Example sentences of "have [been] [adj] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rules about appropriate modes of dress , whether concerning school uniforms or clothing for PE and sports , have been one such arena . |
| 2 | This paper has largely been limited to the processes within education — the ways they have been part of a wider process of economic and political domination have been little more than hinted at . |
| 3 | ‘ My sister and I have been estranged some years . |
| 4 | Many people have been disappointed that last week 's decisions were not more precise — defining , for example , exactly what should happen to St Bartholomew 's or Charing Cross Hospital . |
| 5 | The Pakistanis have been incensed all summer by mutterings that they only make the old ball swing so violently by tampering with it . |
| 6 | Since June 1990 , there have been 16 such incidents in France involving British lamb exports . |
| 7 | There have been five more since 1960 , at Winchelsea on 13 January 1966 , Sidlesham on 6 and 7 February 1966 , Shoreham on 8 March 1967 , Earnley on 31 January 1968 , and Southease on 8 February 1976 . |
| 8 | The far bigger prehistoric apes must have found it much harder and therefore have been much more terrestrial . |
| 9 | I 've got five or six people here who have been water-skiing all their lives , and there 's no way any of them can do it . ’ |
| 10 | Grey Plovers are rarely seen away from the coast in Sussex , but there have been six such records since 1947 in March , April , May , October ( three together ) , November , and December . |
| 11 | Since the Photo Production case there have been two more decisions of the House of Lords , Ailsa Craig Fishing Co . |
| 12 | Some news in brief now — there have been two more suspected drugs deaths in Glasgow . |
| 13 | There is also a large and venerable literature on the nature and purposes of higher education , which rings with names such as Newman , Veblen , Ortega y Gasset , and Jaspers [ see Powell 's bibliography ( 1966 , 1971 ) , and there have been many more recent examples but such writing likewise tends to be rather general , and only by extension addresses the question of what is to be taught in curricular terms ; but see Goodlad 1976 ; Barnett 1985 ] . |
| 14 | But there have been many more relevant developments in feminist literary and historical studies which are engaged in reconsidering the importance of the 18th century for the emergence of modern western culture , its class system , its gender relations and its racism . |
| 15 | There have been many more incidents in the north-east , in particular , and that is why the recent transfer of Mr. J. A. Stevens from being deputy chief constable of Cambridgeshire will doubtless be welcomed in Northumbria . |
| 16 | There have been many more . |
| 17 | The rains have been good this year , and the crop has been bumper , but tobacco is fetching only 93 American cents a kilo at international auctions — less than half the price expected . |
| 18 | Those guys have been spoon-feeding this pure shit to their audience for so long , that that 's why they do n't have an attention span ! |
| 19 | You will soon see that I have been right all this time . |
| 20 | While there have been precious few literary models for black male writers to follow lately , there has been a boom in black women 's writing , particularly in the States , with the success of Alice Walker , Toni Morrison and now Terry Macmillan . |
| 21 | Even Humberside county council is launching a campaign to show the people that they have been wrong all these years and should have loved it . |
| 22 | THE MORAL guardians of Germany and America have been active this week ensuring that youth are not corrupted by ‘ obscene ’ record sleeves . |
| 23 | THE MORAL guardians of Germany and America have been active this week ensuring that youth are not corrupted by ‘ obscene ’ record sleeves . |
| 24 | The Turkish slaughtermen offer the ubiquitous Turkish tea , a strong bitter brew known as chi , which invariably precedes all conversations , and the RAOC Master Butcher and his three British and two Belgian butchers , who have been busy all night cutting and jointing , now prepare themselves to assist in the slaughter of the cattle and sheep . |
| 25 | ‘ I have been large all my life and I do n't see why others ca n't be the same way . ’ |
| 26 | The children have been difficult this weekend I do n't know what 's a matter with them , I think they 're just |
| 27 | For Essex there have been few such problems , and his batting has been , after Keith Fletcher 's captaincy , probably the chief reason for their successes . |
| 28 | ‘ Two games against Barnsley have been tight this season and we must be on our guard . |
| 29 | I could say that in spite of ties of affection I have been lonely all my life . |
| 30 | Second , while adults who have been blind all their lives report no visual dreams , and have no measurable rapid eye movements using EOG measures , they do have periods of low-voltage EEC with reduced muscle tone , consistent with REM sleep , " and if mechanical sensors are used to assess eye movement , it appears that their eyes do indeed wiggle about during these sleep phases . " |