Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] have been [verb] the " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Where creating UK income is not an immediate concern , the usual response has been to put the intangible into a tax haven and charge royalties from there . |
| 2 | A hard core of nine fell walkers has been keeping the Company flag flying across the country . |
| 3 | But the scale of the tragedy exposed by Michael Buerk and his BBC camera crew , and the response it provoked in the no-bullshit , energetic , passionately caring rock musician Bob Geldof meant that old-world attitudes towards the plight of helpless peoples have been given the biggest jolt since the anti-slavery campaigns of the nineteenth century . |
| 4 | Each club have been fined the same amount as Arsenal , who were found to be the less culpable party in the mass scuffle with Norwich City on November 4 . |
| 5 | Since monetary and fiscal policies had been assigned the role of guaranteeing the maintenance of full employment , the traditional neoclassical preoccupation with efficiency in the face of scarcity could come back into its own . |
| 6 | Sources say some of Sun Microsystems Inc 's top accounts have been bemoaning the company 's lack of direct support for the OSF/Motif graphical user interface . |
| 7 | The tendency in the historical literature has been to dismiss the number of homeworkers during the 1900s as insignificant , but the numbers of women employed in casual tasks are extremely difficult to estimate . |
| 8 | British Ropes has been examining the 80-year-old bridge and in a report to Cleveland County Council says 18 large bolts need to be replaced . |
| 9 | The fact that evidence and documents relating to the case had either disappeared or been tampered with and that witnesses had been threatened led members of a US Congressional investigative task force to conclude that the military high command had been controlling the investigation and limiting the number and rank of the officers to be held responsible for the crime . |
| 10 | The purpose of this chapter has been to outline the main principles of analysing language in the community , and I have paid particular attention to exploring dialect-divergence . |
| 11 | The aim of this chapter has been to discuss the opportunities and problems associated with ward learning . |
| 12 | One feature of the discussion in this chapter has been to challenge the use of the concepts of consistency and ‘ inexorable logic ’ as unanswerable standards of appraisal of the law . |
| 13 | In the past week any number of interested parties have been granted the 30 second television sound bite in order to voice an opinion or two about the way English should be taught in our schools . |
| 14 | ‘ So , as I say , this child has been given the most perfect environment possible . |
| 15 | This discovery has been named the Lennox field and development options are already under consideration . |
| 16 | Since mid century , philanthropists and social reformers had been urging the removal of the population of the inner-city slums to the more salubrious outskirts of the city . |
| 17 | The Scottish Council has been estimating the value of Scottish manufactured exports since the early 1960 's and is the only organisation producing regular and comprehensive statistics on this aspect of Scottish economic activity . |
| 18 | The Scottish Council has been estimating the value of Scottish manufactured exports since the early 1960 's and is the only organisation in Scotland producing regular and comprehensive statistics on this aspect of Scottish economic activity . |
| 19 | Ignoring Matilda , he turned to his son and said , ‘ I 'm always glad to buy a car when some fool has been crashing the gears so badly they 're all worn out and rattle like mad . |
| 20 | It has been suggested that in some countries where capital punishment has been abolished the alternative is the imprisonment of murderers under more rigorous conditions than are applicable to other prisoners , but from the information collected by the Select Committee it appears that this suggestion is unfounded . |
| 21 | The bereaved have always wished to ‘ remember ’ their dead , in the literal sense of reconstituting form and feature ; an integral part of this process has been to visualise the place of death and burial and , if possible , to visit it . |
| 22 | This Product has been allocated the following identifier : |
| 23 | The strategy over the past few years has been to establish the University more actively in research , whilst retaining its commitment to excellence in teaching . |
| 24 | The wrong person has been given the job |
| 25 | At the same time , it should not be forgotten that some writers had been advocating the use of multiple methods for years : |
| 26 | One of Britain 's most popular athletes has been sharing the secret of his success with a group of schoolchildren . |
| 27 | Electronic News has been doing the rounds of the Foundation sponsors and finds that only Digital Equipment Corp of the US and European sponsors is hanging its hat on OSF/1 for its flag ship Unix machines . |
| 28 | In the north several million Iraqi Kurds have been building the sinews of an independent homeland , most but not all of which is protected by another no-fly zone . |
| 29 | Thanks to our parliamentary system and the stability that it has given us , the British people have been spared the horrors of revolution , civil war and invasion for more than 300 years . |
| 30 | British Airways have been investigating the potential of AI to engineering diagnostics through a Computer Aided Decision & Diagnostics Information System programme ( CADDIS ) . |