Example sentences of "[art] [adj] have [be] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A dog training scheme to help the deaf has been so successful that the organisers are having to open a second training centre . |
| 2 | Although the governed have been largely prepared to defer to those in power , their deference has been conditional . |
| 3 | Some of the first signs that Britain and the United States might draw together against a new common threat appeared in the Middle East , a region ironically where the British had been particularly anxious to uphold their predominant influence , even against the Americans . |
| 4 | People born since the 1890s have been unnaturally large because they have eaten too much protein believing it to be essential for growth , says survey author Geoffrey Cannon in New Woman magazine . |
| 5 | In fact , some members of the Six had been more positive than Britain about the potential of WEU . |
| 6 | The Japanese had been very clever in disguising themselves as Burmans and sometimes as Buddhist monks , with the result that many of the troops looked upon the Burmese as a lot of traitors . |
| 7 | But in general , here , too , was a major issue in which the 1970s had been wholly unproductive , in which Celtic nationalism had been inflamed but left impotent and dissatisfied , and real questions about accountability and democratic participation left unanswered . |
| 8 | This group felt that the community movement of the 1970s had been too romantic , too naive , too easily influenced by the popular educational theories and conventional wisdoms of the decade . |
| 9 | The latter have been too preoccupied , rightly or wrongly , with the problems of individual analysis to pay much attention to these larger-scale ideas of Freud . |
| 10 | Incidentally , I have plenty of pocket money , as the Chinese have been very generous , and I gather have given us almost twice as much as the average wage for a Chinese university or Institute teacher — which is absurd in a way , since all our food and accommodation ( as well as free transport and haircuts ! ) are found for us . |
| 11 | The Dutch have been very lax in dealing with that . |
| 12 | The difference between the trained and the naïve rats is that the former have been electrically shocked , and therefore certainly stressed or pained , when attempting to enter the dark box . |
| 13 | The Irish have been so busy praying for the winners that they must have forgotten to ask for the right weather . |
| 14 | The active involvement between Japan and the Western world which began in the 1850s has been so important for both that a consideration of Japan 's place in the world order is an appropriate starting point for any discussion of her recent history . |
| 15 | Known for its blue-blooded , polished , privileged , yuppie snobbery , the carefully-cultivated image of being the best has been generally convincing . |
| 16 | Indeed the overall score of the 1980s has been very uneven . |
| 17 | ‘ The 1980s have been very refreshing . |