Example sentences of "[noun pl] have [been] [adj] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | The running of multiple sessions has been another means of saving which , though not always a problem , has led to truncated teaching sessions , late-coming and absenteeism on the part of teachers and pupils . |
| 2 | Thereafter , their books have been follow-up studies of this second group of children . |
| 3 | ANDES 21 de junio ( Asociacion Nacional de Educadores Salvadorenos ) is a founder member of the BPR and openly expresses its support for the FDR-FMLN , while both the state and the Catholic universities have been consistent critics of the lack of democratic and civil liberties and have argued cogently for the need for social and economic reforms . |
| 4 | And the past few years have been good years of course |
| 5 | Members of trade unions and other grass roots organisations have been particular targets of killings and ‘ disappearances ’ by the armed forces , who have accused them of supporting the armed opposition Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front ( FMLN ) . |
| 6 | Chroniclers and poets in their embittered criticism of papal initiatives for peace were scarcely less vehement than the lords and commons in parliament , and when at last , in 1378 , an Italian pope was elected , an Englishman at Rome rejoiced because ‘ Previous popes and their cardinals had been greater enemies of the kingdom of England than the king of France himself . ’ |
| 7 | These demand changes have been one source of the escalating costs of voluntary and private residential child care and this escalating cost has , in a time of severe fiscal constraint , itself contributed to a further fall in the demand for contracted out places by local authorities . |
| 8 | The Supreme Court on March 4 formally recognized that 61 workers sentenced in December 1987 for their role in the Brasov riots had been political prisoners of the former Communist regime . |
| 9 | An understanding had been arrived at with the Danish Tourist Board that nothing of the fabric or the furnishings and fittings in either the Tuscan Villa or The Tamarisks should be altered ; the houses had been complete works of art when they were taken over and were to be respected as such . |
| 10 | Ironically , Wang 's sons have been major beneficiaries of those reforms . |
| 11 | Recent film aliens have been parodic reflections of the everyday absurdities of post-modern culture rather than attempts to imagine something genuinely other . |