Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adj] have [been] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It really is a bit strange to have been arguing the merits of ERM membership in academic abstraction , when the practical effects are there for all to see . |
| 2 | Seeing Anthea each day would be a constant reminder , and neither woman could deny that the masks of civility each had been holding up to the other for months were now trampled underfoot . |
| 3 | Mathcad 4.0 has been made easier to use thanks to its new toolbar , cut and paste , auto scrolling , auto equation and text alignment , zoom , drag and drop facilities . |
| 4 | Old problems of contacts breaking or the case deteriorating have been rectified on most models . |
| 5 | What level of income this had been , he did not feel he could reveal . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | In part this has been promoted by fundholding , but more fundamentally it has been stimulated by health authorities engaging in a dialogue with general practitioners and giving greater priority to primary care as a result . |
| 8 | In part this has been due to budget reformers making overenthusiastic claims for overelaborate systems . |
| 9 | In part this has been caused by the closures of collieries and factories , but the sharp drop in chapel or church attendance also means that fewer people are singing . |
| 10 | By Thursday afternoon this had been , to use a typical Whitehall term of understatement , finessed . |
| 11 | By coincidence this had been followed by an orchestrated campaign in the gutter press stirring up fears about asylum seekers |
| 12 | Figure 2.4 has been drawn to show that , as the partial remainder is shifted left , the vacated positions can be used to hold the bits of the quotient . |
| 13 | The seven functional categories presented in Figure 7.5 have been derived empirically from classroom observations and for this reason it is not clear how they match up with Halliday 's interpersonal , ideational and textual functions ( see Chapter 3 ) . |
| 14 | What has made the re-dating definitive has been the dendrochronologist 's report which dates the panel to around 1485 — some twenty years after Rogier 's death ’ . |
| 15 | And what a failure of sensibility this had been ! |
| 16 | At the same time , criticisms which underlay le français fondamental have been made to illustrate the fact that such vocabulary selection , far from being all that linguists can contribute to the preparation of teaching materials , is still in a stage of development . |
| 17 | This group , known as T.E.C.A. , the Teachers ' Economic and Cultural Association Ltd. had been impressed by the strong nationalistic tone of Williams ' book and they wholeheartedly agreed with his sentiments that education of the people should be ‘ part of their democratic privileges and their democratic responsibilities ’ . |
| 18 | Chief Superintendent Large had been polite but made it clear that this was a matter for professionals and he had everything sewn up . |
| 19 | Since the mortality rates are standardized by the age and sex structure of the region , the illness measures in figure 10.2 have been similarly standardized . |
| 20 | This is not just of interest to professional politicians or academic specialists ; local government has become front-page news , its leading politicians such as Ken Livingstone , David Blunkett and Derek Hatton have been catapulted to national fame and the local-central government conflict detailed in Chapter 4 has been a major issue in three successive general elections . |
| 21 | The conflict between central and local government referred to in Chapter 4 has been clouded by both inter- and intra-party disputes . |
| 22 | In the short term many had been promised their old jobs back , but there was much gloom about the longer term . |
| 23 | The middle diagram shows how objects would move through the visual field for pure rotations round the two horizontal axes , and the right-hand diagram shows , enlarged , the approximate region where the receptive fields shown in Figure 5 had been collected . |
| 24 | Heathrow 's Terminal 3 has been transformed . |
| 25 | The binding site preference of complex 8 has been mapped by exonuclease III digestion of restriction fragments from pBR322 DNA ( 7 ) . |
| 26 | The SIB 's new Conduct of Business Core Rule 28 has been adopted for this purpose . |
| 27 | The skill and determination of Second Coxswain/Mechanic John O'Donnell , of Arranmore 's Tyne class lifeboat William Luckin , during a difficult eight-hour service in winds of up to Force 9 has been recognised in a framed letter of Thanks from the Chairman of the Institution . |
| 28 | An alternative proof of Tipler 's Theorem 8.1 has been given by Yurtsever ( 1988 b ) . |
| 29 | On the basis of the observations of numerous features in pictures acquired by Voyager 1 the wind-speed graph in Figure 9.4 has been obtained . |
| 30 | Rule 5 of the Solicitors Incorporated Practice Rule 1988 has been amended to read as follows : — |