Example sentences of "[coord] [noun] [conj] have been [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | By constructing a portfolio of efficiently priced assets , the investor can create opportunities for profitable arbitrage if there are assets or portfolios that have been underpriced or overpriced . |
2 | When I was approached over Westland , it was by some of the banks and institutions that had been involved in the John Brown affair . |
3 | For Said , the problem amounts simply to historicism and , the universalising and self-validating that has been endemic to it' : |
4 | As early as the fifth and fourth centuries B.C. the Greek philosophers and historians had shown a keen interest in foreign doctrines and customs and had been inclined to recognize some value in them . |
5 | Yes , I mean I run a series for one of the local newspapers on past Lewes mayors and the amount of work that I had to do for that meant that I picked up all sorts of pieces of information about what other mayors had tried in the past , and things that had been successful and things that had been disasters , and as it was the centenary I went to a lot of trouble to look up exactly what had happened a hundred years ago and to try and recreate the ceremonial connected with that , and then when we elected erm two people honourary freeman of the town I got in all of the other mayors from Sussex , asked them to come along with their robes and mace bearers and so on , and we had this very sort of grand ceremonial procession in the Assembly Hall , which was sort of packed out with about four hundred people . |
6 | Yes , I mean I run a series for one of the local newspapers on past Lewes mayors , and the amount of work that I had to do for that meant that I picked up all sorts of pieces of information about what other mayors had tried in the past , and things that had been successful and things that had been disasters , and as it was a centenary , I went to a lot of trouble to look up exactly what had happened a hundred years ago , and to try and recreate the ceremonial connected with that . |
7 | For surely it can never be accepted by any normal thinking person that the bloody battles and massacres that have been necessary to establish even a tentative hold on any part of that unhappy , and anything but ‘ holy ’ , land can possibly represent a successful implementation of that promise . |
8 | Examples are Hakea ( Proteaceae , Australia ) and pines that have been able to take hold in the Cape . |
9 | If we now look at the different animals and crops that have been available over several thousand years , we will begin to see how basic systems of land exploitation worked in the landscape . |
10 | De Gaulle 's foreign policy had restored a level of national self-respect and consensus that had been absent since the First World War . |
11 | The consortium has huge contracts with British Coal and ScottishPower but has been unable to fulfil them . ’ |