Example sentences of "[noun pl] [conj] [pers pn] have be a " in BNC.
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| 1 | They are very good acts and it has been a tough battle to get through . ’ |
| 2 | I for one value the friendship that he has given me in the eight and a half years that I have been a Member of the House , despite the fact that we are in different parties and disagree on many issues . |
| 3 | Owen himself rather enjoyed the views but he had been a little surprised to learn that they had also drawn the Prince . |
| 4 | His resignation followed persistent allegations that he had been an informer for the " Stasi " ( the East German state security police ) during 1981-88 . |
| 5 | There were individual factory loyalties and there were divisional loyalties and it had been a pretty cosy relationship between the organisation and the Ministry of Defence . |
| 6 | But I mean i i certainly if you go through the , the early bits erm I mean i i i if you take well okay the , the organization bit to begin with , but then hitting the landlords politically er you know y you 're , you 're checking their accounts , you 're imposing their fines when they 've been a bit naughty , you 're letting contributions erm you 're crowning them and going through the streets , you 're locking them up , you 're banishing some of them , you might be executing some of them but i it 's , it 's only specifically where they 've offended against your , your view of the moral economy , where they , where they 've sort of been naughty in terms of |
| 7 | Mr Jones said the NSA was fortunate in having Mr John Gittins and his family as hosts because they had been a pioneer of land improvement , while recognising the importance of conservation , and had been at the forefront in developing new commercial crossbred sheep which have proved a boon for Welsh farmers and their market awareness . |
| 8 | My personal life had been a disaster : I had had a lousy relationship with my mother ; been frightened of my father ; from time to time my marriage had been close to the rocks and I had been an uncaring father . |
| 9 | Shaw spent most of his time on organization and records ; he was rarely involved directly in inquiries but he had been a first-class man on the ground . |