Example sentences of "of [noun sg] have [be] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 I THINK his charisma and style of play have been fantastic for our tour and for golf in .
2 Signs of change had been evident within various protest movements , like the Teetotallers , from the 1850s when they realized that without state action they could not achieve their goals .
3 There are many other examples in which this type of protection has been effective .
4 Much of the research into the social psychology of racism has been narrow to the extent to which it has concentrated upon images of outgroups , rather than on the image of ‘ prejudice ’ or ‘ racism ’ itself .
5 The two companies said the Ministry of Defence had been supportive of their approach and they did not anticipate any regulatory problems .
6 The competitive procurement policy of the Ministry of Defence has been good news not only for the Ministry and the taxpayer but for the yards .
7 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 .
8 All the same , rumblings of discontent have been detectable around Wantage Road over the past few weeks , prompting conjecture over a parting of the ways between Northamptonshire and their prized import , even though his contract still has a year to run .
9 The same , of course had been true of the period of intensive ‘ peace efforts ’ , 1967–73 .
10 There will of course have been new developments but I am confident that little will have changed in the fundamental agenda of those truly concerned about the health of their nation .
11 If , when it was in a position to do so , Consumers ' Co-operation had reverted to the Pioneers ' intention to develop independent and self-governing factories and workshops , the story would of course have been different .
12 But the cost of resistance has been high in blood , in material destruction , in local misery and humiliating international paralysis .
13 As Steve Maine , BT 's director of visual and broadcast services says : ‘ Traditionally , users of videoconferencing have been large corporations , but the VC7000 will enable smaller companies to reap the benefits of visual communication . ’
14 Well presumably with , what we 're trying to do is create some sort of alternative family units , we do n't want , although , er , laudable what the youth service does , is , we would n't want , if they do n't want to plugged , clubbable together , if , if , if , if the , the unit could provide that , or provide alternatives to pick up the , the correlation between that and , and ordinary normal family unit , I would hope that that would have been the best way forward , erm , er , because often some youngsters are in this situation because they , they have n't found the , that sort of provision has been helpful for them .
15 The advent of Channel 4 in 1982 provided a space for more minority-orientated programmes than previously : Caribbean accents and occasional use of Creole have been regular features of situation comedies such as No Problem in the early 1980s and Desmonds in the late 1980s to early 1990s .
16 But whatever the direction the Community legislative framework takes , both sides of industry have been involved in the development of Community social policy from its inception .
17 In many respects the management of GEAR has been ineffective : goals have been defined too broadly , simply to ensure consensus ; organizations have been assimilated within GEAR for purely cosmetic purposes ; power has been too diffuse ; and too much has been made of environmental improvements when the local economy has been subject to dramatic changes and unemployment has risen substantially .
18 The central question to be addressed by the committee was : whether any failings in the level and quality of investment have been due in any important degree to an inadequate supply of finance , reflecting a failure in the functioning of the financial system .
19 Mr Henderson claimed faulty work had not been rectified , accounts had to be queried and an acceptable quality of workmanship had been difficult to achieve .
20 Recognition of the need to invest in both types of research has been slow to materialise possibly because other pressures tended to shut it out , but also because of the remarkably esoteric image which University research workers have given themselves .
21 ‘ His own models of feminity have been extraordinary women — the Queen Mother , who never let a feeling come between her and her duty , and the Queen .
22 Although the standard of management has been variable , it is much better than it was 10 or 15 years ago as a result of fiercer competition and a great deal of fall-out .
23 This is why much of philosophy has been barren for more than 2,000 years and is likely to remain so until philosophers learn to understand the language of information processing . "
24 Their ten years of marriage have been fraught with difficulties that neither could have foreseen .
25 It seems as though the period of separation has been long enough for genetic differences to appear within populations but not so long that reproductive barriers have developed .
26 The results achieved in 28 summers of work have been rich and conclusive , the sculpture ranging front portraits to mythological reliefs , statuettes to colossal figures .
27 Humphrey of Bassingbourn 's wood of Bamfield , and the dowager Countess of Pembroke 's manor of Thorpe Waterville had likewise been adjudged to be part of the forest of Rockingham ; the Prior of Kenilworth complained that his wood of Wolverton , pertaining to his manor of Salford Priors in Warwickshire , and Robert Burdet that his wood of Arrow had been re-afforested as part of the forest of Feckenham .
28 The vast majority of empirical investigation in the area of textuality has been psychological in orientation and based on the responses of readers .
29 As I have reminded groups before now , the reality of incarnation has been central to Catholic spirituality and practice ; that is not so true of other traditions .
30 Earl Spencer always stoutly defended his wife 's robust management of the estate saying : ‘ The cost of restoration has been immense . ’
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