Example sentences of "[conj] [noun pl] have [adv] [been] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A few reporters , shunning the handout , gave an impression that the American press was opposed to the war , and indeed played a large part in bringing it to an end , an impression that journalists have since been content to foster . |
| 2 | Milne said : ‘ The beauty of rugby is that fans have always been able to have a pint afterwards . |
| 3 | Some psychologists point to a decline in the mid-1980s and blame new-fangled teaching methods ; others insist that things have always been this bad . |
| 4 | Our finding of highly similar introns in fungi and algae is consistent with the idea that introns have already been present in the bacterial ancestors of present day mitochondria and evolved concomitantly with the organells . |
| 5 | While more women than men have always been active members of the church , at the present time , this situation has been accentuated : |
| 6 | It was pointed out during the workshop that women have always been flexible in terms of employment , but because they have to be rather than because they want to be . |
| 7 | Its methods and values have rarely been able to challenge the dominance of conservative normativism . |
| 8 | On the first of these , as has already been indicated , recent legislation and policies have actually been detrimental to the interests of many old people . |
| 9 | My hips and thighs have always been bulky , making me feel uncomfortable in trousers/tight jeans . |
| 10 | Matt shades for lips and eyes have always been chic and even exotic , but difficult to apply . |
| 11 | UNTIL RECENTLY reserved for private viewing by potential customers and officials , a number of Western journalists and enthusiasts have recently been privileged to view the small collection of early Yak aircraft kept at the head office of the Yakovlev OKB ( Design Bureau ) situated opposite the old Frunze Airport in Moscow . |
| 12 | It involves very large client groups ( elderly , physically disabled , and mentally ill people as well as people with learning disabilities ) ; constitutes one of the major tasks of the personal social services ; and it is an arena in which hopes and aspirations have consistently been disappointed ( Walker , 1982 ; Webb and Wistow , 1986 ; Martin , 1987 ) . |
| 13 | The disagreements , or even lack of communication , between , for instance , Hegelians , Marxists , phenomenologists and Thomists have often been deep . |
| 14 | While a good many artists and dealers have clearly been upset by Saatchi 's actions , no one feels absolutely confident about the motives behind them , and Saatchi himself absolutely declines to discuss his dealings , whether in art or business . |
| 15 | Calendars and diaries have always been popular in good bookshops , many of these products spinning off from familiar sources ( Tolkien , Beatrix Potter ) and sold in by book publishers with the autumn lists . |
| 16 | Local management of schools , giving parents more information , and the assessing of schools , children and teachers have all been good ideas . |
| 17 | Just as with its European counterparts , the museum 's staff and facilities have never been adequate to meet the demand for space . |
| 18 | With different teams competing for routes it 's difficult to know what 's new , but conditions have certainly been good this year . |
| 19 | But theorists have already been busy for the past few years working on schemes that incorporate a third force , the strong nuclear force , with electroweak theory . |
| 20 | As mariners have long been aware , a voyage from tropical to cold oceans is a passage from dearth to plenty . |