Example sentences of "ireland have [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | De Valera was continuing the now dominant culture recognized by Eoin MacNeill and Douglas Hyde when , in his St Patrick 's Day address to the United States of America , broadcast in 1935 , he underlined the spirit of that preamble : ‘ Since the coming of St. Patrick , fifteen hundred years ago , Ireland has been a Christian and a Catholic nation . |
| 2 | From old Elizabethan days to New Elizabethan days , writing Constitutions for Ireland has been an English hobby . |
| 3 | Northern Ireland has been warring for over 20 years . |
| 4 | Notwithstanding the difficulties we encountered our experience in Ireland has been positive ’ . |
| 5 | Antrim , a review of the stability of the remaining abandoned salt mines in Northern Ireland has been started . |
| 6 | General reaction from enthusiasts in Ireland has been a firm ‘ Thumbs Up ’ and many are looking forward to the release of Volume 2 . |
| 7 | It can offer something different from both NATO and the European Communities , in the case of the former because it can concentrate on a European rather than a trans-Atlantic perspective , and in the second because since 1973 neutral Ireland has been a member of the Communities . |
| 8 | Local government in Northern Ireland has been stripped of almost all its significant powers . |
| 9 | According to CUP , the trade in the UK and Ireland has been ‘ magnificently supportive ’ , with almost 200 window displays of the Oxford Cambridge Book Race design , and entries have flooded in for the competition to win a holiday in Pompeii . |
| 10 | Northern Ireland has been described as a society under siege , a society where there is a problem for every solution ! |
| 11 | BOB HALFPENNY , formerly Area Manager for Pest Control , Scotland and Northern Ireland has been appointed General Manager and President of Rentokil 's Canadian operations . |
| 12 | Northern Ireland has been granted ‘ Objective One ’ status , which designates EC regions for special treatment , and Larne port 's development has been helped partly by Regional Development Fund cash . |
| 13 | The extension of Opportunity 2000 to Northern Ireland has been welcomed by the Equal Opportunities Commission ( EOC ) . |
| 14 | While Britain has borne the brunt of the economic crisis , Northern Ireland has been cushioned from the worst effects . |
| 15 | THE forging of links between schools and industry in Northern Ireland has been applauded by Education Minister Jeremy Hanley . |
| 16 | Finally Northern Ireland shows that there has been decline in output over the preceding four months and the only region t t to say that erm it 's fair to say that North Northern Ireland has been a weak region throughout er the recession erm and although in this survey optimism has climbed up a bit so it 's close to the U K average , it 's nevertheless a part of the U K which has really been behaving er rather differently from the rest of the economy reflecting its sort of , i its particular problems and the fact that it 's not part of the mainland economy . |
| 17 | And yet , if it had not been a conquered repressed country from which so many of the flower of its youth were forced to escape , would Ireland have been able to produce sons like Henry Ford ? |
| 18 | Police said that their two accomplices arrested in Ireland had been carrying several addresses of safe houses in France . |
| 19 | Appeasement did not work , because nothing short of a united Ireland had been their ‘ real ’ ambition from the start . |
| 20 | Mrs Ireland had been married for thirty-nine years . |
| 21 | ( The six-county state of Northern Ireland had been set up under the Government of Ireland Act , 1920 ) . |
| 22 | F. W. H. Christie , an English barrister , testified that an order to arrest the strike leaders throughout Northern Ireland had been countermanded , but that the new instructions did not reach the troops who were to make the arrests in the Rathcoole district and a small section of Belfast . |
| 23 | She made it her rule that Belfast , the Provisional wing of the Irish Republican Army , casual atrocities never crossed her lips , not after his last trip away , because the man who had come back to her from Northern Ireland had been frightened of his own shadow . |
| 24 | Ireland had been in rebellion for eight years . |
| 25 | Ireland had been slipping out of Britain 's grasp — Sinn Fein had almost swept the board in the local elections , they had set up their own provisional government in Dublin and in some areas of the country theirs was the only authority recognised — and , on top of all that , in September alone there had been over two thousand IRA arms raids . |
| 26 | Grainne thought it was strange that she had never before realised how many Kings of Ireland had been exiled and had later returned . |
| 27 | Does the right hon. Gentleman really believe that if politicians in Northern Ireland had been sitting at a table , the awful atrocities that we have witnessed in the past few days would not have taken place ? |
| 28 | Speaking in the wake of an 86-hour bombing blitz which is expected to run to almost £30m — nearly a third of the total compensation bill for the past 12 months — he conceded the people of Northern Ireland had been through ‘ a harsh time ’ . |
| 29 | A small number of empirical studies actually done in Northern Ireland have been invoked in the course of the debate . |
| 30 | Thus we look , in turn , at how particular examples of political dissent , urban riots , strike violence , football hooliganism and the conflict in Northern Ireland have been represented by the media . |