Example sentences of "[adj] have [been] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While it is clear that both institutions have been concerned about their disappointing financial results , neither has been able correctly to identify the causes of their distress , let alone face the facts . |
| 2 | Neither has been forthcoming . |
| 3 | The contribution of each has been influential in the development of such areas a robotics , natural language understanding , speech recognition and expert systems . |
| 4 | That has been one of the problems of local government , not what the hon. Gentleman has referred to . |
| 5 | That has been such a constant that I ca n't believe anyone still falls for it … ’ |
| 6 | They could go into land without asking permission and farmers would not even say a word , but that has been upset now . |
| 7 | ( 10 ) It is necessary to state current use of the property and whether that has been continuous . |
| 8 | This is the first issue for a decade or so that has been typeset with the aid of a computer and phototypesetting . |
| 9 | ‘ That has been possible for some time . |
| 10 | That has been successful in reviving the national economy as a whole . |
| 11 | That has been successful Chair , during the course of the year , we 're three quarters of the way through , but our monitoring information shows that we 've easily reached that ten percent target , and that does fit in equally with the work we 'll be describing a bit later on , the Enterprise Agency is , is working on . |
| 12 | Please help me to know that transforming power of your Holy Spirit to overcome these difficulties , and please forgive me for all that has been wrong and selfish in what I have said , thought and done . |
| 13 | Critics of a more open approach to young children 's learning often cite the Plowden Report ( 1966 ) as the source and inspiration of all that has been wrong with our primary schools . |
| 14 | The impact of that has been different for older and younger generations and has affected the position of each generation in relation to financial support from relatives , and also assistance with accommodation . |
| 15 | In reality , it is this power , rather than any other provision , that has been vital to the police in their control over the years of pickets , protesters , and political demonstrators . |
| 16 | That has been monumental help , but it has not been just practical help . |
| 17 | This has been central to the Catholic tradition as we well know . |
| 18 | I 've never entirely agreed with the policy of restricted entry , although one knows all the arguments why this has been necessary . |
| 19 | This has been little more than an annotated table of contents of a programme that should extend to 1995 and culminate in WACC 's second World Congress . |
| 20 | Paralleling this has been increasing acceptance of artificial insemination by donor although little is known of how the private citizen and the community at large view this , in vitro fertilisation and other similar medical techniques . |
| 21 | I would be interested to know whether this has been successful in reducing speed and accidents , but my impression is that it has worked very well . |
| 22 | The EURODASS consortium led by Marconi Defence Systems Limited offered a solution , and this has been subject to rigorous scrutiny to confirm that it meets the necessary technical criteria . |
| 23 | This has been invaluable in challenging simplicities about , say , the ‘ repression ’ of sexuality in nineteenth-century Europe , and in questioning the teleological view which sees a gradual climb towards permissiveness from Victorian darkness . |
| 24 | Now I do n't know if you think this has been useful |
| 25 | This has been extraordinary . |
| 26 | So the psychology of the course was created and this has been integral to the development of the tournament . |
| 27 | One negative consequence of this has been that positive Christian theology on the one hand and the study of religion on the other have very largely tended to go their separate ways ; and this too does little to resolve the problem posed by Troeltsch himself . |
| 28 | One result of this has been that theology itself has become ecumenical in a fashion undreamt of a century ago , and many of the main fronts in theological debate and controversy now run across rather than along denominational boundaries . |
| 29 | This has been one of the central preoccupations of ethnographic police research , especially that inspired by phenomenology and ethnomethodology , and so apposite is policing to this focus that many theoreticians from within phenomenology and ethnomethodology have used it for the application of their ideas ( Cicourel 1968 ; Pollner 1987 ; Sacks 1972 ; Sudnow 1965 ) . |
| 30 | The problem of deliberate self-poisoning and self-injury has placed enormous pressure on the stiff ( physicians , nurses , psychiatrists ) and services ( casualty and emergency departments , medical admission units , psychiatric and social work departments ) involved in the care of patients who take overdoses or injure themselves , and this has been one of the factors that has promoted a re-examination of previously accepted policies for the management of attempted suicide patients . |