Example sentences of "[noun sg] have be [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Another difficulty has been that such councils are attuned to providing finance for the creation of specific works , while the need for support in popular music is not at the point of creation , but for help in reaching audiences . |
| 2 | My experience has been that for many people there is not all that difference between bringing ‘ God ’ in and touching wood . |
| 3 | Dutch experience has been that close cooperation is needed between planners and all of these groups as well as others such as the police , mandating a cautious , incremental , flexible and thus costly style of planning . |
| 4 | Our experience has been that to create a new expression of the body of Christ has been to create a new possibility of conversion for many such people . |
| 5 | Yes it is , er I mean , what we tried to do was to write er a comedy on a big scale that was n't a marshmallow , er in fact it er the , the comedy deepens and it gets pretty sour , and I think some of the criticism of the play has been that ‘ is it a comedy , or is it a serious play ’ . |
| 6 | One of the problems with traditional remedial teaching has been that spelling and neatness are fetishes . |
| 7 | The result has been that sterling has become very expensive to borrow , but there is still far too much of it , and the supply is still increasing too fast . |
| 8 | The result has been that ‘ investment at the highest levels ever ’ has come from fares , not from any public purse , and that an ‘ economic ’ system has become unsafe as BR and LRT weigh up commercial investment needs against the cost of safety measures and the cost of paying wages sufficient to maintain a safe level of staffing . |
| 9 | The result has been that recent chancellors have been able to give free rein to their tax-reforming ambitions . |
| 10 | The result has been that major reforms are completely avoided and every minor reform is weakened or sabotaged . |
| 11 | The result has been that discount deals have proliferated . |
| 12 | The result has been that solar panels are now comparable in price to wind generators . |
| 13 | The result has been that sea walls have had to take the brunt of the power of waves and currents at high tide , which erodes them and requires rebuilding on an ever larger scale . |
| 14 | The result has been some unbundling , loosening and decentralizing of control in some societies and in some organizations on some tasks . |
| 15 | That Darren 's car has been such a loyal servant is all the more surprising when you consider that it spent its first 50,000 miles in the hands of a company rep and was then driven for 22,000 miles by a builder — two occupations hardly renowned for lavishing care and attention on cars . |
| 16 | If that programme has been such a failure , why do we now have 30 programmes targeting support for identifiable industrial priority areas , and why are there almost 200 collaborative research programmes ? |
| 17 | In the twentieth century the most dramatic political collapse has been that of the Liberal Party . |
| 18 | A recurring complaint from industry has been that pension funds are too short-term orientated , to the detriment of the companies in whose shares they deal . |
| 19 | He adds : ‘ It has been a good few years since the snow has been this hard which means a lot of walkers are n't used to it . |
| 20 | The effect has been that for most of this century Britain has had to hold interest rates higher than has been necessary or desirable . |
| 21 | The rule has been that young people intending to study medicine must forsake the humanities and social sciences for physics , chemistry and biology . |
| 22 | But in many cases the threat of legal action has been enough to stop those few shopkeepers who attempt to profit from glue and solvent sales to solvent misusers . |
| 23 | The most comprehensive research has been that carried out by Dingwall , Eekelaar and Murray ( 1983 ) , based on participant observation in social services departments , NHS child health services and casualty departments , and juvenile courts . |
| 24 | Another rare loss has been that of Mark Weedon , the Managing Director in London until the autumn of 1988 , now at Heidrick and Struggles . |
| 25 | Then it had suddenly been galloping over the sleeping bodies of a large wolf pack and , again , its mad speed had been such that the furious yelping had been left far behind . |
| 26 | ‘ By the way , ’ she began , hardly able to credit that , when earlier that morning her car had been such a concern to her , great expanses of time should now elapse without her giving it so much as a thought , ‘ could you tell me the name of the garage where my car — ’ |
| 27 | — is not it clear that Government policies on manufacturing industry have been little short of disastrous ? |
| 28 | Over the past two years , she pointed out , Saatchi had purchased major works by many of those British painters whose rise to prominence has been such a striking feature of recent years : Saatchi has bought work by , among others , Frank Auerbach , Lucian Freud , Leon Kossoff and Howard Hodgkin . |
| 29 | In more recent times , the most highly developed exposition has been that of Wilhelm Reich ( 1897–1957 ) . |
| 30 | Just the sight of the stamp had been enough to set her heart beating uneasily and she had to fight down the urge to put off reading the words someone had written to her . |