Example sentences of "[adj] [coord] have [been] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now I would say to sa say that that is almost a bit like the story of the boy crying that he did n't have many holidays because he did n't go to school and that because Harrogate 's er unemployment is so low or has been historically so low compared with other areas , a relatively small increase in the number of unemployment has an enormous increase as compared with what it 's been in the past and so the same number of people living in Harrogate who lose their jobs has an impact on the unemployment figures as perceived locally greater than a similar number of people losing their jobs in Leeds or Selby or somewhere else , and so I think to some extent this the rhetoric has outrun the reality on that point . |
| 2 | ‘ From what I can see , Katie , this man is either very careful or has been very lucky . |
| 3 | Alex , who had given me the cigarettes , was Scottish and had been at Lille for three days ; he had deserted from the Military Police in Germany , and thought that French food was nowhere as good as Glaswegian . |
| 4 | Walker , who has turned 30 and has been at Tynecastle for over three years , will get his full international grounding at a time when goalkeeping problems abound for the national coach . |
| 5 | The position is precisely clear and has been confirmed . |
| 6 | The bridge was pedestrian-only and had been taken over by assorted buskers playing jazz or folk music . |
| 7 | Our local starling population is a race apart in that they are non-migratory and have been isolated in the islands for long enough to have developed their own characteristics . |
| 8 | GPSG is computationally economical and has been developed to a point where a large number of interesting syntactic phenomena may be dealt with in an integrated formal framework . |
| 9 | None of these Athenian Doric temples had carved metopes , but fine big relief-slabs from the Acropolis ( fig. 40 ) seem architectural and have been thought part of a continuous frieze from the Peisistratid temple , like that of the fifth-century Parthenon . |
| 10 | The overall electron transfer from the anion is particularly high and has been calculated at approximately 0.8e . |
| 11 | The volume of complaint about the difficulties encountered by pedestrians is certainly high and has been recorded in a number of surveys in recent years . |
| 12 | She was twenty-two years old and had been a nurse at the Princess Louise Clinic in new Cavendish Street . |
| 13 | Though the engine was 17 years old and had been used to pulling 40-tonne loads at 60mph , Mr Tomlinson did n't need to touch it . |
| 14 | He was sixty years old and had been the parish priest for over thirty years . |
| 15 | He was 6 years old and had been at the school for three terms when the head , knowing that I was a neighbour and friend of Balbinder 's mother , invited me to go with Mrs Singh to a meeting with the educational psychologist . |
| 16 | Gazzer was twenty-two years old and had been compared in looks to a pit bull , entirely to the dog 's advantage . |
| 17 | Hugh was 62 years ' old and had been with Douglas Reyburn for 28 years . |
| 18 | The jail is less than a year old and has been hailed as a model prison . |
| 19 | I am twenty years old and have been educated in Britain . |
| 20 | Most of the people here are quite old and have been really through it . |
| 21 | Most of the people here are quite old and have been really through it . |
| 22 | I am a male working with young children under eight years old and have been involved , to a greater or lesser degree for almost ten years . |
| 23 | Some of the vellum bound books are nearly 400 years old and have been read by successive generations of Oxford students . |
| 24 | General elections in a broad sense are three centuries old and have been fully representative of adults since 1928 . |
| 25 | When the VDU is free and has been allocated to the current Offline run , the Offline System will present a display similar to that shown in Figure 2.1 . |
| 26 | It would be most interesting to know if you can think of other potential members — our seminars have in the last year or two proved popular and have been extraordinarily cost effective . |
| 27 | Some of the reforms are eminently sensible and have been introduced . |
| 28 | As long as you can show that they owed you a legal duty to be careful and have been negligent , damages could come your way . |
| 29 | A " procession of silence " for the restoration of constitutional rights , declared illegal by the government on April 1 , had proceeded in Caracas on April 2 and had been dispersed by police using water cannon , tear gas and birdshot . |
| 30 | He accepted they had thought the flat was empty and had been put under pressure by Allen to start the fire by squirting petrol through the letterbox . |