Example sentences of "have [adv] be [adj] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Arachnologists have long been puzzled by these patches . |
| 2 | Different hands have obviously been involved in this great polyptych . |
| 3 | And women have not been present in those circles with the result that they have been deprived of the means to participate in the construction of forms of thought which are relevant or adequate to express their own experience , ( Spender , 1981 , p. 3 ) . |
| 4 | Advertisers themselves frequently complain that decisions in apparently similar cases have not been consistent with each other . |
| 5 | The newcomers , of course , have not been responsible for this loss of rural autonomy — indeed , they have been equally affected by the growing remoteness of decision-making . |
| 6 | Cases of the latter type , where the adjective is used only to aid identification and does not actually apply to the entity of the phrase , closely resemble the great bulk of noun + noun phrases in their structural value , examples such as : ( 11 ) army manoeuvres the piano factory a sea monster an angle bracket However , even among noun + noun phrases , certain specimens occur which are clearly analogous to the former type ; as in : ( 12 ) a doctor journalist ( or doctor-journalist ) Chancellor Kohl a bed-settee These would permit an affirmative answer to our diagnostic test , although normally it is necessary to allow a little leeway in the shape of an added determiner to allow for this requirement of English : ( 13 ) Maurice is a journalist and he is also a doctor 2.3 It would be useful to have names for the two types of adjectival use , and there are fortunately two terms available which fall in the right semantic area and which have not been pre-empted for any other widely accepted technical linguistic purpose . |
| 7 | Roy Pointer : ‘ I have been asking for over ten years that there needs to be some bold plans , mission strategy , developed within the denominations and I have not been aware of any until now . |
| 8 | The British have not been alone in such teaching . |
| 9 | The British , of course , have not been alone in this ; there is something in human nature which responds worshipfully to the sheer splendour of the Masai physical presence . |
| 10 | Many churchmen , however , have not been happy with these developments , which have given rise to schisms threatening enough to warrant the Pope 's visit . |
| 11 | The large cities have not been happy with this position and various proposals have been made to meet their objections . |
| 12 | If open hostilities have not commenced with the Nez Perce it is not because they have not been outraged to that degree when ‘ forbearance ceases to be a virtue . ’ |
| 13 | Whereas , none of the bands I 've been in have ever been showbizzy in that sense , and if we 're in a bad mood then we play really badly . |
| 14 | We have hardly been alone in this . |
| 15 | I remember how , when I was a naughty boy as I usually was , there being no corporal punishment , I was led about on a bit of string by my Headmaster , and one day when I was being reprimanded I laughed in the Headmaster 's face — I have always been defiant to all who tried to control me . |
| 16 | The lords in parliament , and in the courthouse and the castle , they do not know how we live — they know nothing about us , except that we will die for them , to protect their forts in India and in Scotland ’ — his voice sharpened suddenly , his arm swung round and pointed north and a gust of response rose out of the crowd — ‘ we have always been good at that , their demands can never be satisfied , regiments for the colonies , indentured servants and labourers for the plantations , they have scoured Scotland like a killing wind and the men have been whirled away in the blast of it . |
| 17 | New Zealand have always been good in this department and that is why we are going there ’ , explained coach Lin . |
| 18 | The R.S.P.C.A. and the National Union of Mineworkers have both been involved with this form of contempt in recent years . |
| 19 | Remedial measures to curb soil erosion , involving the use of grass hedges , have also been successful in several southern Indian states . |
| 20 | Cases have also been helpful on some points of detail . |
| 21 | They have also been responsible for many symposia and meetings for specialists in the field of venereology . |
| 22 | Marxists have often been reticent on these questions . |
| 23 | The state 's involvement offers crucial protection , since failure to accept a coin or tampering with it in some way , like making a forgery , then is regarded as a crime against the state , and serious penalties including execution have frequently been normal for such activities . |
| 24 | Totally negative approach , of course if you start to do a programme which we have n't been involved in some mistakes will be made but we should be positive and look forward to see how we can avoid the mistake we 've been making in the future . |
| 25 | To make matters more complicated , where aid programmes have sought to channel funds to small-scale farmers , or small businesses , the real priorities of the target beneficiaries have seldom been identical to those of the donor or the government . |
| 26 | Central America and Israel/Palestine have recently been prominent in this work . |
| 27 | If you have never been involved in any of the activities listed above then DO N'T … |