Example sentences of "the [noun] have be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some of the contracts have been straight business deals whereby the Provisionals and the property owners split the profit from the government compensation . |
| 2 | The Pakistanis have been incensed all summer by mutterings that they only make the old ball swing so violently by tampering with it . |
| 3 | Of course it is good to see artists at work and artists discussing their work on TV , but so many of the programmes have been disappointing . |
| 4 | Britain 's exports to the EEC have been expensive and her imports cheap . |
| 5 | Indeed it is a credit to Wilko that the board have been confident enough in him to compete at the highest levels in the transfer market . |
| 6 | Mr Brennan said : ‘ Throughout , I and the Board have been sensitive to the toll on our workforce resultant from this process . |
| 7 | Erm i the discussions have been interesting . |
| 8 | This situation is the result of a chronic constitutional impasse in which the government and the parliament have been unable to develop a stable and effective working relationship , because of ‘ an unreformed public administration , a loosely worded constitution and an unbalanced party political development ’ . |
| 9 | From a very early period the courts have been opposed to restrictions upon the free alienation of land . |
| 10 | The courts have been reluctant to bring omissions cases within the above categories , manifesting once again their belief in the separate moral and legal status of omissions . |
| 11 | Even when successful prosecutions have been brought , the courts have been reluctant to impose little more than nominal sanctions on miscreants . |
| 12 | The courts have been reluctant to undermine this power , typically either holding the claim non-justiciable as concerning a political question , or evading the issue by deciding the case on a narrower point . |
| 13 | So far , the courts have been reluctant to hold that the press has a " moral duty " to inform an interested public . |
| 14 | Regrettably , the courts have been prepared to allow their procedures to be exploited by governments keen to obtain a glimpse of potentially embarrassing material prior to publication . |
| 15 | However , despite Lord Morton 's words quoted above , in some cases the courts have been prepared to interpret clauses restrictively even where liability could only arise in negligence . |
| 16 | In others , where the courts have been unable to find any contract between the parties , the courts have had to rely on an equitable doctrine of confidence . |
| 17 | For a century or more both Parliament and the courts have been careful not to act so as to cause conflict between them . |
| 18 | Where the shareholders also happen to be the directors , and a close personal trust and confidence is involved , the courts have been willing to look at the settlement of arguments on the basis of equity rather than strict legal principle . |
| 19 | In the past the courts have been willing to interfere only to a limited extent in the use of prerogative power . |
| 20 | This decision is in line with those , like Padfield , where the courts have been willing to limit ministerial discretion on various grounds , some of them relatively new , at least in their present application . |
| 21 | Data from some of the detailed airborne geophysical surveys made in the early years of the MRP have been digitised . |
| 22 | In the latest training exercise , aircrews with six months experience of the Hercules have been practising cargo drops from just two hundred and fifty feet . |
| 23 | However , from such a small island herd the exports have been phenomenal and it has spread from the tropics to the Arctic . |
| 24 | The Masai have been good friends . |
| 25 | The times have been hard on you , these last weeks . |
| 26 | This , of course , means that the compilers have been selective , presumably due to the availability of suitable film . |
| 27 | This protects the public gaze from the true story and means that for a decade the authorities have been able to work on the assumption that what the eye does n't see the heart wo n't grieve over . |
| 28 | Joanna Nelson , Dennis Cook , Susanna Lewis and others have visited the country and the Association have been delighted to organise a tour and provide transport and hospitality . |
| 29 | Activity levels in the branches have been high and regional CPD events have been well attended . |
| 30 | The opportunities have been pervasive , given the declining regulatory and technical obstacles to the internationalisation of firms ' activities . |