Example sentences of "have [be] [adj] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said : ‘ Up to now , the Irish-American lobby in the US has been unfocused and largely impotent in relation to the Anglo-Irish conflict . |
| 2 | Moreover , the process of financial liberalization in Japan has been gradual and therefore a simple ( 0 , 1 ) dummy variable will not suffice . |
| 3 | For nearly twenty centuries , the figure known as Judas Iscariot — Judas the Sicarius — has been accursed and despised , cast in the role of most heinous of villains . |
| 4 | The offer of shares in the group , which was listed on the USM this week , has been two and a half times oversubscribed . |
| 5 | ‘ Matador has been two and three tenths ( of a knot ) over every boat here ’ , said Dennis Conner , summing up both the last regatta of the series — the Moët & Chandon Grand Prix in St Thomas , Virgin Islands — and the two previous regattas , in Newport ( RI ) and Miami . |
| 6 | Reports on the armed conflict in the former Yugoslavia , however , suggest not only that rape and the sexual abuse of women have been carried out on a massive scale , but that it has been systematic and organised . |
| 7 | Hampden Babylon is unmistakably Scottish in its love of football but like all love-affairs , Scotland 's relationship with the game has been stormy and impetuous . |
| 8 | The learning process from this project has been invaluable and it 's allowed Save The Children to move forward in several other countries . |
| 9 | She feels the union has been ineffectual and even the so-called industrial action four years ago when members refused to set or mark exam papers seemed , quite unjustifiably , to be taking things out on the students . |
| 10 | But the Conservative response to that proposition has been uncertain and diffuse . |
| 11 | Because mature teeth are far less complex , biologically , than most tissues , restoration of their shape and function has been straightforward and David Watts discusses the use of certain polymers and composites for this purpose . |
| 12 | Platt , who has yet to make his Italian League debut for Juventus , said : ‘ My nose has been X-rayed and confirmed as broken , although I thought I was fit enough to play today . |
| 13 | The work of the new convergence has been best and most frequently done , either in general theory and in studies of ‘ ideology ’ , or in its distinctively new areas of interest , in ‘ the media ’ and ‘ popular culture ’ . |
| 14 | The practical reason is that of all the Caribbean Creoles , Jamaican is that which has been best and most accessibly described . |
| 15 | But since the 1950s , hormone replacement therapy , or HRT , has been available and some famous names pay tribute to its effects : Theresa Gorman , Miriam Stoppard , Jill Gascoigne , Kate O'Mara — even , it is rumoured , Margaret Thatcher . |
| 16 | There is no doubt tremendous strides have been made in certain sections of the North 's economy but that progress has been partial and there have also been many setbacks . |
| 17 | The events of the century up to 1945 convey an impression of Japanese domination and aggression in Asia , but in reality the nature of the relationships between Japan and her neighbours has been fluctuating and ambiguous . |
| 18 | This usually happens after damp summers , when growth has been lush and unchecked . |
| 19 | Counsel for Mr Maitland , Edward Wooley , of West Sussex-based Holmes Campbell , alleges the bank has been negligent and is demanding compensation . |
| 20 | This is the first year I 've put Lynda into the Giants , but her recent exposure has been terrific and I 'm sure will do wonders for this twins tale spotted with sex and violence with Auschwitz roots . |
| 21 | It has been long and widely believed that urbanization and industrialization cause large increases in crime . |
| 22 | His marriage to a Spanish Roman Catholic , Catalina , has been long and happy . |
| 23 | Although the story has been long and widely recounted ( John Prebble 's heartbreaking book , Culloden , brings the event to life ) , nothing compares with walking the field , seeing the small cairns marking where clansmen fell , measuring the rides of the horse-troops . |
| 24 | Diesel always has been lead-free and the only adjustments you need to make are mental ones , because diesel-powered cars are no longer slow , smelly or noisy . |
| 25 | Soon , thought Henry , feeling , as he often did , a sense of solidarity with chickens , they would label one with THIS FOWL HAS BEEN HAND-REARED AND TALKED TO NICELY . |
| 26 | The new process could make carpet recycling possible on a major scale ; until now it has been laborious and expensive to separate out the component materials , which often include wool , nylon as well as latex . |
| 27 | Even so , Britain has made an unusually bad fist of the regulatory structure set up under the 1986 Financial Services Act ; the outcome has been cumbersome and ineffective . |
| 28 | ‘ I think the best I 've qualified has been 12th and I have never finished a race , so I am due something . |
| 29 | For example , he has been married and is still on very good terms with his wife ; their divorce unlocked her true potential , and she is now a part-time feminist studies lecturer at SCU . |
| 30 | Gerald has been married and divorced 4 times . |