Example sentences of "[noun pl] has [been] [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the most significant results of the repression in the Baltic states has been to recreate an alliance between Russian radical politicians and Baltic nationalists . |
| 2 | The power of the Hyksos pharaohs has been broken an the upper and Lower kingdoms once again united . |
| 3 | The Council of Science and Technology Institutes has been awarded a contract by the Employment Department to commission a major six-month study into the employment pattern of scientists . |
| 4 | Aid for environmental planning in developing countries has been designated a top priority . |
| 5 | A panel of European judges has been visiting a town carrying Britain 's hopes in Entente Florale . |
| 6 | All of this and he 's not even recovering from any broken bones ( Ben 's specialty over the last few years has been to break a bone and then come back and do or repeat the world 's hardest route ! ) |
| 7 | The way in which the argument has been couched in Goody 's work over the years has been to construct an apparatus of grand distinctions on which discussion of literacy could be based . |
| 8 | Since 1973 the Association of illustrators has been fulfilling a much needed role in the illustration industry . |
| 9 | Now I suppose that kind of model of what goes on in families has been disrupted a bit in the last few years because increasingly people have drawn attention to the way in which um often the person doing the abuse is the most powerful person within that family situation . |
| 10 | Ironically , at the eleventh hour the plight of the belugas has been given a boost by the success of whale-watching cruises in the St Lawrence . |
| 11 | This attempt to ‘ define ’ by inclusions has been carried a stage further by the Financial Services Act which , for its purposes , employs both inclusions and exclusions . |
| 12 | Much of the Levels has been declared an " environmentally-sensitive area " , and there are a number of sites of special scientific interest ( SSSIs ) . |
| 13 | A working group of the Royal College of Psychiatrists has been taking a fresh look at the problem , and its report was endorsed by the college this week . |
| 14 | One of the world 's top snooker players has been gracing an unlikely stage . |
| 15 | The emotive subject of rapes has been given a great deal of publicity , and every case of an alleged rape of a Serbian woman by an Albanian is used as a pretext for fierce agitation among the Serbian population . |
| 16 | A government-backed scheme to recycle chlorofluorocarbons from old refrigerators and air-conditioning systems has been branded a failure after two years of operation . |
| 17 | A fourteen year old criminal who 's had holidays in Spain paid for by social services has been given a two-year supervision order . |