Example sentences of "have been [art] [noun] [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Cairngorms , internationally recognised as an area of world importance , have been a battleground between environmentalists and developers , particularly over bad management by landowners including inappropriate forestry and the bulldozing of estate roads . |
| 2 | And say erm where he would be best used but there have been a couple of errors caused by his bad eyesight . |
| 3 | There have been a couple of announcements in the past few months which should be of interest to us . |
| 4 | There have been a plethora of studies at varying scales , which is a reflection of the Sahel zone 's extension some 6000 km from the Atlantic to the Red Sea ( Fig. 7.1 ) as a transition zone between the Sahara Desert and the Acacia- dominated savanna lands to the south . |
| 5 | Buttocks have been a problem for years and now they are greatly reduced . |
| 6 | He says some of the M-forty accidents have been a result of drivers suffering from fatigue . |
| 7 | When you witness the amount of effort and skill our lads ignite every match with , it is astonishing that our League results in our absence from ‘ The Tip ’ have been a string of defeats . |
| 8 | ‘ Not many of the original lot that landed at La Breche five days ago , ’ I replied , ‘ There have been a lot of casualties since the landing , many of them caused by mortar fire over the past few days . |
| 9 | There have been a lot of strangers in the place — workmen — " |
| 10 | The trust gets money and they pay their expenses and there have been a lot of lawyers ' expenses and the expenses of the Swiss foundation , which is also a beneficiary of this trust . |
| 11 | There have been a lot of personnel changes at Oxford Cheetahs in the closed season . |
| 12 | There have been a lot of ups and downs . |
| 13 | ‘ There have been a lot of stories recently which I would have handled differently . ’ |
| 14 | There have been a lot of studies done with regard to morale and job satisfaction and it has been shown that , that if people are well trained , they feel a lot more loyalty towards the company cos they feel that somebody 's actually taking responsibility for their training and development . |
| 15 | She made sure that the door was properly shut , and then said , still speaking in a whisper , " There have been a lot of rumours in the office . |
| 16 | Er but there have been a lot of issues and we 've done well in that field but of course it does n't produce the same kind of fee income as the M and A activity . |
| 17 | There have been a lot of sacrifices but we have our own identity again . ’ |
| 18 | Already there have been a number of reports of developments of this kind . |
| 19 | In the three centuries of its existence there have been a number of changes , notably in the equipment used . |
| 20 | Additionally , over the years , there have been a number of changes with regard to the Business Expansion Scheme ( BES ) . |
| 21 | There have been a number of changes of mind since May 1991 on the part not only of the local authority . |
| 22 | Although these functions have remained essentially unchanged since the early 1970s , there have been a number of changes in the way they have been carried out , which are best examined by looking at the balance sheet of the discount market ( Table 17.8 ) : |
| 23 | Unfortunately there have been a number of cases where monies raised by voluntary activities have gone missing and , because the school is linked by name to the parents ' organisation , the schools ' reputation has suffered . |
| 24 | Following from Donoghue v. Stevenson there have been a number of cases which have sought to apply the neighbour principle to different situations and thus broaden its scope . |
| 25 | There have been a number of cases recently where claims in transit have burst out of their envelopes . |
| 26 | In the past , there have been a number of stories about illegal use of police computer information . |
| 27 | There have been a number of surveys which have generated specific estimates of job-loss implications of particular technologies . |
| 28 | There have been a number of trends in the sources of company finance since 1970 : |
| 29 | THERE have been a number of articles and letters published recently about North-East drift-net fishery for salmon , which suggest that the Government 's proposal to phase out this fishery is unreasonable and that it is based on political expediency under pressure from owners of rod fisheries . |
| 30 | In the United States there have been a number of challenges to the Presidential power to conclude international agreements that allegedly interfere with constitutionally guaranteed rights . |