Example sentences of "have been [adj] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rules about appropriate modes of dress , whether concerning school uniforms or clothing for PE and sports , have been one such arena . |
| 2 | The Pakistanis have been incensed all summer by mutterings that they only make the old ball swing so violently by tampering with it . |
| 3 | The rains have been good this year , and the crop has been bumper , but tobacco is fetching only 93 American cents a kilo at international auctions — less than half the price expected . |
| 4 | THE MORAL guardians of Germany and America have been active this week ensuring that youth are not corrupted by ‘ obscene ’ record sleeves . |
| 5 | THE MORAL guardians of Germany and America have been active this week ensuring that youth are not corrupted by ‘ obscene ’ record sleeves . |
| 6 | The Turkish slaughtermen offer the ubiquitous Turkish tea , a strong bitter brew known as chi , which invariably precedes all conversations , and the RAOC Master Butcher and his three British and two Belgian butchers , who have been busy all night cutting and jointing , now prepare themselves to assist in the slaughter of the cattle and sheep . |
| 7 | The children have been difficult this weekend I do n't know what 's a matter with them , I think they 're just |
| 8 | ‘ Two games against Barnsley have been tight this season and we must be on our guard . |
| 9 | Novel animal patterns such as these have been big all year — and they show no sign of disappearing just yet . |
| 10 | ‘ I have been alone all night ! |
| 11 | In Phanerozoic time ( the time which has elapsed since the beginning of the Cambrian ) there have been three such ice ages , separated by intervals of a few hundred million years when the world enjoyed a more equable climate and lacked extensive polar ice caps . |