Example sentences of "have been [adv] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Franks have been up mountains and down valleys , floated around idyllic lakes and cruised through the staggeringly beautiful ( see The Prisoner -meets-Brothers Grimm ) town of Salzburg , they 've even mimed in a restaurant hall which provides the definitive ‘ Sound Of Music Dinner Show ’ , during which tourists can dine on ‘ cream-coloured ponies ’ . |
| 2 | Traditionally the visionaries of the Church have been either opponents of Christ , like St Paul or St Eustace , who were converted by their visions , or men and women already leading lives of heroic sanctity , like St Teresa or St Francis . |
| 3 | Breeding sites have been either reservoirs or gravel pits . |
| 4 | Since the Gulf war , the United States and Britain have used the United Nations to bleed Iraq ; and the sufferers have been primarily children , whose death-rate has increased by an estimated 400 per cent . |
| 5 | I have been where men have suffered pains which would have murdered any of us here ’ — he nodded to Mr Crump — ‘ but those same have not only endured it but seemed to ignore it ’ — here he nodded to Colonel Moore , who straightened his back — one old soldier understood by another . |
| 6 | You 've got rid of the landlords who have been mainly exploiters and so |
| 7 | France 's new government has hinted it will be more willing than its predecessor to accept freer farm trade , along the lines agreed abortively between the EC and America late last year , but so far there have been only hints . |