Example sentences of "of [adj] [pron] have be " in BNC.
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| 1 | The terminus at each end was connected to the line by a steep incline surmounted with the help of a stationary steam winding engine , and at Middleton Top the engine house survives complete with its engine , a Butterley double-beam engine of 1829 which has been restored to working order . |
| 2 | Before the end of 1891 there had been strikes against free labour at Aberdeen , Plymouth , Liverpool , Shields , Newcastle , Leith , Hull , Glasgow , Hartlepool , Middlesbrough and Swansea , all of which resulted in a weakening of the union . |
| 3 | I attach a copy of that which has been adopted in England . |
| 4 | I attach a copy of that which has been adopted for RIGS in England and Wales . |
| 5 | And on top of that she had been rude to her boss . |
| 6 | By the end of 1986 there had been 84 reported decisions on the 1977 Act in the High Court and 41 of these had gone in favour of the homeless . |
| 7 | Agitation over the Irish question had assumed the proportions of a major political threat in the 1860s , bread riots were not unknown in London in this period , and in the shadow of the second Reform Bill of 1867 there had been occasions of political violence over voting reforms . |
| 8 | So from the beginning of 1972 there have been involved in five major enquiries relating to Northern Ireland a former Lord Chancellor ( twice ) , a present and a former Lord Chief Justice , a Lord of Appeal , and a High Court judge . |
| 9 | Because of this there has been scientific and practical interest in the facks that amonoantibiotic regimen comprising omeprazole and amoxicillin has been highly successful in eradicating H pylori in some pilot studies and has shown good results with regard to H pylori reinfection and the clinical course of peptic ulcer disease in the first year after treatment . |
| 10 | But in all of this she has been the least public : less frequently on conference platforms , much less in print . |
| 11 | Because of this it has been popular at cat shows in the United States for several decades . |
| 12 | In support of this it has been pointed out that two distinct kinds of descriptive statement can be made about a verbal work of art . |
| 13 | In all of this it has been assumed that the general rule applies and that X , not being the owner could not confer ownership on Y who in turn could not confer ownership on Z. It now remains to examine those exceptional situations where the original owner may lose his ownership , i.e. where title may be conferred by someone who himself has no title . |
| 14 | At the end of 1067 there had been a great fire which had made nearly all the buildings unusable except the dormitory , the refectory , and enough of the cloister to make it possible for the monks to walk from one building to another without getting wet . |
| 15 | It would , however , be preferable to have a bile duct free of stones , and Johnson et al recently reported that in such patients initially treated with an endoprosthesis , eight of 10 who had been given ursodeoxycholic acid had cleared their stones within six months compared with only one of 10 not given this bile acid . |
| 16 | The first withdrawal of US troops began on Jan. 2 with the return of about 300 troops to the USA , and as of Jan. 7 a total of 3,300 troops had returned home , out of a total of 26,000 who had been in Panama . |
| 17 | Around the middle of 1969 I had been asked by the Jockey Club whether I would join the board of United Racecourses , for one reason and one reason only : in order to keep the peace between the Jockey Club and Lord Wigg . |
| 18 | Since the slump of 1921 there has been a prevailing tendency , occasionally interrupted but invariably resumed before there has been time for a real recovery towards parsimony and restriction . |
| 19 | Indeed , since the Domesday Survey of 1086 there had been no government measure which had produced a record of this . |
| 20 | Following the economic downturn of 1899 there had been a brief decline in strike action and contact had become more difficult to sustain . |
| 21 | The hearts of all who have been moved by Lizzie 's singing go out to Brian in his loss . |
| 22 | First of all I had been subjected to two substantial costs consequent upon some unexplained administrative delay . |
| 23 | Rather desperately , Celia steered the conversation round to her and Brian 's new house in the country , how Alison and Geoffrey must come and stay , that they would be less than fifty miles apart ; while Alison , obviously thankful to turn to less delicate matters , regaled her with a description of all she had been doing in her garden and some rather dull anecdotes about the neighbours whom Celia and Brian had met on their last visit . |
| 24 | Unless she is very lucky , she will be the one who will be expected to provide the stimulation , for her elderly parent may have been alone since breakfast-time , and will be waiting to be ‘ cheered up ’ by stories of all she has been doing during the day . |
| 25 | First of all it had been merely a sense of unease , an occasional visitor . |
| 26 | Since the age of 5 I have been going to Highfield , my sister was 6 and my brother was 8 . |
| 27 | At the beginning of 1981 I had been promoted from Minister of Transport to Secretary of State . |
| 28 | Thank you erm I hardly ever comment on these but I just , I was n't sure what because quite often these things go under another guise , but there are a number of schemes on the drawing board for investigation as you all know and Mr will know some of those they 've been around for , for some years . |
| 29 | The freeing of political parties in March 1990 led to the formation of numerous new parties and the emergence as official opposition of some of those which had been operating within the FNDR . |
| 30 | The 21-bed Clevedon hospital near Weston-super-Mare is one of those which has been accredited . |