Example sentences of "have be in [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Jon Scargill 's five-year-old has been in good spirits this year , finishing fourth to Night Clubbing on his reappearance at Newbury and then chasing home the well handicapped Azhar at Doncaster . |
| 32 | In stressing this aspect , Marx and Engles were basing themselves in great part on the excellent description that Morgan had supplied for the matrilineal descent groups of the Iroquois , and , in his stress on the community aspect of descent groups , Morgan has been in many ways supported by later work . |
| 33 | ‘ But when you look at the legislation , which has been in many ways draconian for the situation which exists today , you have great difficulty in saying who is and who is not under the age of 16 . |
| 34 | Fighting for the other two places are England 's Trevor Steven , recovering from injury , and Mark Hateley , also back from injury plus Dutch winger Pieter Huistra , who has been in inspired form recently . |
| 35 | It hit sectors and people who largely escaped before , the skilled , the clerical workers , the managers and the professionals who 've been badly mauled this time , and where last time around er the service sector was expanding to mop up some of those who 'd lost their jobs in manufacturing , this time the service sector too has been in deep trouble . |
| 36 | DISCOUNTING the scowl that greeted the outcome of his declaration at Ilford , Mike Gatting has been in better humour lately than at any time in my experience . |
| 37 | Just how successful the campaign has been in straight money terms ( costs per account opened ) is unclear but the advertising is undoubtedly asking to have a different relationship with the viewer than the more passive tradition of the medium . |
| 38 | Massett has been in great form all season , a fact not lost on his boss Joe Gibiliru . |
| 39 | The major thrust of this recent research has been in four directions . |
| 40 | His career has been in international brand companies — Procter & Gamble , The Rank Organisation and Revlon International . |
| 41 | Since Sunset And Vine 's trainer Simon Dow took over the Epsom stables of Ron Smyth last year and he has been in tremendous form since , saddling 23 jumping winners and six on the Flat . |
| 42 | Wilko said : ‘ David has been in tremendous form in the early games and we can only hope the trouble clears up by Saturday . ’ |
| 43 | ‘ It seems like a lifetime ago , ’ smiles Don , ‘ I would love , of course , to be the first choice goalkeeper but Damien has been in tremendous form and he 's the best around in my book ’ |
| 44 | Newbury 's assistant clerk of the course Richard Pridham , who has been in regular contact with Francois Doumen , gave an optimistic bulletin on the current track conditions . |
| 45 | ‘ Streamline has been in regular use at the Chambre de Commerce since the early 1980's . |
| 46 | The most dramatic revision has been in western Germany . |
| 47 | But anyone who has been in close contact with Woody can only support him . ’ |
| 48 | Mr Steisel says City Hall has been in close contact with it from the start . |
| 49 | During most of his life he has been in close touch with village life in different parts of the country . |
| 50 | In two days , when the market has been in ragged retreat , the shares have climbed 34p . |
| 51 | Golding 's own fictional worlds , unlike Amis 's or Murdoch 's , have tended to be enclosed , which may be natural to one whose early experience has been in naval life and schoolteaching ; and unlike theirs , powerfully concerned with the perils of code-breaking and a sense of shame . |
| 52 | There has been in past years a steady requirement for 4BA nuts . |
| 53 | Someone who has been in residential care for a number of years may initially find independent living a frightening prospect . |
| 54 | The King of the Tipsters has been in unstoppable form since he struck with another 4-1 shot , Pursuit Of Love , at Doncaster last week . |
| 55 | It is a struggle to paint grasses in a true watercolour technique and the purist may well react against the use of white and acrylic here , but I have found a release from the restrictions of technique through this method and comfort myself with the knowledge that white has been in common use by artists throughout the history of watercolour painting . |
| 56 | A French-lexified Creole is , or has been in common use in several other territories as well — Trinidad , Grenada and St Vincent among them . |
| 57 | First , we should remember that the British economy has been in relative decline compared to the rest of the world for a hundred or more years — long before there was ever any concern expressed about adversary politics . |
| 58 | The trouble is , cork has been in short supply . |
| 59 | The family has been in this part of Scotland for about two hundred years or more , from what I can gather , and we used to own a lot of the land around here . |
| 60 | In a study of miraculous images of Mary which weep , the author , Father Hebert SM , after saying there is a long history of these writes , ‘ There has never been such an outpouring of tears as there has been in this century … more explicitly during the ten years , 1971–1981 , particularly so in Italy and in the United States ’ . |