Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [conj] have been [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Many … had a complete ban and had been no-smoking from the start because they perceived that smoking did not fit in with their ethos — Boots , for example , or the Body Shop . ’ |
| 2 | Very recently David Davis ( 1982 ) has made a scholarly contribution to this field and has been fortunate enough to have the chance to put theory into practice at Birmingham Polytechnic where under the leadership of Brian Watkins a specialist course of considerable merit and vision for P.G.C.E. students has been introduced . |
| 3 | He had murmured some excuse but had been unable to refuse an invitation to supper at the vicarage during the coming week . |
| 4 | It may be able to detect the entire NCSA virus library , but it 's still oblivious to some viruses that have been common knowledge for many months . |
| 5 | Finally , there are a few killers that have been able to develop a special tolerance for certain poisons , enabling them to eat the noxious prey without ill-effects . |
| 6 | The evidence from the few areas that have been bored or surveyed geophysically supports this view , but other evidence does not fit so well . |
| 7 | Being one of those select few companies that have been able to secure access to initial deliveries of Texas Instruments Inc 's SuperSparc RISC processor ( UX No 384 ) , it is understood that ICL last week totted up numbers required by its various departments and placed its order with TI for the part , which will feature in the DRS6000 workstation range from the fourth quarter . |
| 8 | Vadinamia has its own ultra-tight security that has been frustrating spies for a long time . |
| 9 | Given the social changes that have been necessary , and the consequences of those changes , I doubt whether any incoming Government would have looked after the coal industry as the present Government have . |
| 10 | There must be some dimensions that have been more thoroughly checked than than er |
| 11 | ‘ What have you done in school this week that 's been interesting ? ’ is a question that we should put to other members of staff , and ourselves at every staff meeting . |
| 12 | For secular courts , the consequence was a revival of inquest proceedings on a much more extended scale than had been common in the eleventh century , causing a demand for documentary proof that chanceries and monastic scriptoria were hard pressed to satisfy . |
| 13 | William Carey always had a great social concern and had been horrified to witness the practice of ‘ Sati ’ in 1799 . |
| 14 | ‘ It 's the trust and familiar surroundings of this ward that have been vital to Thomas . |
| 15 | As to the wider dissemination of culture , the few cells that had been active in this respect seemed to equate success with the regular dispatch of newspapers and made no personal contacts to follow this up . |
| 16 | We are now getting close to the flanks of Akka , a seven-peaked mountain that has been visible for four or five days . |
| 17 | These were committed to a balanced or cross-bench political outlook and have been uneasy with the Prime Minister 's zeal , certainty , and forcefulness . |
| 18 | We move on next day over hard packed snow that has been wind-blown into flutes and columns . |
| 19 | Short 's preparation has been under way for six months and has been intensive . |
| 20 | Cripps , at that time President of the Board of Trade , had long had a penchant for machinery-of-government matters and had been active as a minister in the wartime Coalition on reconstruction committees established to consider the issue . |
| 21 | This will enable Mr Damant to calculate a better figure of maintainable earnings than has been possible in the past . |
| 22 | The court heard that since the accident at St Mellons , near Cardiff , in 1989 , Mr Davies was a nervous wreck and had been unable to have sex . |
| 23 | Nowhere do you mention the several hundred thousand Arabs ( Muslims , Christians ) who carry Israeli passports and have been second-class citizens for the past 45 years . |
| 24 | The PFA chairman no longer figures in Bassett 's first-team plans and has been available at a bargain £70,000 since the end of last season . |
| 25 | This is another welcome return as having been available running under SuperCalc 5 there has been a period in which this was no longer available . |
| 26 | The pensioner had been caring for his sick wife and had been able to make the US trip only because she had been taken into a nursing home to allow him to have the break . |
| 27 | Rune had treated her body with a considerate respect that had been faultless , ensuring her safety , even as he had ensured her ecstasy . |
| 28 | A COLLECTION of unusual antiques that has been 30 years in the making will go under the hammer this weekend . |
| 29 | World spatial systems afford an enormous scope for review but perhaps the dominant trend has been towards the differentiation of the earth 's surface on a more realist dynamic basis to replace a more static arid functional treatment that had been current previously . |
| 30 | He had exercised effective control of the labour force for ten years at the giant plant and had been able to bring the workers out on strike at the drop of a hat . |