Example sentences of "have been [num] [prep] the [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Moreover , because of the first-past-the-post electoral system and the predominantly two-party system , it has been one of the few parties of the left able to form a government on its own . |
| 2 | Hackney-born Ehiogu , who has won seven Under-21 caps , has been one of the few successes in a disappointing England side this season . |
| 3 | Motability has been one of the few established successes of a mixed economy . |
| 4 | She 'd been one of the few sober people at Dave 's , in spite of the home-brewed beer . |
| 5 | So persistent was the language that it had become no more remarkable than just another wayward manner of speaking and their sons paid so little attention to it that it might well have been one of the many private languages of love . |
| 6 | An option for those sure of the system they wanted would have been one of the many mail order suppliers like Elonex , Opus , or even a sister company of PC World , like Computers by Post ( see panel : A Brief History ) . |
| 7 | If their sales had been included , it would have been one of the few wholly independent records to reach the Top 40 . |
| 8 | Apart from a cinema , there were no real forms of entertainment ; mixing with Servicemen 's wives would have been one of the few ways of passing the days . |
| 9 | Many mothers were upset because they feared for the safety of their children — and because , for numerous women , control over young people had been one of the few ways to exercise power in society . |
| 10 | Amory , a likeable and popular man , had been one of the few Conservative MP 's to be active in the campaign to end capital punishment in the late 1940s . |
| 11 | She could look back on that time with a great deal of fondness ; it had been one of the few times in her life when she had been truly free — there had been no one , neither family , friends nor employer — to make demands on her . |
| 12 | Jahanbini had been one of the few people to have known for almost a month that they were going to leave Iran . |
| 13 | For me , it was sufficient satisfaction that Eliot had approved my essay ; that he considered it the best thing I had done ; and that I had been one of the few to express opinions which had his total concurrence . |
| 14 | He was on the centre-right of the party , had been one of the few Democrat leaders to endorse the use of military force against Iraq prior to the launching of the Gulf War , and was a native of the South — where the party had to improve its electoral showing in order to win the presidency . |
| 15 | It had been one of the few mistakes Gould had ever made . |
| 16 | He has achieved his success through his own talent , the support of his parents , and the skill and guidance of David Lloyd , the fiercely independent former British Davis Cup player whose mushrooming tennis centres have been one of the few success stories in British tennis in the last decade . |