Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun] have [be] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps the only creature to rouse what could be construed as a maternal sense in my heart had been the Egyptian cat , and Nour had killed it . |
| 2 | My grandfather had been the grieve on the farm . |
| 3 | One of the common threads that have emerged from my dicussions has been the necessity , when considering how the law might be reformed , of tackling the question of protecting employees from being obliged by their employers to work on Sundays , against their wishes , or incurring any penalty for not doing so . |
| 4 | Of course there had been interrogation sessions in the Lubyanka , but they had been flimsy affairs , for hanging over their progress had been the sword of a man 's release . |
| 5 | The club , in Normanby Road , and its stand have been the scene of a series of unexplained fires , the latest being last Friday when the stand was gutted for the second time . |
| 6 | Now , a year later , she knew her hesitation had been the biggest mistake of her life . |
| 7 | But their case has been the catalyst for a bitter political row , raising fundamental questions about society 's ability to deal adequately with racial violence . |
| 8 | Since the government decision in favour of the THORP development , Sellafield and its operations have been the subject of regular protests , many of them organized by the local group Cumbrians Opposed to a Radioactive Environment . |
| 9 | However , its operations have been the focus of sustained criticism from environmental groups and the local Achuar Indians , who claimed that their hunting and agriculture were at risk . |
| 10 | The Superintendent was delighted and said their programme had been the best so far . |
| 11 | The wrath of her disappointment had been the instrument of his education , which had taken place in a perpetual rush from site to site of a hastily amalgamated three-school comprehensive , the Aneurin Bevan school , combining Glasdale Old Grammar School , St Thomas à Beckett 's C of E Secondary School and the Clothiers ' Guild Technical Modern School . |
| 12 | The model for southeast England has been refined and developed and one reason for its modification has been the time allocated to mid-Tertiary earth movements as it was appreciated that these ‘ outer ripples of the Alpine storm ’ may have continued for longer than was at first envisaged . |
| 13 | In recent years the one English voice that has seemed to reiterate the Eliotic thesis in anything like its entirety has been the voice of C.H. Sisson : |
| 14 | If the commission , which since its inception has been the CIVC 's ComCon ( Commission Consultative ) , required a yardstick on which to base their annual increase or decrease of production limits , then it would have been more rational at the time to term the figure , whether or not it was actually 50 hectolitres per hectare , an average for the region . |
| 15 | One of its effects had been the cancellation of examinations in most secondary schools , with instead assessment of students ' work over the year being counted towards matriculation . |
| 16 | The most unsatisfactory aspect of her work has been the 6% budget cut in 1991 , which in 1992 after adding inflation , was at least 10% down on 1990 . |
| 17 | Alone among other EC governments , however , its reaction had been the fiercest . |
| 18 | Mrs Clinton has apologised for suggesting in a magazine interview that her husband has been the victim of double standards over claims of adultery . |
| 19 | Acquiring its contents had been the purpose of her outing , but she no longer cared about it . |
| 20 | I decided to give her Arsenicum Album LM1 in a 100ml bottle and within 1 month she was feeling much better , her period had been the best she could remember and she 'd even been out to a party . |
| 21 | Her father had been the successful owner of a chain of garages who in his youth had also raced . |
| 22 | Despite much popular resentment at the effects of cash restraints on public services , the government 's continuing popularity largely rested on its claim to have been the architect of new prosperity , based on finance , credit , and consumer pump-priming rather than on mass manufacturing industry as in the past . |
| 23 | The Gallery is an independent trust but up to the present its trustees have been the College Governors of Dulwich College , acting as trustees of the Picture Gallery . |
| 24 | It should be emphasised , however , that one major reason for the growth in its use has been the effect in recent years of the additional legislation bearing upon employment and the increased cost and risks of employing operatives direct . |
| 25 | Their absence has been the major talking point as Wednesday plot how they will overturn that two-goal deficit , but Francis has had enough . |
| 26 | Her tears had been the pathway . |
| 27 | Yet a key theme in discussions of relationships between ministers and their departments has been the extent to which politicians enter with apparent policy commitments but become socialized into roles determined by the permanent administrator and particularly by the need for ‘ policy maintenance ’ within their department . |
| 28 | Isobel began to feel that her life had been the wrong way round , that Africa had been no training at all , with its comparatively easy , impersonal requirement of Christian love , for these savagely difficult demands for daughterly love . |
| 29 | Looking now at the gains and losses bar graph for the year we see that the main explanation for their growth has been the addition of thirty-two members through transfer . |
| 30 | One of the most important contributions to the CD repertoire since its introduction has been the re-issue of ‘ Mercury Living Presence ’ recordings . |