Example sentences of "have [adv] [be] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A further consequence arising from studies of process has paradoxically been progress towards a more integrated approach because investigations of one specific process have often proceeded to encompass other processes in the way that soil process investigations have become involved with hillslope processes and with plant-soil moisture relationships and also with boundary layer climatology . |
| 2 | The intervention of outside powers , finally , has obviously been non-internationalist in both motivation and effect , except by pure accident . |
| 3 | Because there are children and therefore the woman has obviously been part of a couple at some point , there is an assumption that in her single state she is critical , cynical and undermining of couples around her . |
| 4 | Because we are more dependent and more vulnerable in later years , there has rightly been concern about what may be termed ‘ old age abuse ’ and the subject merits some detailed discussion here . |
| 5 | Secretaries of State for Trade and Industry may come and go but Sir Jeffrey Sterling , chairman of the P&O group , has long been part of the furniture at 1 Victoria Street . |
| 6 | In the search for a transcendent level of knowledge , it has long been part of human endeavour to enter a symbolic womb of darkness and learn within its space . |
| 7 | Constructed as a spoof documentary about a political candidate for the US Senate whose promotional ads are pop videos and whose campaign bus is a mobile trading floor , it joins the dots of a diagram — Eighties politics as the flip-side of Sixties counter-culture — which has long been part of the landscape ( and which could do with an update ) . |
| 8 | If turf which has long been mown , and the case would be the same with turf closely browsed by quadrupeds , be let to grow , the more vigorous plants gradually kill the less vigorous , though fully grown plants ; thus out of 20 species growing on a little plot of mown turf ( 3 feet by 4 feet ) 9 species perished , from the other species being allowed to grow up freely ’ ( The Origin of Species ) . |
| 9 | There has long been controversy over who invented the travellers cheque . |
| 10 | 11.2 At the same time , the Department recognises that it has long been practice to seek assistance from the police in certain situations , particularly in order to avoid a breach of the peace when carrying out statutory duties which involve the restriction of liberty and removal of persons . |
| 11 | Quoting Cypress chief T J Rodgers , Electronic Engineering Times adds that the Ross Technology subsidiary could be shuttered if Sun Microsystems Inc does n't pick up the 66MHz HyperSparc chip in a next-generation box — there has long been talk on Wall Street of a reorganisation of Ross . |
| 12 | Is my right hon. Friend aware that there has already been snow in the north , the midlands , and even on Exmoor in my constituency ? |
| 13 | The feminized male has always been suspect , be he the advocate of unisex , androgyny , or , now , the play of the post-modern . |
| 14 | And although the ANC has promised to share power in the subsequent government , the country will then be a short hop from the full-blown majority rule that has always been anathema to many Afrikaners . |
| 15 | A major worry for patients in psychiatric hospitals has always been money and access to it . |
| 16 | The message of the Burgess shale — that there has always been variety , and no one can say in what forms it will survive until it has done so — remains . |
| 17 | In microchip territory , silicon has always been king because it remains so cheap and easy to use . |
| 18 | Miller has always been expert at bringing out the best in players — he turned Frank McAvennie from a midfield player into a striker in his St Mirren days — and the evolution of Pat McGinlay as a goalscoring midfield player is merely the latest example of his handiwork . |
| 19 | There has always been protection to prevent them from working long hours and being exploited and bullied . |
| 20 | ‘ There has always been honesty and integrity in my performance . |
| 21 | There has always been nervousness , and there still is , among audit partners about pro-active search work . |
| 22 | An important ingredient in the life of every local community has always been pride in the local hospital or school . |
| 23 | Our anchor has always been faith and family . |
| 24 | The Councils of both Societies , in agreeing to support the publication of the new journal , took a conscious decision that it should contain only papers of the highest quality , and that papers from Scotland 's universities , and papers on Scottish geology , should form the major part of the publication , although there has always been scope for the publication of papers on other areas , including some important theoretical papers . |
| 25 | There has always been criticism , much of it unjust , that lecturers in colleges and polytechnics fail to keep in touch with school-based initiatives and developments and that college programmes are all too often divorced from the real world of school . |
| 26 | ‘ Soap is soap , has always been soap . |
| 27 | Robert de Niro has always been case as the Invisible Man of Hollywood . |
| 28 | ‘ it tends to be supported by those who wish to constrain the redistributive potential of state welfare and thus it has always been part of a broader conservative view of the aetiology of social problems and their correct solutions ’ ( Macnicol , 1988 , p. 316 ) . |
| 29 | This has always been part of the role , but it has not often been done well . |
| 30 | Collection of statistics , such as the housing returns , has always been part of the central department 's work , but the more specific information currently requested that can form part of long-term planning is a relatively recent development . |