Example sentences of "[noun sg] have [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Joanna Nelson , Dennis Cook , Susanna Lewis and others have visited the country and the Association have been delighted to organise a tour and provide transport and hospitality . |
| 2 | Professional organisations like the Library Association have been conscious of the problem , and have issued a useful policy directive on the dispersal of valuable books . |
| 3 | So far , police on the continent have been unable to confirm his identity . |
| 4 | The 22-year old Larne man was devastating in the Baltic country ; indeed , most of his performances on the continent have been top notch . |
| 5 | What strategies for reducing expressed emotion have been effective ? |
| 6 | Certainly not by direct experience , for few who ‘ know ’ about schoolroom or football violence have been present at its manifestations . |
| 7 | What possible reason would scholars of the distant future have been able to deduce from that verbiage to explain the consumption of vast resources on the Civic Centre in Bucharest — except the desire to perpetuate domination even from beyond the grave ? |
| 8 | There were wall-sized French windows through which she would in daylight have been able to see the back garden . |
| 9 | In Europe between the wars fascist movements destroyed democracy in several countries , while in Latin America , Africa and Asia military dictatorships and other forms of authoritarian rule have been common , and continue to exist in many places . |
| 10 | Wiltshire County Council Highways department have been involved in the planning of this project and will be putting up advanced warning signs , highlighting alternative routes for light traffic . |
| 11 | He and his department have been reluctant to discuss ideas for energy conservation , claiming that sulphur emissions from power stations have declined since 1979 ( and ignoring the fact that they have risen since 1984 , a side effect of faster economic growth ) . |
| 12 | Boris Ford thought that Lord Robbins and his Committee had to accept some of the blame ‘ for the ease with which the grey eminences at the Department have been able to enlist radical ministers like Sir Edward Boyle and Mr Crosland in support of policies that are socially and academically reactionary ’ . |
| 13 | But whatever the direction the Community legislative framework takes , both sides of industry have been involved in the development of Community social policy from its inception . |
| 14 | For generations , hourly paid employees in manufacturing industry have been familiar with the daily ritual of ‘ clocking ’ — the procedure of formally recording their time and attendance at work . |
| 15 | The ‘ aristocratic ’ character of landowning has been a central basis for social status and political power in Britain for centuries , and the divisions of interest between land and industry have been fundamental to the political development of the upper class . |
| 16 | In recent years the Employment Department and the Department of Trade and Industry have been responsible for appropriate interventions but they have been more of a fire fighting nature than a sustained development of policy and role — which in any case , has not been the way government departments have tended to behave since they are organised to implement government policy in the immediate rather than long term . |
| 17 | The advantages for the printing industry have been enormous . |
| 18 | I remind the hon. Gentleman that since the Government took office all the redundancies in the British coal industry have been voluntary and that the terms offered to miners affected are among the most generous in British industry and can reach £37,000 per man affected . |
| 19 | Racketeering and syndicate crime have been invaluable to the government in that the persons and organisations involved develop the characteristics of legitimate business men . |
| 20 | The central question to be addressed by the committee was : whether any failings in the level and quality of investment have been due in any important degree to an inadequate supply of finance , reflecting a failure in the functioning of the financial system . |
| 21 | ‘ His own models of feminity have been extraordinary women — the Queen Mother , who never let a feeling come between her and her duty , and the Queen . |
| 22 | Rents linked to the tenant 's turnover have been common for many years , particularly in mining leases . |
| 23 | In general , the results that we have reported in this chapter have been favourable to the rational expectations hypothesis , suggesting at the very least that the usefulness of that hypothesis in one area of macroeconomics can not be dismissed lightly . |
| 24 | The themes of this chapter have been clear enough . |
| 25 | Indeed their respective influences upon the world of Biblical scholarship have been minimal . |
| 26 | This is certainly the case in many inner city areas , where there has been philosophical and political opposition to the scheme and where the organisational barriers to becoming a fundholding practice have been considerable . |
| 27 | Nonetheless , papers such as the Daily Mail have been prominent in publishing articles and letters about mental handicap , and in particular in discussing the right to live issue . |
| 28 | I have known Rob and Sarah for ten years and their constant support , encouragement and friendship have been invaluable . |
| 29 | Men 's and women 's claims to social security income maintenance have been subject to different assumptions . |
| 30 | The amounts shown above include regular and final bonuses achieved during a period where at times rates of interest and capital appreciation have been high . |