Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] they have be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sadly the very dry weather we have had over the last two summers has meant that even young bulbs have not been able to bulk up their energy supplies and so the following year they have been unable to produce flowers . |
| 2 | Two weeks ago Randalstown lost to Old Alexandra in the All Ireland Cup , but that was due to fatigue as the previous weekend they had been involved in the European Indoor Club Championship . |
| 3 | Just as the inhabitants of the barrios here defend their pathetic shanties to the last , defying the well-meaning efforts of the authorities to relocate them , so the poor in intellect cling to whatever feeble idea they have been able to fashion out of the odds and ends they have foraged . |
| 4 | They were walking on to the long ridge they had been able to see from the cottage window . |
| 5 | As two young married couples they had been close for a time when they lived near Stoke , although Carole had not got on at all well with Amaranth . |
| 6 | The characteristic of all those areas is that for a long time they have been Labour controlled , although Conservatives have been in control in Brent for the past year and the Liberal Democrats have recently been in control in Tower Hamlets . |
| 7 | Indeed , the measure of the difficulty they were in can be seen in their own statement of 6 August in defence of their lack of achievement , made on the very day they had been disappointed by Cecil 's letter ; for Knox was inscribing a letter from Argyll and lord James to Sir James Croft , captain of Berwick , saying that they were ‘ sorry to be judged slow , negligent and cold in our proceedings … . |
| 8 | We 're the only vets they 've been able to contact . ’ |
| 9 | By locating these and hammering stakes into the ground at strategic points they have been able to divert or stop the streams and return the house or area to a healthy state . |
| 10 | Earlier this century they broke through the Liberal-Conservative two-party system without the help of proportional representation , and under the established electoral system they have been able to form governments on their own with less than 40 per cent of the popular vote . |
| 11 | The Agriculture Minister , Mr John Gummer , and the Scottish Secretary , Mr Malcolm Rifkind , celebrated the small gains they had been able to negotiate , but admitted that the industry in Britain faced a tough time in the coming year . |
| 12 | It occurred to Thomas as he listened to her that Sara had not changed a whit in the whole time they had been married . |