Example sentences of "their [noun pl] have [been] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most recently , societies ' ambitions to expand and diversify their operations have been a key factor behind the major package of new legislation introduced into Parliament in 1986 . |
| 2 | Their lives had been a circular journey : no less than nine of them had spent their schooldays there . |
| 3 | The growth of overseas financial institutions in terms of their numbers has been a major factor in the formalisation of supervision with more emphasis on the ‘ rulebook ’ and a relative decline in the less formal traditional system . |
| 4 | However , without exception , all the women had to make some economies because their wages had been an essential part of the household economy and their benefits were too low to compensate for their lost earnings . |
| 5 | They assumed that their arrests had been a political move and began to suspect that their continued detention had equally a political motive . |
| 6 | The men were correct that their arrests had been a political decision . |