Example sentences of "[noun pl] have [adv] been the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The situation was different , because the Conservatives had then been the largest party , whereas they were now 26 seats behind the Labour Party . |
| 2 | My feet have never been the same since , he said . |
| 3 | What has appeared as an intense , bitter and irreconcilable polarization has occurred partly because our basic moral concerns have not been the same . |
| 4 | Rovers have never been the same since they knocked Newcastle and Wimbledon out of the Centenary Trophy . |
| 5 | On his daily visit to the laboratory to look at quality control tests on raw and processed materials , Graham added : ‘ Mills and sliphouses have never been the favourite areas of pottery factories — you either love or hate them — but for the likes of me they are a way of life . ’ |
| 6 | Being a West Indian spinner in recent years has n't been the safest of occupations , but Roger Harper played throughout the 1984 series . |
| 7 | These workers have traditionally been the toughest and most radical , and employers all over America are aware that if Pittston can break the ‘ mother union ’ , then the attempts to gain the ground lost in the Reagan years will be stillborn . |
| 8 | For despite having an open mind in many ways , his attitude to women and their problems had always been the conventional one of the young aristocrat he had once been . |
| 9 | ‘ In England we had Morris dancing , mostly knee down , and our ballet dancers have always been the best for quick , precise footwork . |
| 10 | Yes , things have n't been the same since Fred fell down the cellar steps and broke his neck " |
| 11 | Things have not been the same on the operational side of the art business . |
| 12 | Installed an Apple Mac sampler at every desk and things have never been the same since . |
| 13 | Things have never been the same at the Chandlers ' since . |
| 14 | Since I met you things have never been the same , I realise now . |
| 15 | However , to such countries the fact that the Fund has agreed domestic programmes as a condition for loans has often been the key factor in encouraging lending by banks and other private sector organizations . |
| 16 | The most important causal factor in industrial societies has certainly been the sustained expansion of skilled positions in professional , managerial and technical occupations . |
| 17 | The Source — Building societies have always been the traditional source of mortgage finance , however , banks finance companies and specialist lenders have also moved into the market and now provide major competition to the building societies . |
| 18 | The documentation for these drawings has always been the best of any British collection of its type , and after the paring away of the greatest country house collection of drawings Chatsworth 's by the two Christie 's sales of the 1980s , Holkham remained the most important extant . |
| 19 | Ranteallo had already confessed to us that much of the problem of fixing a date for the rites had also been the laborious process of raising money from the banks in Makassar . |
| 20 | In recent decades the most important factors have probably been the increasing number of home owners and rises in house prices . |
| 21 | The football authorities have not been the only ones to agonize over the impact of television on sport . |
| 22 | Local authorities have always been the main providers of wheelchair and mobility adapted housing , and although the actual number of such dwellings decreased between the periods 1970/81 and 1982/6 due to an overall decline in their house-building programme , the percentage of wheelchair and mobility adapted housing increased in this period . |
| 23 | Governments , politicians , departments or voting patterns have usually been the political scientists ' fodder . |
| 24 | Gilbert , smiling , interjects : ‘ Artists have always been the biggest fuckers , no ? |
| 25 | Spurs have never been the same in cup competition since Port Vale knocked them out of the FA Cup . |
| 26 | Since the Second World War , however , the political control of rural councils has not been the only factor influencing the rate of rural house-building . |
| 27 | Naylor ( 1987 ) tells some hair-raising tales of how politicians have often been the chief culprits , stashing away government revenues and foreign aid funds in numbered accounts . |
| 28 | Its leaders and pastors have long been the only people who can say what they think ; its press , although censored , is freer than the state media and its synods and congresses are the only places where people can openly discuss the problems in the country . |