Example sentences of "the [noun pl] have [been] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The maps have been a big hit with government departments and firms with large vehicle fleets , a market once considered of only peripheral interest by Mr Honey . |
| 2 | In Sussex most conservation work has been carried out to conserve particularly vulnerable habitats , in which birds are often an important element , and in a few cases the birds have been the main reason for the conservation work . |
| 3 | There are enough good , specific reference sources available these days for the captions to have been a great deal more informative ; even at this very reasonable price the reader has a right to expect less of the hard work to be left up to him . |
| 4 | Many , probably the great majority of the population , were convinced by 1939 if not before that the Jews had been a harmful influence in German society , and that it would be better if those still remaining left ( or were forced to leave ) as soon as possible . |
| 5 | The lot of the Jews had been an uneasy one for many centuries ; now , for the first time , they were massacred in western Europe . |
| 6 | Dock Road is the main route linking the M53 motorway with Seacombe and the Twelve Quays area , and the cranes have been a familiar sight for drivers for years but some will see their disappearance as further evidence of the de-industrialisation of Merseyside . |
| 7 | The Conservatives have been a long way ahead of Labour not just in seats ( an arbitrary effect of the electoral system ) but also in votes . |
| 8 | One of the pilots had been the ace Al Deere . |
| 9 | What over the years have been the main disadvantages for textile manufacturers ? |
| 10 | The strongest weapon the Serbian state has employed against the Albanians has been an economic one . |
| 11 | But his power-broking behind the scenes has been the decisive factor in bringing uncommitted , but conservative-inclined deputies to heel . |
| 12 | A point of general agreement among the critics has been the arbitrary allocation of the influence of the unaccounted residual factors to education . |
| 13 | By now , the negotiations had been a long and tedious process . |
| 14 | A long-term irritant to the police has been the ongoing allegation that some officers have been closely connected with freemasonry . |
| 15 | They renounced the women as sexual objects , even though their desires for the women had been the original motive for killing the father . |
| 16 | And er there was very little money spent on the roads at that time , the , the railways had been the great carriers of everything and the motorcars were just coming in . |
| 17 | The Evergreens had been a large and comfortably rustic dwelling , too big and rambling to be a house but too small and unpretentious to be a mansion . |
| 18 | More useful than the rainstorms has been the steady drizzle over the past few weeks . |