Example sentences of "[adj] have be [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps more striking has been the disruptive impact on the NHS of many uncoordinated and poorly-managed projects . |
| 2 | Equally controversial has been the recently-introduced Employment Contracts Act that has drastically undercut the powers of the trade unions — to the extent that New Zealand may now be in breach of International Labour Organisation provisions . |
| 3 | The fact that these efforts go unrecognised has been a major element in the ‘ failure ’ labels attached to many deaf schoolchildren . |
| 4 | ONLY a dealer who had just come back from a weekend in the Kalahari desert would have been surprised to hear of yesterday 's agreed £337.6m bid by MB Group for Caradon , the Twyfords and Everest building products group , so comprehensive has been the pre-match publicity . |
| 5 | It ca n't have been easy to have been a good Muslim in Cheltenham , thought Robert ! |
| 6 | She was a national leader in the W.C.T.U. ( Women 's Christian Temperance Union ) but in spite of her reputation for being austere , dogmatic and old-fashioned , I considered myself fortunate to have been a personal friend of Nellie McClung . |
| 7 | Indeed in the circumstances in which he found the community there is likely to have been a good deal of disorder . |
| 8 | Akrotiri was built in about 1550 BC ( Late Minoan IA ) and is likely to have been a Minoan foundation . |
| 9 | It appears that severity of illness or disability is likely to have been a critical variable , and in cases of severe disability , health would have been an overriding consideration . |
| 10 | Nor is this likely to have been a novel feature of the tenth and eleventh centuries , whose rulers were building on traditions of public authority already old . |
| 11 | It is just as likely to have been a Turkish Cypriot farmer moving too far south . |
| 12 | Abimelech , the Philistine king ( 26:1 ) : the name is probably a family or throne-name , this is therefore likely to have been a later king than the one Abraham encountered ( 20–21 ) . |
| 13 | But the massive post-election bomb in London is likely to have been an each-way bet planned well in advance . |
| 14 | In the two volunteers reported to have HLA-B35 this octamer is likely to have been the minimal epitope . |
| 15 | This is likely to have been the lower valve , and fossils are sometimes found in ‘ life position ’ , which confirms this . |
| 16 | Although the combination of recession and high interest rates is likely to have been the main cause of this rise in defaults , the much more moderate increase in company failures and mortgage arrears which accompanied the more severe downturn and higher interest rates of 1980–81 period suggests that other factors may also have been important . |
| 17 | I consider myself highly privileged to have been the first Minister for consumer protection in a completely independent consumer protection Department . |
| 18 | It is believed that long before it became a market town , serving a largely agricultural community , it was the ancient Roman port of Vannona , which was supposed to have been the principal harbour on this coast . |
| 19 | Still being distributed throughout the UK and abroad , Networking International has been a real source of information as well as opening up opportunities for women artists . |
| 20 | The lives of the great had been the main subject of their stories , in romance , in drama , and subsequently in the novel . |
| 21 | U-TURNS galore have been the main feature of Government activity in the past month but none has been more important than that over the economy . |
| 22 | The nine-year-old has been a fine servant for trainer David Nicholson and , although a few pounds below the very best over two miles , he picks up enough prize-money each year to comfortably pay his oats bill . |
| 23 | This reflects the fact that the commodities boom was highly generalized , and therefore unlikely to have been a freak coincidence of very different developments in different markets . |
| 24 | They conclude that there must be less than 5 x unc monopoles per sq.cm per steradian per second in the vicinity of the Earth , and that ‘ the Cabrera candidate is unlikely to have been a true monopole -induced event . ’ |
| 25 | On the debit side , there is unlikely to have been a significant shift of travel in such a small town from cars towards public transport or indeed towards the bicycle . |
| 26 | Atrophic gastritis was found in three of our patients and is therefore unlikely to have been an important factor in our study . |
| 27 | ‘ The alleyway is so remote that it is unlikely to have been an opportunist crime , ’ Chief Inspetor Graham said . |
| 28 | The aim of the measure may also have been financial , because the Crown was empowered to distrain for half of the profits resulting from the enclosure ; it was not , however , an easy way to raise money , so it is unlikely to have been the only reason for the Act . |
| 29 | They would obviously have some idea from the appeal hearing it itself but since they have to put all of their reasons for their request in writing the very least I believe they should be able to have is a reasoned reply . |
| 30 | Particularly impressive has been the major revival of the South East since the mid 1970s , but there has also been a return to strong growth in the other three regions of the South in the mid 1980s . |