Example sentences of "[vb base] been [noun] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 've been art celebrities since then and , although the scale of their work has increased — pictures can now include several people , and stretch up to ten metres across — the real subject remains G&G ( as they sometimes describe themselves ) . |
| 2 | There 've been smoke alarms |
| 3 | There have been grade-A hypocrites all through history . |
| 4 | Within living memory there have been cathedral organists who have taught their skills to articled pupils . |
| 5 | There have been port stations , waterfront interchanges between the railways and the water-borne transport of river , lake , and sea : in the United States , New Bedford , New Haven , and East Boston ; in Canada , Prince Rupert , Vancouver , Montreal ; in Britain , Holyhead , Folkestone Harbour , and Portsmouth Harbour . |
| 6 | The Governor admits there have been teething problems which need sorting out . |
| 7 | The only other clues available on this aspect until now have been air bubbles in polar ice caps , but there are doubts about how closely the composition of the bubbles matches that of the atmosphere at the time they were trapped . |
| 8 | Both the first church and the present church have been Memorial churches . |
| 9 | We have had 23 this year , of which 13 or 14 have been works Bills . |
| 10 | For example , there have been government efforts to influence the price of land and to curb land speculations government intervention in the money market , and government manipulation of the costs and benefits of various statuses in the housing market by means of taxation and social security policy . |
| 11 | 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 ) . |
| 12 | County Councils have been education authorities since 1888 . |
| 13 | It is not only a colour variety but also a more milky strain of the breed and there have been dairy herds of the beloved ‘ Belties ’ , though they would be better described as dual-purpose cattle . |
| 14 | Twins Brian and John Linighan , 18 , have been YTS apprentices at Sheffield Wednesday for the past two years . |
| 15 | When this happens the rest of the school , who along the way have trained with the successful runner , may have beaten him on occasion , have been course markers , marshals , timekeepers , supporters and team-mates , really feel that sport is n't just another soap opera glimpsed on television or paraded through the back pages of the newspapers — it 's something that they are actively experiencing at first hand for themselves . |
| 16 | We may note from Table 9.6(a) that equity financing never exceeded 34 per cent of the total , indeed the primary sources of finance have been bank advances and ‘ other ’ ( Euroloans etc. ) over the entire period covered by the table . |
| 17 | In the majority of studies the most frequently used drugs have been thiazide diuretics and beta-blocking agents . |
| 18 | Quite apart from the desire for steady and precise steering qualities as offered by the conical camber of the Rogallo sail forms , there always have been kite flyers who were less interested in ‘ Figurekiting ’ and more inclined to the spectacular fast flying trains of smaller kites with linked bridles . |
| 19 | ‘ A number of distinguished engineers have been Whitworth Scholars , and we expect this year 's award winners to be high achievers in their subsequent careers , ’ he said . |
| 20 | Airline pilots commonly have difficulty in sleeping properly after long flights , especially when there have been time-zone changes . |
| 21 | The targets of these attacks , beatings , kidnappings and murders have been trade unionists , peasants ( especially those involved in campaigns for land redistribution and resistance to recruitment into civil defence patrols ) and Indians who have given themselves up to the army and been taken to resettlement areas after years of living in hiding in the mountains . |
| 22 | There have been personality clashes , difference of opinion on degrees of centralisation and devolution , but , quite apart from successes in individual subject projects , it has been shown that in at least one instance , a local curriculum committee can be made to work productively , a model well worth studying . |
| 23 | And it is no bad thing that Karajan , whose concerts have been gala occasions now for the best part of forty years , also sold around one hundred million records since he began recording in earnest in 1946 . |
| 24 | In recent years there have been language conflicts in Spain , Wales , India and South Africa and more recently in the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia — as different ethnic groups have chosen the language they love as a rallying point . |
| 25 | The most recent approaches have been language laboratories and computer-based instruction . |
| 26 | There have been coal stations and milk stations . |
| 27 | We regret very much the fact that there have been job losses in the defence industry — of course — and the figure is 25,000 — If the hon. Gentleman will not even listen to the reply to his argument it is his loss . |
| 28 | Some of history 's worst decisions have been group decisions . |
| 29 | erm potentially , in a rich soil , in a wide range of erm crops , of course , coffee , cotton , tea , especially have been export earners in the past , but also they produce sugar and erm basic foodstuffs . |
| 30 | In Teheran , there have been power cuts , and even basic food stuffs have been short . |