Example sentences of "have [be] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Predictably , the main sufferers since fighting flared once more in June 1990 have been the civilian populations — Tamil , Sinhalese and Moslem . |
| 2 | Among the more successful privately owned terminals have been the Glaswegian trio of Deanside , Mossend and Law junction , all of which ( but especially the first two ) have attracted healthy quantities of regular traffic . |
| 3 | The seven PTAs — Sir Peter Parker called them ‘ The Magnificent Seven ’ — have been the driving force behind scores of new initiatives to improve rail services by building new stations — often replacing ones closed by Dr Beeching — restoring passenger services to freight-only lines and , incredibly , in the case of the West Yorkshire PTA actually purchasing their own trains ! |
| 4 | Still , the taboos have been the source of much mirth : the stand-up 's traditional reliance on smut and mothers-in-law could only exist in a largely sex-negative society . |
| 5 | The major sectors witnessing recovery have been the shipping and the natural resources sectors . |
| 6 | Scotland 's Italian immigrants have been the most generous and benevolent of culinary missionaries . |
| 7 | The main costs to the independent stations have been the IBA primary rental for transmission facilities , secondary rental as a tax on net profits , and copyright . |
| 8 | Prayer meetings in the great barn-like churches of East Berlin , Dresden , Leipzig and other cities have been the focus of protest , drawing many thousands of people until no more could squeeze in and the crowds spilled into the streets . |
| 9 | Dundee United have been the corner shop competing with the hypermarkets of Glasgow , and business has been brisk with pockets of profitability . |
| 10 | Then there have been the more elaborate perversions which parody the sophistication of high art — Joe Orton 's and Kenneth Halliwell 's defacing of library books , Duchamp 's moustache on Mona Lisa . |
| 11 | The best businesses over a long period of time have been the ones with a single thrust . |
| 12 | They have been the nucleus of several hundred self-employed artisans manufacturing these bicycle attachments who can be seen on open sites across Nairobi . |
| 13 | This is somewhat ironical in that , as we shall see , it is Engels 's anthropological enthusiasm and his trust in Morgan which has been the source of many of the points in his work which appear now as unacceptable to anthropologists and which have been the cause of some of the most damaging objections to his theories . |
| 14 | There have been the predictable complaints that people increasingly prefer to watch than to play , that we are producing a generation of armchair athletes . |
| 15 | Staple features of the church plan since early Christian times have been the cruciform shape and the division of the interior into a high central nave , flanked on either side by lower aisles . |
| 16 | The pros and cons of feeding hedgehogs have been the subject of much debate , but scientific evidence suggests that , even if supplementary food is put out for hedgehogs , they will still hunt on their own account . |
| 17 | The Prince and Princess 's grandmothers have been the best of friends for most of their lives . |
| 18 | Previous winners have been the poet Douglas Dunn , this year 's Booker winner Kazuo Ishiguro , the handicapped writer Christopher Nolan , and the novelist Paul Sayer . |
| 19 | There have been the odd sour ones , from men who object to what they call sexism in the Labour Party , ie , ‘ assisted places ’ on the Shadow Cabinet . |
| 20 | The figures could have been used to cover a fraud operation or could have have been the result of no-one ever checking the facts . |
| 21 | Shops selling large electrical goods such as television sets , hi-fi and washing machines have been the first to suffer from the slowdown in spending , while large chains like Comet and Dixons have been losing market share to small independent shopkeepers . |
| 22 | It is expected that the MMC investigators will be particularly interested in the CAA 's air traffic control operations which have been the centre of a long-running controversy involving aircraft ‘ near misses ’ , poor morale among controllers and equipment break-downs . |
| 23 | Further unrest was expected in the town last night , as evenings have been the peak periods for the protests over the past five days . |
| 24 | As in the NUM strike of 1984 , the women have been the backbone of this struggle : dressed in camouflage and calling themselves the Daughters of Mother Jones , after the legendary union organiser from the turn of the century , they have walked the picket lines , sat in front of coal trucks , and been arrested . |
| 25 | Prague 's cafes have been the centre of cultural activity since the days of the Austro-Hungarian empire . |
| 26 | What I 've found to be the most inspiring of his work have been the songs which are ultimately almost meaningless in their simplicity . |
| 27 | In the West at least people have identified with a threatened world and the pressure groups have been the first instruments of that identification . |
| 28 | Another characteristic of this recession is that financial and property businesses have been the first to feel the pain of collapsing prices and profits . |
| 29 | Joint ventures have been the main means by which about a tenth of Hungarian state companies have been touched by privatisation . |
| 30 | Swedish investors have been the biggest spenders , splashing out some DM5 billion last year on German property . |