Example sentences of "have [be] [adj] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For that reason , abstract art has been anxious to distance itself from decoration . |
| 2 | ‘ But from time to time it has been right to reconsider its detailed application . |
| 3 | The foregoing review has been necessary to demonstrate what now seems almost unbelievable ; that physical geography for so long contrived to ignore the significance of human activity and thence the potential which associated studies afford . |
| 4 | I would like to thank all the members erm , who 've served on that committee and indeed the officers who 've worked for it , because a lot of the background work and a lot of the er , consultation with departments has been necessary to get us to the erm , reasonably satisfactory stage we 're at , considering the ext extremely severe restrictions on government ex , er , on local government spending , er resulting from the cap . |
| 5 | The unfair element is that the AFBD has been obliged to extricate itself from a CFTC hole largely dug by the Securities and Investments Board and imperfectly filled in by the Department of Trade and Industry . |
| 6 | The Ministry of Defence has been obliged to freeze its own orders to British industry in the run-up to the election , but a Downing Street spokesman said last night the civil service guidelines allowed the announcement of foreign arms sales . |
| 7 | In some districts it has been impossible to make it available to everyone . |
| 8 | The Board has been delighted to congratulate her majesty 's government er in its insistence that factors such as public order should be taken into account in the fixing of a Europe wide alcohol pricing policy . |
| 9 | The Chancellor has been unwilling to use his flexibility to reflect the reality of such competition to allow spirits to compete on more equal terms . |
| 10 | It is this too which causes me personally to be deeply resentful of the practice so prevalent in the mass of fiscal and planning legislation of relegating provisions of real substance to Schedules which are sometimes cross-referenced between one another , so that construing the statute becomes a sort of verbal jigsaw puzzle that can only be solved by laying out numerous copies of the Act open at different pages or by the judicious use of more fingers than the number with which nature has been pleased to endow us . |
| 11 | Since 1987 it has been possible to ask your employer to deduct regular sums from your pay through the PAYROLL GIVING SCHEME up to a maximum of £600 per annum ( not all employers offer their employees this facility ) . |
| 12 | Although the 20 cm square shaft has been known about since 1882 it is only with developments in recent technology that it has been possible to explore it by means of a video camera mounted onto a mini robot . |
| 13 | By reconstructing the changes made to the Seveso plant after Moeri 's departure , it has been possible to recreate what probably caused the blast . |
| 14 | Mr Ashdown has been quick to contrast his 55 walkabouts with Mr Kinnock 's ‘ three ’ , and he has put in the long hours with a soldier 's determination to ‘ get the job done ’ . |
| 15 | And like Sir John , Mr Johnson has been quick to share his success , with involvement in his local community that includes the rescue and steady expansion of Tranmere Rovers . |
| 16 | Furthermore , BRAC has been willing to adapt its programme in the light of new findings , as demonstrated in the following brief description of Phase 3 . |
| 17 | 1001 Ways to Save the Planet deserves to experience the irony of being consumed in vast quantities — and it 's interesting that Penguin has been willing to launch it towards a mass readership sheathed in a determinedly dowdy recycled cover . |
| 18 | Historically it has been convenient to explore them as an evolution from the works of Euclid . |
| 19 | Ukraine has been reluctant to honour its pledge to relinquish its arsenal . |
| 20 | It has been able to shed its loss-making operations without the need for lengthy legal procedures such as those which normally accompany the proposal to close a branch passenger service . |
| 21 | No Defence Secretary in recent years has been able to grip his department effectively , which means taking harsh decisions that reflect a coherent view of Britain 's priorities . |
| 22 | However , a purchaser should not pay for tax losses until such time as it has been able to use them . |
| 23 | From the letters we have been receiving this year it appears that the Jehovah 's Witness from Greece Andreas Christodoulou has been passing some of the cards on to his colleagues who are also imprisoned Jehovah 's witnesses , who want to correspond with people in the U.K. Fortunately we have someone in the office who has been able to translate their letters . |
| 24 | any income the school has been able to generate itself . |
| 25 | If the plaintiff has been unable to work at all up to the date of the trial , his loss will be the entire net remuneration which he would have earned ; if for a period he has been able to earn something , but not as much as he would have earned had he not been injured , his loss for that period will be the net difference between what he has earned and what he would otherwise have earned . |
| 26 | In defence of some of my clients in the national museums and galleries , I should point out that , for example , the Victoria and Albert museum has been able to extend its opening hours . |
| 27 | Despite claims by some that they play ‘ The Devil 's music ’ , the band has been able to confirm its gig on Friday 21st May . |
| 28 | No one has been able to explain it to me ( it 's nothing to do with horses by the way ) . |
| 29 | And , with Norway roaring away at the top of England 's World Cup group , everyone has been able to see their quality . |
| 30 | But Connors has taken no serious breaks from the game and its stylistic progress ; his game in itself has durable , idiosyncratic features ( whereas Borg 's became the prototype on which newcomers based their own playing patterns ) ; and he has been able to take his audience along with him through the very gradual decline in his competitive expectations . |