Example sentences of "america have [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is noticeable that though Derrida is a philosopher , albeit one interested in literature , and has always worked in an academic-philosophical context , even if on the margins of the subject , his major impact in North America has been in literature departments . |
| 2 | As a mixed show catalogue statement put it : ‘ The past decade in America has been a period of great creative activity in painting . |
| 3 | The $420m a year that America has been getting to compensate it for the loss in sales of farm products to Spain and Portugal after they joined the Community was due to run out in 1990 . |
| 4 | The lobbying of America has been a curious off-the-books exercise ( see box on next page ) . |
| 5 | TIE Rack , whose expansion into America has been described as ‘ attempted suicide ’ by chairman Roy Bishko , is aiming to break even in its American shops ‘ in a couple of years ’ after a better performance in the year to February . |
| 6 | Despite the fact that over the years America has been Israel 's guardian , both politically and militarily , and continues to give Israel $3 billion-worth of aid annually , that does not stop it from falling victim to Mossad 's activities . |
| 7 | Whereas the bulk of America has been slow to latch on to new British acts , the more European attitudes of New York welcomed anything English and wielding a guitar . |
| 8 | Exploring America has been a European and British pastime for centuries , and today 's visitors are as delighted as much by its gentler , more rustic charms as by the ‘ Big Country ’ of Hollywood Westerns . |
| 9 | IS THIS the dream ticket America has been waiting for — presidential hopeful Bill Clinton and superstar Barbra Streisand ? |
| 10 | So America has been pushed towards action , but not the sort that Europe wants . |
| 11 | We may be pardoned for reproducing a part of the opinion of The American Annals of the Deaf of this quarter on the subject : " The retention of the word " Dumb " — which in America has been dropped from the titles of the Convention of Instructors , The National Association , and several State Associations of the Deaf , and many schools , as well as from the United States Census — is probably due to a vote to that effect by the conference held in London last January ; but as our British friends who constitute the Association seem to favour American precedents , we trust that on further consideration they will follow our example in this respect alone , and omit the objectionable word from their title " . |
| 12 | Although railway-building in North America has been described above as ‘ quintessentially capitalist ’ , in fact railway companies were prepared to build to the West only in return for massive inducements . |
| 13 | FOR 20 years , America has been arguing about the ’ window of vulnerability ’ of its land-based intercontinental ballistic missiles ( ICBMs ) . |
| 14 | It 's been certainly true er , Chair , that America has been the largest source of inward investment in this country consistently . |
| 15 | The man who discovered America has been commemorated by a new … and highly unusual rose . |
| 16 | Goya 's life , on the other hand , coincides with the decline and ultimate collapse of the Empire ; Spanish rule in America had been overthrown by the time of his death in 1828 . |
| 17 | Leee Childers : ‘ The rest of the world was handled by Tony DeFries pretty much the way America had been handled . |
| 18 | America had been amazed for some months by stories of U.S. prisoners of war in Korea who had ‘ gone over to Communism ’ . |
| 19 | So cold was the Cold War that America had been boycotting the import even of Soviet crab meat , let alone a live and wily Soviet leader . |
| 20 | But it was not this group , as Allen knew , with which America had been dealing . |
| 21 | But then he embarked on his main thesis , which was that the entire Western intelligence system in Britain , France , Germany and America had been deeply penetrated by the KGB and systematically manipulated with clever disinformation put out by Moscow . |
| 22 | In the spring of 1968 there was much rethinking within the CRA [ Civil Rights Association ] leadership ; the tactics of Martin Luther King in America had been absorbed inasmuch that it was felt by some that only public marches could draw wide attention to what we were trying to achieve by normal democratic means . |
| 23 | The pendulum has swung on both sides of the Atlantic , and if the sexual habits of urban America had been transformed in the 1960s by the so-called sexual revolution , then the small-town traditions of middle America found their own political voice a decade later , and with it a judicial response from the highest court in the land . |
| 24 | Journalist Meredith Oakley , of the Arkansas Gazette in the Clintons ' home state , said : ‘ If America had been ready for a female President she would have run herself . |
| 25 | Charles II 's expansion into North America had been a process of expansion by proprietors , but this was almost all dismantled in the following generation . |
| 26 | The French approach to North America had been rather different ; they had penetrated to the interior by the two great river systems , the St. Lawrence and the Mississippi , and began developing them as a single communications route linked by the Great Lakes and running through the hinterland west and north of the British settlements . |
| 27 | With its assertion of militarism , voluntarism and adventurism , it stands for everything that orthodox Marxists in Latin America had been arguing against for years . |
| 28 | America had been an escape , she thought , or perhaps a search , a search for identity , a reason for being Sara Monroe , not very clever , not as pretty or as talented as Jenny . |
| 29 | Since April , the United Mine Workers of America have been on strike here against the Pittston Company : 1,700 miners have been out for seven months and , despite intimidation , no one has gone back to work . |
| 30 | ‘ In the past five years quoted companies in America have been questioned increasingly about equal opportunities , policies towards South Africa , purification of water supplies , product liability in overseas markets and so on , ’ Davies says . |