Example sentences of "have [be] [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Police 's long term answer has been Operation Overdrive . |
| 2 | British Nuclear Fuels has been find £7,500 plus costs after admitting the unauthorized disposal of radioactive waste . |
| 3 | Okay finally , a third m major er class of ion channel i which has been extensively worked on over the last few years , since the advent of patch clamping er has been second messenger gated channels , so-called second messenger gated channels . |
| 4 | It is clear that the proximate cause has been government action . |
| 5 | For instance , one important factor put forward to explain the growth of trade union membership among white collar workers in Britain has been government policy which created a favourable climate for such union expansion . |
| 6 | Over the past ten years it has been government policy to encourage this ( DHSS , 1976a ) . |
| 7 | Of the domestic borrowers , local authorities issued , in the years between the mid-1950s and the early 1980s , a large volume of stocks ( over five years to maturity ) and negotiable bonds ( from one to four years to maturity ) ; but in recent years it has been government policy to centralise most public-sector borrowing and as a result public issues by local authorities have all but ceased . |
| 8 | In this situation during anaesthesia the laryngeal mask has been life saving . |
| 9 | By far the greatest part of maintenance research developed by institutions of state for marginal areas has been soil conservation techniques ( outlined in Ch. 5 ) , which , as this book shows , have had to be imposed by colonial powers to be ‘ induced ’ at all . |
| 10 | But it has been in existence for almost as long as there has been detective fiction . |
| 11 | Ennis District Secretary since 1988 , John has been branch representative in several locations . |
| 12 | He has been branch representative in most of the branches in which he has worked . |
| 13 | Besides her present location , Joan has been branch representative in Ballynahinch where she joined the Bank in 1978 . |
| 14 | He has been branch representative in most branches in which he has worked and an Area Council member for 15 years . |
| 15 | This should not be particularly surprising since the main element has been price support for commodities such as grain and sugar which are produced principally in the more favoured farming areas . |
| 16 | The most practical source of such radiation has been synchrotron radiation , which is of limited spectral purity and is available only at a few facilities . |
| 17 | In hotels and catering , which also falls into the category of a " traditional " temporary working sector , there has been union opposition to temporary working based on fears that casual workers were displacing regular staff [ see Chapter 6 ] . |
| 18 | Relaxation of the small company audit requirement has been Institute policy since the debate resumed in 1985 . |
| 19 | In fact the commonest cause of death on the hill in the last three years in the Lake District has been heart attacks . |
| 20 | Three times in a row he has been champion jockey but his achievement in 1992 , re-wrote the record books and wo n't be equalled by anyone else for a long time to come , if ever . |
| 21 | Since 1987 Elma has been Derry Area Ladies ' Representative . |
| 22 | Suffice to say , however , that there has been noise deletion ( pertaining to the surface noise from both lacquer and tape masters ) and there has been adjustment of level by way of compensation . |
| 23 | Drift has been allowed for on the outbound leg in the normal way and 1 minute has been flow outbound . |
| 24 | A member of Reading & Leighton Park Canoe Club , he has been Publicity Officer for the Devizes to Westminster Race , Treasurer of the Marathon Committee and Southern Region Secretary . |
| 25 | Beth Macdougall ( below ) has left Hodder , where she has been publicity director for the fiction and paperback lists . |
| 26 | His only acquisition in that time has been full-back Gary Parkinson , currently on-loan from Middlesbrough . |
| 27 | A major contributory factor to this has been excise duty discrimination against spirits , particularly that in favour of imported wine . |
| 28 | Mr Duncan , who works at the Unilever Research Labortory in Port Sunlight , has been deputy chairman since the self-governing Trust was set up last year under NHS reforms . |
| 29 | Since then , Michael has been deputy treasurer on several occasions and chairman once before in 1975 . |
| 30 | Trudy Watt has been College Lecturer in Biological Statistics at St. John 's College , Oxford . |