Example sentences of "[pron] have been [noun] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where they men who had been quarry men ? |
| 2 | After the 1987 election , the parliamentary party had only eleven MPs who had served in the Guards , and a further eight who had been cavalry officers . |
| 3 | Three of the ‘ Dainty Dozen ’ ( as the 482nd christened them ) who had been MT drivers during the war drove the party around in a 12-seater minibus that flew Union Jacks to warn the unsuspecting American public that they were not used to driving on the wrong side of the road . |
| 4 | He was not like the saints you read about who had been parish priests . |
| 5 | We had been childhood friends , not from deep affection , or even from admiration , but because we were the same sort of person and trusted one another . |
| 6 | Thatcherism was born and during the last decade there has been record redundancies and bankruptcies within the U K as a whole . |
| 7 | There 've been smoke alarms |
| 8 | Since late July in cities across the country there had been work stoppages and demonstrations in protest at the lack of cigarettes , in many cases degenerating into rioting . |
| 9 | A hospital spokesman admitted there had been teething troubles . |
| 10 | There had been stone dragons , and jade dragons so delicate that they disintegrated at a puff of breath . |
| 11 | There had been women writers of the Restoration whose reputations were unassailable , notably Katherine Phillips , but to publish was indeed a risk . |
| 12 | Of course there had been interrogation sessions in the Lubyanka , but they had been flimsy affairs , for hanging over their progress had been the sword of a man 's release . |
| 13 | There had been trade unions before of course , and er activity but not to the same extent between fifteen er nineteen fifty five to sixty , there was a great surge forward . |
| 14 | Last night there had been Christmas bells ringing all over London . |
| 15 | There had been car break-ins in the area but there was nothing to connect Wolfenden with them . |
| 16 | There had been oriole rumours circulating earlier . |
| 17 | There had been book burnings and riots from Bangladesh to Bradford . |
| 18 | There have been grade-A hypocrites all through history . |
| 19 | There have been port stations , waterfront interchanges between the railways and the water-borne transport of river , lake , and sea : in the United States , New Bedford , New Haven , and East Boston ; in Canada , Prince Rupert , Vancouver , Montreal ; in Britain , Holyhead , Folkestone Harbour , and Portsmouth Harbour . |
| 20 | It is not only a colour variety but also a more milky strain of the breed and there have been dairy herds of the beloved ‘ Belties ’ , though they would be better described as dual-purpose cattle . |
| 21 | Within living memory there have been cathedral organists who have taught their skills to articled pupils . |
| 22 | For example , there have been government efforts to influence the price of land and to curb land speculations government intervention in the money market , and government manipulation of the costs and benefits of various statuses in the housing market by means of taxation and social security policy . |
| 23 | The Ulster ceasefire was not unexpected — there have been Christmas truces in previous years . |
| 24 | There have been research monographs on corporate crime and law enforcement processes in America ( Clinard and Yeager 1980 ) , Australia ( Hopkins 1978 ) , Britain ( Carson 1981 ; Carson and Martin 1974 ) , and Canada ( Goff and Reasons 1978 ) . |
| 25 | There have been personality clashes , difference of opinion on degrees of centralisation and devolution , but , quite apart from successes in individual subject projects , it has been shown that in at least one instance , a local curriculum committee can be made to work productively , a model well worth studying . |
| 26 | We regret very much the fact that there have been job losses in the defence industry — of course — and the figure is 25,000 — If the hon. Gentleman will not even listen to the reply to his argument it is his loss . |
| 27 | In recent years there have been language conflicts in Spain , Wales , India and South Africa and more recently in the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia — as different ethnic groups have chosen the language they love as a rallying point . |
| 28 | There have been coal stations and milk stations . |
| 29 | This can be useful during the occasional compulsory attendance at official Indonesian functions , or when waiting in government offices for filming permits to be granted ; but there have been dinner parties , at which he was the guest of honour , when he was actually thought to have died at table . |
| 30 | There have been racecourse stations , such as Newbury Racecourse and Aintree . |