Example sentences of "have been the [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most significant in recent years have been the field experiments carried out by the British ornithologists Nick Davies and Mike Brooke from the University of Cambridge , and the field observations of another British ornithologist , Ian Wyllie . |
| 2 | In a special three-year programme , supported by WACC , the Lanka Guardian aims to help restore the moral values , human rights and spirituality which , in the past , have been the foundation stones of Sri Lankan society . |
| 3 | These have been the building blocks of client server . |
| 4 | This year , amongst our more substantial projects have been the Law Commission 's papers on Rape within Marriage , Privity of Contract and Offences against the Person ; the Home Office 's proposals on Squatting ; the EC Package Travel Directive , the City 's Legal Risk Review Committee paper ‘ Reducing Uncertainty ’ , and the Consumer Association 's paper on professional negligence . |
| 5 | It would not , they say , have abolished competition : his ‘ Grand Lodges ’ , each directing its own industry , would in effect have been the head offices of huge joint stock companies owning the entire means of production and subject to no control by the community ; and they would have been able to revert to the capitalist form of enterprise , admitting fresh generations of workers only as employees and not as shareholders ‘ thus creating at one stroke a new capitalist class and a new proletariat ’ . |
| 6 | The most important have been the Dolgellau area of North Wales , where auriferous quartz veins in Cambrian shales have yielded a total of about 4 tonnes of gold , and the Pumpsaint area of Central Wales where auriferous quartz veins cut pyritic Silurian shales . |
| 7 | All agree that the main beneficiaries of the indigenization process have been the state functionaries and those few Nigerians who now sit on the boards of TNCs ( see Ake , 1985 ; Hoogvelt , 1979 ) . |
| 8 | Rent from landownership and shares in the profits of companies have been the twin foundations of the wealthy upper class . |
| 9 | Further unrest was expected in the town last night , as evenings have been the peak periods for the protests over the past five days . |
| 10 | The Darulhadis would thus , arguably , have been the ranking medrese in Edirne at the time . |
| 11 | The Gallery is an independent trust but up to the present its trustees have been the College Governors of Dulwich College , acting as trustees of the Picture Gallery . |
| 12 | Since the pioneering work of Henry Clifton Sorby ( 1851 ) , slices of rock ground thin enough to transmit light have been the staple material of sedimentary petrography . |
| 13 | If America and Eastern Europe have been the world leaders , the only countries in the world that can claim to be clean are those where the athletes are too poor to afford the drugs . |
| 14 | Previous winners have been the poet Douglas Dunn , this year 's Booker winner Kazuo Ishiguro , the handicapped writer Christopher Nolan , and the novelist Paul Sayer . |
| 15 | Some of the greatest guitar songs have been the riff songs , so I immediately thought of Paul Rogers . |
| 16 | ‘ Both are built on seven hills , both have been the pleasure centres of mighty empires . |
| 17 | These have been the Saturn years — during which that planet 's insistence that you measure up to your potential has placed hurdles of all sorts in your way . |
| 18 | Other recent influences have been the job Creation programme , the Special Temporary Employment Programme and the Youth Opportunities programme , sponsored by the Manpower Services Commission . |
| 19 | Dundee United have been the corner shop competing with the hypermarkets of Glasgow , and business has been brisk with pockets of profitability . |
| 20 | Four of these task forces have been the Planning Task Force , the Instructional Theory Task Force , the National Programs Task Force and the National Programs Study Task Force . |
| 21 | Very recently , in the 1950s and 1960s , there have been the Rex cats and the Scottish Fold cat , and even more recently the Somali and the Burmilla , although these are little more than crosses . |