Example sentences of "have be [adv] [adj] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of all the hedges I 've seen they 've been about eighteen two foot , about that far apart |
| 2 | The month-old ‘ final offensive ’ has been most successful this year because a split that erupted last August among rebel ranks has not yet been patched up in the face of Khartoum 's assaults . |
| 3 | ‘ Hyde has been here all this time why did n't he destroy this will ? ’ |
| 4 | There has been yet another substantial increase in resources for the NHS , and that will enable a continuing reduction in waiting lists and better service for all those who use the NHS . |
| 5 | The hon. Gentleman has been exceptionally churlish this afternoon . |
| 6 | There is , in fact , no hard evidence to show that rural depopulation has been socially selective either way . |
| 7 | The Passport Agency has been very successful this year in speeding up the processing of passport applications . |
| 8 | But he has been very loving this summer and much cast down by the failure of the Italian cause and I will not grudge him a livelier time of it in Rome . |
| 9 | Here again there has been very little systematic exploration , although such universal features of the organization of interaction are good candidates for potentially important functional pressures on linguistic structure . |
| 10 | It thus seems that there has been very little geological reworking of the Mercurian surface since the apparent planet-wide obliteration of most craters at the beginning . |
| 11 | There is , however , always a danger that her critics are really writing about themselves , defending their own positions , so there has been very little constructive criticism . |
| 12 | The incidence of bully/victim problems in schools within mainstream children has now been well-established ; however while it may be likely that children with special educational needs will be over-represented in such categories , there has been very little quantitative evidence on this point , or on which types of special needs children are most likely to be involved , in which way . |
| 13 | The problem with this is not merely that there has been very little serious thinking within multiculturalism about how ‘ cultural understanding ’ actually occurs , about its forms , mechanisms and limits . |
| 14 | ‘ There has been very little objective research into the work done by reporters and its effectiveness , ’ said Mr Miller . |
| 15 | There has been very little previous research on autobiographical memory . |
| 16 | Clark revealed that there has been only one official bid for Keane since the end of the season — a £3.5 million verbal offer from Rovers which Blackburn 's chairman Robert Corr subsequently confirmed in writing to Forest chairman Fred Reacher . |
| 17 | Although the discontinuity in economic policy from the Heath Cabinet ( 1972 — 4 ) is remarkable , there has been only one dissenting resignation from her Cabinet , partly on grounds of her style as well as policy ( that of Mr Heseltine over Westland in January 1986 ) . |
| 18 | To the best of my knowledge there has been only one sustained examination of mass production undertaken by someone using a psychoanalytic perspective . |
| 19 | Despite the fact that there have been many reports describing the central effects of neuropeptides on gastric and pancreatic secretion , there has been only one previous report of the effects of a centrally acting peptide on biliary secretion . |
| 20 | With grass knee high and crops waist high , like most clubs , our ‘ Finds Table ’ has been almost empty this summer . |
| 21 | so you just wan na revisit it and say oh I 'm sure you found this document has been really useful this evening and out of those five areas we discussed , you might wan na consolidate it a bit , which was the one that excited you the most and that 's your retirement savings you know |
| 22 | The British coastline , which has been under greater developmental pressure than almost any other part of the country , has been the subject of particular interest for conservationists . |
| 23 | I think I should start by stressing the process through which we have gone in order to prepare this report has been somewhat different this year from that which we followed in the past and |
| 24 | It is surprising therefore , that there has been so little public interest in this country in proposals to release into the environment living , man-made creatures . |
| 25 | He 'd been badly shocked last night . |
| 26 | He 'd been so gentle that morning when he must have seen he had hurt her feelings , and she felt good inside that she had seen the more gentle , considerate side of him . |
| 27 | He 'd been so busy that afternoon that he 'd completely forgotten to call her . |
| 28 | And when I was when I got to New York , I was met by two first cousins from two different families er Bert who 's er er nephew of my my mother 's sister Laura Anne in in New York , and another one , William who 'd been very successful vice president of or something . |
| 29 | She had been about to collude with Stan in the face of all her good resolutions , and there would have been yet another indelible stain on her spirit which , she suspected , were it available to her , she would not care to put unwashed in her underwear drawer . |
| 30 | That house might well have been here that big house just there across th in there which has now been turned into flats . |