Example sentences of "[conj] [noun] have [be] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of a random sample of 644 female householders who were or had been married , 87 or 14% had been the victims of rape or attempted rape by their husbands or ex-husbands . |
| 2 | He knew everyone who mattered , and it was luck as much as anything else — what if reggae or jazz-funk had been the dominant force then ? — but Parsons was still capable of grabbing the opportunity when it knocked . |
| 3 | Ernst & Young has been the exclusive distributor for KnowledgeWare in Europe since 1986 , but the company now has direct distribution operations in most European countries including Belgium , Denmark , Finland , France , Germany , Italy , the Netherlands , Norway , Portugal , Spain , Sweden and the UK . |
| 4 | For the US or Britain to have been the first to recognize Bao Dai would , said Acheson , have been to give him the kiss of death . |
| 5 | ( b ) a director or member has been the subject of an order under section 47(2) ( a ) – ( c ) of the Solicitors Act 1974 or Schedule 14 paragraph 15(4) ( a ) – ( c ) of the Courts and Legal Services Act 190 ; |
| 6 | Official sources were quoted by the Agence France-Presse news agency ( AFP ) on Jan. 14 as alleging that Aref had been the financial backer of an attempt to assassinate political and military leaders ; if the plan had succeeded , they claimed , a " civil war " between the Afar and Issa communities " would have been inevitable " . |
| 7 | It was ironic to Victor and the colleagues sitting round the table that morning that Gorbachev had been the KGB choice as leader . |
| 8 | In October 1988 stories began circulating that Kylie had been the victim of a crazed sex-attacker . |
| 9 | Bela Kadar , the minister of international economic relations , claims that Hungary has been the recipient of half of all recent foreign investment in Eastern Europe . |
| 10 | In this extract the hero approaches Stonehenge : Some readers have found the human sacrifice image ‘ juvenile ’ , and it is reminiscent of the general level of The Vale of Esthwaite ; but in Wordsworth 's defence one must point out that everybody believed that Stonehenge had been the scene of human sacrifice , and continued to do so until this century ( see , for instance , Hardy 's Tess of the D'Urbervilles ) . |
| 11 | Although Pakistan has been the conduit for the arms supplied to the guerrillas by America and Britain , the guerrillas in the field have been their own men . |
| 12 | This week we read of him losing to an unranked Swede who virtually apologised after the match , explaining that Borg had been the reason for his getting into tennis in the first place . |
| 13 | Sarazen was so sure that Daniels had been the key to his win that he asked for the old boy to be with him when he was presented with the claret jug , saying it was a ‘ team victory ’ . |
| 14 | ‘ The style that EVO had was the one I particularly picked up on ’ , says Miles . |
| 15 | Lack of incentives , bureaucratic mismanagement and other well-publicized ills of the Soviet economy may bear much of the responsibility for the disparity between the superpowers , but Robert Paarlberg 's Food Trade and Foreign Policy confirms that climate has been the chief factor : |
| 16 | It is appropriate , then , that Ali has been the subject of a great number of pieces in Esquire , most of them written by undisputed literary heavyweights , including Irwin Shaw and Norman Mailer among others . |
| 17 | This is the second year that Guinness has been the chief sponsor of the event , following Murphy 's unsuccessful attempt to gain the right to the event back in 1992 . |
| 18 | Israel 's Supreme Court on Jan. 20 rejected a defence plea to free John Demjanjuk , convicted of war crimes in April 1988 [ see p. 36189 ] , refusing to admit evidence allegedly showing that Demjanjuk had been the victim of mistaken identity [ see p. 37898 ] . |
| 19 | Although Mao has been the subject of countless biographies , David Goodman has written the first fitting biography of Mr Deng . |
| 20 | Would the shed 's inhabitant necessarily guess that Mungo had been the uninvited visitor ? |
| 21 | One of the main concerns that Vernon had was the mess that was caused by throwing , his words , the bales down , and they were breaking open . |
| 22 | During his visit to London , President Yeltsin noted that Britain had been the first country to denounce the August coup , and the first to recognise Russia ; the first to propose Russian membership of the International Monetary Fund ; the first to propose an April deadline for that membership ; and the first to support a stabilisation fund for the rouble . |
| 23 | Smith argues that Britain has been the classic case of this . |
| 24 | But surely the fact that Rowell has been the brains behind the most successful side in modern British rugby , as well as the man who managed to mesh the England Students into a force so strong that they were able to play World Cup quarter-finalists Canada on their home turf this summer and lose by less than 20 points , puts him on a par with Best . |
| 25 | Her parents had not accepted the grounds of referral to a children 's hearing , that L had been the victim of an offence , and the case had gone before Sheriff Sir Stephen Young at Greenock Sheriff Court . |
| 26 | Although collectors have been the traditional mainstays of this market , they had been largely absent for several seasons . |
| 27 | It does not make it any easier to do what we have to do , but it makes seeing what we have to do much clearer , because it then becomes obvious that Serbia has been the blatant aggressor in the war and that its aggression simply can not be tolerated by the international community . |
| 28 | It 's been certainly true er , Chair , that America has been the largest source of inward investment in this country consistently . |
| 29 | Indeed Stephen Greenblatt 's preferred term for new historical activities , cultural poetics , more clearly indicates how anthropology rather than history has been the discipline which has more profoundly affected new historicist methods . |
| 30 | I thought back to something Barbara had said not long before , that John had been the glue that bonded all his friends together , the magnet which drew everyone closer . |