Example sentences of "have [be] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Exmoor offers unrivalled opportunities to unwind — its dramatic scenery , quiet village centres and small towns have been welcoming visitors for centuries . |
| 2 | When I get back Lucker wonders where I have been all night . |
| 3 | Rovers have made enormous strides in the past 14 months and we were totally committed today — as we have been all season . ’ |
| 4 | We 're all on air , we have been all morning |
| 5 | In this latter respect , government policy ( or the threat of intervention ) would seem to be the most significant factor tending to remove authority over collective bargaining to the national confederations.9 Attempts to align the outcome of wage negotiations with macroeconomic policy objectives have been one factor which has tended to raise the level of bargaining and it has played a significant role at certain periods in countries such as Holland , Norway and Austria . |
| 6 | For some people their whole working lives so far have been one scheme to the next , never getting any really worthwhile training and never being paid a decent wage . |
| 7 | These demand changes have been one source of the escalating costs of voluntary and private residential child care and this escalating cost has , in a time of severe fiscal constraint , itself contributed to a further fall in the demand for contracted out places by local authorities . |
| 8 | Over the last century or so there have been frequent conflicts between individual and group interests . |
| 9 | We know that in most regions there have been frequent changes of climate in the geologically immediate past . |
| 10 | We have been frequent visitors at Government House and have been staying also at their cottage , New Norfolk . |
| 11 | There have been frequent disagreements over the use of industrial action to bolster annual negotiations . |
| 12 | Three key staff have resigned in the past year , and there have been frequent complaints that its establishment of 240 is too low . |
| 13 | I More recently there have been frequent criticisms of the injustice of examinations and of their effects on school . |
| 14 | There have been frequent demands for a single system and investigations of its possibility ; for after the introduction and spread of comprehensive schools it was clearly both inconvenient and divisive that pupils within the same school should be classified either as fit to take the GCE or fit only for the CSE . |
| 15 | Following the crash of the New Zealand share market in 1987 , and the subsequent failure of many large companies , there have been frequent demands from the public for improved standards in financial reporting . |
| 16 | There have been frequent attacks in the media on ‘ trendy teaching methods ’ and falling academic standards , and there can be no doubt that this has resulted in a deterioration of teachers ' status in society . |
| 17 | There have been frequent clashes between Coptic and Muslim students and between fundamentalist groups and the authorities . |
| 18 | To date there have been eight experiments , all but one of which used photons rather than protons . |
| 19 | Over the years there have been innumerable accidents and incidents caused by the airbrakes opening in flight . |
| 20 | In addition to material devoted specifically to Jesus , there have been innumerable works on the origins of Christianity , the formation of the early Church and its roots in Old Testament Judaism . |
| 21 | Over the years since union , there have been innumerable instances of Parliament enacting measures which conflict with the terms of union . |
| 22 | ‘ HAVE been sweating blood over the question of what is right and feasible to do . |
| 23 | ’ Up near Alexandra township , bordering on a swish white suburb , there have been seventeen hijackings recently . |
| 24 | Why is it that the Government promised higher standards of education in 1979 , 1983 and 1987 but the results of 13 years in office have been lower standards of education ? |
| 25 | There have been negative interference . |
| 26 | ‘ To date this year there have been 172 bomb incidents , 54 fewer than in the same period last year . |
| 27 | Throughout geological time there have been irregular changes and reversals of the Earth 's magnetic field [ 1,2 ] . |
| 28 | An inadequate system has been made worse by the Government 's decision that it will no longer accept responsibility for collecting maintenance unless there have been irregular payments . |
| 29 | Since then there have been 14 records comprising a total of c. 85 birds in six winters . |
| 30 | Between 1961 and 1976 there have been 14 records : in January ( two ) , March ( four ) , April ( two ) , May ( one ) , August ( three ) , September ( one ) , and November ( one ) . |