Example sentences of "[art] [noun pl] have [be] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The major demographic change occurring in recent decades within the cities has been a decline in absolute population levels ( Redfern , 1982 ; Champion , Coombes and Openshaw , 1983 ) . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 6 | The coolers had been a stumbling block , an item that had been impossible for the restoration crew to find . |
| 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 | ‘ I think that the banks have been a little frightened of new technologies . |
| 9 | Clearly , the presentation of the Alliance cause to the electors had been a failure . |
| 10 | The plays have been a focus not only of critical activity employing new models for interpretive inquiry but also of scholarly activity which has contested many previous assumptions about how plays were performed , codified into texts , and circulated within society . |
| 11 | Henry Bayly Garling 's Second Empire War Department design was considered by the critics to have been a much better choice for first prize than Coe and Hofland 's . |
| 12 | By now , the negotiations had been a long and tedious process . |
| 13 | The PRD and PAN claimed that the elections had been a " scandalous fraud " , that the PRI had organized widespread ballot rigging , and that it had used violence to guarantee victory . |
| 14 | He remembered the hot burning sands outside Alexandria where he , Sir Brian , Sir Ralph , and the others had been a band of carefree knights only too happy to take the gold of the enemy . |
| 15 | The victims have been a prison officer and three Roman Catholic civilians , one of them a woman . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Since the beginning of the fourth century B.C. the Celts had been a factor to be reckoned with everywhere in the Mediterranean world . |