Example sentences of "have [adv] [been] [noun pl] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Australian Chardonnay has become so popular they have been suffering shortages , but there has always been loads of Semillon available . |
| 2 | At times arbitrage across the markets has caused extreme volatility on the Stock Exchange , and there has also been accusations of manipulation of equity prices to enable arbitrageurs to sort out their arbitrage positions . |
| 3 | Whether or not the USSR will increase oil exports and whether it can do so have long been areas of heated debate . |
| 4 | In reality , like the Visigoths , they had long been neighbours of the Romans . |
| 5 | They had always been friends of mine , but I never wanted to defend their work . |
| 6 | The principle of " guilt by association " was introduced ; people who had once been members of the Communist Party or a group sympathetic to that party , however long before , were smeared as security risks and their careers ruined . |
| 7 | He had secured the support not just of members of parties which had formerly been members of the ruling coalition , but also of the Democratic Party of the Left ( PDS — the former Communist Party ) and the Greens . |
| 8 | No less than five of them , men like Robinson and Locke , had also been members of parliament . |
| 9 | Perhaps many other abbots had also been monks of the houses they eventually ruled , and Cnut did not always take much interest in their selection . |
| 10 | There had also been reports of dissident troops moving towards the area from a camp in the centre of the town . |
| 11 | There were related changes in the state sphere and a wholesale ‘ inter-nationalization ’ and associated ‘ de-industrialization ’ of areas and enterprises which had previously been strongholds of Fordism . |
| 12 | They 've never been patients of mine , though , as I say , I have done some of the servants and villagers . |
| 13 | There have long been stories of mysterious sounds at sea : haunted eerie calls in the night , mermaids singing , sirens luring sailors on to the rocks . |
| 14 | There have long been stories of human giants in legend and mythology . |
| 15 | There have long been rumours of putting bolts on Bosigran routes where the belays are difficult to arrange . |
| 16 | Social and economic inequality have long been features of our society , but such inequality does not always have the same implications for health status . |
| 17 | The supermarket , the fast-food joint , the parking lot have all been projects of the practice : but a Macdonalds which floats , a parking lot with 20 cars deeply buried under asphalt , and its most celebrated work , the series of catalogue stores for the Best company where boxes are smashed into and eroded , with trees growing through them , façades peel or tilt , distorting the relationships between the predictable elements of the landscape . |
| 18 | France , Spain and Italy have all been stalwarts of the EC . |
| 19 | For example , there have already been reports of hospitals giving preference to patients of fundholding general practitioners . |
| 20 | ‘ But there have always been girls of eighteen , even in my day , ’ Sophia protested . |
| 21 | There have always been movements of people across the world who have changed the way of life in the lands they have occupied . |
| 22 | ‘ The police have always been instruments of the government . |
| 23 | THE SHAMEN have always been victims of tabloid hysteria and censorship . |
| 24 | THE SHAMEN have always been victims of tabloid hysteria and censorship . |
| 25 | Submerged economy and unofficial government have always been features of Italian life . |
| 26 | Socata 's parent company Aerospatiale is responsible for the cockpit architecture of the Airbus line , and there have clearly been transfers of technology between Toulouse and Tarbes , the result being that the TBM 700 needs to be flown like some kind of ! 320 . |
| 27 | There have also been offers of land for an alternative site for the sanctuary . |
| 28 | There have also been reports of piles of school books gathering dust in shops , because people can not afford to buy them . |
| 29 | There have also been reports of psychosis following overuse . |
| 30 | There have also been reports of selective abortion of girl babies in Britain , the US and Australia . |