Example sentences of "[noun pl] have be a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cleanliness in TDC institutions has been a priority with the administration since Ellis 's time at least . |
| 2 | The major demographic change occurring in recent decades within the cities has been a decline in absolute population levels ( Redfern , 1982 ; Champion , Coombes and Openshaw , 1983 ) . |
| 3 | The nomination of weak candidates has been a factor . |
| 4 | I have never found that my lack of social graces has been a hindrance . |
| 5 | On the one hand the multiplication of good brasseries in recent months has been a breath of fresh air to the restaurant industry , and the public has shown its appreciation by packing them full every night . |
| 6 | Many of those whose names appeared on the lists also complained , arguing that their overdrafts had been a product of the chronic inefficiency of the bank and its slack accounting procedures . |
| 7 | Poland was strategically placed between Russia and Germany , and for centuries had been a bone of contention between them . |
| 8 | Its most common approach through long centuries had been a kind of two-pronged one . |
| 9 | His eyes had been a brand on her flesh , stripping away her clothes , caressing her so that she had felt her heartbeat quickening . |
| 10 | The victims were not just the established railway enthusiast tour operators ( all but a handful of which had already been squeezed out ) but organisations such as the women 's institutes and working men 's clubs , whose annual train trips had been a tradition . |
| 11 | Since 1492 , when they were evicted from Spain , Tangier Jews had been a people without a country , owing allegiance to no one but the Jewish nation . |
| 12 | One of Danny 's birthday presents had been a puppy — a rough-haired mongrel with a dash of Airedale , the shaggy muzzle of an Irish terrier and paws like a wolfhound . |
| 13 | Just for a moment he looked as shaken as if her innocent words had been a knife thrust . |
| 14 | About 200 B.C. the biographer Hermippus accepted without difficulty the notion that Pythagoras had been a pupil of Jews and Thracians . |
| 15 | The Bidston Dock cranes have been a feature of the Wallasey landscape but unpopular with some local residents who regarded them as an eyesore and the cause of television reception problems . |
| 16 | The Bidston Dock cranes have been a Birkenhead landmark for many years . |
| 17 | DAIRYLEA triangles have been a must in lunch boxes for years . |
| 18 | House prices have fallen less and job losses have been a fraction of those in the rest of Britain . |
| 19 | The wisdom of closing mental hospitals over recent decades has been a topic for increased debate , not only because of the impact that such closures have on the people who have lived in those hospitals for many years , but also because of the loss of such resources to younger people with long-term mental health problems . |
| 20 | Paros had been a failure ; but Miltiades ' son Kimon pursued a similar line in the 470s and 460s , showing that he saw himself as the heir to his father 's policies as well as his debts ( for which see Plut . |
| 21 | The coolers had been a stumbling block , an item that had been impossible for the restoration crew to find . |
| 22 | High-tech companies have been a bit better , but even there , says Sir Eric , there is a serious question as to whether they have recruited anything like enough graduates . |
| 23 | With this challenge , family gatherings have been a bit strained . |
| 24 | AMERICAN businessmen have been A turning up their noses at video conferencing because they can not smell each other . |
| 25 | Our lives have been a picture torn in two . |
| 26 | And I think that the revolution in history which has taken place over the course of the last twenty-five years has been a revolution which has been fuelled by people 's curiosity to study things which previously had not been studied , rather than just to take some formal statement of what seemed to be important , which is what the chroniclers took , or some propaganda statement , which is what the Tudors took and what the seventeenth century historians took , or indeed to write very academic history , which is what professional historians have tended to do , over the course of the last erm forty or fifty years . |
| 27 | Russia 's most wretched political problem over the past two years has been a failure to separate the powers of president and parliament . |
| 28 | Taking over as she did at very short notice when our last Treasurer became ill , she has always managed to administer the Society 's finances in an extremely capable way despite the fact that the last six years has been a period of considerable change and economic difficulty . |
| 29 | Arnold Denney , of Trumpet Terrace , Cleator , who has worked on the production line for 42 years as either a machine knotter or twister and for a number of years has been a foreman . |
| 30 | One of the trends in military publishing over recent years has been a move away from the hardware itself towards its operational use and the personal experiences of the men in the front line . |