Example sentences of "have be an [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He would 've been an asset if he 's |
| 2 | Throughout his career , he has been an enigma rather than a player . |
| 3 | Mr Collis , ( 70 ) , a former captain at Holywood , has been an officer with the branch for 25 years . |
| 4 | Recently in the Department there has been an instance of a telephone order which has been brought to my attention by the County Council auditors . |
| 5 | The result has been an expansion in diesel motoring at a time when other sales have been down . |
| 6 | New , high-technology industries have prospered ( especially during the late 1980s ) and there has been an expansion of small businesses . |
| 7 | Central to the programme has been an awareness of the following criteria : |
| 8 | The result has been an explosion in direct sales . |
| 9 | In recent years there has been an explosion in the growth of business travel . |
| 10 | Although microbial polyesters were discovered in the 1920s , it is only in the past decade that there has been an explosion of international research interest in all aspects of their production , formulation and use . |
| 11 | There has been an explosion in the number of seminaries in Brazil . |
| 12 | The extent of cross-breeding and hybridizing has been an explosion that continues to this day . |
| 13 | The consequence has been an explosion of FDI flows among the developed countries , as we noted in chapter 1 . |
| 14 | There has been an explosion of night visiting . |
| 15 | First , there has been an explosion in the quantity of information , but no corresponding useful measure of quality . |
| 16 | So , having D'Arcy in the band has been an education , not only from playing with someone who 's obviously a girl , but seeing how people perceive that and seeing the kind of shit she takes because she 's a girl . |
| 17 | She has been an A grade student all the way through her time at the Darlington girls ' school and is a stalwart of the school 's debating society . |
| 18 | Despite a slight drop in new construction orders in May , compared with April , there has been an overall nationwide upward tend in the five months since last December , according to the latest figures prepared exclusively for Chartered Builder by Bournemouth based Glenigan Limited . |
| 19 | His over-riding concern has been for those who are lost ; he has been an evangelist , a travelling missionary , taking the gospel to places where no Christian had ever gone before . |
| 20 | I have suggested earlier that part of Beccaria 's reputation may have resulted from his glossing over the more unsavoury implications of his views , and the fact that his full programme has never really been put into practice ; but this is not to deny that , in so far as he has been an influence , he has been a relatively benign one . |
| 21 | In my judgment there is no question but that there has been a source of income in the deposit of money , and at any rate there has been an addition to a source of income here . |
| 22 | This has been an election fought mainly on the middle ground and the Labour Party has avoided any links that might taint their respectable new image of smart suits and red roses . |
| 23 | ‘ CREEP ’ HAS been an NME office favourite for weeks . |
| 24 | But a malfunction occurs and he comes to believe that he really has been an intelligence agent who made a startling discovery on Mars … |
| 25 | ‘ There has been an escalation in the number of complaints against staff recently . |
| 26 | ‘ There has been an escalation of recorded Darkfalls in the past decade , ’ continued Gilbert . |
| 27 | Where has been an escalation of aggression or at any time , having regard to these Guidelines , a member of staff considers it appropriate , there should be an internal review of a resident 's progress . |
| 28 | There has been an overestimation of property prices in the Government 's thinking . |
| 29 | Mr McDonald no longer drinks but has been an alcoholic for more than a decade . |
| 30 | There has been an attack on organised trade-union resistance , on marginalised groups , on young people , especially young black people in the name of a pragmatic economic programme . |