Example sentences of "[noun pl] have been [adv] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the last two decades have been just a trifle one-sided , before that the competition was excellent , with first one side holding sway and then the other , which is as it should be . |
| 2 | It 's author , John Godber , told me that working out how to stage the ski , the scenes on the slopes had been quite a headache for them , particularly as the set of course , has to be constantly moved from theatre from theatre as it tours round the country . |
| 3 | However , all serious historians have noted that the 1925 decisions had been merely a formality , more honoured in the breach than in their application . |
| 4 | In the past , and sometimes even in the present , bad environmental management of rivers has been only a part and a symptom of bad man-management . |
| 5 | Such changing managerial attitudes have been largely a result of declining profitability and the increasing challenge of Japanese firms . |