Example sentences of "have [be] an " in BNC.
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1 | He would 've been an asset if he 's |
2 | Er it , it does seem to me it would 've been an enormous problem for the Chinese Communist Party had absolute egalitarianism worked . |
3 | Since the 1960's , Adrian Piper has been an influential video maker in the United States . |
4 | During the last few years there has been an increase in swinging and ground looping accidents and these must be analysed to see if there are new lessons to be learned . |
5 | Since Hubel and Wiesel began publishing their work in the late 1950s , there has been an increasing appreciation of the way in which nervous systems are so structured as to ensure that certain events of special importance to the organism have an increased likelihood of triggering activity in the relevant places . |
6 | Since 1933 , and the development of recording , there has been an immense range of both well- and little-known music on which to build all kinds of ballet ( see page 56 ) . |
7 | What Wieman has done — as well as reaching the lowest temperature on record — is to simplify what has been an immensely complex piece of laboratory apparatus . |
8 | He has been an energetic supporter of the democracy movement in China ; and of Hong Kong campaigns to secure right of abode in Britain . |
9 | There has been an influx of women into the party , accompanied by a decision to have equal representation at all levels of the party by the mid-1990s . |
10 | In the insurance market , there has been an upsurge in activity . |
11 | The last few years suggest that if there is a majority in the land it has been an anti-Labour majority . |
12 | ‘ It really has been an amazing recovery and I understand he gave an outstanding performance in his comeback match . ’ |
13 | For Peking , Tibet has been an inseparable part of China since the 13th century , although direct control was not established until 1950 , when the People 's Liberation Army invaded the region after the revolution . |
14 | MANCHESTER Laps has been an institution for almost 60 years . |
15 | There has been an uncanny duplication of the pre-election economic chaos that Argentina experienced in May . |
16 | To impute that Dr Runcie has been an unsuccessful archbishop by quoting falling numbers in that part of the Anglican Communion which is the Church of England is to ignore a whole complex of reasons for a reduction in church-going , including , no doubt , the encouragement of a highly competitive and success-orientated society . |
17 | Since the revolution however there has been an urgency to learn English , especially among the younger generation . |
18 | One end result has been an increase in the extent to which gays and lesbians have been subjected to physical violence , including murder and mutilation . |
19 | On the political left a journal like Marxism Today claims that there has been an underlying and probably permanent shift to anti-socialist values . |
20 | It has been an obvious target for economy-minded governments . |
21 | In the 1980s there has been an important adjustment in both exchange rates and agricultural pricing policy largely as a result of pressure from international aid agencies . |
22 | But there has been an important exception . |
23 | Main picture Squaring the circle Below left Ingrid 's Granny Gorie — ‘ the best seamstress I 've ever had ’ — has been an invaluable source of advice Right and below right Orkney 's stark shorelines , wide skies and drifting clouds are echoed in Ingrid 's landscape pattern |
24 | In the last few years there has been an increasing realization that many modern production methods are not only very wasteful but probably also unnecessary … |
25 | That has yet to be tested in public , but the evening certainly did not put her off — — she has been an ardent fan of the Welsh National Opera ever since . |
26 | It has been an experience which I have enjoyed . |
27 | We do not know which , if any , funds are affected and we do not know whether there has been an over valuation or an under valuation . ’ |
28 | THROUGHOUT history , Germany has been an idea or , more accurately , a longing ( Sehnsucht ) rather than a reality as a unified state . |
29 | Professor Richard Lacey , the Leeds University microbiologist who has been an outspoken critic of the Government on many food hygiene issues , also believes that sulphadimidine residues present little if any risk to consumers . |
30 | ‘ Activity over 12 months of the year has been an important factor . |