Example sentences of "[noun pl] have been [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Steve , one of the reasons you 've been quiet with me lately — ’ more than quiet , she thought , stone-cold , dead to me' — one of the reasons has been Joe , has n't it ? |
| 2 | Will he confirm that in every year and for every authority recently in Greater Manchester , the amount of money that the Government have allowed them to spend on capital projects has been way behind what they have needed , with the result that there is now a backlog of repairs and maintenance ? |
| 3 | Britain 's premier clubs has been doings its own campaigning on a very different manifesto — and very successful it has been , too . |
| 4 | Well if Mark Bosnich was the man of the moment in midweek the name on everyone 's lips during the week during sorry during the last twenty four hours has been Bobby Gould . |
| 5 | British Nuclear Fuels has been find £7,500 plus costs after admitting the unauthorized disposal of radioactive waste . |
| 6 | As with numerous other mill sites , it has waxed and waned in importance , and over the centuries has been home to many individuals and industries . |
| 7 | The traditional external source of funds has been bank loans , and despite some recent reduction in bank dependence as internal reserves or retained profits have increased in importance , higher levels of bank debt is still a characteristic of Japanese company finance . |
| 8 | One of Britain 's most happening hip hop crews in the last 12 months has been Ronin , whose multi-media interests are now more fully embracing clothing . |
| 9 | I happen for my sins to have been shadow Chancellor since the last election in 1987 , during which period there have been three Chancellors of the Exchequer . |
| 10 | Not that those centuries had been times of uninterrupted peace . |
| 11 | When Anthony Eden resigned the premiership in broken health in January 1957 , the two obvious contenders had been R.A. Butler and Harold Macmillan . |
| 12 | The Harrington brothers had been feed by Warwick , and their father had been feed by Salisbury . |
| 13 | The Harrington brothers had been feed by Warwick , and their father had been feed by Salisbury . |
| 14 | The two main candidates had been Khasbulatov , nominated by the Democratic Russia group , and Sergei Baburin , nominated by the centrist Rossiya group of deputies and supported by the Communists of Russia group . |
| 15 | Only the older ones , the ones whose husbands had been engineers and farmers and management consultants first , agreed with her . |
| 16 | Till then , computers had been number-crunchers , built to perform one specific function — calculation — at speeds humans could not approach . |
| 17 | It was also established that the Jews had been friends of the inhabitants of Pergamum in the time of Abraham ( Ant . |
| 18 | In the winter of 1950/1 , for example , government estimates were that consequential industrial production losses had been £8–10 millions . |
| 19 | The Prussians had been allies of Britain at Waterloo , and preindustrial , Biedermeier , Germany was very attractive to many Britons . |
| 20 | The words had been Sandor 's before he died and Rostov wondered if the assassin had ever suspected that he too was scheduled for termination once he completed his assigned task . |
| 21 | Among those who have studied at the University in past centuries have been James Boswell and Oliver Goldsmith , Charles Darwin and James Clerk Maxwell , Joseph Lister and James Simpson , Walter Scott , Robert Louis Stevenson and Arthur Conan Doyle . |
| 22 | According to an evaluation report this may reflect an unwillingness to admit that in the past schools have been sex biased ( Payne , Cuff and Hustler , 1984 ) . |
| 23 | If other readers have been victims of con tricks why not pass on a warning to others through our Letters Page ? |
| 24 | For example , Figure 8.5 shows that this can vary from landscape improvement to recreation , and that the two main spatial units have been kilometre squares and landscape tracts ( Penning-Rowsell , 1975 ) . |
| 25 | Swindon will be pushing for compensation 300 to 400 hundred thousand pounds … theres 's been talk of dirty deeds illegal approaches … and things like that but they 've all shaken hands … everyone is happy … |
| 26 | Journalists also represent a fertile field of would-be Parliamentarians : in each successive general election since 1959 , over 100 of the candidates standing for all three major political parties have been journalists . |
| 27 | Very broadly , the accountants determine whether the right accounting methods have been usedfor instance in dealing with such matters as rates of depreciation and work-in-progress . |
| 28 | Among recent subjects have been council house sales , public attitudes to embryo research and the effects of unemployment on young women . |
| 29 | Typical potential savings have been 5% on debtor levels , 2% on energy costs and 25% on payroll preparation . |
| 30 | In the past such animals have been models of cleanliness , always asking to go outside before defecating , or confining themselves to a modern litter tray . |