Example sentences of "[noun pl] have [adv] [be] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Media spend on the personal care brands through LH-S totalled just over £1m , but the brands have historically been worth much more . |
| 2 | ‘ The finest views are from the bottom , and at some places a little above it , but few dare venture to the bottom particularly those females whose pedestrian excursions have chiefly been upon level ground ; nay the male sex are often appalled with a view of the way , and many a Bond-street gentleman , in his stable costume , would rather hazard his neck four-in-hand , than risk it by having his arms precariously supported by the twigs and branches he may find in his way to the gulph below . ’ |
| 3 | Bradshaw and Miller 's work has shown that a substantial proportion of single mothers have never been in full time employment . |
| 4 | In Britain public examination results have always been of internal interest to schools , although they have been used as only crude indicators in evaluating a school 's performance . |
| 5 | Some of the statements of Mrs Thatcher and some of her ministers have not been at all helpful . |
| 6 | The personnel to run literacy and adult education programmes have also been in short supply . |
| 7 | Most of our advertisers have already been in some form of advertising before . |
| 8 | In April 1765 Collinson wrote , ‘ I have the pleasure to inform my good friend that my repeated solicitations have not been in vain , for this day I received certain intelligence from our gracious King that he has appointed thee his Botanist with a salary of fifty pounds a year . ’ |