Example sentences of "have been [art] [n mass] [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Right across the company there has been a series of initiatives to make it even more effective . |
| 2 | I 've never claimed much ; I 've never claimed to be a great original ; my life has been a series of accidents with me just sort of helping along . ’ |
| 3 | There has been a series of decisions over the past 50 years which , although they are said to be cases of estoppel are not really such . |
| 4 | and as you well know there has been a series of meetings in |
| 5 | There has been a series of trials within the Engineering Branch of the RAF of the technologies related to expert systems over the past 5 to 10 years . |
| 6 | They too were identified in the Royal Commission and , similarly , there has been a series of developments in the intervening decade . |
| 7 | For instance in one area recently there has been a series of protests and demonstrations regarding poor and inadequate housing conditions , the majority of the members of the committees which were responsible for organising the protests are members of the IRA . |
| 8 | ‘ Since our major programs lasted for a decade or more , some observers have mistakenly , in my opinion , concluded that Highlander has been a series of schools . |
| 9 | For regulationist theories the history of capitalist development has been a series of phases each dominated by a different combination of regime of accumulation and mode of regulation . |
| 10 | One interesting aspect of all this has been the series of developments in ‘ maritime ’ North Shields by housing associations in advance of similar activity by the Urban Development Corporation . |
| 11 | FEBRUARY , May and August could be seen as rehearsals for November 's main event so that what may have been a series of happenings in these months could lead to November 's denouement . |
| 12 | This could easily have been a series of practices such as our own in areas where no education or communication with the local general practitioners took place . |
| 13 | His entire career in industry seems to have been a series of opportunities seized with relish . |
| 14 | This he threw with a flicking movement on to a pile of scrap iron before making his way towards them , kicking out of his path and on to yet another pile the remnants of what had been a pair of trousers . |
| 15 | The last six years of his life — since Judith , in fact — had been a series of duplicities . |
| 16 | There had been a series of photographs showing Adam with a series of women , each one more gorgeous than the last , and each one looking up at him with undisguised adoration . |
| 17 | There had been a series of rumours about accidents : pods which malfunctioned on impact , leaving their passengers trapped and helpless ; pods which misinterpreted conditions of temperature and air pressure , releasing their human cargo while they were still several kilometres above ground . |
| 18 | And since October last year there 've been a series of applications at the High Court in London for the company to be wound up . |
| 19 | This has been strongly resisted by the police and there have been a series of clashes . |
| 20 | In the last twenty four hours there 's been a series of fires started by a handful of men in this block , though no cells have been damaged . |