Example sentences of "[noun] [adj] have [be] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | IN MOST respects 1990 has been very successful for , despite the gloomy predictions for much of the agricultural industry and the dismal annual reports from a number of competitors in the feed industry . |
| 2 | The birth of the Prince Imperial had been so difficult — the Empress had been in labour for 18 hours — that no further child could be hoped for . |
| 3 | On Oct. 19 the Sind High Court ruled that the President 's decision to dismiss the Bhutto government on Aug. 6 had been constitutionally valid . |
| 4 | Three point three has been rather involved er aspects of examining average teachers ' salary costs basically will fall down given that we 've had a sixty five percent return from schools and we will be able to use this year , coming year the actual mandatory points in determining how delegation of salaries should be proceeded with . |
| 5 | Large firms such as IBM Corp and Fujitsu Ltd have been fairly successful in selling to the government , but the overall Unix hardware market is a tiny $28.5m , whilst software is worth some $9.5m . |
| 6 | For some reason this had been totally unexpected . |
| 7 | King George V had been very grieved at the outbreak of the Great War , which he would have liked to avoid , but Britain 's commitment to Belgium made that impossible , and in 1917 he decided to change the royal ‘ House ’ name from Saxe-Coburg-Gotha to Windsor . |
| 8 | Sun Microsystems Inc has been under withering fire for the past year or so from companies seduced into trying to build machines compatible with Sun 's own — and then finding that the company artfully withholds all the best bits for itself . |
| 9 | A source tells us that one of the reasons SunSoft Inc has been so discreet about Spring and Project DOE ( Distributed Objects Everywhere ) object-oriented stuff , is that it does n't want Microsoft Corp to know too much . |
| 10 | Sterling Software Inc has been very quiet since it bought Informatics , but yesterday the Dallas firm agreed to buy Net/Master owner Systems Center Inc , formerly VM Software , Reston , Virginia for $185m in shares . |
| 11 | At a time of sky-high interest this has been pretty painful . |
| 12 | In view of the excellent performance of the dedicated staff of Jebel Ali and Port Rashid this has been very evident in the growth of Jebel Ali in the recent years . |
| 13 | Further , for several years King James I had been strongly hostile to it , because its existence impaired the prospects of a reconciliation with Spain . |
| 14 | Rather than concluding that I had been too radical in Opposition , I fast came to the view 1 had been too cautious . |
| 15 | Henry VII had been sufficiently discreet to avoid continental entanglements and their resulting expense , but his son was more concerned with illusory glory than with real power . |
| 16 | The initial Lutheran challenge to papal authority in 1517 had ushered in an age in which Europe would be divided into hostile confessional camps , but , despite the fact that he himself had dispensed with papal authority within his own realm , Henry VIII had been extremely reluctant to accept this reality . |
| 17 | During the review of broadcasting which began with the Peacock Committee , one proposal for Channel Four has been under constant discussion . |
| 18 | A report by a parliamentary commission on the affair published in June 1990 had been highly critical of the collusion of three senior government ministers , Karl Blecha and Leopold Gratz of the Socialist Party ( SPÖ ) and Harald Öfner of the Freedom Party ( FPÖ ) , in covering up the insurance fraud [ see p. 37688 ] . |
| 19 | Delivering the keynote address at the Windows World annex to Comdex yesterday , Bill Gates announced that NT source code will be given to some US research institutions , including the Massachusetts Institute of Technology , the University of Washington , Stanford University , Browns University and Xerox Palo Alto Research Center and they will be free to make their own enhancements to the Microsoft Corp operating system : Unix System Laboratories Inc has been less encouraging of the university fraternity in recent years , and the move is intended to unsettle the Unix community ; Gates also claimed NT 's Posix interface made it as easy ‘ to move applications here as to any of the versions of Unix out there . ’ |
| 20 | Unix System Laboratories Inc has been less encouraging of the university fraternity in recent years , and the move is intended to unsettle the Unix community . |