Example sentences of "have be [adj] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is not to say that the Government has not also been pursuing other policies , such as the wider spread of home ownership , that have been beneficial to many working-class people , but the approach has been implemented in a way that has isolated the underclass still further . |
| 2 | The two most prolonged battles of this kind , at Mavisbank near Edinburgh and Pell Wall in Shropshire , are cases where the owners have been deaf to every offer to take on the house and restore it . |
| 3 | Other forms of privatization have been closer to the dominant forms identified at national level by Mohun . |
| 4 | In its November 1987 Offer For Sale Eurotunnel stated that ‘ safety and security considerations have been central to the overall design of the System and the plans for its operation ’ . |
| 5 | Some of the other issues discussed in this book have been central to historical writing on South Asia which treats more traditional subjects . |
| 6 | A collection of essays edited by Ellen Kennedy and Susan Mendus , Women in Western Political Philosophy ( 1987 ) , presents a feminist perspective on questions that have been central to political philosophy and raises questions about the philosophical underpinning of political theory . |
| 7 | Issues about women 's autonomy have been central to feminist thinking and action . |
| 8 | These questions have been central to recent studies and the answers may be unexpected . |
| 9 | He argues that ‘ the failure of both disputes revealed and reproduced the regional nature of management-labour relations in the industry ’ ( p. 35 ) , because ‘ miners ’ interpretations of the two disputes , and of the underlying arguments , are understood as embedded in the nature of collective social relations at work … the constitution of workplace relations has varied between coalfields and … variations in management and labour strategies have been central to this process ' ( p. 36 ) . |
| 10 | These complex relationships have been central to the fortunes of the two countries over the past three centuries . |
| 11 | Changes in the price level , however , have been central to the macroeconomics of the 1960s , 1970s and 1980s . |
| 12 | Both the valid species and the gold from have been available to Killi-keepers for many years . |
| 13 | My daughter had a wooden train set when she was a toddler ; construction toys have been available to both children , so we have dolls ' cots and buggies , plastic swords , sewing cards , cars and garages . |
| 14 | The research will examine the behaviour of government institutions directly providing finance for industry , such as the Japan Development Bank , as well as the interaction of government and private finance when both sources have been available to industry . |
| 15 | Disciplined political parties and a system of parliamentary and Cabinet government have been conducive to a restrained , impersonal style of political leadership . |
| 16 | Some have been due to the aircraft getting into a new mode of spin , but others have been due to poor recovery techniques . |
| 17 | Some have been due to the aircraft getting into a new mode of spin , but others have been due to poor recovery techniques . |
| 18 | Snowdonia ) the greatest losses have been due to afforestation ; in SW England and southern Wales , agricultural conversion has been the main cause , whereas in intermediate areas such as the Cambrian Mountains of mid Wales , moorland has been lost to both . |
| 19 | However , these have been due to large-scale rationalization , including a reduction of nearly a quarter of their work force between 1980 and 1984 . |
| 20 | The occasional and unfortunate accidents have been due to inadequate safety procedures , not to lack of understanding of the basic nuclear processes ; had there been some previously unknown nuclear process taking place at room temperature in solid materials and that had been somehow overlooked , then it is likely that we would have discovered this long ago in some reactor . |
| 21 | In recent years over 60% of postneonatal deaths have been due to the sudden infant death syndrome , giving New Zealand probably the highest death rate from sudden infant death syndrome in the developed world ( 4.0/1000 live births ) . |
| 22 | Remember , too , that the strains within the ERM have been due to exceptional circumstances . |
| 23 | These falls have been due to a combination of production decline and productivity improvements , and this aspect will be explored in more detail in relation to the case studies in Chapter 4 . |
| 24 | These have been due to evolving patterns of co-residence related to the decline in marriage and increases in cohabitation and breakdown of both formal and informal sexual unions . |
| 25 | The village has a population of 6,000 ; 95 per cent of recent deaths have been due to cancers of various kinds . |
| 26 | The bulk of the reductions have been due to the recession , he argues , while emissions from power stations have fallen by only one-sixth . |
| 27 | I have omitted , with reluctance , references to a few natural features of interest that have been subject to abuse of privilege by a minority of visitors . |
| 28 | The reasons for this diversity have been subject to much debate ( section 2.4.2 ) and while it is not yet resolved , the fact remains that such forests house a huge genetic resource that has only been fractionally realised to yield what have ultimately become significant commercial products such as rubber . |
| 29 | Particular attention should be focused on hospital incinerators , since these have been subject to Crown immunity for many years and most are technically ill-equipped to burn at sufficiently high temperatures for adequate disposal of wastes ( Gatrell and Lovett 1991 ) . |
| 30 | There is an enormous variety in the urban experience that this book can not hope to explore to any great extent : different cities have been subject to contrasting pressures and have responded in different ways . |