Example sentences of "[adv] have been [noun] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | erm potentially , in a rich soil , in a wide range of erm crops , of course , coffee , cotton , tea , especially have been export earners in the past , but also they produce sugar and erm basic foodstuffs . |
| 2 | Quite apart from the desire for steady and precise steering qualities as offered by the conical camber of the Rogallo sail forms , there always have been kite flyers who were less interested in ‘ Figurekiting ’ and more inclined to the spectacular fast flying trains of smaller kites with linked bridles . |
| 3 | The only other clues available on this aspect until now have been air bubbles in polar ice caps , but there are doubts about how closely the composition of the bubbles matches that of the atmosphere at the time they were trapped . |
| 4 | Although there would undoubtedly have been job losses after the merger , the proposal can be viewed as a relatively straightforward attempt to restructure and then rationalise an industry with excess capacity , with firms which were insufficiently large to exploit economies of scale and thus unable to make a profit . |
| 5 | The Governor admits there have been teething problems which need sorting out . |
| 6 | Without the work they did , I could never have been Prime Minister , others could never have been cabinet ministers , nor would we have as many women members of parliament as we have today . |
| 7 | Better-heeled artificers must almost certainly have been master craftsmen employing labour themselves . |