Example sentences of "[noun pl] have [be] of " in BNC.

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1 The total losses have been of the order of 25,000 , but the fact remains that there are still more than 140,000 people directly involved in the defence industry and more than 120,000 indirectly involved .
2 Indeed it would be surprising were we able to do so , since there are some fairly clear empirical examples of industries where publicly owned concerns have been of superior or equal efficiency to private ones , as we shall see in chapter 7 .
3 I think that one important strand in the rejection of feminism by many women has been a feeling that feminists are saying that their lives have been of no value , and that their activities and concerns have been trivial .
4 Certainly the solutions to the ‘ black problem ’ of the past 200 years have been of limited vision — hostile , intolerant and frequently brutal .
5 Most of the studies of relationships between R&D and production in recent years have been of a qualitative and often anecdotal nature .
6 The greatest fear the airmen have is of what could happen to the people of Somalia after the international forces leave .
7 The baby bulge birth cohorts have been of an age to have children for some time .
8 Most locality studies have been of relatively compact free-standing towns or of discrete neighbourhoods in great cities .
9 Perhaps it 's no coincidence that some of your readings that have made the most indelible impression on your audiences have been of works like the Berg Three Orchestral Pieces , the Honegger Liturgique .
10 Strictly speaking , marriage does not contribute directly to population change , but , because of its association with the legitimacy of births in most countries , marriage rates have been of some interest .
11 That 's a point I was going to make , but as far as I can tell in en masse , the main , the main nominated bodies have been of political parties .
12 For us the fertilizer business has been a good business , in many parts of the world over many years , and even its downturns have been of fairly limited duration .
13 Friends have been of paramount importance to her in the last ten years and she has not deserted them .
14 The effect of these Standing Committees has been that debates have been of a much more highly focused and objective quality .
15 It can not be doubted that the post-war black migrations have been of considerable economic benefit to Britain , just as the migrations from North Africa , Turkey , Greece and Italy have boosted the economies of Western Europe .
16 Experience gained in the course of employment as Librarian , British Geological Survey ( BGS ) , Edinburgh , suggests that such theses have been of great practical benefit to the geological community .
17 Deer have been very much part of my life , and I hope these notes have been of interest and helpful in understanding why stalking takes place .
18 Most alternative and oppositional groups have been of type ( ii ) , though there are early cases of type ( i ) and some later cases of type ( iii ) .
19 In any case , if enterprise zones are the model , the overwhelming evidence is that financial incentives have proved the driving force , and that liberalized planning regimes have been of limited significance .
20 Attempts to test the state subsidy theory of strikes have been of two kinds : studies attempting to show the correlation , if any , between levels of benefits and strike activity over the years ; and studies exploring the views of strikers in relation to benefits and strike activity .
21 But not all station encampments have been of rail travellers .
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