Example sentences of "[adj] [vb base] be [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even more elusive have been facts about retrieving nuclear depth charges from lost helicopters . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Three have been members of the Independent Orange Order and one has resigned . |
| 4 | All three have been members of Middlesbrough council since it was formed in 1974 and they served on the authorities which preceded it . |
| 5 | As a result of the policy of police primacy , an increasing proportion of these have been members of the RUC and RUC Reserve . |
| 6 | Because some of these have been issues in this country , this work . |
| 7 | ‘ 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 . |
| 8 | The poor have been students in Oxford and Cambridge continuously since the Middle Ages , and some of their ancient colleges were founded with statutes that explicitly excluded the rich . |
| 9 | Ten have been members of the Orange Order but nine have resigned . |
| 10 | But far more numerous have been depictions in light entertainment shows : often with regular ‘ gay ’ characters : the suggestion of a relationship between Hugh Lloyd and Terry Scott in ‘ Hugh and I ’ ( early sixties BBC1 ) , and the John Inman character in ‘ Are You Being Served ? ’ |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | We have used the outside scale so far because all the angles left-right have been turns from left to right looking from the base line . |
| 13 | But most have been members of that lonely fraternity of misfits called goalkeepers . |
| 14 | The 1970s and 1980s have been decades of unparalleled growth . |