Example sentences of "[noun pl] have be [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Controlling current spending by local authorities has been central government 's major headache ever since it decided in 1961 that local government expenditure was part of public expenditure and therefore should be controlled by the Treasury . |
| 2 | One of the world 's greatest classical violinists has been surprising audiences at a top JAZZ club . |
| 3 | The biggest event in recent months has been full sectorisation and the change of name from Provincial to Regional Railways . |
| 4 | In his biography of the earl of Pembroke , however , Dr Phillips has effectively disproved this notion and shown the baronial conciliators to have been royal supporters , rather than independents . |
| 5 | This was because those steps had been reasonable ones to take even though they had in the event aggravated the losses . |
| 6 | By any normal standards , the Al Fayed brothers had been rich men for perhaps a decade or even two . |
| 7 | The first few months had been sheer bliss . |
| 8 | My words have been grubby confetti , faded , tacky , blown far |
| 9 | Oxfords and brogue styles have been standard office issue for most of this century , but in the last 30 years the loafer has — thanks to its American and Italian perfectors — become a relaxed and stylish alternative to lace-ups , but there are purists who still harbour doubts about its suitability for the boardroom . |
| 10 | But England 's recent games against both nations have been full Tests and the squad will include those available England players not selected by the Lions . |
| 11 | But some are also saying , it 's been a missed opportunity to make a more radical shake up to a shadow cabinet where some members performances have been notable lack lustre . |
| 12 | Up to now , most borders have been French imports , but this year a company has come into being which designs and manufactures borders in this country . |
| 13 | Thereafter , their books have been follow-up studies of this second group of children . |
| 14 | Since the use of unit trusts as a way of paying bonuses to employees came to an end , vouchers have been attracting attention . |
| 15 | The main producing areas have been Central Wales , north-west Wales ( Llanwrst ) , the Lake District , the Isle of Man ( Lamplugh , 1903 ) and the Southern Uplands of Scotland ( Leadhills ) . |
| 16 | The contractors have been clearing earth back there for landscaping . |
| 17 | In a world where few computer companies have been good computer users , IBM 's increasing tendency to practise what it preaches has helped maintain its advantage . |
| 18 | The companies have been arch rivals ever since and it 's only fitting now that the two main rivals in the so-called ‘ old school trainers ’ wars are Adidas and Puma . |
| 19 | The dominant linguistic school over the last thirty years has been generative linguistics which has its foundation in Chomsky 's revolutionary Syntactic Structures ( Chomsky , 1957 ) . |
| 20 | What she has known most intimately these last years has been intense pain . |
| 21 | Within the public sector one of the implications of attempts by government to reduce the size and change the structure of public sector organisations has been declining morale — or so commentators would have us believe . |
| 22 | He was a countryman at heart , and although these past weeks had been tremendous fun , it was lovely to see the grass and trees and a blue sky unclouded by smoke . |
| 23 | She just knew that a basement room was for sitting in , a children 's ward for visiting , and railway stations had been prime targets for being bombed . |
| 24 | The Manchus had been full citizens with diplomatic privileges for more than thirty years now , but there still existed between them and other humans a coldness which could not be explained simply by xenophobia . |
| 25 | Newcastle upon Tyne had been an important medieval borough ; other places had been small market centres whose burgesses had obtained some measure of independence from their manorial lords . |
| 26 | Most of these thriving places had been old market centres ; only Oldham had grown from a few scattered moorland hamlets . |
| 27 | The Ypres salient , where since 1914 the Allies had been prime targets for the German guns , had been flattened , leaving only a small salient around Passchendaele itself . |
| 28 | ANDES 21 de junio ( Asociacion Nacional de Educadores Salvadorenos ) is a founder member of the BPR and openly expresses its support for the FDR-FMLN , while both the state and the Catholic universities have been consistent critics of the lack of democratic and civil liberties and have argued cogently for the need for social and economic reforms . |
| 29 | The past few years have been poor snow years for frustrated skiers . |
| 30 | Any politically informed Briton knows that two of the most politically controversial issues during the last three years have been monetary issues : exchange rate policy ( membership of the ERM ) and interest rate policy . |