Example sentences of "the [adj] [noun] have [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The total cost has been several million pounds more than budgeted . |
| 2 | In the two months since the IVA was made , the total debt has been and is continuing to be materially reduced . |
| 3 | The size of these deficits has meant , nevertheless , that the normal financial facilities available from the IMF have proved inadequate even though the total quotas have been increased substantially : between 1964 and 1988 quotas were raised from SDR14 billion to SDR89.9 billion . |
| 4 | The total numbers have been going down from 200,000 per year in 1971 to just over 150,000 in 1981 . |
| 5 | The total losses have been of the order of 25,000 , but the fact remains that there are still more than 140,000 people directly involved in the defence industry and more than 120,000 indirectly involved . |
| 6 | The only national survey of the period , the English Domesday Book , does indeed give figures from which the total population has been deduced ( see pp. 29–30 ) . |
| 7 | Three attempts to census the total population have been made after the breeding season , in July 1953 , January 1967 and 1968 , and July 1971 . |
| 8 | The physiological developments of the adolescent period have been described in Chapter 2 . |
| 9 | However , the Court found that , as was stated in the recitals to the regulation , the definition of value and the interpretative notes set out in the 1590 Convention had been embodied into the legislation of the Member States in different ways , and also certain optional provisions of the interpretative notes were being applied differently in different Member States . |
| 10 | The innovatory use of associate staff within the maintained sector has been explored by the grant-holders in an earlier study , funded by the Department for Education . |
| 11 | The 27-year-old centre-half has been at Stamford Bridge for the past two days with the hope of making a £500,000 move . |
| 12 | Much of the effort of the anti-abortion movement has been directed against clinicians and against researchers working on fetal tissue . |
| 13 | It appears that in practice the interim government has been unable to operate in Mogadishu and Mr. Qalib has based himself in a hotel in Riyadh in Saudi Arabia . |
| 14 | The case of the interim government has been succinctly summarised in one of the affidavits sworn by Mr. Clements of Crossman Block : |
| 15 | 1.62 As we have seen , when the defendant pays into court after making an interim payment , he must ensure that this notice of payment in states that the interim payment has been taken into account ( Ord 29 , r15 ) if he wants to put the plaintiff on risk for the aggregate of the two payments . |
| 16 | The builder 's surveyor will be unable to certify payments to the various nominated subcontractors until after the interim certificate has been received from the architect . |
| 17 | Earnings per share for the first half were reduced to 5.47p , against 7.83p last time , but the interim dividend has been held at 1.5p . |
| 18 | Meanwhile , the interim dividend has been raised to 2.2p . |
| 19 | The interim dividend has been axed and the final is also in jeopardy . |
| 20 | The interim dividend has been set at 6.25pc , up from 4.25p in 1992 . |
| 21 | The interim dividend has been increased to 0.92p from 0.88p while earnings per share slipped to 1.76p from 2.46p . |
| 22 | For reversionary , or annual , bonuses paid on with-profits policies , the interim rate has been cut from 3.8 to 3 per cent on the basic sum assured , but is held at 6 per cent on bonuses already declared . |
| 23 | If the quality of the counselling relationship is good it should prove more than enough to handle the outcome , and if it then assists the individual towards a resolution of emotional troubles , the short-term distress has been worthwhile . |
| 24 | For a while now the narrow house has been filling up with medical paraphernalia , with doctoring tackle . |
| 25 | But the broad trend has been for this gap between the experience of rich and poor worlds to narrow ( see the graph on Page 16 ) . |
| 26 | A month after the momentous declaration had been made he was asking himself : ‘ How far can we go in this direction safely ? … |
| 27 | The public assistance officer , Mr. W. G. Daniels , reported that the displaced casuals had been accommodated in lodging houses in Bedford ; these were inadequate and in October 1940 , the committee applied to the Ministry of Health for release of the casual wards for their ‘ proper purpose ’ . |
| 28 | The Ha'penny Bridge had been illuminated , and shone green in the darkness , rocking whenever a group of people crossed over . |
| 29 | Subsequently , the Galactic Centre has been shown to be astonishingly bright at many wavelengths , although it can not be seen optically because it is obscured by intervening dust . |
| 30 | The Progressive Democrats had been on the brink of walking out of Prime Minister Albert Reynolds ' government team over an accusation of dishonesty he made against their leader , Des O'Malley , last week . |