Example sentences of "have been [noun] [Wh det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Time and again it has been cinema which has pushed forward the bounds of public acceptability of controversial images and ideas , to be followed by television rather slowly . |
| 2 | Ever since the time of Jean-Jacques Rousseau there has been art whose aim has been the renewal of society , but it has had no effect beyond that of producing testimonials ( even if controversial ones ) of what we call the ‘ real ’ world , in contrast perhaps with the unreal world of art . |
| 3 | Given our general theme , that it has been attitudes which determine methods , it is perhaps not surprising for the reader to discover that the amount of research on the effects of the systems of signing is very small indeed . |
| 4 | There has been research which suggests that moderately strong automatic stemming can be applied in specialized online reference retrieval searching . |
| 5 | Her many ‘ seeings ’ of Christ and the Holy Family may have been delusions which she actually lived through , as Ruskin lived through his conflicts with the Devil , or they may have been deliberately induced auto-hypnosis deriving from the Revelations of St Bridget , to whom Margery had a special devotion . |
| 6 | high I 'm only coming out with a ten flush , pair of aces , and a pair of eights would have been mine whichever way you played it . |
| 7 | No French nation was waiting in 1500 to emerge in the concept of France ; and it could just as well have been Burgundy which assumed that role . |
| 8 | * ‘ The last major wooden ( actually composite ) passenger sailing ship seems to have been Torrenns which ceased carrying passengers to Adelaide in 1903 . |
| 9 | Apples of gold referred to in the Bible — ‘ A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of silver ’ — are thought to have been apricots which abounded in the Holy Land and were introduced into Palestine from Armenia . |
| 10 | Secondly , regarding the CTTs , there had been negotiations which he hoped would prove constructive . |
| 11 | ‘ The most successful manufacturing regions have been ones which have linked flexible manufacturing systems with innovative organization and an emphasis on ‘ customization ’ , design and quality ’ ( Murray , 1988 , 11 ) . |
| 12 | Thus in London at different times there have been groups which have called themselves the Society of Twelve , the Seven and Five , and One/Four . |
| 13 | At the same time , however , there have been developments which appear to run in the opposite direction and which reinforce the appearance of employee status . |
| 14 | There have been societies which have managed without a notion of the state and state power . ’ |