Example sentences of "have [be] [verb] the [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | RICHARD PHELPS , 29 , has been called the most consistent pentathlete in the world . |
2 | He had studied the plays exhaustively , and published in 1765 a new edition whose Preface has been called the most famous Shakespearean essay ever written . |
3 | The period between 1939 to 1949 has been called the most productive and significant period in Canadian letters to date , which matches the ‘ 10 Lost Years ’ of the post-Depression period exactly . |
4 | Bodiam has been called the most romantic castle ruin in the whole of England . |
5 | ‘ So , as I say , this child has been given the most perfect environment possible . |
6 | This new science has been given the rather daunting name of psychoneuroimmunology . |
7 | From the time this imaginative project was conceived , the aim has been to create the most exciting and original selection of luxury homes available in Central London . |
8 | One prominent tendency in recent Marxist thought , therefore , has been to replace the relatively simple and precise evolutionary scheme of Marx 's 1859 Preface by a more complex and indefinite picture of the history of society in which , beyond the primitive communal stage , two broad types of society are distinguished — pre-capitalist and capitalist each of which may develop very diverse forms of economy , politics and culture . |
9 | For many years this palazzo has been considered the most beautiful private house in Milan . |
10 | Rehydration with oral rehydration solutions ( ORS ) containing monomeric glucose as substrate has been considered the most important therapeutic breakthrough of this century . |
11 | A man from Gloucestershire has been voted the most romantic top tycoon in Britain . |
12 | Her successor in the Party of Love , Moanna Pozzi , has been voted the most popular politician campaigning on television , though her ‘ seminar on eroticism ’ at an election rally was banned on the grounds of public decency . |
13 | This has been termed the most versatile visual aid . |
14 | To my mind , the major contribution of econometrics to our understanding of advertising so far has been to establish the relatively marginal effect of advertising expenditure level changes in comparison with price changes : typically , price movements relative to competition seem to account for as much as 70–80 per cent of the changes in brand shares in a market . |
15 | The best approach would have been to do the more straightforward bits first and to spend only the allocated time — 36 minutes — and no longer . |
16 | He seemed to have been elected the most avoidable man in the clubhouse . |
17 | Dutch and German waste hauliers had been using the relatively cheap Walloonian dumps for some years , and Dutch waste firms sued on the grounds of interference with free trade . |
18 | In January 1990 he had been replaced as chairman of the Republican National Committee ( RNC ) by Clayton Yeutter , and had been given the largely ceremonial title of general chairman . |
19 | Now he planned to do the same with the female cub , who had been given the most unleopard-like name of Harriet . |
20 | Only two patients thought that they had not been told enough , even though one of them had been given the very detailed sheet . |
21 | Boot and I had been allocated the less spectacular task of making and using miniature Barkausen-Kurz tubes as possible receivers . |
22 | At this point we first go beyond novelty into apparent paradox , for the most outstanding achievement of nineteenth-century physics had been to establish the indubitably wave-like character of light . |
23 | Jack said to Franca , ‘ We 've been having the most extraordinary time ! |
24 | Certainly it will benefit the regions and will be welcomed by all those who have been advocating the long overdue taking of tennis into towns and cities in a sort of ‘ Roadshow ’ format . |
25 | Another strong link is that the areas of inefficiency and non-collection are the very areas where the Conservatives have been scoring the most remarkable by-election victories in terms of council seats . |