Example sentences of "'s [noun pl] have been [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Evidently Menwith Hill 's operations have been so successful that a $26 million expansion programme has been approved as part of the Project P415 programme . |
| 2 | Even when Pearce 's innards had been completely absorbed and digested , the thing 's need was still strong . |
| 3 | The Lord Chancellor 's proposals have been universally condemned by those organisations with knowledge of the legal aid system . |
| 4 | I shall concentrate upon deprivation among black people because this is where the government 's policies have been most damaging . |
| 5 | The Prime Minister 's letter , printed in the next day 's Times had been conventionally appreciative but brief . |
| 6 | Galbraith 's views have been widely criticised , most frequently on grounds of exaggeration , though it should be noted that he does not suggest that the revised sequence has replaced the accepted sequence , but that there is a complex inter-action between the two . |
| 7 | It would be an exaggeration to imply that Vogel 's views have been slavishly followed by Japanese or Western writers . |
| 8 | In the past CATCHEM 's profiles have been startlingly accurate . |
| 9 | The reason is that Malaysia 's exports have been much stronger . |
| 10 | Then he would kiss it where he knew its mistress 's lips had been not long before ( the location of the kiss remains a matter of debate : some say on the muzzle , some say on the top of the head ) ; he would whisper in the shaggy ear of Nero ( or Thabor ) the secrets he longed to whisper in the ear that lay between the muslin dress and the straw hat ; and he would burst into tears . |
| 11 | After Mark 's funeral Robyn 's lips had been so painful that she had hardly been able to speak or smile for days — but then that had suited her fine , still suited her , although no one guessed , except Anne perhaps . |
| 12 | The food shortages suffered by people in Russia have been well publicised , but the effects of this on the country 's pets have been even more dramatic . |
| 13 | The Communist International quite deliberately set out to create " sections " under its detailed control , which would be more easily disciplined than the Second International parties which in Lenin 's eyes had been too independent to act together on the outbreak of war . |
| 14 | Sadly not every one of St Peter 's successors has been as appreciative of his work as they might have been . |
| 15 | Sixty-two per cent of those in old people 's homes had been there for a year or more compared with 47 per cent of those in nursing homes , but this difference might have occurred by chance . |
| 16 | The radical right 's anxieties had been further strengthened by the effects of the Bolshevik revolution of 1917 . |
| 17 | Mandy 's parents had been understandably concerned at her friendship with Mark , but their demands on her had been bordering on the unreasonable . |
| 18 | The music had sounded exactly like all other music he had ever heard , and the intervals between Louise Müller 's appearances had been rather tedious , but the display of her charms had provided more than adequate compensation for the occasional ennui Lefevre had enjoyed it even more , expressing his enthusiasm at the end by shouting , ‘ Bravo ! ’ standing , and clapping his hands above his head . |
| 19 | The thought of facing his old friend , and the man on whom Virgin 's fortunes had been largely built , across a courtroom was too upsetting . |
| 20 | One or two of Miss Loren 's films have been more notable for the depth of cleavage displayed than any profoundness of plot . |
| 21 | In general the AWB 's awards have been niggardly — at times extremely so . |
| 22 | Cooperation with the professionals required acceptance of the framework within which John 's needs had been professionally cast : that it was their deficits as parents which had created John 's needs . |
| 23 | With the recent and spectacular exception of Paul ‘ Gazza ’ Gascoigne , England 's heroes have been consistently straight . |
| 24 | All Morton 's protests had been sternly rejected . |
| 25 | America 's airlines have been badly hit by the world recession . |
| 26 | This exercise is valuable in helping to show how a distorted version of Freud 's ideas has been widely diffused within many institutional spheres of American life , from social work agencies to industrial management training , religious institutions , and to the private sphere of marriage and family life . |
| 27 | Julie and Elizabeth 's relatives have been over to South Africa and were not treated very well at all by the police . |
| 28 | The claim that today 's difficulties have been somehow caused by the management is a sick joke being perpetrated by the unions . ’ |
| 29 | Therefore the East Lancashire Railway 's connection to British Rail 's metals has been effectively severed . |
| 30 | The diagnoses of Britain 's problems have been as varied as the problems themselves . |