Example sentences of "have [been] [adj] [verb] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I was told I had to play well week-in , week-out in the League to further my chances of getting back into the international side and it has been good to play in a successful side at Cardiff . ’ |
| 2 | One of the things I want to argue is that in order to construct certain exemplary models of antiracist policy and practice it has been necessary to operate in terms of a reductive representation of racism , one which not only scales down its reality , but ignores its more complex features . |
| 3 | Increasingly , it has been necessary to think in terms of creating our own learning environment in a separate Women 's Education Centre in which men as students , teachers or visiting authorities are unwelcome and in which women act independently for themselves . |
| 4 | It has been encouraging to read in your last two issues constructive recognition by Pilot readers and by you , the editor , that GA noise is an issue which needs to be addressed , both for the sake of those exposed to it , and for the long-term health of light aviation . |
| 5 | He wonders if she has told her husband the docteur — he imagines a cheerful Depardieu in a white coat — of the steps she has been obliged to take in order to get the part . |
| 6 | It has been possible to map in detail the migration and fate of the neural crest cells in the chick because of a fortuitous discovery made in 1968 by the French embryologist Nicole Le Douarin . |
| 7 | It is because of this historical dimension to the religion that those arguing ( for example ) for the ordination of women apparently find it so difficult to say , in the way in which it has been possible to maintain in the sphere of politics , that we hold these truths to be self-evident , that all human beings are created equal and must not be discriminated against . |
| 8 | Because of popular music 's ubiquitousness and vast scale of production , it has been possible to establish in the collective mind a set of conventional musical ‘ colours ’ — ‘ Spanish ’ , ‘ pastoral ’ , ‘ cowboy ’ , ‘ blue ’ , ‘ hip pie ’ , ‘ punk ’ , and so on — and arrangers and producers can simply lift the technical devices needed for these ready-made veneers off the shelf when needed . |
| 9 | By introducing a satellite RNA Ribonucleic Acid ( closely related to DNA ) , it has been possible to establish in a tobacco plant a heritable agent capable of preventing the development of the mosaic virus as it enters the cell . |
| 10 | The views of many Conservative Members of Parliament are much more profound in their objection to certain trends in Europe than it has been possible to encapsulate in any short Motion . |
| 11 | One must wonder whether the book trade will continue to have the large and complicated distribution systems which it has been able to support in the past . |
| 12 | So that although these are er fairly different relatives in terms of bacteria it 's striking that the ETEC organism has been able to acquire in some way almost exactly the same gene that 's present in choleri . |
| 13 | No doubt it is because of the vision to train in this way that Ichthus has been able to grow in the way that it has done . |
| 14 | I refer to Julia Kristeva 's somewhat obscure remarks about ‘ the role that the pervert , with his invincible belief in the maternal phallus and his obstinate refusal to recognise the existence of the other sex , has been able to play in anti-semitism and the totalitarian movements that embrace it , . |
| 15 | Who but Gibbons has been able to reproduce in wood the precise bloom of a ripening peach , the very texture and mass of a bursting apricot , or the exact weight and trajectory of an ear of corn on its stem ? |
| 16 | Since then nobody has been able to get in touch with her . |
| 17 | Such variability of criminal behaviour has been difficult to explain in positivist theories which see criminality as resulting from specific , more or less permanent characteristics of particular ‘ types ’ of individual . |
| 18 | This chapter has been concerned to sketch in the general background to the reign of Mary Queen of Scots , and to clear it of some of the misconceptions about Scottish kingship which have tended to confuse the issues . |
| 19 | Although there has been some shift in the 1980s to the political right in the United States and West Germany , the socialist share of the vote has hardly changed over the two decades in Austria , Scandinavia , West Germany , and Italy . |
| 20 | The inability to protect children from such abuse has been the subject of a succession of inquiry reports , in which the main reason given for this failure has been some failing in procedure such as the lack of communication among the agencies involved . |
| 21 | Clairol 's Free Curl heated styler has been designed with moving style in mind — it 's a cordless , gas powered appliance which has been OK 'd in the checked-in luggage on planes so it goes wherever you do . |
| 22 | Despite anecdotal reports of serious bugs in Microsoft Corp 's new MS-DOS 6.0 , PC Week Labs says it has been unable to reproduce in a controlled laboratory environment any of the data-threatening errors specifically attributed to MS-DOS 6.0 or its DoubleSpace component , adding that it believes that many of the reported data-destroying errors can be attributed to the sudden introduction of SMARTDRV , the MS-DOS and Windows cache program , onto previously uncached systems — SMARTDRV caches disk writes , and any sudden power-down can cause unrecoverable file and disk errors — but be that as it may , Microsoft is taking the reports of data loss sufficiently seriously that it has pledged to do whatever it takes to track down and purge any serious flaws , although it has found none , and InfoWorld reported it found several problems , including one in the DoubleSpace data compression — but Microsoft said two of its engineers looked into but could not replicate the problems InfoWorld saw . |
| 23 | It appears that in practice the interim government has been unable to operate in Mogadishu and Mr. Qalib has based himself in a hotel in Riyadh in Saudi Arabia . |
| 24 | Thorez noted : Nizan has been satisfied to play in real life the wretched part of Pluvinage , the police spy he brings into his latest novel . |
| 25 | With a painter father and a musician mother , it might not have been easy to decide in which artistic direction to steer the young Sylvestra . |
| 26 | An impressive set of performances , then , though at a total playing time of less than 57 minutes it should surely have been possible to fit in another item . |
| 27 | An individual who is domiciled outside the United Kingdom shall not be chargeable to tax in respect of the sum which is deemed to be his under s739 if he would not have been chargeable to tax in respect of it if it had been in fact his income . |
| 28 | But he might still have been able to stop in time if he 'd braked hard enough . |
| 29 | We would n't have been able to skate in Britain , so it 's great to be in Milton Keynes . |
| 30 | Editor , — J Michael Dixon postulates that most dental surgeons previously had both NHS and private patients and would thus have been able to act in the Robin Hood pattern that some of us remember general practitioners adopting before the introduction of the NHS . |