Example sentences of "they have be [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The parents have very little social contact with friends , relatives , or authority and any contact they have is often unpleasant . |
| 2 | But they have been dead scared of the Russians for 40 years . |
| 3 | They have been continuously unpicked or embroidered in the process of open criticism and riposte which the idea of public accountability imposes , part legally part morally , upon the broadcasters . |
| 4 | Since then they have been both warmer and colder , with oscillations of the order of 1–2°C about annual mean temperatures . |
| 5 | resulted in the controllers making … a puritan attack directed at the drug taking of the ( underground ) movement ; and since the drug-scene is complex and confused , and we have little time in which to develop a reliable folk-lore about drugs and how to take them ( as we have long ago done about alcohol ) , they have been particularly successful in fostering anxiety among teachers , parents and establishment figures . |
| 6 | They have been particularly successful within the Pacific-rim economies , and perhaps as much as one-fifth of world trade went through them by the mid-1980s . |
| 7 | ‘ The success of drink drive campaigns hinges on urging society as a whole to reject this behaviour — and they have been particularly successful among younger drivers ; the same tactics should be employed to target unsafe driving . ’ |
| 8 | They have been particularly interested in a fact that I touched upon earlier when discussing the ‘ Ontological Argument ’ , namely that existence is not a quality or attribute of something in the way that being round , or hard , or long-haired is an attribute . |
| 9 | They have been particularly hard on Leopold Mozart , who is portrayed as a stern , tyrannical disciplinarian , dragging the little boy and his gifted sister round Europe like a pair of performing monkeys , constantly nagging at his adolescent son , and finally growing old and bitter alone in Salzburg after Wolfgang had left for Vienna and married against his father 's wishes . |
| 10 | They have been most successful when they have been able to win the trust and acceptance of the other management board members . |
| 11 | If the conflicts have been most evident in direct cultural production , they have been most complex and most general in the crucial formative area of education , where the direct controls of established institutions of reproduction have been easier to maintain , largely because the influence of market forces has been very much less relevant , and the only major factor of asymmetry has been the ( always practically weaker ) claim of professional and cultural independence . |
| 12 | Where they have been most developed , they act to divorce the firm from the factor costs of a national location , and thus provide a further challenge to older notions of comparative advantage determining the outcomes for countries . |
| 13 | They have been equally disparaging about low blood pressure as a cause , among other things , of tiredness , fainting and dizziness , although their colleagues in Germany , France and several Mediterranean countries not only recognise the condition but actually treat it . |
| 14 | Thousands of living species occupy every marine habitat from the shallowest to the deepest abyss , and , as every gardener knows who has tried to protect his vegetables against marauding hordes of snails and slugs , they have been remarkably successful in making the transition from sea to land . |
| 15 | He knows very well from the deputations of trustees and directors of national galleries and of galleries and museums around the country that they have been hugely critical of the Government 's neglect . |
| 16 | Third , it would be disagreeable for the Serbs , who , because they have been largely untested , have yet to show themselves to be a fighting force with much mettle . |
| 17 | In our society we would normally not interpret a phrase like that wrongly , because everyday usage confirms that when we say someone is an ass we mean they have been rather stupid . |
| 18 | But in sport as a whole they have been mostly conspicuous by their absence . |
| 19 | ‘ They have been very supportive , ’ he says of the first major professional stage production of the novels . |
| 20 | I have quite a few contacts — people who knew me when I was designing for Carnega — and they have been very encouraging . |
| 21 | But it is important to state that although in recent years in Britain , there have been many service innovations whose aim has been to improve the home or community care of elderly mentally frail people ( see for example Age Concern England , l983 ) , unfortunately most of these schemes have either not been systematically evaluated ( often because they have been very small in scale ) , or — if they have — results have not been widely disseminated . |
| 22 | And they have been very much but I though that Swatch cost that much no there are |
| 23 | Although the methods used in these studies have been criticized ( Berkner , 1975 ) they have been very influential . |
| 24 | In the case of titles , of course ( that is , markers like Miss and Mrs ) there have been attempts at reform , and in some countries — though not in Britain — they have been very successful . |
| 25 | In the football world , they have been very successful . |
| 26 | Some recent writers have tried to apply standards that are social rather than ethical , with the consequence that they have been very boring , and have made mistakes about individuals . |
| 27 | Ladies often come to my classes and explain that they have been very good all week and yet had a binge just prior to the class ! |
| 28 | They have been very good to me . ’ |
| 29 | They have been very good about it . |
| 30 | ‘ I 'm happy at Strasbourg ; they have been very good to me and next season I think we can make a big play for the French championship , ’ said Hughes . |