Example sentences of "[adj] have been [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm , in paragraph thirteen , Invest in People , the target date for er , achievement in the award has been delayed from the twenty seventh of , sorry the twenty eighth of February , until the twentieth of May , and the reason for that has been staff effort required to get community action going . |
| 2 | A major contributory factor to this has been excise duty discrimination against spirits , particularly that in favour of imported wine . |
| 3 | This has been Eric Gill 's year , and 140 of his engravings are at Sally Hunter . |
| 4 | Until we next meet over the airwaves , this has been Lynne Cramer … ‘ |
| 5 | ‘ You mean all this has been FBI work ? ’ |
| 6 | ‘ This has been Lola Stechkin at ZeeBeeCee , signing off . |
| 7 | ‘ This has been Lola Stechkin at ZeeBeeCee , soaping my back and signing off . |
| 8 | Another has been Dr Samuel Postlethwait of Purdue , already mentioned in Chapter 2 , and who exemplifies a carefully pre-planned and programmed teaching approach , devised by a subject-specialist academic , and taking place ( as it happens ) in a laboratory not a library . |
| 9 | BK told us this had been base camp for early attempts on Kanchenjunga from the south . |
| 10 | The hotel is a group of buildings surrounded by gardens and trees in a compound , and we noticed from the start a vaguely British feeling about it — we asked our guide and he told us it had been formerly the British Embassy ( presumably during the years when this had been Chiang Kai-Shek 's capital ) , and had remained in British hands until 1960 or so , I suppose it was a consulate or something . |
| 11 | This had been Sir Ivor at his brilliant best , striking with one deadly burst of speed . |
| 12 | Kennan met MacArthur for lunch on 1 March ; MacArthur stated that there had previously been only one successful military occupation in history and this had been Julius Caesar 's achievement in the subjugated barbarian provinces . |
| 13 | Another had been William Temple , Butler 's necessary ally in the passing of his Act . |
| 14 | Among the most celebrated had been Nadia Comaneci , the former Olympic gymnast , who had fled Romania in November . |
| 15 | Musically the interim was not unproductive : he compiled several keyboard concertos from other composers ' music collected in Paris and London , and made his first foray into vocal music , with a couple of Italian arias ; he composed a comedy in Latin for Salzburg university entitled Apollo et Hyacinthus , a piece of Passion music , and the first act of a sacred Singspiel , Die Schuldigkeit des ersten Gebots , written in collaboration with Joseph Haydn 's younger brother Michael ( who since 1762 had been music director to the Archbishop of Salzburg ) and another local composer , Jacob Adlgasser . |
| 16 | The sons of George III had been prodigal breeders , had n't they ? |
| 17 | She has always been an internationalist — and since 1975 has been membership secretary of the Chile Solidarity Campaign . |
| 18 | The most widely acclaimed of these has been John Rawls 's A Theory of Justice , which was published in 1971 and rapidly assumed the status of a contemporary classic . |
| 19 | Much energy has been devoted to trying to establish which version is more likely to have been Christopher Marlowe 's . |
| 20 | They were more likely to have been bell towers , although Neeld was very much of the feudal landlord ilk and everything was designed to give an impression of vast wealth and efficiency , ’ he says . |
| 21 | The most notable representative of the latter has been Michel Foucault , who has remorselessly continued the critique of totalizing forms of history and the disavowal of a general philosophy of history in favour of strategic ‘ genealogical ’ analyses . |
| 22 | The most convincing of the latter have been sentence completion methods like cloze procedure . |
| 23 | Of those English cricketers to have played in one-day internationals , the most successful have been Graham Gooch and Allan Lamb , both of whom average around 40 with the bat . |
| 24 | 2109 and 2113 had been war casualties and written off , five standard Felthams scrapped at Purley depôt as already described and in November 1950 , while the move was in progress , Nos. 2144 and 2162 caught fire and were burned out . |
| 25 | Even though experienced Australian batsmen like Marsh and Dean Jones ( before his second-innings 150 at Perth ) have flopped badly this summer at international level , perhaps the most disappointing has been Mark Waugh , who after his sensational century on debut against England at Adelaide last year was expected to forge a long-term place in the middle order . |
| 26 | We have had 23 this year , of which 13 or 14 have been works Bills . |