Example sentences of "[noun] have be [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | most people I 've talked to their little lads have been two before they started talking , seems to be very slow |
| 2 | Snobby brands have been one of the success stories of the late 1980s . |
| 3 | Their maturity and intelligence have been two vital possessions for survival in a business that is often evanescent . |
| 4 | Pliant judges have been one of Pakistan 's problems in the past . |
| 5 | and then they say there 's a trip going round at the brewery , er you can either have the er twenty five minute trip or the , the forty minute trip , whichever you want , well of course everybody says the twenty five and then the rep always , it says oh well these fellas have been four times before so we stop in the bar and you can have what you want , spirits whatever you like and then the bucket comes out and it 's , it 's smashing |
| 6 | But it is clear , too , that social classes have been one of the fundamental elements in political conflict in many other types of society ; that slave rebellions , peasant revolts and the bourgeois revolutions were so many instances of a continuous struggle over the control of the labour process and the appropriation of the products of labour . |
| 7 | These demand changes have been one source of the escalating costs of voluntary and private residential child care and this escalating cost has , in a time of severe fiscal constraint , itself contributed to a further fall in the demand for contracted out places by local authorities . |
| 8 | This century the professions have been one of the fastest growing sectors of the occupational structure . |
| 9 | These provisions have been one of the major forces responsible for the complete change in standard terms and conditions for dealing with consumers that came in after the passing of the UCTA . |
| 10 | Although recently extreme dates have been 14 August ( 1970 , Rye ) , and 1 May ( 1968 , Cuckmere ) , this species is most abundant from October to January . |
| 11 | The London Emergency Bed Service reports that this winter things have been four times as hard as last year , and my experience confirms this . |
| 12 | In this latter respect , government policy ( or the threat of intervention ) would seem to be the most significant factor tending to remove authority over collective bargaining to the national confederations.9 Attempts to align the outcome of wage negotiations with macroeconomic policy objectives have been one factor which has tended to raise the level of bargaining and it has played a significant role at certain periods in countries such as Holland , Norway and Austria . |
| 13 | Fiscal stability and governmental co-operation have been two features of the tax regime in the past which have encouraged investment in the UK . ’ |
| 14 | He has achieved his success through his own talent , the support of his parents , and the skill and guidance of David Lloyd , the fiercely independent former British Davis Cup player whose mushrooming tennis centres have been one of the few success stories in British tennis in the last decade . |
| 15 | Since rising retirement rates among elderly people have been one of the striking developments in labour market behaviour this century , it seems appropriate to begin by looking at the reasons why the employment status of the elderly population has changed so much over time , and the consequences of this change . |
| 16 | Rolls-Royce spokesman David Preston said : ‘ It is well known that our sales have been 50 per cent down on what they were in 1990 so any reduction is welcome . ’ |
| 17 | Most of the horses I have bought in the past have been five or six years old , and have been at the stage of jumping around Discovery and Newcomer classes . |
| 18 | But Parry says : ’ These NFL games have been one of the great success stories of the last decade . |
| 19 | The couple have been two of the multi-millionaire showman 's biggest supporters in his campaign to help AIDS charities . |
| 20 | Freedom of association and expression have been two further casualties of the government 's emergency powers . |
| 21 | MICK McCarthy 's scoring exploits with Skibbereen have been one of the outstanding features of the All Ireland Club football championship campaign . |
| 22 | Most notable in the first category have been six veterans of the Romanian Communist Party who at the beginning of the year addressed an open letter of defiance to President Ceausescu , telling him that ‘ the very idea of socialism for which we have fought is discredited by your policies ’ . |
| 23 | Among a mass of bloody feathers lay what appeared to be the remains of two– or it mi–ht have been three , freshly killed pigeons . |
| 24 | Tests on the A38 near Burton-upon-Trent have been 100 per cent successful , says a Department of Transport spokesman . |