Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] have [been] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The accused , who included some army officers , had faced charges in connection with what the authorities claimed had been a plot to assassinate President Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali by shooting down his plane , as part of an armed uprising to replace the present government with an Islamic one . |
| 2 | Another of his favourites seems to have been a tomato jam ; this he uses for a sweet called Peaches Barbara with cream and kirschwasser and pistachio nuts . |
| 3 | But toleration of large numbers of reversioners seems to have been a feature of the reign of James I rather than the Tudors . |
| 4 | Will a great management-swindling of shareholders prove to have been a fellow-passenger ? |
| 5 | And , as we noted , the movement of which Jesus and his followers seem to have been a part regarded the Maccabean regime as a prototype for their own aspirations . |
| 6 | From their shapes , these marks seem to have been a form of writing . |