Example sentences of "[adj] have been [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 | Although most of the new recruits to Kharkov 's metallurgical plants in 1914–17 had been ex-peasants from western Ukraine , there was no danger of nationalist sentiment ousting the Bolsheviks from the city . |
| 4 | The choice of the village as the meeting 's location may have owed much to the symbolic value of its name , and to the fact that there are quite likely to have been lambs in the surrounding fields at the time , as there still are in May . |
| 5 | All three had been members of the Khmer Rouge administration in the eastern section of Cambodia who had taken up arms against the Pol Pot regime in 1978 . |
| 6 | All three had been supporters of Zhao Ziyang , the former party general secretary who had been held under house arrest since his dismissal in June 1989 . |
| 7 | A follow up of the 278 long stay patients discharged between 1985 and 1988 failed to trace only six people , who were presumed to have become vagrants ( three had been vagrants before their admission ) . |
| 8 | Another twenty-seven had been students in the imperial cadet corps , the naval academy , the mathematical-navigation school or the Slav — Greek — Latin academy . |
| 9 | Of those killed , 31 had been members of the police or army . |
| 10 | Three have been members of the Independent Orange Order and one has resigned . |
| 11 | All three have been members of Middlesbrough council since it was formed in 1974 and they served on the authorities which preceded it . |
| 12 | As a result of the policy of police primacy , an increasing proportion of these have been members of the RUC and RUC Reserve . |
| 13 | Because some of these have been issues in this country , this work . |
| 14 | She stopped at the graveyard to visit the dead ; but as , even alive , they would all have been strangers to her she felt intrusive . |
| 15 | His best friend , Simon , was one of six children and all had been members in their turn . |
| 16 | ‘ 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Ten have been members of the Orange Order but nine have resigned . |
| 19 | 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 ? ’ |
| 20 | We are proud to have been supporters of him and the team . |
| 21 | These men supplied many of the first generation of Russian permanent representatives in western Europe : of the twelve of these accredited in the first decade of the eighteenth century five had been members of the group of students sent to Venice in 1697 . |
| 22 | Olav , born on July 2 , 1903 , and his father Haakon VII had been symbols of Norwegian resistance to the Nazi occupation , during the Second World War . |
| 23 | Both had been members of the party secretariat . |
| 24 | Both had been leaders of the Conservative Party . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | But most have been members of that lonely fraternity of misfits called goalkeepers . |
| 28 | The 1970s and 1980s have been decades of unparalleled growth . |