see Chapter 6 ) . |
| 17 | The two big flops in the list have been Rolls-Royce and British Steel . |
| 18 | ‘ The sad thing is a lot have been people of great importance locally but they go in these homes around they 're forgotten . ’ |
| 19 | Measures which other researchers have described as corresponding to subjective risk have been changes in heart rate or GSR and subjective estimates of the chances of being involved in a near miss ( Watts & Quimby , 1980 ) . |
| 20 | For let's face it : the best artists and craftsmen in history have been stay-at-homes , and the greatest happiness has often been found in industrious obscurity . |
| 21 | Meanwhile , UK band Cancer have been victims of the dreaded Bundesprüstelle für jugendgefährende Schriften — or National Body For Censorship Of Work Dangerous To Youth . |
| 22 | Meanwhile , UK band Cancer have been victims of the dreaded Bundesprüstelle für jugendgefährende Schriften — or National Body For Censorship Of Work Dangerous To Youth . |
| 23 | Perhaps even more significant for the globalization thesis have been changes in the operational strategy of many of the larger TNCs , involving both production and exchange . |
| 24 | Most recently to date have been experiments on ammonia gas resonantly pumped by CO2 lasers , in which good modulation , and chaos , have been observed in a system which comes close to Ikeda 's original proposal { 18 , 19 } . |
| 25 | Income inequalities among those in employment have been widened by inequitable wages policies , but even more important than wages policies as a means of promoting inequality have been changes in the tax system . |
| 26 | Although this policy may have been viewed as a ‘ reasonable ’ intervention in the free market for private housing , there might in any case have been problems of enforcement of restrictions on resale . |
| 27 | In Rutland the tenant to a small proprietor is mentioned here and there , while larger landowners would in any case have been landlords . |
| 28 | ‘ Then it can't 've been Barbs , can it ? ’ said Constance , chewing crisps , vulgarly , with her mouth open . |
| 29 | Rigoberta Menchu has lived in exile in Mexico for the past 11 years , yet the only weapons she has used in that time have been words . |
| 30 | All the cases discussed in this section have been ones in which words addressed to one person were held to make another person a trustee either for the first person or for a third party . |