Example sentences of "have [be] [adj] [verb] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Private motor business remains very competitive but it has been necessary to apply further selective premium increases . |
| 2 | As has been pointed out , however , In recent years it has been impossible to tell where natural justice stops and fairness begins . |
| 3 | The results show that it has been possible to set up community-based placements which offer much richer social and material environments than the hospitals they replace . |
| 4 | So we 're very lucky indeed , I say without any hesitation whatever , that Jeffrey has been willing to take on this |
| 5 | Local councils set the rents and nominate the tenants in this case and the Association has been willing to build relatively small-scale developments ( sometimes fewer than ten houses ) suitable for village settings . |
| 6 | McLuhan was enormously popular and apparently influential only a few years ago , since when it has been commonplace to pick out many of the absurdities and contradictions of his thought . |
| 7 | I spoke to David on the phone yesterday and he , too , has been able to do very little because of not being able to get into Tim 's program , like everybody else . |
| 8 | No one has been able to explain how this erroneous information appeared in that paper . |
| 9 | It should be borne in mind however that this project has been able to consider only short-run cost-effectiveness . |
| 10 | It is only recently that Champagne has been able to boast as many as seventeen grands crus . |
| 11 | His son has been able to buy back some of these volumes and his own collection on this subject now numbers around 8,000 volumes . |
| 12 | Nevertheless , the fact that Saatchi has been prepared to offend so many dealers and artists does seem to have seriously damaged his credibility in the art world . |
| 13 | Similarly , much recent analysis of the impact of technical change on labour relations has been concerned to show how technical innovation has been driven by the need of employers to ‘ deskill ’ the workforce in order to control the ‘ workprocess ’ and extract the maximum rate of profit from labour [ Friedman , 1977 ] . |
| 14 | He 'd been obliged to commit too many crimes in this joyless world . |
| 15 | She 'd been fortunate to escape more serious injury from the flying glass . |
| 16 | If I 'd been able to think straight five years ago , I 'd never have married you . |
| 17 | He wondered if he 'd been sensible to bring so much . |
| 18 | She 'd been glad to find so much work waiting for her when she arrived back in England . |
| 19 | Mandru 's agent had been outbid , however , and he 'd been reluctant to return home empty-handed . |
| 20 | It would not have been possible to tackle so many issues so successfully without the dedication of hundreds of volunteers working at both a local and national level . |
| 21 | Without the use of the capital and small letters in combination , it would not have been possible to identify how this piece of notation had been synthesized . |
| 22 | Home Office pathologist Dr Donald Wayte , of Bangor , told the court yesterday that it would probably have been impossible to get so much material into Mrs McMullen 's mouth if she had been conscious , as she would have been fighting for her life . |
| 23 | Woking boss Geoff Chapple said : ‘ The lads did me proud and it would have been nice to have just one more glory run in the Cup . ’ |
| 24 | As the rats moved around the arena , the relative perceived positions of the landmarks in egocentric space would have been likely to change as much in the fixed as in the varied condition with , for example , L+ being seen as often to the left or right of L- both within and across trials . |
| 25 | Of course we should n't have expected anything , but Mary and I would have felt rich with only a thousand pounds each , and St John would have been able to help so many more poor people ! ’ |
| 26 | The article goes on to quote from Michael Polaryi who , I am sure , would have been horrified to see how intent these researchers are on isolating emotion as something to be ‘ switched on ’ and ‘ portrayed ’ . |
| 27 | Dicynodonts , with their small body size , sprawling reptilian gait and lack of internal thermoregulatory mechanisms , would have been unable to migrate over long distances . |
| 28 | Furthermore , OPEC would almost certainly have been unable to sustain massively higher prices in the context of the subsequent crash had US policy towards oil imports not changed dramatically in the seventies . |
| 29 | If the Cubists had been surprised by the violent reactions which they had aroused previously , they seem to have been anxious to attract as much attention as possible with this exhibition . |
| 30 | Lancashire colliers seem to have been able to earn around 1s 9d ( 8½p ) a day by 1786 , rather less than the 2s 3d ( 11p ) then being earned on the Yorkshire coalfield , let alone the 3s ( 15p ) for which Staffordshire miners were then striking . |