Example sentences of "[conj] [adj] have been [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If we do , we now have a model and can say that he and his family have been through it and have borne it with great fortitude , resilience and courage — as has been said , only through their deep religious faith — and that that has been a great lesson to us all . |
| 2 | This is certainly not the case , although this has been the prevailing attitude from senior nurses for many years . |
| 3 | Although this has been an indifferent year for the club in the league , Hibs are in knockout mood again . |
| 4 | But I soon found that this had been a dubious choice . |
| 5 | Of the 23 disabled professionals who had been accepted for training as disabled people , eight reported that their entry qualifications were better than average , and five thought that this had been a major factor in their acceptance for training . |
| 6 | Although Perot refused to endorse the candidacies of either Clinton or Bush , he conceded that the Democratic Party had done " a brilliant job " in reviving itself , and that this had been a key factor in his decision to withdraw . |
| 7 | The US ambassador , who had marvelled at the readiness of the British to hazard so much in company with France ( a nation which they were in the habit of disparaging ) , now saw that this had been no more than a passing flirtation . |
| 8 | He was reflecting , perhaps , that this had been an easier job than the electrical wiring . |
| 9 | It should be clear to everyone that this has been a genuine and productive consultation . |
| 10 | They suggest that public expenditure growth has led to a transfer of productive resources from the private sector to a public sector producing largely non-marketed output , and that this has been a major factor in the UK 's poor performance in the post-war period . |
| 11 | It is not our purpose to review these initiatives , merely to point out that this has been the single most important factor responsible for the change in budgetary climate in local government in recent years . |
| 12 | Once this had been a thriving town , prospering on fishing and tourism and the naval college . |
| 13 | Will my hon. Friend also confirm that 1991 has been a vibrant and exciting year in the North sea ? |
| 14 | The fact is that 1991 has been an unprecedented year of success for Belfast . |
| 15 | Another BTO survey found that 1992 had been a good breeding season for songbirds . |
| 16 | YOU do n't have to be the Queen to feel that 1992 has been a rotten year . |
| 17 | For on that Saturday Mr Pozsgay organised a radio interview to tell the world that a party committee working under him had come to the conclusion that 1956 had been a popular uprising , thus ensuring that the terms of reference in Hungarian politics would never be the same again . |
| 18 | This seems to be pitching things a good deal too high , but the current London Film Festival , which continues until Sunday , tends to confirm the impression that 1989 has been a less than vintage year for the movies . |
| 19 | Opening the proceedings at the morning AGM for the Institution 's Governors the RNLI 's Chairman , Mr Michael Vernon , began by reminding the meeting that 1990 had been an eventful and difficult year in many parts of the world , with a sharp recession and uncomfortably high inflation affecting these islands . |
| 20 | and that has been a long time coming but it now appears to be |
| 21 | I 've just had to get on with it , and that 's been a good thing . ’ |
| 22 | If that had been a true man he 'd have drunk it again afterwards ! |
| 23 | Think of the outcry if that had been a nuclear accident . ’ |
| 24 | I 'd have had that if that had been a different colour , but it 's cos it 's brown it 's no good in our kitchen . |
| 25 | Despite the odds against her , she would have persevered if that had been the only hope of tracing her sister . |
| 26 | Although in theory we do not know how it would have turned out if that had been the only option available to Mr. Thorpe , we know that the principles are clearly set out in the health service management documents and at a political level by my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State . |
| 27 | If that had been the final outcome , question marks over the ability of sterling to maintain its value against the Deutschmark would have been raised and there would have been a prospect of a rise in interest rates to protect the pound . |
| 28 | In the UK and FRG an average of 9 per cent of company employees worked in R&D and this had been the traditional level in the industry for several years . |
| 29 | As Wayne Gossage has said : " Patricia Knapp was one of the few people in the inner circle of the library-college vanguard who was in any way critical " ( Gossage 1975 : 8 ) and this has been a sad weakness in a movement which , with its enthusiasm and provocative reversal of traditional priorities , has aroused much interest and thought amongst educators , librarians and administrators . |
| 30 | Now the reason why we 've come together and this has been a recent change and it 's been this year , erm is because there are overlaps without going into deep detail , there are overlaps in our work and we were working together as officer 's anyway , but not as well as we should , so what we decided to do was formally integrate the three teams under the same unit , and we do have regular er internal meetings , management team meetings consisting of John , Pete me and Carol and we so we more co-ordinate the work for all the teams much more systema systematically , that we know what everybody 's doing and that way we believe we can use best use of resources we 've got most effectively . |