Example sentences of "[conj] have been [adj] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is a good reason : those of childhood are or have been those of every client ( and also of every social worker ) and may be considered as common to every adult group . |
| 2 | ‘ I was a bit worried about taking a show that has been one of the great musical hits of all time , which I felt was a bit of fluff with one big smash song , ’ he said . |
| 3 | Surely that has been one of the major changes of Government policy over the last few years . |
| 4 | The shock caused by Balfour 's going thus did something to steady the party and it certainly produced a real determination to settle the affairs of the party with less friction than had been fashionable of late . |
| 5 | Anxious that Lally should not return to find her naked , she huddled into a blue satin kimono that had been one of Aunt Tossie 's many over-grand presents . |
| 6 | After all , that had been one of the major problems in their marriage . |
| 7 | Probably that had been one of the things which Aunt Ruth , who had little dress sense , so disliked about her . |
| 8 | Nor would it have occurred if her aunt had not written several gloomy letters to Mother — letters that had been full of pathos and self-pity . |
| 9 | Ad quodraturn is basically one square laid over another at an angle of 45 degrees , and has been one of the commonest systems employed throughout the world . |
| 10 | It has been an outstanding success , and has been one of the most far reaching reforms ever carried out in Scottish Education . ’ |
| 11 | ( FCA ) of , having been found guilty of misconduct contrary to Bye-law 76(a) ( i ) in that he in Cardiff between 26 March 1991 and 4 February 1992 purported to exercise a lien over the papers of his former client when he was not entitled to do so and having been guilty of a breach of Bye-law 76(a) ( ii ) in that he in Cardiff between 22 May 1991 and 4 February 1992 failed to deal properly and promptly with professional enquiries from Chartered Accountants in respect of the affairs of his former client and having been found guilty of a breach of Bye-law 76(a) ( iv ) in that he in Cardiff between 17 December 1991 and 4 February 1992 failed to provide information required of him by the Investigation Committee on 17 December 1991 in exercise of its powers under Bye-law 80(a) concerning the affairs of his former client was reprimanded , fined £750 and ordered to pay £l , 000 by way of costs . |
| 12 | Nevertheless , the transaction might be upset if the debtor had acted as agent for the lender and had been guilty of misrepresentation or undue influence . |
| 13 | In a remarkable case , very much of our times , the applicants lived in Belfast and had been guilty of criminal and anti-social activities . |
| 14 | The ILEA had made a commitment to schools/industry curriculum development and had been one of the five pilot authorities in the first phase of the Schools Council Industry Project , now the Schools Curriculum Industry Partnership ( SCIP ) . |
| 15 | At least in what other poorer women were telling me , when it came to after work and weekends the men were quite the women were prepared to look after the children and felt it was their role to look after the children while the man was at work ; when the man came back he continued to feel that the woman should look after the children erm for the rest of the time , and the idea of a shared child care arrangement did not operate in at least a number of the families that I talked to and had been one of the causes of the breakdown of the marriage and one of the precipitating factors in the man physically abusing the woman . |
| 16 | Ma had known her Bible thoroughly and had been fond of quoting it . |
| 17 | Miss Logan was a vigorous and seemingly practical woman some ten years older than Miss Fergusson , and had been fond of the Colonel without any zephyr of indiscretion arising . |
| 18 | It is , however , vital that mothers realise that scans do not only detect abnormalities , they also detect multiple births , and have been one of the main factors in increasing the survival rate of twins and triplets over the last few years . |
| 19 | Then there are the poems of Persia and India that I love above all others ; they have gone the farthest and have been freest of the world 's gravity . |
| 20 | The closing of the launderette had given rise to a case in the County Court , in which Edward and she had been held not to blame , but had been conscious of the contempt of their solicitor , who always seemed to be in a great hurry . |
| 21 | Normally , edges would have associated with them a confidence score ; however for sake of clarity these have been omitted as have been some of the edges which would otherwise have been created . |