Example sentences of "been the [noun] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ramsey asked himself whether if the electors had been the university officers without the bishop they would have regarded a man of one book as electable . |
| 2 | These characteristics have , indeed , been the principle factors in ensuring the farmer 's right to protection from imports and to negotiate price and subsidy levels directly with government . |
| 3 | Can this have been the opening phases of the interaction ? |
| 4 | Examples of this approach have been been the evaluation studies at the University of Bradford , University College Cardiff , and the University of Aston . |
| 5 | Further unrest was expected in the town last night , as evenings have been the peak periods for the protests over the past five days . |
| 6 | First there had been the stone tubs on the forecourt , a constant temptation to vandals who got a more than commonly satisfying kick from ravishing these particular flowers . |
| 7 | Rent from landownership and shares in the profits of companies have been the twin foundations of the wealthy upper class . |
| 8 | All agree that the main beneficiaries of the indigenization process have been the state functionaries and those few Nigerians who now sit on the boards of TNCs ( see Ake , 1985 ; Hoogvelt , 1979 ) . |
| 9 | No. 3 , St James 's Street has been the company premises since it was rebuilt in the early eighteenth century and the name Berry Bros. & Rudd Ltd. , as it is now known , was established in 1943 . |
| 10 | And this had been the way things were for as far back as the frogs could remember . |
| 11 | It would not , they say , have abolished competition : his ‘ Grand Lodges ’ , each directing its own industry , would in effect have been the head offices of huge joint stock companies owning the entire means of production and subject to no control by the community ; and they would have been able to revert to the capitalist form of enterprise , admitting fresh generations of workers only as employees and not as shareholders ‘ thus creating at one stroke a new capitalist class and a new proletariat ’ . |
| 12 | These have been the building blocks of client server . |
| 13 | In a special three-year programme , supported by WACC , the Lanka Guardian aims to help restore the moral values , human rights and spirituality which , in the past , have been the foundation stones of Sri Lankan society . |
| 14 | Most significant in recent years have been the field experiments carried out by the British ornithologists Nick Davies and Mike Brooke from the University of Cambridge , and the field observations of another British ornithologist , Ian Wyllie . |
| 15 | The only division to show a fall-off in profits has been the foods ingredients where profits fell from £10.8 million to £9.1 million because of difficulties in the bread market and the temporary impact of the closure of the Gainsborough plant . |
| 16 | I thought it was a tour de force , but he seemed far more concerned about getting one wrong ( ‘ It could have been the studio lights ’ ) than pleased at getting five right . |
| 17 | The Mercedes and Bentley may have been the show stars ; elsewhere , though , son of beach buggy was making a comeback . |
| 18 | A notable recent casualty has been the Crossroads schemes — an example of the kind of low-cost community-based support which the Audit Commission Report encouraged . |
| 19 | ‘ Both are built on seven hills , both have been the pleasure centres of mighty empires . |
| 20 | The obvious core of such a following would have been the de Veresupporters , and there was a degree of continuity within the estates , with former de Vere associates like John Coke of Beaumont continuing to farm manors . |
| 21 | The Gallery is an independent trust but up to the present its trustees have been the College Governors of Dulwich College , acting as trustees of the Picture Gallery . |
| 22 | Here had been the baroque brothels , where wenching had been carried on in the grand manner . |
| 23 | Foremost amongst these has been the Information Skills in the Curriculum Research Unit ( InSCRU ) , whose main aim can be summarized as follows : to create planned opportunities in the various school subjects for the introduction , exercise and development of a wide range of information skills . |
| 24 | If I 'd gone to the rank inside , it would have been the railway police 's case . |
| 25 | If America and Eastern Europe have been the world leaders , the only countries in the world that can claim to be clean are those where the athletes are too poor to afford the drugs . |
| 26 | Very recently , in the 1950s and 1960s , there have been the Rex cats and the Scottish Fold cat , and even more recently the Somali and the Burmilla , although these are little more than crosses . |
| 27 | Some of the greatest guitar songs have been the riff songs , so I immediately thought of Paul Rogers . |
| 28 | These have been the Saturn years — during which that planet 's insistence that you measure up to your potential has placed hurdles of all sorts in your way . |
| 29 | Glyn was a lawyer , a partner in Rushton and Clarke , a firm who had been the family solicitors for several years , since her teenage years when she and her mother had come here and stopped roaming and moving at last . |
| 30 | So it was n't the bicycle people that , that the two , that they were laying in ambush for , must of been the car thieves they were laying in ambush for . |