Example sentences of "and [noun] have [be] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their main resource and support has been the voluntary work of bodies like the National Council for Mother Tongue Teaching , the National Association for Multiracial Education ( now the National Anti-Racist Movement in Education ) and the various grouping of teachers and activists promoting the cause of one particular language . |
| 2 | In his report Sir Edward said that planning matters and roads had been the association 's major considerations . |
| 3 | Ruth was in love with the island , all of it , and Fernando had been the perfect , loving guide and everything was looking so good … but now this wretched ankle business had made her feel utterly miserable and vulnerable . |
| 4 | A major user of NASA data and skills has been the UN Environment Programme . |
| 5 | The problems of adolescent aggression , destructiveness and vandalism have been the subject of extensive psychological research . |
| 6 | The well-tried Roman policy of divide and rule had been the basis of Augustan diplomacy and continued during the conquest . |
| 7 | Up to this period , mining had been essentially a hand-craft where , as in farming , man-power and horse-power had been the chief means of winning the product . |
| 8 | The loss of Batty was a big blow to the midfield but the injuries to both Wallace and Speed have been the big set back this season . |
| 9 | It had been Eleanor , quiet , firm , devoted whom Dorothea had loved , and Eleanor had been the only living person whose presence she could bear when Hallam died a year after their coming to Haverstock . |
| 10 | For a growing number of older women , a great support in building up a sense of independence and self-esteem has been the a growth of the feminist movement , and there is more on this in the chapter ‘ Feeling good , looking good ’ . |
| 11 | Two players tested positive in the first two months and since then speculation , rumours , rows and ructions have been the order of the day . |
| 12 | It is certain , though , that the constructivism that has received the most attention in psychology and philosophy has been the developmental theory of Jean Piaget . |
| 13 | Around the time of the bombing , Megrahi had been security chief for Libyan Arab Airlines and Fhimah had been the airline 's station officer in Malta . |
| 14 | Quick reflexes , intuition and mobility have been the chief assets of Achille Prospero Rosario Maria Giovanni Carlo Bonito Oliva . |
| 15 | Letelier and Moffit had been the victims of a car bomb in Washington , but Chile 's Supreme Court had twice refused requests from the US government for the extradition of Contreras and Espinoza , and military courts had repeatedly refused to re-open proceedings against them . |
| 16 | IN A GRIM YEAR for the motor business , one of the few bright spots for some manufacturers and dealers has been the buoyancy of diesel cars . |
| 17 | She knew very well what they had been at ; she and Patten had been the same , when they were young . |
| 18 | The trade deficit on food and drink has been the focus of a report by the House of Commons Select Committee on Agriculture . |
| 19 | At school she and Adam had been the different ones , the Demdykes — the ones with a dead mother and a crazy father . |
| 20 | For over a quarter of a century harps have been played and Guinness has been the mainstay , at the prestigious Wexford Opera Festival . |
| 21 | Procrastination , compromise and delay had been the response of successive governments of both political parties . |
| 22 | The nature of these indicators , and related concepts of efficiency , effectiveness and economy have been the focus of much debate . |
| 23 | The open-top Dreadnoughts and Toastracks had been the mainstay of the Promenade route for many years , and Manager Luff proposed to replace them with modern equivalents . |
| 24 | Mr Chambers ' name and virtues had been the main topic of her mother 's conversation for the last two months , and no matter how many times Honor expressed her dislike of the man , Flora continued to press the subject . |
| 25 | Ensuring the honesty of those supplying services and advice has been the main raison d'être for regulation . |
| 26 | Schmitter concludes : What corporatism means for state and society has been the subject of an extended debate in recent years . |
| 27 | Since 1950 America and Britain have been the slowest . |
| 28 | Irons and radios had been the only appliances owned by the majority of consumers before the War and they were joined by electric fires at the end of it . |
| 29 | The council is aiming at money earmarked for spending on rural development , what the European Commission calls Objective 5b , the status which the Highlands and Islands have been the only Scottish region to have had in recent years . |
| 30 | Although slides and photos have been the traditional medium , and are widely accepted as substitutes for the landscape ( Shuttleworth , 1980b ) , Kreimer ( 1977 ) has also argued that they need to be put more fully into their context . |