Example sentences of "[coord] [noun prp] have [be] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ernst & Young has been the exclusive distributor for KnowledgeWare in Europe since 1986 , but the company now has direct distribution operations in most European countries including Belgium , Denmark , Finland , France , Germany , Italy , the Netherlands , Norway , Portugal , Spain , Sweden and the UK . |
| 2 | For the US or Britain to have been the first to recognize Bao Dai would , said Acheson , have been to give him the kiss of death . |
| 3 | Ruth was in love with the island , all of it , and Fernando had been the perfect , loving guide and everything was looking so good … but now this wretched ankle business had made her feel utterly miserable and vulnerable . |
| 4 | It had been Eleanor , quiet , firm , devoted whom Dorothea had loved , and Eleanor had been the only living person whose presence she could bear when Hallam died a year after their coming to Haverstock . |
| 5 | She knew very well what they had been at ; she and Patten had been the same , when they were young . |
| 6 | At school she and Adam had been the different ones , the Demdykes — the ones with a dead mother and a crazy father . |
| 7 | Since 1950 America and Britain have been the slowest . |
| 8 | Mum , Frankie and Liza had been the first to go , before Dad saw them . |
| 9 | Mr. Walker:I believe that I am correct in saying that , percentage fall in unemployment , the North-west of England , the west midlands and Wales have been the three best regions of the United Kingdom . |
| 10 | One of the most significant recent developments in the criminal justice system in England and Wales has been the vast increase in the proportion of defendants legally advised and represented in the courts . |