Example sentences of "[noun] [noun sg] have [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The support play has been brillient . |
| 2 | The Research Councils , through the Advisory Board for the Research Councils ( ABRC ) have commissioned a number of studies of research policy , in order to determine the best measures for the objective assessment of research productivity , and those carried out by the Science Policy Research Unit ( SPRU ) at Sussex University have been fundamental in reviewing existing measures , and suggesting new indicators which may be used singly or in combination . |
| 3 | During the last few years the Printing Division has been able to offer photosetting via its P.E . |
| 4 | Venables and the Spurs board have been upset over a series of allegations Scholar has made in his book ‘ Behind Closed Doors ’ , which is published today . |
| 5 | Tour sponsors Tetley Bitter have been unable to persuade customs to allow supplies in for the players . |
| 6 | If the Sudan Defence Force had been unsuccessful in capturing this oasis , they would be in grave difficulty , stuck in the desert without fuel , water or rations . |
| 7 | Men 's and women 's claims to social security income maintenance have been subject to different assumptions . |
| 8 | She did not think it necessary to tell him that the University administration had been obliged to circulate all members of staff with a memorandum asking them , if they had been on strike , to volunteer the information ( since there was no other way of finding out ) so that their pay could be docked . |
| 9 | The advantages for the printing industry have been enormous . |
| 10 | Since the last Employee Report , the Group personnel department has been involved in reviewing and updating personnel policies throughout the Group including induction procedures , substance misuse and harassment at work . |
| 11 | Members of the University Lecturers Association had been due to take part in a second one-day strike at the university in Aberdeen . |
| 12 | She then thanked Silas for his informative talk on New Zealand 's native trees and birds , and declared that the afternoon tea had been delicious . |
| 13 | The Data Protection Registrar has also commented that the mere fact a breach of security has occurred will not be proof that the data user has been negligent , provided the data user has ‘ done everything which could reasonably be expected ’ ( DPR Guideline 4 ) . |
| 14 | George and Marie are very disappointed , especially as they have both been working around the clock since the expansion , managing the Brasserie and L'Auberge respectively , interviewing and training new staff ( labour turnover has been high at the Brasserie from the start and is now significantly higher at L'Auberge too ) and filling in whenever necessary at either establishment . |
| 15 | ‘ For some time the bloodstock industry has been concerned about competition from our EC counterparts , and this was threatening 30,000 jobs . ’ |
| 16 | Certainly not by direct experience , for few who ‘ know ’ about schoolroom or football violence have been present at its manifestations . |
| 17 | I sat on the facilities , and told him that the water samples from the horse car had been pure and simple H&sub2 ; O. |
| 18 | After the war opinion was more fluid and open on political grounds the tariff issue had been dead for years and I felt it was one which would pull the party together , including the Lloyd George malcontents . |
| 19 | Yet such sociological explanations for men 's reticence at reporting abnormal symptoms only serves to underline the absence of a national prostate screening campaign , particularly so since a simple blood test has been available over the last four years which can detect the likely presence of prostate cancer . |
| 20 | A spokesman for the Durham Anti-Apartheid Group said the Labour Group in Darlington Borough Council had been right to refuse to see the delegation . |
| 21 | With financial support from the Ancient India and Iran Trust in Cambridge , the Fitzwilliam Museum has been able to mount a loan exhibition of antiquities of ancient Afghanistan and Pakistan . |
| 22 | The story is complex , and in some respects law has been indifferent and , indeed , antipathetic to commercial needs . |
| 23 | The parents and their action group had been free to talk to the press . |
| 24 | His short doze in the living room had been long enough to keep him awake now . |
| 25 | What is beyond doubt is that the investment community has been enthusiastic in its response . |
| 26 | Most thought the event had gone well , and that the fifty pound entrance fee had been well-spent . |
| 27 | To illustrate this I want to mention briefly a list of ways in which the Milltown Action Team has been able to either increase employment or increase local people 's chances of gaining employment . |
| 28 | It should be noted that no modules will be deleted until the module version deletion process has been able to run through the whole LIFESPAN database . |
| 29 | Since the 1960s in England , football spectatorship has been subject to increasingly stringent surveillance from the football authorities , law and the police . |
| 30 | What petty little tin god had been responsible for this I do not know , for Mr Herbert Morrison , the leader of the LCC as it was then , had set the example after the great fire of December 1961 by taking his bed into the next office to his , and staying there all night . |