Example sentences of "have be a [adv] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The word ‘ intellectual ’ , of course , has been a traditionally associated with the nature of men as the word ‘ emotional ’ had been associated with the nature of women . |
| 2 | As he remarks , there has been a widely held view ‘ that , in respect of early Baroque music generally … the proportional signatures … arose from within a system that had simply lapsed into ‘ chaotic confusion ’ so that they can be held to convey no precise or credible information . |
| 3 | It 's simply an activity which has been a little overestimated and is regarded as something of major importance . |
| 4 | So far as fire risks are concerned , this criticism has been a little overplayed and the Fire Research Station has stated categorically : |
| 5 | It has been a clinically planned destabilising and brutalising of the population , year after year , for both military and political ends . |
| 6 | Despite these strategies , applied in both depressed and prosperous Britain , it can not be argued that there is or ever has been a clearly defined national population-distribution policy in the UK . |
| 7 | As you all know Annabelle has been a much sought after girl/woman , but I 'm pleased to announce the winner of the competition , me . |
| 8 | The problem of defining a cut-off line ( or boundary ) between the upper class and the upper middle class has been a highly contested sociological topic . |
| 9 | There has been a highly informed debate on the King 's Cross Bill since the day my hon. Friend the Member for Ealing , Acton ( Sir G. |
| 10 | MANCHESTER United and Aston Villa are to play at Windsor Park on May 12 — a few days after the final fixtures in what has been a fiercely contested inaugural Premier League battle between them and Norwich City . |
| 11 | All the authorities acknowledged that the most desirable situation would have been a well established developmental role complemented by routine casework services . |
| 12 | Intelligence Agency , if he had been twiddling his thumbs for a week , he might just have been a little determined himself . |
| 13 | Had I just seen the DOS version , I 'd have been a little niggled about some of the design parameters , but very impressed at the functionality , with an overall favourable opinion . |
| 14 | Bradbury must have been a little miffed that the Sunday Press named the other linesman as the replacement . |
| 15 | This could have been a highly recommended text , covering in an imaginative manner processes which are fundamental to living systems . |
| 16 | Erm Mr introduced the the the the the prospect that erm if they 'd have taken migration over the last three years , it would have been a much reduced figure . |
| 17 | Only from roughly the middle of the tenth/sixteenth century-perhaps coincidentally with the building of two other medreses which were to form part of the altmisli class , namely that attached to the mosque built by Suleyman for his son , Sehzade Mehmed ( the Sehzade medrese , completed in 954/1547 ) , and that built by the same sultan for his father , Selim I , apparently around 955/1548 — can one discern in the biographical sources the existence of a class of medreses , comprising these and others , one rank higher than the Sahn and normally carrying a salary of 60 akce , teaching in one of which seems to have been a generally recognized prerequisite for the holding of the highest learned offices . |
| 18 | Since Dorothy 's accident , however , things had been a little strained . |
| 19 | Compared with her exuberant father and her uninhibited mother , Gran had been a little restrained . |
| 20 | As the ship resumed its normal course , Lindsey made her way to her cabin , her mind still buzzing with what had been a well handled and straightforward transfer from ship to shore . |
| 21 | Despite his arrogance and cruelty towards opponents , he had been a remarkably enlightened and often liberal and generous ruler . |
| 22 | Dalgliesh had n't seen him for more than ten years when he had been a newly appointed inspector in the Metropolitan CID and was surprised to see how little he had changed ; time , marriage , removal from London , promotion , had left no apparent mark on him . |
| 23 | He knew that she and Massingham had worked together before when he had been a newly promoted divisional detective inspector and she a sergeant . |
| 24 | The ideal way , way of arranging a room as I see it would be that you could have your separate rooms but have sliding doors , after all there 's nothing new in sliding doors , er , but doors opening and closing erm are restrictive , that 's only my own personal view , my wife does n't necessarily , necessarily share that view ideally if I was planning a house , the main room the main living room would be much larger than the one we live in , it would certainly be a different shape , erm when we had our golden wedding erm our visitors were so numerous that they were standing shoulder to shoulder in these two rooms and the kitchen whereas if it had been a reasonably designed house maybe we could of spread them around a little more , but they 're minor , minor defects that are not really serious . |
| 25 | Local government had been a much under-estimated sector since 1945 . |
| 26 | Before 1945 , however , local government had been a crucially contested political arena and major initiatives had taken place in relation to social policies , often in opposition to the government of the day . |
| 27 | A non-invasive diagnostic method of internal examination of patients had been a long felt want in the medical profession . |
| 28 | Ever since the ancient Alexandrians , textual criticism had been a highly valued activity ; it now acquired a new lustre . |
| 29 | It had been a deeply held tenet of Kuwaiti foreign policy that the military presence of one superpower in the Gulf will lead to the presence of the other as well , which could threaten a conflict between them injurious to all the Gulf states . |
| 30 | The films that have tackled rape directly have been a strangely mixed bunch , confused in their intentions and their execution . |