Example sentences of "[noun] have [been] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The second major contextual change has been shifts in government policy , operating in the context of large scale youth unemployment . |
| 2 | Britain 's premier clubs has been doings its own campaigning on a very different manifesto — and very successful it has been , too . |
| 3 | Not that those centuries had been times of uninterrupted peace . |
| 4 | Only the older ones , the ones whose husbands had been engineers and farmers and management consultants first , agreed with her . |
| 5 | Till then , computers had been number-crunchers , built to perform one specific function — calculation — at speeds humans could not approach . |
| 6 | It was also established that the Jews had been friends of the inhabitants of Pergamum in the time of Abraham ( Ant . |
| 7 | Those qualities owed little to the opportunities provided by formal schooling or family background : the Pooles had been tanners in the Stowey area since at least the early eighteenth century , and Tom Poole 's father , the eldest of four gifted brothers , ran a large and thriving tanning business from his Castle Street home . |
| 8 | The Prussians had been allies of Britain at Waterloo , and preindustrial , Biedermeier , Germany was very attractive to many Britons . |
| 9 | Scotland and the South-West have been exceptions , moving against the national trend since 1981 with an upturn in their population fortunes . |
| 10 | If other readers have been victims of con tricks why not pass on a warning to others through our Letters Page ? |
| 11 | What we can say , though , is that juvenile crime and street violence have been characteristics of British society over hundreds of years , rather than being indicative of a contemporary moral and social disintegration . |
| 12 | Journalists also represent a fertile field of would-be Parliamentarians : in each successive general election since 1959 , over 100 of the candidates standing for all three major political parties have been journalists . |
| 13 | Saddened that polytechnics have been unable to throw off the second-class public image , Teesside University 's director , Dr Michael Longfield said : ‘ The three polytechnics in the North-East have been universities in all but name for many years . ’ |
| 14 | Those classed as ‘ other homes ’ included convalescent homes , a rehabilitation centre , an assessment centre , a holiday home for the disabled and rest homes which may in practice have been homes for older people ( the classification was made on the basis of the information given by the person interviewed ) . |
| 15 | In the past such animals have been models of cleanliness , always asking to go outside before defecating , or confining themselves to a modern litter tray . |
| 16 | For generations , ’ Benjamin 's voice rose , ‘ the lords of Templecombe have been members of the secret Templar organisation . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ Brothers have been brothers ’ bane — and may the nephew be sure of the uncle ? |
| 18 | To recap , the winners have been men who were in internal labour markets in the big-name companies and the enterprise group networks . |
| 19 | The most serious impact on the community sector has been cuts in local authority spending — the largest source of revenue for most local organisations . |
| 20 | Like other sections of the popular movement the health sector has been years in the growing and in establishing work practice and vital organizations . |
| 21 | In all these sports I have mentioned England has been masters and had all the top players . |
| 22 | From this it may be judged that the Chauncys had been friends of the Blencowe family , and that a reference from Susanna Jennens carried weight with them . |
| 23 | The first was that , since the eleventh century , the kings of England had been lords of much of north-western France , an area extending from Normandy ( in the time of William the Conqueror ) through Maine , Anjou , Touraine , and Poitou to the duchy of Aquitaine which , a century later , Henry II had come to control through his marriage to the duchess , Eleanor , previously the wife of Louis VII of France . |
| 24 | Both of her grandmothers had been ladies-in-waiting to the Queen Mother . |
| 25 | In desperation she tells Fairfax that she and Tepilit have been lovers . |
| 26 | Though most enterprises in developing countries have been by-standers in many rounds , more are now coming forward to play their part for the future . |
| 27 | Only in the club 's last two league games have the players shown anything like their best form , although the league cup quarter and semi-finals against Aberdeen and Celtic have been exceptions . |
| 28 | Coward discusses , for instance , the importance of the fact that one of the biggest growth areas in publishing in recent years has been women 's romantic fiction . |
| 29 | Ace 's grenades had been incendiaries . |
| 30 | Before the 1967 ban around 70 per cent of Albania 's population had been Moslems . |