Example sentences of "[adj] [vb -s] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While it is clear that both institutions have been concerned about their disappointing financial results , neither has been able correctly to identify the causes of their distress , let alone face the facts . |
| 2 | Neither has been forthcoming . |
| 3 | The contribution of each has been influential in the development of such areas a robotics , natural language understanding , speech recognition and expert systems . |
| 4 | They could go into land without asking permission and farmers would not even say a word , but that has been upset now . |
| 5 | ( 10 ) It is necessary to state current use of the property and whether that has been continuous . |
| 6 | This is the first issue for a decade or so that has been typeset with the aid of a computer and phototypesetting . |
| 7 | ‘ That has been possible for some time . |
| 8 | That has been successful in reviving the national economy as a whole . |
| 9 | That has been successful Chair , during the course of the year , we 're three quarters of the way through , but our monitoring information shows that we 've easily reached that ten percent target , and that does fit in equally with the work we 'll be describing a bit later on , the Enterprise Agency is , is working on . |
| 10 | Please help me to know that transforming power of your Holy Spirit to overcome these difficulties , and please forgive me for all that has been wrong and selfish in what I have said , thought and done . |
| 11 | Critics of a more open approach to young children 's learning often cite the Plowden Report ( 1966 ) as the source and inspiration of all that has been wrong with our primary schools . |
| 12 | The impact of that has been different for older and younger generations and has affected the position of each generation in relation to financial support from relatives , and also assistance with accommodation . |
| 13 | In reality , it is this power , rather than any other provision , that has been vital to the police in their control over the years of pickets , protesters , and political demonstrators . |
| 14 | That has been monumental help , but it has not been just practical help . |
| 15 | Regan argues , at careful and considerable length , that Rawls is inconsistent here ; that his duty to animals is in reality an indirect one owed not to animals as such but only to self-interested individuals who have purposes that include animals ( 1983 : 163–74 ) . |
| 16 | However , the number of organizations this produces is unmanageable , and it also tends to emphasize differences rather than similarities . |
| 17 | This has been central to the Catholic tradition as we well know . |
| 18 | I 've never entirely agreed with the policy of restricted entry , although one knows all the arguments why this has been necessary . |
| 19 | Paralleling this has been increasing acceptance of artificial insemination by donor although little is known of how the private citizen and the community at large view this , in vitro fertilisation and other similar medical techniques . |
| 20 | I would be interested to know whether this has been successful in reducing speed and accidents , but my impression is that it has worked very well . |
| 21 | The EURODASS consortium led by Marconi Defence Systems Limited offered a solution , and this has been subject to rigorous scrutiny to confirm that it meets the necessary technical criteria . |
| 22 | This has been invaluable in challenging simplicities about , say , the ‘ repression ’ of sexuality in nineteenth-century Europe , and in questioning the teleological view which sees a gradual climb towards permissiveness from Victorian darkness . |
| 23 | Now I do n't know if you think this has been useful |
| 24 | This has been extraordinary . |
| 25 | So the psychology of the course was created and this has been integral to the development of the tournament . |
| 26 | Erm and if it 's not it 's er I 'm not going to deny the fact that some people say you know this has been good for me for the last eighteen months erm I 'm er I 'm used to being self employed I 'm going to stay that way but I 'm looking at other avenues . |
| 27 | Winter wheats are slightly backward because of cold weather , but the benefit of this has been disease-free crops with good root development . |
| 28 | This has been undesirable , but not of critical importance because our income from invisible exports has made good the difference . |
| 29 | In part this has been due to a failure to look at the right parts of the higher order visual cortex , using the right stimuli . |
| 30 | This has been due to the lack of understanding of the origins of this pottery . |