Example sentences of "have [adv] be [adj] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Like Parker , America 's gay activists have long been critical of US Aids policy , arguing the virus has received insufficient priority because it was ‘ only ’ killing gay men . |
| 2 | The modernist council properties have long been one of the strongest fiefdoms of professionalized architecture , being extremely closely linked to development planning and local political interests , and subject to the intervention of both civic authorities and the state . |
| 3 | While the French have long been convinced of the value of massage with natural ingredients in the treatment of cellulite , the British are sometimes sceptical . |
| 4 | Oriental philosophies have long been conscious of the ultimate duality of awareness . |
| 5 | In England , a number of reported criminal cases reveal instances of marital rape and women 's organisations have long been aware of the problem . |
| 6 | Industrial managers and behavioural scientists have long been aware of the need to introduce choice and control in the workplace . |
| 7 | I have long been suspicious of the official line that terminal bonuses are directly attributed to investment surplus and that poor value on death or on policy premium amendment is the price for higher returns if you are lucky enough to make it to retirement . |
| 8 | The importance of the recent discovery of this document recording the conclusions of the conferences of 26–27 May is that it fills in what have hitherto been two of the most significant gaps in the whole story . |
| 9 | I have hitherto been guilty of no very enormous or vile actions . |
| 10 | Roy Pointer : ‘ I have been asking for over ten years that there needs to be some bold plans , mission strategy , developed within the denominations and I have not been aware of any until now . |
| 11 | Nottingham Graduates have always been proud of their association with the University and you will find a special welcome form them wherever you go and whatever you do in the future . |
| 12 | I have always been desirous of devoting what little capability and energy I may possess to the country which I love most dearly . ’ |
| 13 | Men have always been respectful of Hestia , the goddess of the hearth , easily intimidated by the mysteries she manipulates so easily . |
| 14 | This stress on authority and hierarchy is , Eccleshall contends , understandable given that ‘ from Restoration absolutism to the Thatcherite preoccupation with law and order Conservatives have always been fearful of social indiscipline ’ . |
| 15 | Certainly , many serious military men have always been fearful of the use or implied threat of short-range nuclear forces . |
| 16 | I have always been nervous of dying , but not of death . |
| 17 | I could n't swim , never have been able to , and I did n't go out on a boat because along with the rest of the family I have always been afraid of water . |
| 18 | I think we have always been aware of the contrast , though . |
| 19 | It was from the beginning an area of Birmingham rather than a self-contained town superimposed on the landscape , and its running and development have always been independent of the chocolate factory . |
| 20 | British fur farmers have always been conscious of their welfare duties and responsibilities to others . |
| 21 | ‘ I was born in Holland , and have always been terrified of chainsaws . |
| 22 | Amis 's novels have always been full of opinions , and have , I think , become prone to a marked ambiguity of effect , especially with regard to questions of gender and race . |
| 23 | This uncertainty might , on the one hand , encourage social commentators in the attitude expressed by a writer in The Economist in 1848 : ‘ In our condition suffering and evil are nature 's admonitions ; they can not be got rid of ; and the impatient attempts of benevolence to banish them from the world by legislation , before benevolence has learnt their object and their end , have always been productive of more evil than good . ’ |
| 24 | On the contrary , the child imagines that only unworthy female persons have thus sacrificed their genital organ , such persons as have probably been guilty of the same forbidden impulses as he himself . |
| 25 | The boards of banks and insurance companies , for example , have traditionally been full of long lists of the great and good . |
| 26 | Cheshire have traditionally be one of the stronger counties in the Western Division , but they suffered two defeats in their opening three matches . |
| 27 | The latter have also been aware of a closer and more detailed interest in how they use resources and efficiency : ‘ cost-improvement ’ programmes have been introduced and performance scrutinised . |
| 28 | Writers like Saunders ( 1984 , 1986 ) have pointed out the problems of structuralism , but in their own work have often been guilty of endorsing profoundly capital logic accounts of social process . |
| 29 | Rarely has a Merseyside derby — and there have now been 147 of them in the League — had such significance for one of the managers . |
| 30 | ‘ The companies we have today are capable of delivering 15% turnover growth a year . |