Example sentences of "[noun pl] have [be] [art] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cleanliness in TDC institutions has been a priority with the administration since Ellis 's time at least . |
| 2 | A recent development with current accounts has been the introduction of debit cards . |
| 3 | The crucial factor in the development of bureaucracy in communist states has been the impossibility of democratizing administration , of throwing it open to literate lay people as Lenin wanted . |
| 4 | A feature of these forms has been the increase in those aspects which relate to procedure rather than to strict contract conditions . |
| 5 | Testing by employers has been an issue around which , in the past , hostile stereotypes have been constructed . |
| 6 | Framing the articles of incorporation for the non-profit foundation and its initial policies has been the responsibility of Dr Steven Mansbach , currently Associate Dean of the National Gallery of Art 's Center for Advanced Studies in the Visual Arts . |
| 7 | One outcome of these policies has been the establishment of large-scale North American-style cattle ranching . |
| 8 | The impact of the rise of the English Arminians and the scale of their departure from pre-1625 theological norms has been the subject of some considerable historical debate over the last few years . |
| 9 | The only method hitherto available for the quantification of bowel activity on abdominal scans has been the grading of the bowel uptake by visually comparing it with that of the spleen , liver , and bone marrow . |
| 10 | Co-incidental with the growth of judicial review by the domestic courts has been the growth in the volume of applications by private individuals seeking redress from the European Commission and Court of Human Rights at Strasbourg . |
| 11 | The major demographic change occurring in recent decades within the cities has been a decline in absolute population levels ( Redfern , 1982 ; Champion , Coombes and Openshaw , 1983 ) . |
| 12 | Key to the improvements has been the reduction of bureaucracy and paperwork previously required for each truck load . |
| 13 | The main problem in the past for systems using lexical checks has been the amount of memory available for the representation of the word list . |
| 14 | It stands at a point where firm ground lies close to the river Derwent , and from olden times has been the site of an important river crossing , first by ferry , later by bridge . |
| 15 | Interaction within groups has been the subject of study by social scientists , and a number of different behaviour categories have been isolated . |
| 16 | This intensification of the sheep enterprise has enabled farmers to increase the acreage released in several ways and on average the percentage increase on the farms adopting the new methods has been an increase of 23% cereals , 21% sheep and 14% cattle . |
| 17 | The fact is , I fear , that the " itching ear " which popular election has created in most people for hearing candidates has been the ruin of many a parish , and threatens to be the curse of many more . |
| 18 | The chusing too high subjects has been the ruin of many a tolerable Genius ’ . |
| 19 | Such cruelty inflicted on domestic animals has been an offence at least since 1911 . |
| 20 | 3.20 An interesting and important recent development in the assessment of general damages for pain and suffering and loss of amenities has been the publication of " Guidelines for the Assessment of General Damages in Personal Injury Cases " . |
| 21 | A further source of bank losses has been the acceptance of foreign exchange deposits from domestic residents , which have also been used to make dinar loans . |
| 22 | On the one hand the multiplication of good brasseries in recent months has been a breath of fresh air to the restaurant industry , and the public has shown its appreciation by packing them full every night . |
| 23 | A very important aspect of our work over the last nine months has been the development of the new general SVQs . |
| 24 | Wilikins had been the name of her first husband , Henry , who had been at King 's School , Birmingham with Swan in the 1960s . |
| 25 | Many of those whose names appeared on the lists also complained , arguing that their overdrafts had been a product of the chronic inefficiency of the bank and its slack accounting procedures . |
| 26 | Poland was strategically placed between Russia and Germany , and for centuries had been a bone of contention between them . |
| 27 | Its most common approach through long centuries had been a kind of two-pronged one . |
| 28 | His eyes had been a brand on her flesh , stripping away her clothes , caressing her so that she had felt her heartbeat quickening . |
| 29 | With hindsight , it 's easy to see that the kids had been the victim of a conspiracy . |
| 30 | Since 1492 , when they were evicted from Spain , Tangier Jews had been a people without a country , owing allegiance to no one but the Jewish nation . |