Example sentences of "the [noun pl] have been [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Very belatedly the Foreign Secretary was forced to admit that the frogman seen by the Russians had been Crabb and , as a result , on 1O May the subject was aired in parliament . |
| 2 | ‘ Steve , one of the reasons you 've been quiet with me lately — ’ more than quiet , she thought , stone-cold , dead to me' — one of the reasons has been Joe , has n't it ? |
| 3 | The Prussians had been allies of Britain at Waterloo , and preindustrial , Biedermeier , Germany was very attractive to many Britons . |
| 4 | To recap , the winners have been men who were in internal labour markets in the big-name companies and the enterprise group networks . |
| 5 | The words had been Sandor 's before he died and Rostov wondered if the assassin had ever suspected that he too was scheduled for termination once he completed his assigned task . |
| 6 | It was also established that the Jews had been friends of the inhabitants of Pergamum in the time of Abraham ( Ant . |
| 7 | As with numerous other mill sites , it has waxed and waned in importance , and over the centuries has been home to many individuals and industries . |
| 8 | One of the defendants had been Ivan " Janez " Jansa , who was now Slovenia 's defence minister and an advocate of setting up a separate Slovene army . |
| 9 | Petite Forlarty which is a castle in the middle , just on the outskirts of Florence er and e for some reason I mean the c the Italians have been colourists for yonks . |
| 10 | Let me say straight away that I am far from being a male chauvinist ( many of my girlfriends over the years have been females ) , indeed the very first person to introduce me to canoeing was Marianne Tucker who subsequently represented England in the 1960 Olympics . |
| 11 | The show was worthy of the Cambridge Footlights , and I have no doubt that some of the participants had been members of that renowned dramatic society . |
| 12 | Of 1,000 GPs questioned by the Doctor newspaper , three out of four said the culprits had been patients or members of their families . |
| 13 | The mineralogical modification of the clays has been montmorillonite to illite , kaolinite to illite below about 3000 m , and illite to sericite and chlorite at greater depths . |
| 14 | The Kurds have been victims of particularly intense repression : there have been fresh attempts to destroy the Kurdish autonomy movement , with the result that a host of Kurdish guerrilla groups now fight with Iran against the Baghdad government . |
| 15 | The median age was 33.5 years ( range 27–50 ) , and the patients had been HIV seropositive for a median of 22 months ( range 2–72 ) before diagnosis of AIDS related sclerosing cholangitis . |
| 16 | In Edgar 's time most of the bishops had been monks ; by the mid eleventh century they were mostly , as in Germany , royal chaplains . |
| 17 | For the East Germans the Poles had been objects of contempt for most of Prussian history , and the loss of land to them was an insult that was not to be swallowed , but would instead produce a festering sense of indignity , shame and anger . |
| 18 | The results have been currency devaluation ( by 80 per cent ) and inflation , with the minimum wage remaining at its pre-SAP level of 125 naira ( $16 ) a month . |
| 19 | It was money that the five leaders withdrew and the results have been cuts that threaten the closure of household waste sites in and in . |
| 20 | Maybe the thought of buying Gazza was the reason Wilko was n't to worried about letting old Batty go … maybe the negotiations have been gong on longer than we know … and maybe ( just maybe ) Wilko has the tape of Urquart in ‘ House of Cards ’ and will use it to save the Monarchy in return for the deportation of all French players with silly shirts ; - ) |
| 21 | The others have been Mick Mills , John Wark , Paul Cooper , George Burley , John Elsworthy , Billy Baxter and Tommy Parker . |
| 22 | Could the others have been examples of the ‘ leasemongers ’ on whom so much opprobrium was heaped ? |
| 23 | Needless to say , associated with all the benefits have been costs . |
| 24 | The landaus have been part of the scene for longer than the trams . |
| 25 | It is hard to escape the feeling that this proven hazard would not have been allowed to continue , poisoning children and adults , if the victims had been residents of Weybridge or Sloane Square rather than the Gorbals . |
| 26 | The 600 's usual thinline profile ( body thickness of 1″ ) has been retained on the Atlantis , but the bridge is lower than is usual for a Rick and the pickups have been countersunk to accommodate a lower playing action across the body . |
| 27 | The sufferers have been petrochemicals , textiles , and all the traditional ‘ metal bashing ’ and smokestack industries . |
| 28 | But the settlers had been courtiers , the sons and daughters of kings and dukes exchanged in marriages which formed part of peace treaties between the Black Land and the Nation of the North-East . |
| 29 | The losers have been women and those , more than two-thirds of all workers , who are outside the core labour market . |