Example sentences of "have [be] [adj] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Not if I and my grandmother have been innocent of blackmail ! ’ she said , weariness washing over her . |
| 2 | The concept of DRGS was developed in the USA and some British clinicians have been critical of the appropriateness , and at least believing that more work is needed to make them usable in the NHS . |
| 3 | The schools meanwhile have been critical of the hardware on offer . |
| 4 | Many psychologists have been critical of the discipline 's pathologization of racial ‘ others ’ . |
| 5 | Marxists , too , have been critical of regional policies but for different reasons . |
| 6 | To ask the Attorney-General how many representations he has received since the beginning of December which have been critical of his reaction to Sunday opening of stores . |
| 7 | Ecologists have been critical of the government 's failure to introduce planned legislation to make farmers seek approval from local authorities before grubbing out a hedge . |
| 8 | We deny that we have been disdainful of patients : we were investigating a concern expressed by them in the most objective way we could . |
| 9 | ‘ I have been proud of the way we have played in England and believe we are becoming a better team with every game . |
| 10 | Parents and families in the reception areas were shocked by what they saw and heard , incredulous that they could until then have been ignorant of the deprivation within a society which they thought they knew well enough . |
| 11 | We 've been lucky in that companies and organisations have been supportive of our appeal . |
| 12 | Since there are so many alleged dope smugglers languishing in Mexican jails , some claimed to be unjustly accused , relations between the U.S. and Mexico have been taut of late . |
| 13 | Traditionally , Conservatives have been respectful of the claims of voluntary groups , interests , and self-governing professions ; these were Edmund Burke 's celebrated ‘ little platoons ’ . |
| 14 | Mr McMillan said : ‘ They have been guilty of what we would not expect from professional people in the late twentieth century . |
| 15 | If sociobiologists have tended sometimes to describe higher societies ( such as man 's ) too much as if they were simpler ones , some entomologists have been guilty of the reverse . |
| 16 | If you have been guilty of a fundamental breach of your obligations under the contract , you will , of course , have been lawfully dismissed and therefore entitled to no compensation . |
| 17 | Most of the rules are applied strictly and it is hard to imagine any outcome more frustrating than for your legitimate claim to fail simply because you have been guilty of delay . |
| 18 | He claimed all countries have been guilty of tampering with the ball and conceded : ‘ We do n't know what we are going to do , and the countries do n't know the answer . |
| 19 | In the past , I have been guilty of reinforcing this icon ; now I am committed either to destroying it or affecting major reconstructions . |
| 20 | In that process , it may well be that some of those concerned in the management of the company , and others as well , have been guilty of some misconduct or impropriety which is of relevance to the liquidation . |
| 21 | BELVILLE : [ still unforgiving ] After the meanness you have been guilty of you have fallen very low with me . |
| 22 | I guess that in referring to that issue in the past few weeks we have been guilty of understating the size of the problem . |
| 23 | In recent years , leading nationalist politicians have claimed members of the armed forces have been guilty of ‘ collusion ’ — allowing UVF and UFF gunmen to enter and leave areas without fear of arrest . |
| 24 | The other point which is made by the defendant is this , he says that the plaintiffs have been guilty of delaying tactics er during the course of this litigation , the result of which has been that er he has not been able to realize his interest in the partnership premises , also he has not been able to acquire a partnership premises and he he , doctor mentioned to me that to the actual conveyance of the partnership premises he 's , he tells me was only produced I think thirty and er that er it was only then that he realized there might be a chance that he could acquire the premises for himself , but he says that er because of the general , I think the case is , because of the general conduct of the plaintiffs in delaying the trial of the action one way or another , er the practical effect has been that the plaintiffs have had the benefit of use and occupation of the premises at which he erm , a main view , has a lot of that interest and that they are getting benefit of the kind from that occupation and he is not getting any money in res in respect of that , at least nothing like any market rent because it maybe that there is a fairly small er payment being made , but I 'm not too entirely clear whether that is the case or not , but the stock bond is suggesting that the plaintiffs have been obtaining benefit of the use of the premises at his expense and in those circumstances it is unfair er in , in , or otherwise not appropriate that the plaintiffs should be entitled to obtain interest on their bill of costs , in respect essentially of the period of delay , and when I say period of delay included that the period during which the forward of Mr Justice remained erm unprotected . |
| 25 | ‘ If students have been convinced of the necessity of collective action , gained self-respect and respect for their peers , they will have a message that they can use and will want to spread . |
| 26 | Despite obvious successes Kemp ( 1990 , p. 27 ) does note that many staff have been fearful of the Next Steps initiative : |
| 27 | Thus , despite the movement towards a welfare state it is obvious that in the details of people 's lives , in the new housing estates and tower blocks , people have been relieved of the worst of their miseries , encouraged to think rich and live poor , to become in effect the permanent prisoners of someone else 's conception of their happiness . |
| 28 | In the past most of us have been unaware of these signs and that is why our body ceases to function normally . |
| 29 | One might imagine , perhaps wrongly , that there would have been few craftsmen who either alone or in a group would at any one time have been capable of producing such an item because of the variety of skills required in its production . |
| 30 | ‘ At Manchester United I have been top of the table in April and still lost it . |