Example sentences of "[noun pl] has be [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the most significant results of the repression in the Baltic states has been to recreate an alliance between Russian radical politicians and Baltic nationalists . |
| 2 | The Council of Science and Technology Institutes has been awarded a contract by the Employment Department to commission a major six-month study into the employment pattern of scientists . |
| 3 | A panel of European judges has been visiting a town carrying Britain 's hopes in Entente Florale . |
| 4 | All of this and he 's not even recovering from any broken bones ( Ben 's specialty over the last few years has been to break a bone and then come back and do or repeat the world 's hardest route ! ) |
| 5 | The way in which the argument has been couched in Goody 's work over the years has been to construct an apparatus of grand distinctions on which discussion of literacy could be based . |
| 6 | Now I suppose that kind of model of what goes on in families has been disrupted a bit in the last few years because increasingly people have drawn attention to the way in which um often the person doing the abuse is the most powerful person within that family situation . |
| 7 | Ironically , at the eleventh hour the plight of the belugas has been given a boost by the success of whale-watching cruises in the St Lawrence . |
| 8 | This attempt to ‘ define ’ by inclusions has been carried a stage further by the Financial Services Act which , for its purposes , employs both inclusions and exclusions . |
| 9 | A government-backed scheme to recycle chlorofluorocarbons from old refrigerators and air-conditioning systems has been branded a failure after two years of operation . |