Example sentences of "[conj] have been [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One highly ‘ political ’ Lord Chancellor — like Lord Hailsham of St Marylebone — can , if he chooses , make a considerable impact on judicial lawmaking at the highest level but , for this to be so , it is not necessary that he should have held political office or have been a Member of Parliament or a law officer . |
| 2 | These are extreme cases — yet , if you 've been involved in a disaster or have been a victim of crime ( Victim Support 's specialist area ) you may find yourself suffering from what has now been identified as Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder . |
| 3 | Or have been an associate for four years and a member for six years |
| 4 | No counsellor can assume that ‘ good ’ relationships either are or have been the norm within the family , and idealistic pictures of family life as a reciprocally loving , mutually committed and concerned relationship should be abandoned . |
| 5 | Until recently we used to laugh behind our hands at the unfortunate women of the Soviet Union , who had to drive buses , work cranes and perform other heavy duties that have been a man 's prerogative since the beginning of time , due to an acute shortage of labour . |
| 6 | Whilst learning to take the rough and the smooth of rugby fortunes with a philosophic air , Townsend has already reacted to criticism with refinements to his play that have been a factor in his selection for Australia : ‘ I tend to pay heed more to criticism than to praise . |
| 7 | Three months after becoming prime minister , he is already putting in place a vast programme to privatise the state-owned businesses that have been a drag on the country since they were nationalised by Zulfikar Ali Bhutto in the early 1970s . |
| 8 | The Salvage Shop deals in goods that have been the subject of insurance claims , fire , flood and bankruptcy . |
| 9 | The second point to note about the Ellis and Bowerman surveys is that neither was concerned with cases of really outstanding creativity , of the kind that have been the subject of individual biographical analyses . |
| 10 | Nor do they deal with the real dilemmas of participation that have been the focus of considerable research . |
| 11 | Will the Secretary of State assure the House that after the election and in the event of my right hon. Friend the Member for Islwyn ( Mr. Kinnock ) forming a Government , the right hon. Gentleman will support that Government in seeking to revive the talks on the basis of the three strands that have been the basis of his patient talks over the past two years ? |
| 12 | Pahl ( 1984 ) asserts that it is the last hundred years that have been the aberration compared with the greater flexibility of both earlier periods and the present time . |
| 13 | So you learn how to open the gate between ages and worlds , to cross the thresholds that have been the province of the shaman since the great days of the hunter . |
| 14 | His team has manfully cleared blocked gutters , downpipes and underground drains that have been the result of years of neglect and prior to the commencement of Phase 1 repair work , they have been ‘ fire fighting ’ the leaks in the sanctuary roof to limit deterioration of the fabric . |
| 15 | For example , the warranty may state that there are and have been no disputes with employees in the last three years . |
| 16 | I got the fellowship and have been a fellow of Caius College ever since . |
| 17 | The theological concepts contained in these phrases are weighty ones indeed and have been the subject of fervent discussion for centuries . |
| 18 | Elizabeth 's intentions in 1558 have been no more clear to historians than they were to contemporaries , and have been the subject of much debate and discussion . |
| 19 | The dreadful effects of this on the wealthy landowners and merchants of Britain is well documented by Ammianus Marcellinus , and have been the subject of a recent study . |
| 20 | The theoretical differences between recall and recognition are complex and have been the subject of considerable debate ( e.g. Kintsch , 1970 ; Mandler , 1980 ; Tulving , 1976 , 1983 ) . |
| 21 | It may look to some extent like the original , it may even retain traces of the original , but the many pieces that make the whole were added at different times and have been the subject of change and much repair work . |
| 22 | By the time Bishop Shine had become Bishop in the twenties the Faith C.J. became very involved and have been the mainstay of the Guild to this day . |
| 23 | Such research has purported to show that abusing parents are more likely to have , for example , personality problems ( Loss and Glancy , 1983 ; Kokkevi and Agathonos , 1987 ) , low IQ ( Oliver , 1977 ) and have been the victims of abuse themselves ( Kempe and Kempe , 1978 ) . |
| 24 | The stones may have been the origin of market sites , and have been the focus , or ompholos , around which market towns grew up . |
| 25 | these forms are less common than the B strain in the UK , but have been the cause of epidemics in other areas such as Sub-Saharan Africa . |