Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun pl] have [be] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was laughing about with er what 's , I 'm gon na write er a note to my chi er letter to my children for , you know , before very long no good thinking about it , well you would n't think about it after when it 's too late , but my kids have been a you know a great comfort the four from my first Joan , Joan has too , she 's been a dear but we had the same problems when she was getting older . |
| 2 | Some of my players have been a bit naive over what they have said . ’ |
| 3 | Most recently , societies ' ambitions to expand and diversify their operations have been a key factor behind the major package of new legislation introduced into Parliament in 1986 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Their lives had been a circular journey : no less than nine of them had spent their schooldays there . |
| 6 | If central actors have not been literally squalid , the results of their actions have been a mess through their failure to comprehend the differentiated nature of the system ’ ( 1985 , p. 55 ) . |
| 7 | For a while she thought that her visions had been a delirium , but then fell into an exhausted sleep when she received her sixteenth revelation in a dream which reassured her and made her deeply ashamed of her doubts . |
| 8 | The growth of overseas financial institutions in terms of their numbers has been a major factor in the formalisation of supervision with more emphasis on the ‘ rulebook ’ and a relative decline in the less formal traditional system . |
| 9 | They assumed that their arrests had been a political move and began to suspect that their continued detention had equally a political motive . |
| 10 | The men were correct that their arrests had been a political decision . |
| 11 | Her clothes had been a problem . |
| 12 | For prison staff , opening their doors has been a chance to show people the reality of a modern jail . |
| 13 | His eyes had been a brand on her flesh , stripping away her clothes , caressing her so that she had felt her heartbeat quickening . |
| 14 | He tore a page from his notebook , offered it with a pencil to Sharpe , then volunteered his own patrol to take the despatch to General Dornberg 's headquarters in Mons. Dornberg was the General in charge of these cavalry patrols which watched the French frontier , and finding one of his officers had been a stroke of luck for Sharpe ; by pure accident he had come across the very men whose job was to alert the allies of any French advance . |
| 15 | According to press reports at the time , Lori McElroy and her boyfriend claimed Nicholas and his friends had been a problem throughout the holiday . |
| 16 | Fabia had been in her room for a good half-hour before she cooled down sufficiently to realise that maybe her reaction to Lubor 's hauling her into his arms had been a little — fierce — perhaps . |
| 17 | He did not write an autobiography , but his letters have been a source of fascination to a wide audience , especially artists . |
| 18 | In other words , one legacy of the regime of Councillor Pickles and his colleagues has been a city where the Conservatives have managed to stem the tide to Labour over the past decade . |
| 19 | Our policies have been a huge success up to now and we are determined to ensure that they will continue to be so . |
| 20 | But the reality for most of our clients has been a poor service from the system . |
| 21 | Our lives have been a picture torn in two . |