Example sentences of "[noun pl] have [be] [adj] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Muller , in fact , played off-season for the Greystones club in Ireland and by all accounts has been one of the most successful migratory players to visit the island . |
| 2 | ON the basis that ‘ forewarned is forearmed ’ the fundamental principle underlying the Companies Acts has been that of disclosure . |
| 3 | Well some of the football Leicester have played in this opening twenty o twenty minutes has been some of the best I 've seen them . |
| 4 | The lads were ‘ bang up for it — Talking Heads has been one of our favourite bands for a long time ’ , and another odd musical alliance was struck up , adding to a curious list of collaborations including the Velvet Underground 's John Cale ( who produced ‘ Squirrel And G-Man ’ ) and Donovan ( who supported them on tour ) . |
| 5 | Terry Hands , retiring director of the RSC , will be facing up to Douglas Mason of the Adam Smith Institute , whose Expounding The Arts has been one of the most interesting discussion documents of recent years . |
| 6 | The New Right emphasis on adversary politics and an overload of demands has been more of a critique of democracy in Britain than it has ever been a rigorous description of , and explanation for , British politics . |
| 7 | 1991 in many respects has been one of the toughest years in Hygiene but despite that we will have achieved our budgeted target and increased our profit by 40% over 1990 — a truly excellent performance ! |
| 8 | The 26-year-old 's ability to run with the ball and poach spectacular goals has been one of the major factors behind QPR 's impressive start to the season . |
| 9 | The Tatars had been one of the groups expelled from their traditional homelands in 1944 on grounds of alleged Nazi sympathies ( and a certain amount of active collaboration ) . |
| 10 | During much of Prime Minister Giulio Andreotti 's seventh administration , formed in April 1991 [ see p. 38157 ] , the four coalition parties had been conscious of the approaching election and the government had progressively lost cohesion . |
| 11 | The Secretary of State has pretensions as a political heavyweight , but his performances have been more of a light banterweight . |
| 12 | There is no doubt that the last eighteen months have been short of American patronage for European dealers ( a combined effect of general economic conditions , the aftermath of the Gulf War and the continued high value of the pound against the dollar ) , so the hope is that this year 's focus will bring the Yankee Doodle Dandies to town . |
| 13 | He says the last few months have been some of the driest since records began . |
| 14 | Perhaps one of the most creative and imaginative responses has been that of the Lucas Workers with their corporate plan for socially useful production . |
| 15 | An aim of educational policy in this and many other countries has been that of enhancing equality of opportunity . |
| 16 | However , in that case the defendants had been aware of the plaintiff 's medical evidence and to avoid possible objections at trial it is good practice to amend to plead any substantial changes to the plaintiff 's claim . |
| 17 | Snobby brands have been one of the success stories of the late 1980s . |
| 18 | He claimed all countries have been guilty of tampering with the ball and conceded : ‘ We do n't know what we are going to do , and the countries do n't know the answer . |
| 19 | Traditionally , Conservatives have been respectful of the claims of voluntary groups , interests , and self-governing professions ; these were Edmund Burke 's celebrated ‘ little platoons ’ . |
| 20 | Pliant judges have been one of Pakistan 's problems in the past . |
| 21 | Ecologists have been critical of the government 's failure to introduce planned legislation to make farmers seek approval from local authorities before grubbing out a hedge . |
| 22 | Does the Minister accept that the virtual destruction of the British Merchant Navy in the past 12 years has been one of the most severe crimes committed against this country by the present Government ? |
| 23 | The closure of a pipeline supplying Jordan with 15 per cent of its crude oil needs had been one of the most important economic sanctions imposed against Jordan . |
| 24 | The descant accompanying it for fifty years had been one of complaint . |
| 25 | One of those under investigation , former Interior Minister Andras Benkei described the allegations as " rubbish " , but the Hungarian daily Magyar Nemzet alleged that Carlos and members of his group had stayed in Hungary several times in the late 1970s and early 1980s and that leading communist officials had been aware of their presence . |
| 26 | We 've been lucky in that companies and organisations have been supportive of our appeal . |
| 27 | But it is clear , too , that social classes have been one of the fundamental elements in political conflict in many other types of society ; that slave rebellions , peasant revolts and the bourgeois revolutions were so many instances of a continuous struggle over the control of the labour process and the appropriation of the products of labour . |
| 28 | Many psychologists have been critical of the discipline 's pathologization of racial ‘ others ’ . |
| 29 | But there was speculation that the sixteen-foot olos of their Hawaiian predecessors had been capable of scaling the monstrous waves , fifty feet and more , that boil and boom off Kaena Point and remain untested in modern times . |
| 30 | This century the professions have been one of the fastest growing sectors of the occupational structure . |