Example sentences of "have [be] the " in BNC.
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| 31 | S&N did not buy a beer , they bought a name and the price of Masham 's survival has been the marketing of this name . |
| 32 | The Dobermann has been the focus of much controversy since being introduced to Britain 50 years ago |
| 33 | One of the most interesting and welcome results of literary feminism has been the reprinting of forgotten texts , usually by women but occasionally by men . |
| 34 | In recent years the one English voice that has seemed to reiterate the Eliotic thesis in anything like its entirety has been the voice of C.H. Sisson : |
| 35 | ONLY a dealer who had just come back from a weekend in the Kalahari desert would have been surprised to hear of yesterday 's agreed £337.6m bid by MB Group for Caradon , the Twyfords and Everest building products group , so comprehensive has been the pre-match publicity . |
| 36 | It will be interesting to see whether Japanese management practices likely to be brought in by the new top management will work in an environment where aggressive individual success , rather than collaborative teamwork has been the norm . |
| 37 | The move puts new pressure on Metromedia 's partner in the New York franchise , LIN Broadcasting , which has been the object of a hostile tender offer by McCaw since early summer . |
| 38 | This has been the cry of Lebanon 's distress since 1945 . |
| 39 | ‘ This has been the worst year for me , ’ Leconte said , recounting his six months out of the game with back trouble . |
| 40 | THE HAPPY knack of winning , despite occasionally playing badly , has been the cornerstone of many a well-built team . |
| 41 | That has been the typically cynical reaction to the appointment of Christopher Haines , a high-flyer from the sugar industry , as the Club 's first ever chief executive . |
| 42 | Tibet has been the testing ground for China 's propaganda organs . |
| 43 | The official pretext for such precautions has been the need to prevent illicit production of passes , travel documents or pornography . |
| 44 | The bridgehead has been the small Western community , which now has the use of a state-of-the-art office services joint venture to be found at 50 Gorky Street in central Moscow , as well as ‘ Reprotsentr ’ , in which Rank Xerox is a partner . |
| 45 | Another boost to the market has been the removal of turnover tax at the beginning of this year , which tripled volumes . |
| 46 | The result has been the same each time . |
| 47 | What has happened in the past half century , apart from the advance of technology , has been the erection of a firm framework of regulation , the appearance of specific safety technologies , such as industrial hygiene , and the advance of the idea that safety can and must be managed . |
| 48 | The GDR 's acceptance as a real country has been the function of the Cold War , a piece of make-believe reflecting tacit agreement by both blocs that the German Question is best put on hold . |
| 49 | The abductions have served to emphasise not only the anarchical state of Sidon itself , which has been the scene of five recent inter-Palestinian assassinations , but the vast Palestinian guerrilla presence in the city . |
| 50 | But the most important aspect of the project has been the excavation of domestic buildings built between the fifteenth and nineteenth centuries . |
| 51 | Perhaps Brittain has been the chief contributor to his reputation by running horses in events in which they appear out of their depth . |
| 52 | EVER since Neil Adams retired , Densign White has been the spokesman and leader of the British men 's judo squad . |
| 53 | Otherwise , the best place to see working trams has been the tram museum at Crich in Derbyshire or else in old British Transport Commission films and Ealing comedies . |
| 54 | Mr Gaunt has been the most vocal of this band , and his election was his reward . |
| 55 | Not least among its star performers has been the British arm , Vauxhall , which last year achieved record net profits of £152m and record car sales . |
| 56 | The other and lesser mistake has been the Government 's failure to agree on a policy towards the European Monetary System . |
| 57 | Since 1965 , when the Communist party of Indonesia was blamed for an attempted coup and banned , and hundreds of thousands of communists were killed or sent to prison , the legal instrument most often used to curb political offences has been the Anti-Subversion Law . |
| 58 | This is the church which has been the centre of opposition in East Berlin for the past few weeks . |
| 59 | Although Eurotunnel 's attitude to Trans Manche Link , the contractors ' consortium , was more conciliatory yesterday than has been the case , there are still important differences to be settled . |
| 60 | The company , which owns Spear & Jackson , the garden tools manufacturer , has been the subject of recurrent speculation for months , and it was fuelled last month when Neill announced a fall in pre-tax profits from £2.71m to just £28,000 in the first half . |