Example sentences of "[art] [adj] [noun pl] have be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The total losses have been of the order of 25,000 , but the fact remains that there are still more than 140,000 people directly involved in the defence industry and more than 120,000 indirectly involved . |
| 2 | The outstanding examples have been in the dating of town defences , as demonstrated by Philip Corder in 1956 . |
| 3 | The hon. Member for Linlithgow is only too well aware of how successful the central institutions have been in working with the expertise in the Scottish Office . |
| 4 | Had a case of a claim by a child for damages for pre-natal injury come before the English courts in the period from 1972 to the enactment of the Act of 1976 , and had it been as well argued as the present cases have been in this court , I have no doubt that the English court would have been referred to Watt v. Rama [ 1972 ] V.R. 353 and Duval v. Seguin , 26 D.L.R. ( 3d ) 418 and would have preferred the views there expressed to Walker v. Great Northern Railway . |
| 5 | Although there is actually little that is novel in ‘ sociobiology ’ , for the key elements have been in the air since the writings of Sir Ronald Fisher and J. B. S. Haldane , the extensive if not exhaustive application of population genetics to social evolution means that the relevance of evolutionary biology in the social sciences can no longer be ignored . |
| 6 | The contentious proposals have been under consideration for a number of years , says English Heritage , and are not principally attributable to its new director , the controversial Jocelyn Stevens , widely seen as a hardline , Thatcherite free marketeer . |
| 7 | Previous issues from November 1990 to the last edition show that the major features have been on Gabby and Steffi , Zvereva and Martina and Monica , Capriati and Monica , Anke , Jana Novotna and Arantxa respectively , evidence of a fair and even representation of all women players by Tennis World . |
| 8 | The visiting players have been in England for some days , and all four are becoming understandable twitchy as the time to make the first moves approaches . |
| 9 | The identification of the extra meanings mentioned above can only take place once the initial sentences have been in themselves understood . |
| 10 | We used to do the live show that was never broadcast — it was just the bit after all the other stars have been on stage and mimed to their records for the audience . |
| 11 | And would it be impolite of me to enquire exactly where you and the other officers have been for the last eight hours ? ’ |
| 12 | The women at the sit-in issued the following appeal : ’ On the occasion of International Women 's Day , we , the Palestinian Women have been on a hunger strike since February 23 , 1989 in solidarity with our sons who have been holding hunger strikes in Israeli jails in protest against their inhuman prison conditions . |
| 13 | Around 730,000 of the new registrations have been through the Share Information Office and the rest with the many Share Shops set up by banks , building societies and other financial firms . |
| 14 | The postcard he wrote to Hanns at the end of the tour reveals John plunged into deepest gloom : ‘ My dear — The past weeks have been like an unforgettable nightmare . |
| 15 | The main losses have been in the relations between staff and the prisoners . |
| 16 | By then , however , the main outlines have been in existence for a very long time , and it is these earlier arrangements about which we really need to know more and where future research should be concentrated . |