Example sentences of "['s] [noun] have [been] [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Officialdom 's response has been to throw more money at the problem . |
| 2 | Although he has yet to win since his comeback , The Committee 's performances have been improving most of the time . |
| 3 | He had spent many pleasant evenings here ; and Catherine 's parents had been trusting enough to withdraw to the morning room , leaving them alone together . |
| 4 | Althusser 's procedure has been to show that , within a notion of history that seemed as if it could be invoked on its own as self-evident , there rests an entire presupposition about the conception of the social whole that is not derived from Marxist theory . |
| 5 | Ted Fleming 's original has been copied many times , always with appreciated success , so we have no hesitation in recommending it as a lifter for any parafauna that is within reasonable weight limits . |
| 6 | And the Sheikh 's dominance has been maintained this year as he heads the table with some £1.75m in prize money , half a million ahead of his older brother , Hamdan Al Maktoum , who owns Nashwan , with Sangster languishing in 10th place with a mere £250,000 or so in the kitty . |
| 7 | Dieulafoy 's disease has been given many names , including ‘ calibre persistent artery of the stomach ’ , ‘ cirsoid aneurysm ’ , ‘ gastric arteriosclerosis ’ , and ‘ peptic ulcer of peculiar location ’ . |
| 8 | Mr Florio 's formula has been to embrace those Republican policies which brought economic growth to the state during the Reagan years , while sharply attacking the Republicans ' conservative stand on social and environmental issues . |
| 9 | Ginguene 's most valuable next sentence suggests that the director 's baton had been waved all the time : it ‘ indicated by its strokes the end of each so-called bar and , by the various signs that it traced in the air , the various interpolations or divisions of that bar . ’ |
| 10 | If a listeners ' poll had been taken that evening I believe we would have rated 100% listenership . |