Example sentences of "have be a [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bracewell has been a three-times loser in FA Cup finals , but this season his vault of knowledge has been a key factor — especially in the recovery at Stamford Bridge against Chelsea . |
| 2 | Manager Ossie Ardiles wants to unload the player after a bust up and as Durie has been a Rangers target in the past , the offer was made . |
| 3 | Indeed no one who is , or has been a police officer can be appointed . |
| 4 | There has been an arms race in which forest trees became larger as the generations went by . |
| 5 | I do n't deny I hoped it was Dysart she was planning to ruin — I wondered if there 'd been a lovers ’ tiff — but she let nothing slip . |
| 6 | ‘ Quick , out with that ladder , ’ said Ryan , ‘ there must have been a balls-up . ’ |
| 7 | The other man was found dead nearby , he too had been shot in what may have been a drugs related killing . |
| 8 | There should n't have been a cattle herd of feet trampling over the grass . |
| 9 | This fool butterfly must have been a chrysallis — there are a million tortoiseshells pirouetting on the purple flowers all the warm months — a chrysallis left from last August . |
| 10 | Finally , we thought it might have been a lovers ' quarrel , but now I 'm not sure … " |
| 11 | ‘ It could have been a lovers ’ tryst , ’ I observed . |
| 12 | By the sound of it , World War III was breaking out behind her and after the race there had been a stewards ' inquiry . |
| 13 | IF it had been a Companies Act prospectus , it would have landed the entire Cabinet in jail . |
| 14 | Harry , as he was known , left the local school at thirteen to become a gardener like his father , but , from the time he was seven , there had been a golf-links at Grouville , and the local lads could earn pocket money as caddies . |
| 15 | Saudi Arabia remained the only Arab state without diplomatic relations with China , but China had been a weapons supplier to Saudi Arabia since 1985 ; in addition the move was expected to open new links between Saudi Arabia and the Moslem minority in China . |
| 16 | You could n't eat what they grew : the soil was polluted , because at the bottom of this road there had been a leadworks . |
| 17 | Milton Goldman had been an actors ' agent for nearly 40 years . |
| 18 | Sleek , sexy styles need body and bounce and what better way to achieve this than with heated curlers — they 've been a girls best friend for decades . |
| 19 | ‘ I 've been a Lions fan for about 15 years and it 's great to see the look on the tourists ’ faces when I walk around Bangkok in my ‘ No One Likes Us We Do n't Care ’ T-shirt , ’ wrote Mr Barrett . |
| 20 | Ehm er chair er Sheila from Harlow secretary of the film society which has operated here since the playhouse opened moved from the town hall er we do get people past the door we have been doing in years erm and I personally I 'm also here as an individual I 've been an arts lover for forty five years of my life in Harlow . |
| 21 | ‘ I 'll say there 's been a balls-up . ’ |
| 22 | For 15 years he 's been a warbirds enthusiast and would n't fly anything else … |
| 23 | Well I think it 's been a mans world , they , they 've had a wonderful time ! |
| 24 | I mean er I 've been told circumstances where there 's been a pensioners who ca n't move very well . |
| 25 | Space is limited and the only other tank I have is a 21″ cube and I ca n't put him in there because it contains two small G. jurupari , a pair of G. brasiliensis , a pair each of Crenicara filamentosa , Cichlasoma sajica and Butterfly Rams , and an Ancistrus . |