Example sentences of "[conj] have been [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The final set of arguments emphasises the limited leadership qualities and organisational deficiencies that have been a historic feature of the extreme right in Great Britain . |
| 2 | Property might seem to be an unusual investment for pension funds given its volatile nature , but its inclusion can be defended on the grounds of past long-term returns that have been a good hedge against inflation . |
| 3 | To claim that Britain has nurtured something in a matter ultimately pertaining to worship ( the choral singing of cathedral and chapel ) which is purified and controlled beyond anything possessed by Catholic Europe , which is purged of excessive artifice and rhetoric ( Continental reviewers consistently find English a cappella performances impassive ) and whose excellence gives Britain a mission these are among the ideas that have been the principal source of British national identity since the Act of Union in 1707 and were a foundation stone of English identity long before . |
| 4 | In evaluating these arguments it is relevant to distinguish between regimes that have been the constitutional and established government of a state and a regime which is seeking to achieve that position either displacing a former government or to fill a vacuum . |
| 5 | The local authorities spend over a quarter of public expenditure and have been a major source of control problems . |
| 6 | For example , one woman who was prominent in a demonstration against the removal of crucifixes was heard to shout out : ‘ I am a hundred per cent Hitler supporter and have been a National Socialist since 1923 . |
| 7 | Olives are grown in many Mediterranean countries , where they have been cultivated for centuries and have been an important trading crop since ancient times . |
| 8 | And have been the nineteen ninety one based , correc local correction factors . |
| 9 | It was argued earlier that man , a creature with unprepossessing qualities for higher social development , became capable of that development because of traumatic social changes which occurred in the past but whose impact was so immense that they have shaped human nature down to the present and have been the determining influences on the evolution of culture , whose function , by and large , is the transmission of the consequences of these primal , traumatic experiences to subsequent generations in the form of ego , and , most especially , superego , development . |
| 10 | Barbaric , for instance , began its lexical life as a designation for tribes which did not speak Greek ( the Romans later amended this to embrace tribes which spoke neither Greek nor Latin ) ; it is no surprise that it was extended to include behaviour held , rightly or wrongly , to be typical of such tribes and at the beginning of this stage it can not but have been an associative adjective in these uses . |