Example sentences of "have been [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Goldthorpe argues that in the British case the effects have been strikingly asymmetrical : the expanding upper occupational strata show a low ‘ demographic homogeneity ’ ( i.e. a low proportion of members whose fathers were members of the same stratum or class ) , while the manual wage-earning classes , dwindling in size , show a very high level of demographic homogeneity : there has been little pressure for recruitment of manual workers from beyond the ranks of existing manual workers ' families . |
| 2 | But I have been up all night comma , too tired , but I was really homesick . |
| 3 | The police have been up several times , you know that attache case I said the dustman found that time ? |
| 4 | There have been broadly three quite different approaches to RE which are still discernible today . |
| 5 | Social revolutionaries have been keenly aware of the force of nationalism , as well as ideologically committed to national autonomy , even when it is not actually wanted , as among the Lusatian Slavs , whose language is slowly retreating , in spite of the previous admirable efforts of the German Democratic Republic to foster it . |
| 6 | In Spain , governments have been keenly aware of RENFE 's position as the model whose pay and conditions were likely to have major repercussions for other firms throughout the economy . |
| 7 | It is argued that studies of innovative road layouts ‘ suggest that the innovative features have been generally successful in creating areas in which speeds are well below those normally occurring on most traditional roads ’ . |
| 8 | Initial consultations with Third World partners have been generally positive , with partners wishing to be involved in the design of the course . |
| 9 | This is in some ways a departure for many house churches which have been strongly pastoral in emphasis . |
| 10 | In the 1960s feminism was a fairly middle-class affair — some would say it still is — except that in Britain , just as in the earlier suffrage , trade union and legal struggles around the turn of the century , working-class women have been strongly involved in campaigns to do with working conditions and wages , male violence , racism , childcare , housing and community action . |
| 11 | Perhaps the honourable member should do a competitiveness survey and go somewhere else for his queue , I do n't know but what I can tell the honourable gentleman is that even though there were losses in the banking industry for the last year there have been strongly offsetting rises in insurance and business services . |
| 12 | Australian environmentalist groups have been strongly critical of Prime Minister Paul Keating 's first major statement on environmental policy since he took office in mid-1992 . |
| 13 | Will he take note of the number of Arab countries that have been strongly opposed to many Libyan terrorist activities over the years ? |
| 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 | However , since then the police have been remarkably reticent about the exact quantity of drugs which they recovered . |
| 16 | In recent years the currencies which have been participating within the E.R.M. have been remarkably stable within the system and it appears that the E.R.M. members benefited from enhanced policy creditability in the eyes of the foreign exchange markets . |
| 17 | These characteristics have been employed to great effect by geneticists , and advances to date have been remarkably swift . |
| 18 | Nevertheless , the courts have been remarkably inventive in circumventing the privity doctrine through the development of the collateral contract device and negligent misrepresentation . |
| 19 | It is hardly surprising that public libraries have been traditionally active in user education for schoolchildren . |
| 20 | And the more you can show you have been closely involved in the battle from an early stage , the more weight you will carry if and when you decide to initiate legal action . |
| 21 | C D trials — the unit is on trial with a teacher very familiar with the unit , but unfamiliar with computer systems : surprisingly this can occur quite frequently with subject teachers who have been closely involved in the design but who are as yet unfamiliar with computers . |
| 22 | Over the last six years I have been closely involved with the Institute of Linguists Community Interpreting Project , coordinated by Ann Coresellis whose paper this afternoon will be discussing the emergence and future of the profession of Community Interpreting . |
| 23 | Janice McClory , of the decommissioning group in the Engineering Division at peel Park , and Tom Mitchell , of Projects , have been closely involved in the study . |
| 24 | I have been closely involved in the work of two committees involved in this issue : |
| 25 | The research arms of Japan 's securities firms have been relentlessly bullish throughout a 48% decline in the value of the Tokyo stockmarket . |
| 26 | th th the building went ahead and people every year or two sometimes twice in a year get flooded and they get sewages the the sewer with the volume of rain water they ca n't otherwise get away , but it brings to light what happens i i i in the ditches and , and the waterways that are spread across the direction of Airport and then out into the river when the tide is low because the switches close when the tide comes in and basically er and this is up to date information the information that I have is that the channels are the responsibility of the er you know responsibilities are either kept cleared or not clogged up and in connection with the , with the incident I , I did hear it said that in , in a place where once said it usually counts that possibly and more than the that the first flood was due because the drains and the ditches could n't take the volume of water after they were cleared and things have been pretty reasonable erm since that time , so it would seem to confirm what , what I have to say about keeping clear erm but it may be that authorities that were n't responsible had the job of cleaning them , I do n't know . |
| 27 | ‘ Now he has the players who can put into motion what he wants and the results have been pretty amazing . |
| 28 | The other ones you 've been doing have been pretty easy . |
| 29 | Other sectors , such as oil refining and petrochemicals , have been pretty depressed so contractors used to serving those industries have all been looking for business in the same markets as ourselves . |
| 30 | Sorry I have n't rung you , things really have been pretty frantic for me since I got back . |