Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] have been [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By this he did not mean the philosophical proofs of God 's existence or the natural religion which had been the focus of so much discussion in the eighteenth century , and which he and Barth , like Schleiermacher and Ritschl before them , had rejected . |
| 2 | Observers noted an absence of the intimidation and violence which had been a feature of previous elections , all of which had been closely fought . |
| 3 | Martinho had lost no time in recounting the true details of Osvaldo 's moment of weakness , the point at which he 'd flipped his lid for the first and last time in his career , that murderous aberration which had been the doom of old friend and new foe alike . |
| 4 | But it did nothing to change the institutional stagnation which had been the result of consensus decision-making . |
| 5 | Just imagine having a mummy who 'd been a Brownie Guider but who would n't let you be a Brownie ! |
| 6 | Sir Cyril Norwood was the head of an Oxford college who had been the head of a Public School and written about leadership . |
| 7 | Perhaps the most important commercial change since the invention of incorporation itself has been the rise of groups of companies with interlinking control and ownership . |
| 8 | 10.4 If , after returning to work , an employee who has been the victim of an incident of violence at work requests a transfer to other duties , such a request will be treated sympathetically . |
| 9 | Last spring there 'd been a blackbird 's nest in the tree by the goal-post in the school playing-fields . |
| 10 | Recently in the Department there has been an instance of a telephone order which has been brought to my attention by the County Council auditors . |
| 11 | ‘ Since Patsy 's murder there has been a sea change in attitude towards us by the military , ’ said Alec , a 45-year-old Catholic who has worked for the MoD since before the Troubles . |
| 12 | Already in this chapter there has been a discussion of the factors which appear to contribute to varying regional prosperity . |
| 13 | As with other elements of gerontological research there has been a tendency to treat the institutional population as a homogeneous social group . |
| 14 | Their effects can not be isolated from the HLCA system ; in essence it has been the availability of substantial levels of grant plus the guarantee of HLCAs on the increased numbers of animals which can be kept on the agriculturally improved grassland , which together have constituted a substantial incentive for such capital improvements . |
| 15 | To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry what has been the change in manufacturing industry productivity in the past 10 years . |
| 16 | They had this very unhealthy large majority and they put before the House a Bill which offered total deregulation of shopping hours and to all intents and purposes stripped out nearly all the employment protection which has been a hallmark of Sunday trading legislation , certainly for the past century . |
| 17 | The decision , following a public inquiry in February , clears the way for a controversial gipsy transit camp which has been the subject of a long-running dispute between Warrington Borough and Cheshire County councils . |
| 18 | You aroused an interest for me in literature which has been a resource to me for the rest of my life and a source of real enjoyment . |
| 19 | The late fifth-century Legend of St Sylvester was represented in the portico or main entrance of the medieval Lateran basilica which had been the church of the Emperor Constantine . |
| 20 | When embalming a case which has been the subject of a post-mortem examination , there is likely to be more opportunity for formaldehyde to enter the atmosphere but care is taken to minimise this . |
| 21 | The militarism and caste rigidity which has been the bane of Germany in Europe , has its roots in the Thirty Years War . |
| 22 | It is her work which has been the target of investigations by the National Institutes of Health ( NIH ) and a House subcommittee chaired by Congressman John Dingell , and of less formal inquiries at MIT and Tufts University Medical School , in Boston , where she now works . |
| 23 | This system overcame the risks of human error which had been the cause of serious accidents . |
| 24 | The biggest upset was in Dungannon where Ulster Unionist Ken Maginnis lost his seat and Sinn Fein grabbed two extra seats on the council which has been a model for co-operation between the two traditions . |
| 25 | The biggest electoral upset came in Dungannon where Ulster Unionist Ken Maginnis lost his seat and Sinn Fein grabbed two extra seats on the council which has been a model for co-operation between the two traditions . |
| 26 | There was a tradition that the Kha-Khan not be required to turn his back upon his people , and so they carried him facing out across the crowd , and placed him directly in front of the seat of the reclining dragon which had been the throne of Tamujin , Ancestor of the Altun , the first Kha-Khan . |
| 27 | ( This body was headed by Joachim Gauck , an east German Lutheran pastor who had been a co-founder of Neues Forum . ) |
| 28 | What 's more , the girl in question was the Spanish girl who 'd been the cause of his being sacked by the Shakespeare School . |
| 29 | Besides , Liza was no longer the stunningly attractive girl she had been a year ago . |
| 30 | ever since you 've been a little girl you 've been a wind-up merchant . |