Example sentences of "in the [noun pl] have been [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The amount of confidence end-users have in the figures has been seriously dented after last year 's performance . |
| 2 | More than any other policy at any other stage in his career , de Gaulle 's foreign policy in the mid-1960s has been comprehensively criticized — in concept , operation , and outcome . |
| 3 | Sclerotization of such an animal , with jointed limbs replacing lobopods , could lead to an animal similar to phosphatized Ordovician fossils from , regarded as primitive pentastomids ( still extant as parasitic animals whose postulated position in the crustaceans has been recently confirmed by molecular evidence ) . |
| 4 | In most libraries user education activity fluctuates from year to year ; a bewildering range of teaching methods and teaching materials has been tried and applied ; and a discernible pattern of development in the programmes has been almost impossible to trace . |
| 5 | Ever since 1983 the general mood in the territories had been consistently against Jordanian representation of the Palestinians , even as part of a joint team . |
| 6 | The scene in the kitchens had been considerably more lively ; as he 'd shouldered his way through he 'd come upon a spectacle of controlled panic with Angelica presiding . |
| 7 | The decor in the bedrooms has been tastefully designed in cool pastel shades , whilst the beautiful furniture varies from light ash and mahogany to dark oak . |
| 8 | Tabitha liked it well enough as it was , though she remembered better days , not so many years ago , when the jazz bands in the bodegas had been almost loud enough to drown the furious rattle of the old spice prospectors playing mah-jongg . |