Example sentences of "[noun sg] have [adv] be [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Today the links between the Black and Irish communities are many , and the need for unity has never been more urgent . |
| 2 | Removing unwanted hair has never been so simple . |
| 3 | However , music chosen from a composer 's total output and specially arranged as a score for a three-act ballet with a story has rarely been completely successful . |
| 4 | With sea-room a prerequisite of safe ship handling , naval training and other deep-water seamanship has always been more concerned , therefore , with keeping clear of land than with approaching beaches . |
| 5 | Joan , who supervised Highgrove and Princess Anne 's Gatcombe Park household laundry with her sister until their retirement , says : ‘ The Prince has always been very kind . ’ |
| 6 | The effect of this change has not been as dramatic as had been feared . |
| 7 | The recession has not been too unkind to HCIMA . |
| 8 | The central administration of the Modular Course has always been keenly aware of the burden falling on Field Chairs . |
| 9 | My enthusiasm has always been more muted in the case of the big , highly publicised national charities . |
| 10 | His full support for the anti-Saddam coalition has not been universally popular : hence his latest diplomatic effort , which he must hope will still redound to his credit and give the Soviet Union a useful base on which to build a role in the post-war Middle East . |
| 11 | These provisions are an example of the recent trend of legislating against tax avoidance in an arcane and difficult fashion , leaving the Revenue to publish Practice Statements or press releases giving their interpretations ( though the Revenue has not been particularly forthcoming regarding " options arrangements " in Statement of Practice 3/93 which supersedes Statement of Practice 5/80 ) . |
| 12 | It 's a major market and the tourism industry has really been very slow to wake up to this factor . |
| 13 | In 1850 Nesselrode expressed the view that " Russia 's position and that of her Sovereign has not been as attractive or as powerful since 1814 " . |
| 14 | Though the hoped-for explosion of educational television has not happened the effect has not been entirely negative as far as literacy goes . |
| 15 | The enemy has not been very active since the 10th August and I somehow miss the occasional mortar burst in the area , or the odd German shell passing over . |
| 16 | That practice has already been very successful — as , for example , in straw combustion for space heating , which was demonstrated at Woburn abbey . |
| 17 | The Government 's own Department of Development Aid has apparently been so devious that the judge investigating the billions of Rand evidently missing or misappropriated , which should have gone towards assisting the poorer ( black ) communities , has thrown in the towel when faced by the department 's shambolic accounting . |
| 18 | Mr Davies 's research has obviously been very thorough , for some of his photographs were unknown even to old BCR fans . |
| 19 | I mentioned the reduction in unemployment that has taken place in Holyhead , and , while the decrease has not been as good there as in some other areas , the announcements that I made this morning gave a priority to Holyhead . |
| 20 | But only yesterday one of his own batch had n't been so lucky , and it was when the news broke in the camp that he knew he could still feel emotion . |
| 21 | In a war-time article on Smollett he remarked that several writers had recently tried to ‘ revive the picaresque tradition ’ , instancing Waugh and Aldous Huxley — adding that the experiment had not been entirely happy , if only because they had betrayed a sense of strain in an effort to be shocking . |
| 22 | The same proportion thought that the feedback had not been very useful or of no use at all . |
| 23 | No lovemaking had ever been as erotic or as liberating as their half-illicit couplings on unyielding sand within yards of the crashing tide . |
| 24 | To date the 1992/3 winter has not been particularly serious and in the main the daily rake of 158s and 153s has run well . |
| 25 | As Paul writes to this leading city in Asia Minor ( present-day Turkey ) around the year AD 60 he makes many statements in opposition to the false teachers who–e influence has apparently been so prevalent . |
| 26 | WITH more than half our trade now being with the EC , its development and influence has never been more important . |
| 27 | Such a test has not been routinely available in our Department and this could be seen as a shortcoming in the service that has been offered , as well as a limitation to the scope of this study . |
| 28 | ( WES ) Agatha Christie 's work has never been more popular . |
| 29 | The quality in terms of commitment energy and intellect of those coming to join us in our work has never been so high . |
| 30 | Furthermore there were furniture firms short of work and again the development time for a wooden aeroplane has always been much shorter than that for a metal one . |