Example sentences of "have [be] [adj] of [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On other occasions committees have been generally in support of government action but have urged that it be undertaken more vigorously : the Defence Committee has been critical of the Ministry of Defence when it has spent less than the sums provided in the annual estimates . |
| 2 | Lastly , Mr Gandhi has been critical of the decision to let American aircraft refuel in India on their way to the Gulf . |
| 3 | The Thatcher Government has been critical of the growth of quangos . |
| 4 | The Enterprise Centre 's ‘ local ’ LEC — LEEL has been supportive of a number of areas of the centre 's activities and sponsored the 1993 Napier Enterprise Lecture . |
| 5 | Well let's forget about that , let's forget about the two thousand odd people who 've said no , let's forget about the fact that there were these accidents in that road , because no we 've got the M forty the A forty four — well the A thirty four as it was — has been relieved of a lot of traffic and from a point of view from the Gipsy Working Party Committee they may well feel that they are even more entitled to go ahead with this site . |
| 6 | Since the Noel Hall Report of 1957 , the NHS has been conscious of the need to make special arrangements to ensure its share of good-calibre school leavers and graduates . |
| 7 | Always boobs have been big business , blondes have had more fun , ‘ sexuality ’ has been top of the agenda and brains have been a distinct disadvantage , as we have tried to emulate the qualities of the famous beauties our men salivate over . |
| 8 | There were 37 attempted and full burglaries and once more hi-fi and electrical equipment has been top of the burglars ' list . |
| 9 | FOR more than a decade Sainsbury 's has been top of the shop parade . |
| 10 | If this has been true of the past , it is even more true of the present and seems likely to be truer still of the future . |
| 11 | The former head of stone and sculpture conservation at the Victoria and Albert Museum has been aware of the problems since a visit he made to Agra in 1985 . |
| 12 | To tell him the truth — that she 'd been afraid of the depth of her own feelings — would be far too revealing . |
| 13 | BRITTEN would surely have been proud of the quartet bearing his name . |
| 14 | Mr Hyde would have been proud of the shambles that let through Watford 's Paul Furlong . |
| 15 | Her account of her first visit to the oakum sheds of the workhouse must have been typical of the experience of many women from her background . |
| 16 | I vividly remember the occasion when a box had not been properly secured — when poor Katy opened the bathroom door she was greeted by a scene which must have been reminiscent of the Hitchcock film The Birds with thrushes and feathers flying everywhere ! |
| 17 | Both parties will have been convinced of the correctness of their arguments on the facts and law . |
| 18 | On other occasions , where distinctive types of design were produced , e.g. the mosaics of type B , both client and craftsman will have been unaware of the mosaic 's wider and more general relationships . |
| 19 | If he had failed to take this action he would probably have been unaware of the emergency . |
| 20 | He can not have been unaware of the risk . |
| 21 | It would have been unreasonable of the author/translator to expect this item of information to remain in the reader 's consciousness after three intervening pages and an explicitly marked change of scene or topic . |
| 22 | It would have been inconsiderate of the King and his wife to spare them their self-imposed task ; to dismiss the sweating craftsmen to their homes to enjoy the feast-time in front of a longfire with their wives and children , or drinking with the Earl in his comfortable timber hall , well fired and warmly hung , on the opposite shore . |
| 23 | And I do n't believe for one moment that you could have been ignorant of the fact that she was wealthy . |
| 24 | If the Plowden Committee had referred therefore to ‘ the social changes of the last thirty years ’ instead of fifteen , they would have been guilty of no inaccuracy . |
| 25 | Mr Ashdown said Mr Major should have been aware of a Government paper detailing the extent of the trade when , in December 1990 , he flatly denied any illicit trading . |
| 26 | It is certain that the Leapors would have been aware of the changes going on around them , especially since Philip Leapor would have been hired for landscaping projects . |
| 27 | Nor could she have been aware of the matey tap with which the russet radical awoke the aforementioned scribe in the morning , a cup of tea grasped in his proletarian fist . |
| 28 | What is know of Gordon Thomas — all to little — makes this unlikely since he was an ambitious man with a strong personality who would certainly have been aware of the advantages of publicity both for himself and the lift . |
| 29 | If their argument is worth tuppence it means that the people in the Markets area must have been aware of the inscriptions … before they in fact took the steps they did . |
| 30 | In particular , Caparo suggested that the auditors were or should have been aware of the fall in Fidelity 's share price during March and of its need for financial assistance . |