Example sentences of "[conj] [noun pl] have [been] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although collectors have been the traditional mainstays of this market , they had been largely absent for several seasons . |
| 2 | In the 30-plus years since I started my CIT life as a student , I have found the many local and national meetings and lectures to have been a valuable way of giving and receiving information and help . |
| 3 | Always boobs have been big business , blondes have had more fun , ‘ sexuality ’ has been top of the agenda and brains have been a distinct disadvantage , as we have tried to emulate the qualities of the famous beauties our men salivate over . |
| 4 | The results of assessments and examinations have been a valuable source of feedback to enable teachers to evaluate their teaching material , curriculum , presentation and so on . |
| 5 | Mr Chambers ' name and virtues had been the main topic of her mother 's conversation for the last two months , and no matter how many times Honor expressed her dislike of the man , Flora continued to press the subject . |
| 6 | Irons and radios had been the only appliances owned by the majority of consumers before the War and they were joined by electric fires at the end of it . |
| 7 | The council is aiming at money earmarked for spending on rural development , what the European Commission calls Objective 5b , the status which the Highlands and Islands have been the only Scottish region to have had in recent years . |
| 8 | Although slides and photos have been the traditional medium , and are widely accepted as substitutes for the landscape ( Shuttleworth , 1980b ) , Kreimer ( 1977 ) has also argued that they need to be put more fully into their context . |
| 9 | Rivers and canals had been the main means of transporting goods , particularly heavy or bulky goods , but at the beginning of the nineteenth century , railways began to appear . |
| 10 | There was no lack of enterprise in founding monasteries or endowing them ; it seems likely that if spinsters had been a serious problem to the fathers of the age , more convents of nuns would have appeared . |
| 11 | In many areas , the recovery has been so slow that cultivators have been able to move in , while fires have been an added retardant to recovery , sometimes resulting in the familiar Imperata savanna . |
| 12 | A stress on responsibilities as well as rights has been a significant and long-standing feature of the British culture and has been well imbued by a large part of the nation 's political elite . |