Example sentences of "[noun] have be [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At present the advent of the All Blacks is concentrating the national rugby mind wonderfully and all four provinces have been in early-season action . |
| 2 | ‘ I am thinking that maybe these gentlemen have been to one English Wine Shop , ’ said Dr Haidar , speaking in that slightly sanctimonious tone that Muslims sometimes adopt when discussing alcohol . |
| 3 | Foreigners are flooding the market — in the last three weeks alone , six Norwegians have been to Premier League clubs on trial . |
| 4 | blah , blah , blah , recommended that interview have been in both directions despite in this difficult across , and I could n't say when you could do that at midday , but the implication is you have to do it when you |
| 5 | Your lads have been over this place with a fine-tooth comb . |
| 6 | The chances that he will get them out of a mire of their own making are as thin as their performances have been for most of the season . |
| 7 | American bond yields have been at 20-year lows , and shares are expensive . |
| 8 | ‘ Previously the losses have been through voluntary redundancies or retirements , losing some of our most experienced officers . |
| 9 | Quite a number of experiments leading to such identification have been with small aspect ratio Bénard convection ( Sections 22.1 , 22.4 ) [ 87 , 181 , 246 ] ; small in this context means not much greater than unity . |
| 10 | But some of the most fruitful findings at ancient sites have been by those such as the researchers on the Dragon Project discussed later in this chapter , trained in disciplines other than archaeology . |
| 11 | Indeed it would be surprising were we able to do so , since there are some fairly clear empirical examples of industries where publicly owned concerns have been of superior or equal efficiency to private ones , as we shall see in chapter 7 . |
| 12 | It is difficult to assess exactly how important such credit effects have been in this recession . |
| 13 | Brian , you and Kerrie have been in temporary accommodation since January 1991 . |
| 14 | In their centenary year of nineteen eight eight they won the league and cup double , but since then honours have been in short supply . |
| 15 | The rapidity of Japan 's economic and political transformation and the enduring influence of Tokugawa practices and ideas into this century mean that in Japan , as in other late industrializers such as the USSR , agricultural issues and the impact of the rural sector have been of crucial importance throughout the past 150 years . |
| 16 | Fire crews have been at full stretch dealing with flooded houses mainly in the Cotswolds . |
| 17 | The Garlands have been in this game for eighty years — accumulating , not spending . |
| 18 | Fortunately , not all recent pub refurbishments have been in this vein . |
| 19 | The main developments since interactionism have been in phenomenological , Marxist and feminist sociology . |
| 20 | Certain members of the Olympic Vibes team have been in serious disarray after one glimpse of this , and the guilty lightweights have been duly suspended from club duty . |
| 21 | That is precisely where we have been , which is why so many of the decisions reached in the past two days have been on British initiatives that have been accepted across the whole of Europe . |
| 22 | Certainly the solutions to the ‘ black problem ’ of the past 200 years have been of limited vision — hostile , intolerant and frequently brutal . |
| 23 | ‘ I 'd like to put on record how co-operative Copenhagen have been throughout this affair , ’ said the Linfield chairman . |
| 24 | Dividing the colony will merely make its members more vulnerable , they argue , while previous efforts to breed rhinos in captivity have been at best unreliable . |
| 25 | Anti-terrorist squad officers have been on maximum alert for several months and have been expecting ‘ a spectacular ’ IRA bomb in the run-up to Christmas . |
| 26 | Impressive as its successes have been in such matters as the unravelling of the genetic code , nevertheless they represent only an infinitesimal step towards a complete account in conventional physical terms of even the simplest animal brain . |
| 27 | Nine months or a year 's time we may have a different animal working in that office and it may well be some person who has who does some J L O work to supplement John and does some project work , now er Jackie has indicated she 'd love to fill that role , and we all know what project she 'd want to be doing it , but er if we do put somebody in that role they will be project officer as well and on the wall will be a year planner and it 'll have things like crucial crew gala day and all these major major things and that particular officer will work quite closely with the new Pat and they 'll be able to take some of the weight off our shoulders so when we start planning for something like crucial crew you can delegate some of the work to the project officer and perhaps the other sergeant Now I know things do n't always work out quite that straightforwardly but you know the last year has been a bastard of a year for us in terms of sickness , four S L O's have been on long-term sick we 've lost Pat for all that time Jed was off for quite a while |
| 28 | Liverpool have been without five of the powerful line-up Mr Souness selected for the first match against Portsmouth in the intervening League games . |
| 29 | Books by , and about , lesbians have been in comparative abundance in the last 5 years or so but it 's debatable whether this literary output has served as insular affirmations or taken lesbian sexuality a little further down the road of acceptance . |
| 30 | But many of the studies have been on non-diabetic subjects and the hypoglycaemic stimulus was not always identical . |