Example sentences of "[conj] [noun pl] have [been] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |