Example sentences of "have [be] [num] 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 | There have been millions of suicides in the history of the world , but none , according to Kirillov , for this reason . |
| 16 | Between the 17th century and the present day , there have been hundreds of detailed sightings of terrifying creatures at sea . |
| 17 | There have been hundreds of convoys through Serb territory . |
| 18 | The couple have been two of the multi-millionaire showman 's biggest supporters in his campaign to help AIDS charities . |
| 19 | There have been two of us on this morning . |
| 20 | For years now there have been thousands of letters written about tennis players . |
| 21 | To take the example of the present case no doubt there have been thousands of requisitions in this country by individual ministries . |
| 22 | ‘ Since they arrived there have been thousands of deaths . |
| 23 | There have been thousands of words written on recycled paper and now there will be even more as JS has launched a new range of recycled stationery . |
| 24 | For every guest who actually appears on the show , there have been dozens of telephone calls . |
| 25 | However , although the first part is quiet , the quietness is deadly — it is the still of a battlefield after a battle — the sort of picture you have is one of a film of war where the previous scene has been fast , tense and confusing with loud , dramatic music and scenes of battle and suddenly everything becomes quiet as the camera moves slowly over a battle field strewn with bodies — this is the sort of stillness of these lines — the stillness of death . |