Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] have [be] " 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 | The sentences were lighter than had been generally expected ; the military prosecutor on July 14 had asked for life sentences rather than death sentences ( as sought in June ) . |
| 4 | These two cone types are present in almost equal numbers , and not in the ratio of 2:1 that has been postulated for the human fovea . |
| 5 | Moreover , the peasantry were proving more acquiescent than had been expected , and the government was responding to the financial concern of the nobility with a variety of measures including plans to establish provincial banks . |
| 6 | And Davide could almost fancy he could smell again the stale vaporous emanations of the law in the room as he began to take down details of the wrong that had been done . |
| 7 | They put their trust in a military solution to right the wrong that had been done in 1688 , and looked to France for help . |
| 8 | It is worth posing additional questions to promote discussion some that have been found to be useful are : If there had been no problem with the purchase of the bacon-curing business what would you have done with the £500 paid to the accountant ? |
| 9 | The project ran into difficulties when we discovered that the forms of ‘ collaboration ’ being developed in the classrooms observed were more all pervasive yet apparently less structured and organised than had been anticipated . |
| 10 | The effects of evacuation were perceived in terms of social pathology , so that although evacuation was pronounced less harmful than had been feared the effect of the analysis was to see the normal development of children as problematic , and to emphasise the compensatory role of agencies outside the family — school and its directing bodies in particular . |
| 11 | The trial , which had begun on March 5 , was shorter than had been anticipated both because Poindexter chose not to give evidence himself , and because the prosecution was successful in eliciting incriminating evidence from its chief witness , Oliver North , Poindexter 's subordinate at the National Security Council . |
| 12 | By the way , we do n't recommend a camping honeymoon — we 've heard of a few that have been disasters ! |
| 13 | Peppered beef , vegetable lattice bake and herring in tomato sauce are just a few that have been requested lately . |
| 14 | I mean , there 's a few that 's been done that have n't been caught anyway . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | The position is precisely clear and has been confirmed . |
| 18 | The bridge was pedestrian-only and had been taken over by assorted buskers playing jazz or folk music . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | The overall electron transfer from the anion is particularly high and has been calculated at approximately 0.8e . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | She was twenty-two years old and had been a nurse at the Princess Louise Clinic in new Cavendish Street . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | He was sixty years old and had been the parish priest for over thirty years . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Gazzer was twenty-two years old and had been compared in looks to a pit bull , entirely to the dog 's advantage . |
| 29 | Hugh was 62 years ' old and had been with Douglas Reyburn for 28 years . |
| 30 | The jail is less than a year old and has been hailed as a model prison . |