Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [pron] have been [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In case you think I have been having a merry old time , I 'd better tell you also that I have been staying up to the small hours as there has been such a lot of preparation to do , and the course participants have also been keen to make use of our presence by asking all kinds of questions about English etc. , so this is literally the first free time I have been able to make since I have been here . |
| 2 | Of all the sons , CHARLES Tennant was the most successful ; by energy and business acumen he established a vast industrial conglomerate and became progenitor of a distinguished family who have been eminent in world commerce for 200 years . |
| 3 | However , despite early adoption there have been considerable doubts as to the effectiveness of such rational approaches . |
| 4 | Sadly the very dry weather we have had over the last two summers has meant that even young bulbs have not been able to bulk up their energy supplies and so the following year they have been unable to produce flowers . |
| 5 | In Norfolk on one large site there have been three serious accidents involving falls from heights , and in Suffolk a case has just been sent to crown court after a man fell through an asbestos roof on a farm . |
| 6 | Just as the inhabitants of the barrios here defend their pathetic shanties to the last , defying the well-meaning efforts of the authorities to relocate them , so the poor in intellect cling to whatever feeble idea they have been able to fashion out of the odds and ends they have foraged . |
| 7 | Other parents , however , may want their child to attend a special school and may have had positive information about children with visual handicap who have been happy and successful in these schools . |
| 8 | The characteristic of all those areas is that for a long time they have been Labour controlled , although Conservatives have been in control in Brent for the past year and the Liberal Democrats have recently been in control in Tower Hamlets . |
| 9 | There are many instances of victims of Nazi aggression who have been able to do just this — to forgive despite terrible hurt . |
| 10 | Within a short space I have been concerned to make two basic points in this chapter . |
| 11 | ‘ The recession has had a severe impact upon the advertising market but by sheer hard work , backed by increasing readership we have been able to increase revenues over our last financial year — we would like to have done better but we are pleased to have held our own in a difficult market . ’ |
| 12 | I suppose the appeal to me has been making things happen and changing things and feeling quite British about it and proud of what in my very small way I have been able to do in this country and being able to export that abroad and make it a success there . |
| 13 | Similarly , why waste time and money phoning when the only way you have been able to get your money in the past has been to call in person . |
| 14 | Earlier this century they broke through the Liberal-Conservative two-party system without the help of proportional representation , and under the established electoral system they have been able to form governments on their own with less than 40 per cent of the popular vote . |
| 15 | On a more light-hearted matter there have been several amusing items discussed , including a subject that will probably have been a topic of conversation at a few lunch tables — uniforms . |
| 16 | Nelson is flagging appropriate titles in its catalogue as ‘ self-access ’ , there are one or two new publishing names dipping toes in the swirling waters of EFL , and during the close season there have been some author-transfers , including David Vale from CUP to Heinemann and Alan Maley to Penguin . |
| 17 | Nevertheless , although the misuse of judicial interrogation is now only a distant history , it seems to have left its mark on public perceptions of the entire subject : and indeed not just public perceptions , for in the recent past there have been several authoritative and eloquent judicial reminders of the abuses of our former inquisitorial system and of the need to guard against their revival . |
| 18 | In recent year there have been several attempts to produce new kinds of keys . |
| 19 | Throughout geological time there have been irregular changes and reversals of the Earth 's magnetic field [ 1,2 ] . |
| 20 | During this probationary term there have been two training Saturdays in South London and a residential weekend in Buckinghamshire . |
| 21 | During the past week there have been several occasions where people have been meddling with candles and other things in the church , including the money boxes yet again , and so it is with some sadness that I have decided to keep the church locked during the holiday period . |
| 22 | Over the past year there have been further APL developments which have taken the model developed by the APL project at Telford College , reported in Update 13 , as a starting point . |
| 23 | During the past year there have been few remarkable changes in the desktop publishing market but rather a definite shift of emphasis . |
| 24 | During the past year there have been some differences between Sir Denys and other members of the board . |