Example sentences of "of a [adj] [noun] have [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In February 1990 an initiative group for the creation of a Russian CP had been set up in Leningrad . |
| 2 | When the original object of a wishful impulse has been lost as a result of repression , it is frequently represented by an endless series of substitute objects none of which , however , brings full satisfaction ’ ( vii . |
| 3 | No such brutal suppression of a peaceful demonstration had been seen in the Soviet Union since at least the early 1960s , strengthening rumours that the action , directed by the Ministry of Internal Affairs rather than by Georgian officials , might have been covertly encouraged by Kremlin conservatives intent on discrediting Gorbachev and the policy of perestroika . |
| 4 | This led Tolstoy ( in the minister and the massacres ) to the misconception that a subsequent instruction concerning the definition of a Soviet citizen had been issued on 6 May . |
| 5 | By contrast with this limited approach to reform , changes to existing rape laws of a radical nature have been contemplated and introduced elsewhere . |
| 6 | Previous restrictions on the transfer of shares in private companies and the limit on the number of members of a private company have been removed . |
| 7 | The victim of a vicious assault has been talking about the attack which left him unconscious and with a broken jaw . |
| 8 | Although the existence of a pictorial code has been disputed ( Pylyshyn , 1973 ) the dual-coding hypothesis has gained wide acceptance . |
| 9 | He also revealed that some explosive devices of a similar type had been recovered since September 1991 . |
| 10 | On the chalk downlands , which have been under sheep pasture ever since the Iron Age , something like the original appearance of a similar trackway has been preserved , but in the arable Midlands it must have disappeared fairly early . |
| 11 | As the numbers of records increase , the problem of waiting for a reply to a query until the whole of a serial file has been searched increases in proportion , and eventually this delay becomes unacceptable . |
| 12 | In terms of the cohort model this means that the size of a cohort at any given moment will depend not only on how much of a current word has been analysed , but also on information from the preceding context . |
| 13 | THREE generations of a family found murdered in the kitchen of a terraced house had been the victims of a horrendous and frenzied attack , police said yesterday . |
| 14 | A quarter of a million pounds has been the motive for far worse crimes than the one you contemplated . |
| 15 | More than quarter of a million pounds has been given by people throughout South Durham to build the specialist unit at Darlington Memorial Hospital . |
| 16 | Three quarters of a million children have been forced to seek refuge in neighbouring countries , others are disabled for life . |
| 17 | My hon. Friend may remember that , in 1980 , a quarter of a million people had been waiting for more than two months for telephones to be connected . |
| 18 | During the interwar years there had been several proposals for something that would go beyond this to involve governments , and in 1938 the idea of a Nordic Council had been proposed by Denmark . |
| 19 | The widow of a Naval airman has been awarded more than a hundred and sixty thousand pounds in damages after he died following a bout of heavy drinking . |
| 20 | For that God has been conceived as male , and that biblical teaching which arose out of a patriarchal society has been held to be the revelation of God , must surely be seen to be the underlying facts of western culture which have led to discrimination against women . |
| 21 | Dunlop 's claim could not be supported by any record of a lump-sum payment having been made to Kilpatrick . |
| 22 | The body of a young climber has been found in the Scottish Highlands after a three day search . |
| 23 | The badly-decomposed body of a young man has been found in a field . |
| 24 | The sense of being part of a general flux had been lost for years . |
| 25 | Obviously , staff will be delighted that the appointment of a new Director has been made and sad that Tom has gone but it is the proposed reorganisation which will occupy the minds of most staff . |
| 26 | The autumn 1989 session of the National Assembly discussed the proposals for a new Constitution to replace the provisional Constitution of 1968 [ see p. 23232 ] , and President Saddam Hussein announced on Jan. 31 , 1990 , that the draft of a new Constitution had been completed by the Council of Ministers . |
| 27 | Unlike other higher profile running mothers , returning to training after the birth of a healthy son has been gentle for the 44-year old . |
| 28 | A prisoner who threw boiling water into the face of a fellow inmate has been jailed for five years . |
| 29 | The requirement of a compulsory bid has been criticised as being too prescriptive in nature . |
| 30 | As a result , the class patterns of a capitalist society have been superimposed on the hierarchical social structure of a departing feudal society . |