Example sentences of "[det] [vb base] been [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two of the most important exceptions to this have been works by the cultural historians , T. J. Clark and Carl Schorske . |
| 2 | and what our boys … our volunteers … the boys all say they are looking forward to it some have been canoeing and they expect it to be fast and bumpy … |
| 3 | Some have been managers : Andy Beattie , Bobby Brown and Ally McLeod . |
| 4 | Some have been classics of their genre ( some of our reggae and C&W compilations , for instance ) , some have captured , however controversially , the spirit of the age and set the debate buzzing ( ‘ C86 ’ ) and others just made piles of dosh . |
| 5 | These have been colour coded as above to help you identify when they are available . |
| 6 | As a result of the policy of police primacy , an increasing proportion of these have been members of the RUC and RUC Reserve . |
| 7 | Notable amongst these have been companies involved in defence contracting , transport and telecommunications . |
| 8 | ‘ These have been Jeremy 's best sessions so far , and hopefully if his luck changes the team will not be surprised if he should get into the points . |
| 9 | Because some of these have been issues in this country , this work . |
| 10 | Many have been councillors , schooled in the hard practicalities of the town hall . |
| 11 | The most convincing of the latter have been sentence completion methods like cloze procedure . |
| 12 | ‘ And indeed we might say that the very greatest soldiers — Joshua , David , Alexander — who lent me one of my Christian names — Caesar , of course , our own great Alfred — the only king we call Great — Edward — and we could extend the list into the present — all have been scholars in some manner . |
| 13 | His Institutes of Polity also repeatedly refers to the need for justice , saying that of the reeves since Edgar 's death more have been robbers than righteous men , and his Sermon of the Wolf , probably written in 1014 , complains of many injustices ( unrihta ) and shameful laws . |
| 14 | Neither man , however , is solely motivated by local concerns : both have been hawks on the deficit and would like to see Mr Clinton cut it more . |
| 15 | But most have been members of that lonely fraternity of misfits called goalkeepers . |