Example sentences of "[noun] have [be] [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A constantly recurring theme of The Wedding Present has been their overriding normality . |
| 2 | ‘ I am heartbroken because football has been my whole life . ’ |
| 3 | According to Bob Rae , general manager quality developments : ‘ The strength of the company 's approach to potential clients has been our clear plan to implement both a quality assurance system and a total quality management ( TQM ) culture . ’ |
| 4 | The computer part of the study has been my personal research interest , but it has also over the years provided stimulating final-year projects for students in the Engineering Mathematics Department . |
| 5 | From the moment you were born your future has been my one aim , and now to see your trailing after that little slut , you who are in line for a title … ’ |
| 6 | He said : ‘ It 's been a fabulous two years for me at Leeds and the lack of goals has been my only disappointment . |
| 7 | The expanding Russian empire was showing an increasing interest in Northeast Asia , and China was likely to challenge any attempt by Japan to intervene in the affairs of a country which for centuries had been her foremost tributary . |
| 8 | When Hugo was at Balliol , Stephen Lampart had been his closest friend . |
| 9 | The AC contact was n't Shelby 's first ; he 'd been hawking his sports car plans around since the late '50s and among the people he 'd contacted with a view to building his hybrid had been his good friend Donald Healey . |
| 10 | The Last of the Mohicans had been his favourite book at the time ; he had insisted on being Hawkeye and Tim Skerritt on being the treacherous Indian , Magua . |
| 11 | Although Adam pointed out that a profit was projected for the whole group , and that the group expansion had been phenomenal , Miranda felt a wistful longing for the old , less comfortable days — not so very long ago — when KITS had been her brilliant baby |
| 12 | Adam was relieved ; his brown bag with the weapons had been his only concern . |
| 13 | His opening night had been his usual triumph . |
| 14 | We must accept that for any given F , if x has F , x has it necessarily ; i.e. all the properties that x has are its defining properties . |
| 15 | Australia has been his main concern recently . |
| 16 | Her father had been his best friend . |
| 17 | The damaging feature of oralism in the last hundred years or so in Great Britain has been its total rejection of any other method of educating deaf children . |
| 18 | Throughout my political life , I 've received restain sustained help from the G M B. In a very real sense , the union has been my political family . |
| 19 | Roger Carr has been my close friend and musical director for the past fourteen years , and , until my marriage to Kenneth in 1985 , shared my life and my flat in Sheffield . |
| 20 | Individualism has been his secret ingredient in developing his Flannels menswear ships in Manchester , Altrincham and Leeds which , over the years , have always carried in-demand continental labels , including French names like Paraboot shoes , Jean Paul Gaultier , Closed jeans , Nikos underwear — and Chipie . |
| 21 | However , a number of respondents specifically mentioned that training staff in new documentation and audit procedures had been their biggest headache and the largest single item of cost . |
| 22 | Gullholm had been her entire world for almost a fortnight , except for the trip to the nursing home . |
| 23 | The main reason has been its long standing commitment ( still evident in some quarters ) to the idea that each of the different forms of functional psychosis is really a distinct type of brain disease , equivalent to those studied in neurology . |
| 24 | ‘ I would say the overwhelming influence on my artistic interpretation of the world has been my early training as a sculptor . |
| 25 | Since then , this deserted corner of King 's Reach Tower has been my spiritual home , but I gradually overcame the contemptuous disdain which is heaped on all outsiders and now , finally , I feel the natives are accepting me as one of their own . |
| 26 | When Joanne had first contemplated changing her classroom practice , the GCSE had been her prime motivation . |
| 27 | Walther Kaas had been his best man in the Stasi , had fulfilled everything Kragan had ever asked of him . |
| 28 | One reason for Germany 's popularity has been its cumbersome process of checking claims for asylum . |
| 29 | The Wedding Present violently oppose most rock 'n' roll ethos , but perhaps one of the few areas where they have shown loyalty to tradition has been their gluttonous appetite for live work . |
| 30 | In the past , one of the most serious barriers to the growth of online services has been their unfriendly character . |