Example sentences of "have [be] [adj] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Snobby brands have been one of the success stories of the late 1980s . |
| 2 | As we shall see later , they have been one of the factors that have helped to tip the economic balance firmly against the nuclear option . |
| 3 | He has achieved his success through his own talent , the support of his parents , and the skill and guidance of David Lloyd , the fiercely independent former British Davis Cup player whose mushrooming tennis centres have been one of the few success stories in British tennis in the last decade . |
| 4 | Since rising retirement rates among elderly people have been one of the striking developments in labour market behaviour this century , it seems appropriate to begin by looking at the reasons why the employment status of the elderly population has changed so much over time , and the consequences of this change . |
| 5 | Pliant judges have been one of Pakistan 's problems in the past . |
| 6 | This century the professions have been one of the fastest growing sectors of the occupational structure . |
| 7 | It is , however , vital that mothers realise that scans do not only detect abnormalities , they also detect multiple births , and have been one of the main factors in increasing the survival rate of twins and triplets over the last few years . |
| 8 | But it is clear , too , that social classes have been one of the fundamental elements in political conflict in many other types of society ; that slave rebellions , peasant revolts and the bourgeois revolutions were so many instances of a continuous struggle over the control of the labour process and the appropriation of the products of labour . |
| 9 | We have been one of the foremost supporters of the United Nations , and the Government have played the prime role in enhancing the position of the United Nations in the past few years . |
| 10 | Quantitatively , they are by no means negligible : the 1982 census indicated some 402,000 people originated from the departements and territoires d'outre-mer ( of whom two-thirds were from the Caribbean ) and they have been one of the fastest-growing migrant groups , escaping the immigration controls on foreign nationals imposed during the 1970s and 1980s . |
| 11 | MICK McCarthy 's scoring exploits with Skibbereen have been one of the outstanding features of the All Ireland Club football championship campaign . |
| 12 | These provisions have been one of the major forces responsible for the complete change in standard terms and conditions for dealing with consumers that came in after the passing of the UCTA . |
| 13 | But Parry says : ’ These NFL games have been one of the great success stories of the last decade . |
| 14 | And it 's certainly been marvellous to come and listen to it , as I have been one of your loyal supporters over many years . |
| 15 | ‘ Not if I and my grandmother have been innocent of blackmail ! ’ she said , weariness washing over her . |
| 16 | There have been millions of suicides in the history of the world , but none , according to Kirillov , for this reason . |
| 17 | The concept of DRGS was developed in the USA and some British clinicians have been critical of the appropriateness , and at least believing that more work is needed to make them usable in the NHS . |
| 18 | The schools meanwhile have been critical of the hardware on offer . |
| 19 | Many psychologists have been critical of the discipline 's pathologization of racial ‘ others ’ . |
| 20 | Marxists , too , have been critical of regional policies but for different reasons . |
| 21 | To ask the Attorney-General how many representations he has received since the beginning of December which have been critical of his reaction to Sunday opening of stores . |
| 22 | Ecologists have been critical of the government 's failure to introduce planned legislation to make farmers seek approval from local authorities before grubbing out a hedge . |
| 23 | We deny that we have been disdainful of patients : we were investigating a concern expressed by them in the most objective way we could . |
| 24 | ‘ I have been proud of the way we have played in England and believe we are becoming a better team with every game . |
| 25 | Between the 17th century and the present day , there have been hundreds of detailed sightings of terrifying creatures at sea . |
| 26 | There have been hundreds of convoys through Serb territory . |
| 27 | Parents and families in the reception areas were shocked by what they saw and heard , incredulous that they could until then have been ignorant of the deprivation within a society which they thought they knew well enough . |
| 28 | We 've been lucky in that companies and organisations have been supportive of our appeal . |
| 29 | Since there are so many alleged dope smugglers languishing in Mexican jails , some claimed to be unjustly accused , relations between the U.S. and Mexico have been taut of late . |
| 30 | Then there are the poems of Persia and India that I love above all others ; they have gone the farthest and have been freest of the world 's gravity . |