Example sentences of "[noun pl] have [been] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The running of multiple sessions has been another means of saving which , though not always a problem , has led to truncated teaching sessions , late-coming and absenteeism on the part of teachers and pupils . |
| 2 | Then the doctrine common to all ages and nations had been that insolvency was a crime , and that the debtor might be properly made to pay in person the penalty for his offence . |
| 3 | The Greeks and the Jews have been such peoples and produced such thinkers . |
| 4 | ‘ The argument for the reformers has been that punishment simply does not work . |
| 5 | The effect of falling school rolls and DES cuts in teacher-training quotas has been some reduction in the numbers of students on courses ; however , recruitment in 1981 was still considerable and , in 1981 , the polytechnics had 1,300 students enrolled on to teacher-training courses . |
| 6 | " This would have been a much larger sum if the salesmen had been any good . " |
| 7 | For quite a long time the prevailing view among economists had been that money does not affect the relative prices of commodities , but that it does determine the overall price level . |
| 8 | Most Christian communicators have been more message than receptor oriented . |
| 9 | No horses have been this way since you drove them off , ’ he said to Allen . |