Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun pl] have be a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some of my players have been a bit naive over what they have said . ’ |
| 2 | Many of those whose names appeared on the lists also complained , arguing that their overdrafts had been a product of the chronic inefficiency of the bank and its slack accounting procedures . |
| 3 | If central actors have not been literally squalid , the results of their actions have been a mess through their failure to comprehend the differentiated nature of the system ’ ( 1985 , p. 55 ) . |
| 4 | For a while she thought that her visions had been a delirium , but then fell into an exhausted sleep when she received her sixteenth revelation in a dream which reassured her and made her deeply ashamed of her doubts . |
| 5 | Her clothes had been a problem . |
| 6 | For prison staff , opening their doors has been a chance to show people the reality of a modern jail . |
| 7 | His eyes had been a brand on her flesh , stripping away her clothes , caressing her so that she had felt her heartbeat quickening . |
| 8 | He tore a page from his notebook , offered it with a pencil to Sharpe , then volunteered his own patrol to take the despatch to General Dornberg 's headquarters in Mons. Dornberg was the General in charge of these cavalry patrols which watched the French frontier , and finding one of his officers had been a stroke of luck for Sharpe ; by pure accident he had come across the very men whose job was to alert the allies of any French advance . |
| 9 | According to press reports at the time , Lori McElroy and her boyfriend claimed Nicholas and his friends had been a problem throughout the holiday . |
| 10 | He did not write an autobiography , but his letters have been a source of fascination to a wide audience , especially artists . |
| 11 | In other words , one legacy of the regime of Councillor Pickles and his colleagues has been a city where the Conservatives have managed to stem the tide to Labour over the past decade . |
| 12 | Our lives have been a picture torn in two . |