Example sentences of "have [be] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Local authorities have been subject of budget cuts , rate cutting and unfortunately redundancies over the last dozen years or more . |
| 2 | That prison has been well governed by both governors while I have been Member of Parliament for Portsmouth , South . |
| 3 | Although there have been cases of viruses spreading on shrink-wrapped software , these are relatively rare . |
| 4 | But the many miles of treeless river inhibits recolonization by otters , and even in the 1980s there have been cases of water authority workmen felling known otter holts . |
| 5 | Some people are wary of keeping Plecs in an aquarium with Discus as there have been cases of Plecs grazing off the sides of the Discus and leaving sucker marks on them but I have not seen any evidence of this from the Spotted Orange Pleco . |
| 6 | Gastrointestinal involvement by amyloid has been reported in dialysis patients , and there have been cases of intestinal infarction associated with massive amyloid deposits in the muscle layers of the bowel . |
| 7 | Here , a granuloma forms around the larva on the retina , often resembling a retinoblastoma , and there have been cases of precipitate removal of the eye in children following misdiagnosis . |
| 8 | Cllr Murphy , who works for MDC as a caretaker for a block of flats in Coatbridge , says he can prove that there have been cases of patronage to ensure that certain jobs went to Labour Party members . |
| 9 | The move , pending a full disciplinary hearing , follows Mr Murphy 's claims to The Scotsman earlier this month that he has evidence to support claims that there have been cases of patronage to ensure that certain jobs in the local authority went to Labour Party members . |
| 10 | The move , pending a full disciplinary hearing , follows Mr Murphy 's claims to The Scotsman earlier this month that he has evidence to support claims that there have been cases of patronage to ensure that certain jobs in the local authority went to Labour Party members . |
| 11 | The Chancellor told the Commons House Magazine : ‘ Penetrating the gloom of this last year there have been glimmers of good news . |
| 12 | Although this policy may have been viewed as a ‘ reasonable ’ intervention in the free market for private housing , there might in any case have been problems of enforcement of restrictions on resale . |
| 13 | The demands of the National Curriculum have put great pressure upon the educational service in new forms of school management and there have been problems of staffing and funding . |
| 14 | He told Mr Tebbit : ‘ You have been chairman of our party — and a very successful one — and you know the traditions of our party . |
| 15 | But the years since then have been ones of decline for Yorkshire , mainly , many observers of the game believe , because of the white rose county 's obstinate refusal , until last year , to move with the times and have an overseas star player in the side . |
| 16 | The cliff contains pitchblende veins that have been sources of dissolved uranium . |
| 17 | There is no discussion of the label ‘ mental handicap ’ , indeed the authors occasionally resort to using the demeaning shorthand ‘ m. h. people ’ , and nowhere is there any reference to self advocacy , to assertiveness , to shared record keeping and assessment , all of which have been areas of considerable interest recently to people with learning disability and those who work with them ( for example , Williams and Scheutz , 1982 ; Brechin and Swain , 1987 ) . |
| 18 | More recently there have been criticisms of the balance between these two areas and , on occasions , the GAO has been accused of neglecting its more traditional audit responsibilities in the area of financial compliance and regularity . |
| 19 | This is an easy test to satisfy : the only cases where it has failed have been criticisms of the private lives of persons who are not public figures . |
| 20 | In the past such animals have been models of cleanliness , always asking to go outside before defecating , or confining themselves to a modern litter tray . |
| 21 | The 1970s and 1980s have been decades of unparalleled growth . |
| 22 | In Britain , too , there have been changes of emphasis . |
| 23 | Since the National Assistance Act 1948 replaced the Poor Law institutions with local authority residential homes , there have been changes of emphasis . |
| 24 | However , there have been changes of contrast and changes of detail on time scales from years to days , and for at least 100 years it has been widely realized that we are seeing the tops of richly coloured clouds that cover the entire planet . |
| 25 | Three modal types can be distinguished : industry-wide , multi-employer bargaining which is external to the firm , as practised in much of Western Europe on wage-related issues ; single enterprise or firm bargaining , as typically found in the USA and Japan ; and economy-wide systems between trade union and employer central confederations which have been characteristic of several countries , including Norway , Sweden , Denmark and , at times , the Netherlands . |
| 26 | Further , there have been differences of opinion as to whether any such liability of member States is joint and several , or proportional to budgetary contributions . |
| 27 | There have been differences of opinion as to how such matters should be most advantageously introduced to school children , and some have argued that the " library period " where children systematically practise " library skills " , in isolation from any other work they may also be doing , is a mistake . |
| 28 | Some of the most intractable problems in Scottish geology relate to the structural and metamorphic history of the Moine Series rocks of the North West and Grampian Highlands , the ages of which have been matters of controversy and speculation since the early nineteenth century because of their structural complexity , and the lack of incontrovertible and unequivocal evidence of their absolute age , and it is noteworthy that research in these areas has been led by Geological Survey scientists , sometimes with university collaboration , and sometimes without . |
| 29 | I write that the paradox is apparent because there have been signs of the same phenomenon in England over the past few seasons — and also because it is not at all surprising when you come to think about it . |
| 30 | In more recent years there have been signs of a change in emphasis . |