Example sentences of "[num] have been [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The one responsible for putting together the JP233 since July 1985 has been Royal Ordnance 's Glascoed site : 1,000 acres of low-lying ground , with an obliging screen of hills on every side , deep in the countryside of mid-Gwent . |
| 2 | Immediately before the rate cut was made public , the FTSE index of the 100 biggest companies was down 4.4 points at 3031.0 having been 10.8 lower at its worst in early dealing . |
| 3 | There were reports that Iraq had received another Russian system , the SS-21 , though specialist circles are uncertain about this and arrival was not independently confirmed — perhaps the confusion arose from the last digits of the SS-12 having been inverted . |
| 4 | On Dec. 26 a joint session of the Soviet of the Republics and the Soviet of the Union issued a declaration on their own abolition ; a meeting of Dec. 12 had been inquorate , boycotted by Russian , Byelarussian and Ukrainian deputies . |
| 5 | The average from 1781 to 1790 had been 117.7 , with the cheapest year , 1785 , at 112.3 and the dearest , 1790 , at 125.9 . |
| 6 | Yet , writing half a century later , Sir John Fortescue recognised that Henry V had been right : ‘ though we have not alwey werre uppon the see , yet it shalbe nescessarie that the kynge [ Edward IV ] have alway some ffloute apon the see , ffor the repressynge off rovers , savynge off owre marchauntes , owre ffishers , and the dwellers uppon owre costes ; and that the kynge kepe alway some grete and myghty vessels , ffor the brekynge off an armye when any shall be made ayen hym apon the see ; ffor thanne it shall be to late to do make such vessailles ’ . |
| 7 | Until now only single childless women aged 17-27 have been able to work as au pairs in Britain . |
| 8 | On three occasions all 12 have been Unionist , but over the years the usual figure has been 10 Unionist . |
| 9 | Meeting so many of you at our super readers ' events is also a terrific plus and 1991 has been hectic from beginning to end , thanks to Frances Barnes and her team , who , together with the hard-working Good Housekeeping Institute , arrange all our special reader occasions . |
| 10 | To celebrate Britain 's rich heritage of mazes , 1991 has been designated Year of the Maze — a venture backed by the English Tourist Board and the Maze Society . |
| 11 | The sums involved are enormous : 70 per cent of the total growth in the nation 's wealth since 1979 has been due to the rise in value of the housing stock . |
| 12 | The cultural and ideological influence of the Conservative government since 1979 has been considerable , articulated most clearly in the utterances of Mrs Thatcher . |
| 13 | Despite the recession , support for the Top 100 has been heartening . |
| 14 | His views on Ethiopia and Spain in 1935–6 had been misguided , many would say ; but it is a question whether fascism , in his own understanding of the matter , ever entered into it , though Christianity decidedly did . |
| 15 | The total in 1991 had been 256,112 asylum applicants , chiefly from Yugoslavia , Romania and Turkey ( an increase of over 30 per cent on the 1990 figure of 193,063 ) , and 221,995 ethnic Germans . |
| 16 | Bogged down in Mexico and denied any support from Britain , Napoleon III had been unable to exercise any influence during the war which Prussia had forced on Denmark in 1864 and Bismarck was determined that there should also be no interference in the war which he now planned with Austria . |
| 17 | The Emperor Henry III had been responsible for the appointment of Pope Leo IX ( 1048 – 54 ) , the great reforming pope , to whom Pope Gregory VII ( Hildebrand , 1073 – 85 ) owed so much . |
| 18 | The first Labour government of 1924 had been ineffective and supported by the Liberals . |
| 19 | The GCC six had been interested parties from the very beginning . |
| 20 | Undoubtedly , the essentially non-problematic process was aided by the fact that the Six had been able to agree upon the basic objectives in advance — the economic objective of a common market and the political one of some kind of supranational authority — as it was also by the fact that the discussions were mainly conducted by experienced bureaucrats in closed sessions . |
| 21 | At the same time , the social benefits in the few years since 1979 have been significant . |
| 22 | But anyway nineteen ninety three has been another successful year for the Garrick , which started , so far as the productions are concerned with the pantomime , Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves directed by Jill her debut as a director , hopefully not her last . |
| 23 | Evolution of public transport and traffic planning policies in West German cities since 1960 has been subject to continuing scrutiny . |
| 24 | Ball , who joined the club in 1960 has been involved with coaching duties since 1983 . |
| 25 | The CNAA was not aware that the new premises were on part of the site of what was once the Home and Colonial Infant School Society , which from 1836 had been one of the country 's first teacher training organizations , and had occupied 334–54 Gray 's Inn Road in 1839 . |
| 26 | All three had been prominent opposition figures in the period before November 1989 . |
| 27 | 1984 had been good but not as good as that . |
| 28 | Nosing around the pier and harbour I learned that the fishing for ‘ 89 had been terrible , but not so bad for ‘ 90 . |
| 29 | His mainstream career prior to 1917 had been that of a journalist . |
| 30 | If the concern Franco had expressed for the living and working conditions of the Asturian miners in 1917 had been sincere , it was long forgotten by 1951 . |