Example sentences of "[subord] [noun] have [be] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although Pakistan has been the conduit for the arms supplied to the guerrillas by America and Britain , the guerrillas in the field have been their own men . |
| 2 | Although Mao has been the subject of countless biographies , David Goodman has written the first fitting biography of Mr Deng . |
| 3 | Although collectors have been the traditional mainstays of this market , they had been largely absent for several seasons . |
| 4 | Indeed Stephen Greenblatt 's preferred term for new historical activities , cultural poetics , more clearly indicates how anthropology rather than history has been the discipline which has more profoundly affected new historicist methods . |
| 5 | Clearly , if money had been the kidnappers ’ motive … ’ |
| 6 | Of course the answer is changing the myth would have made Moses Hebrew and not Egyptian , because if Moses had been the daughter of Pharaoh he would had to been Egyptian and that the Hebrews could n't tolerate because at a later stage their religion became strongly ethnic and racially divided , you really got to be born Jewish to be Jewish , so they could n't tolerate their , their founding fathers of not being anything but Jewish , so they altered it , they changed the records and they falsified the myth , but they left this glaring inconsistency in it , so the myth is no longer it 's er rewritten and this is one of the little bits of evidence and now of course erm if you do n't take psychoanalyst insights into the family romance seriously , that may not cut much ice for you , but if you erm appreciate the force of these unconscious stereotypes in creating this like this , it 's cert it 's a quite potent piece of evidence because you think well why should the , the Bible change the myth , why ca n't it just put up with the normal myth . |
| 7 | What if revenge had been the motive rather than the silencing of a witness ? |
| 8 | If McBride had been the problem in ‘ 84 , why could n't it be Doyle in ‘ 86 ? |
| 9 | Now , if Erdle had been the victim … ’ |
| 10 | As Bacci emerged through the blue fog that had collected near the door it occurred to the Captain that if Fusarri had been the normal sort of Substitute he would have had to go and report to him at his office , leaving his own smoke-free . |
| 11 | This remark will seem preposterous to many who work in the subject , because Realism has been the target of severe criticism and most scholars now claim to be working with another approach altogether . |
| 12 | Because Cheddar has been the yardstick of the British cheese industry , it has perhaps suffered more than any of our other cheeses , as it has been forced into mediocrity through extensive mechanisation of the various stages of making . |
| 13 | The new Queen was the child of love , while Mary had been the child of hatred . |
| 14 | Only a month before Mikael had been the proudest chief in Abyssinia and it must have been a bitter moment for him to be led in triumph before the hated Shoans . |
| 15 | Though ambition has been the grave of many minor artists , it is also that without which no artist can be called major — with all the provisos about art , artists , major , minor , already touched on . |
| 16 | On 27 June Tan Malaka and other leading Communists were set free and Sjahrir was kidnapped just as Sukarno had been the previous August . |
| 17 | Returning to her office , she wondered if she should phone Bridget , but decided to leave it until later in the day : the first-years would be arriving at Bridget 's college in the middle of the week , and her friend would be as tied up as Loretta had been the week before . |
| 18 | Boyle had been , with one short break , continuously in Government office for eleven years and was to be the last Minister of Education , as Butler had been the first . |
| 19 | With the adoption of Christianity by kings and their subjects had come the conception of the " Christian ruler " , for Christ had been the " King of the Jews " and the society of the Old Testament was a kingly and patriarchal one . |