Example sentences of "[noun pl] has 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 | By far the greatest part of maintenance research developed by institutions of state for marginal areas has been soil conservation techniques ( outlined in Ch. 5 ) , which , as this book shows , have had to be imposed by colonial powers to be ‘ induced ’ at all . |
| 10 | One of the most enthusiastic authorities taking up housing action trusts has been Liverpool city council . |
| 11 | Where formed by divergent plate movement they are described as rifted margins , but where the motion between two adjacent continental blocks has been transform they are called sheared margins ( but note that the term rifted margin is often applied rather loosely to passive margins of any type ) . |
| 12 | Does my right hon. Friend agree that the problem faced by the United Nations in recent decades has been entanglement in east-west confrontation and that at this stage of its development it does not need to embark on an extremely controversial and difficult period of structural reform but should make greater use not only of the United Nations charter but of the existing United Nations machinery ? |
| 13 | The single most influential neo-Marxist conceptual innovation for the analysis of development within the global system in general in the last few decades has been dependency theory , or what might be more accurately termed the dependency metatheory . |
| 14 | Undoubtedly the most popular , indeed cuddly , alien of recent years has been ET — perhaps Gremlins ( 1984 ) was even conceived partly as an ‘ answer ’ to ET . |
| 15 | Coward discusses , for instance , the importance of the fact that one of the biggest growth areas in publishing in recent years has been women 's romantic fiction . |
| 16 | One of the main themes of the subject in recent years has been corporatism — which particularly drew attention to group participation . |
| 17 | The only unqualified crossover success in recent years has been Cher , and it took a minor miracle for her to get there . |
| 18 | The last couple of weeks has been dust everywhere |
| 19 | A notable absentee from the Wallasey side in recent weeks has been skipper Mark Anderson who is suffering from a back injury . |
| 20 | The mineralogical modification of the clays has been montmorillonite to illite , kaolinite to illite below about 3000 m , and illite to sericite and chlorite at greater depths . |
| 21 | As one might expect , the target of most ASEAN-4 investors has been China , where a series of massive deals have been announced in the past year . |
| 22 | One of her greatest successes has been Manfred Karge 's one-woman play Man to Man , in which she played a woman pretending to be a man . |
| 23 | Certainly the most successful of the ‘ modern ’ Bries has been Cambozola , a German cheese referred to as a blue Brie . |
| 24 | The part of the 1988 Act which has upset certain religious minorities has been section 8(3) , which states that all religious syllabuses adopted on or after 29 September 1988 must ‘ reflect the fact that the religious traditions in Great Britain are in the main Christian whilst taking account of the teaching and practices of the other principal religions represented in Great Britain ’ . |
| 25 | Its most striking answer in International Relations has been systems theory , which we shall examine in the next chapter . |
| 26 | The increased output achieved on assisted farms has been 14% in cattle numbers and 27% in sheep numbers(23) . |
| 27 | Secondly the deliveries of the equipment from the equipment suppliers who had been selected er generally fell behind the promises which they had made , so the main reason for the technical delays has been lack of equipment of the correct standard to proceed with the integration programme erm the erm the problems which beset the programme in nineteen ninety two after the German minister started questioning its future clearly had a direct bearing on that because many of the equipment suppliers , particularly those in Germany , suddenly began to think hey this programme is not going anywhere , why should we invest a lot of effort and and money into it and they slowed down so that has had a knock on effect in in terms of delaying the total programme and erm the result of all of that has been that the current development programme schedule which we have supplied to the committee is probably about as fast as the programme is capable of running . |
| 28 | Mr Palumbo said he was delighted with the decision , and that the cost of delays has been £1million per day . |
| 29 | The aim of the majority of these systems has been language understanding . |
| 30 | Is this another one leaping on the fashionable let's-destroy-the-party-from-within bandwagon ? ] that — for years — to assert these facts has been heresy . ’ |