Example sentences of "[noun prp] [adj] have [be] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Further , for several years King James I had been strongly hostile to it , because its existence impaired the prospects of a reconciliation with Spain . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 ] . |