Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] have [be] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The aim of this chapter has been to discuss the opportunities and problems associated with ward learning . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ‘ So , as I say , this child has been given the most perfect environment possible . |
| 9 | This discovery has been named the Lennox field and development options are already under consideration . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | This Product has been allocated the following identifier : |
| 16 | The wrong person has been given the job |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Another method has been to increase the benefits paid by the pension fund , although this has been rarely used , nor has a refund to the company from the pension fund , as it requires approval from the SFO . |
| 19 | An informal group formed this week has been mobilising the support of cricket clubs throughout the island to stay away from the game . |
| 20 | For many years this palazzo has been considered the most beautiful private house in Milan . |
| 21 | Increased differentiation based on this mechanism has been called the acquired distinctiveness of cues . |
| 22 | 1932 was a momentous year in Chiswick , which had found itself almost isolated and unable to expand due to the River Thames cutting it off from the County of Surrey , and the boundary of Hammersmith to the east , being also the boundary with the London County Council ; with little or no contact or matters of interest with Acton to the north , but nevertheless a narrow link with Brentford , to the west ( Chiswick High Road had been called the Brentford Road for very many years ) , which link was considerably enhanced by the construction of the Great West Road . |
| 23 | One answer to such a detailed approach has been to revitalize the notion of large-scale geomorphology for example ( Gardner and Scoging , 1983 ) but another has been to concentrate upon human activity as providing a focus centred around the central system ( p. 156 ) . |
| 24 | An old man has been playing the guitar , but he has left off playing to listen to a young shepherd piping . |
| 25 | The increasing role of the greenhouse effect in this transition has been called the runaway greenhouse effect . |
| 26 | The tubby Scot has been offered the part of Jewish holy man Friar Tuckman . |
| 27 | One of Stoddard Mercia 's largest and most prestigious contracts this year has been to supply the entire public area carpeting for Edinburgh 's hotel ‘ The Balmoral . ’ |
| 28 | The ‘ solution ’ found for this problem has been to finance the uncovered interest by expanding the money supply . |
| 29 | A practical solution to this problem has been to compare the monetary inputs ( costs ) with non-monetary outputs . |
| 30 | The aim of this school has been to pursue the attempt to elevate the study of social phenomena to the positive or scientific state . |