Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] have [adv] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Social reasons have also been important in the debate on regional policies . |
| 2 | Social and cultural values have clearly been different in Britain from those in , say , Germany or the USA . |
| 3 | ‘ Against a background of recession and unemployment , the crucial nature and value of area partnerships between the private and public sectors have never been clearer . |
| 4 | First , historically the links between genetics and commercial concerns have always been close . |
| 5 | Hitherto , the ecumenical gatherings had chiefly been concerned with theological issues , even if matters of discipline such as the manner of determining the date of Easter had crept in . |
| 6 | Commercial banks have generally been able to provide the finance necessary to support the huge increase in investment because they have collected substantial deposits from savers . |
| 7 | From a theoretical point of view , social psychologists have often been unhappy in dealing with cognitive ambivalence . |
| 8 | Violence of different kinds has certainly been endemic in sport and fighting between groups of players or spectators is nothing new . |
| 9 | British governments have often been feeble ; Israel 's often decisive , even fierce . |
| 10 | The best British films have always been those that transcended these artificial oppositions . |
| 11 | In the past , chartered accountants have also been able to charge higher rates because of their qualification , but this premium has been put under increasing pressure at the smaller end of the market because of the recession . |
| 12 | Manufacturers based in the British market have generally been hard-hit ; the penetration by foreign products and incoming foreign producers has never been greater . |
| 13 | Since 1914 only ten British officers had ever been six times decorated for gallantry and one of these , Braham , who in 1951 was awarded the AFC for hazardous developmental work on all-weather fighter aircraft , uniquely achieved a seventh decoration . |
| 14 | One of the points to emerge in later chapters will be that eminent scientific figures have rarely been typical representatives of the religious traditions in which they were nurtured . |
| 15 | Because of the second world war , this never came to pass , but its generous boundaries have always been dear to the heart of Croatia 's president , Franjo Tudjman . |
| 16 | Few British juries had ever been happy ‘ to equate ordinary sexual desire with depravity ’ , as the Working Party would have had it , but Williams a decade later was equally wrong in assuming that the 1959 test was therefore null and void . |
| 17 | Different hands have obviously been involved in this great polyptych . |
| 18 | Social anthropologists have largely been interested in explaining the incest taboo itself . |
| 19 | Meanwhile , some European companies have long been successful at the world super-company level ( table 3 ) . |
| 20 | ‘ Such daring coups have always been difficult , my friend ! ’ was Salvo 's triumphant reply . |
| 21 | Productivity-enhancing research and development in many lesser developed countries have often been harmful , where they have been accessible to farmers of those areas . |
| 22 | Several comparable Government-funded libraries have recently been successful in obtaining ‘ one-off ’ grants from Scottish Office Departments for retrospective conversion , and I now recommend that Bob Crossman and I work together on putting forward a request for such funding from SO:AFD . |
| 23 | The attitude of the rich world to such appalling figures has always been ambiguous . |
| 24 | This suggests that the Moon , or at least the outer 200 km or so , has never been flexible enough to reach hydrostatic equilibrium and therefore that these outer regions have always been cold . |
| 25 | Pay for leading art-historians has always been lower in Britain than in the United States , but the brain drain has got worse . |
| 26 | Thus , the worries about the nature of resource misallocation which have been instrumental in influencing national policies have also been important in determining the shape of EC policy . |
| 27 | He wanted a reserved figure because previous applicants had all been loud and pushy . |
| 28 | What kind of relationship did they have with erm white tenants Has there been much racial tension in the flats or has that been insignificant |
| 29 | This fall in operative trainees has primarily been due to the reduced demand following the recession in construction activity since the property collapse of 1973 . |
| 30 | Generation of standard useful attitudes has always been one of the main purposes of military training . |