Example sentences of "have [be] [noun sg] 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 | He told Mr Tebbit : ‘ You have been chairman of our party — and a very successful one — and you know the traditions of our party . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ Would there have been criticism of any other retailer doing the same ? ’ , he asked . |
| 6 | I have been Secretary of the Institute for only three years . |
| 7 | I should say in the context of the working of the Anglo-Irish Agreement that at no stage during the time that I have been Secretary of State has the Minister for Defence for the Republic of Ireland taken part in the conference . |
| 8 | I have just said that at no stage during the time that I have been Secretary of State has the Irish Defence Minister taken part in any conference talks . |
| 9 | It seems to me to have been one of the greatest tragedies in the Province in the 27 months I have been Secretary of State . |
| 10 | In reply to the hon. Gentleman 's comment about the Government 's policy since 1985 , I should make the point that I have been Secretary of State for two and a half years of that period . |
| 11 | However , I must tell you , yes I am I do and have been Treasurer of various organisations . |
| 12 | The two figures have been kind of squelched together just as in , in Exodus there are two , sorry in erm in er Genesis there are two er Garden of Eden stories so they claim there are two Moses figures who have been erm as it were compounded together , but both of them says Freud were powerful religious leaders and they probably did give their followers moral principles , perhaps not exactly as we have but something very like it and so Freud is not sceptical about that . |
| 13 | ‘ We have been progress of the Great Britain Education Bill with a view to ensuring that , as far as possible , parents of children with special educational needs in Northern Ireland enjoy the same rights as those in England and Wales . ’ |
| 14 | And most shops in the region are now dusting off the platform shoes and diamante brooches , which have been centre of the autumn collections of the last 50 years . |
| 15 | It may , for example , have been part of a private collection which itself was catalogued , especially if the collector in question was rich . |
| 16 | Oats are the safest and most natural grain to give to horses ; they have been part of the development of the horse over the last two thousand years . |
| 17 | These clubs have been part of the backbone of British rugby for decades , but Mr Salmon would obviously be quite happy to see them fade into extinction . |
| 18 | Later in this book , when discussing the divine nature , ideas of existence and of the self that have been part of the debate over theism will be discussed . |
| 19 | With boundaries go hedges , and some of those still remaining have been part of the farmed landscape since Saxon , or possibly even earlier , times . |
| 20 | The landaus have been part of the scene for longer than the trams . |
| 21 | The room in which they were dining must , he thought , have been part of the original cottage . |
| 22 | Those party members who have been part of the fight for a fairer electoral system at Westminster may be wiser , for the time being , to turn their attentions to the internal so-called democracy inherited from those internecine struggles of the early 1980s . |
| 23 | Yet women have been part of the world of paid employment for many years . |
| 24 | Ever since the 1930s , when tourists in large numbers began visiting the American Southwest , counterfeit Indian artifacts have been part of that market . |
| 25 | This paper has largely been limited to the processes within education — the ways they have been part of a wider process of economic and political domination have been little more than hinted at . |
| 26 | Once again these hidden costs have been part of the investment-need right from the beginning — it is just that they have not been looked at closely enough . |
| 27 | Ever since the victory of the Red Army in the Revolution , soldiers have been part of the Chinese people 's sense of themselves . |
| 28 | In many other trades , crafts and professions , vocational qualifications have been part of their prosperous development and I therefore commend to you that we be attentive . |
| 29 | Both women have been part of the Churchill 's special care system , where treatment is invidually tailored to the patient . |
| 30 | Its most obvious difficulties have been lack of scale and disappointing growth . |