Example sentences of "have [adv] [be] [adj] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That is why meat has long been such a symbol of worldly power . |
| 2 | The Glass Pig has only been open a couple of weeks , but it 's already busy and helping to break down barriers . |
| 3 | He said : ‘ I travel an awful lot with my career but I have always kept up my links with Derry and the football club has always been such a part of me . ’ |
| 4 | Indeed we may say that there has always been such a tendency , in the patristic period likewise , to collapse the distinction between the two natures . |
| 5 | Euro Disney , whose Euro Disneyland near Paris has now been open a year , said it lost FFr1.1 billion ( $100m ) in the six months to end-March , and now needs more money to restructure FFr21 billion of debt . |
| 6 | why has there been such a Star Wars plan ? |
| 7 | There has never been such a vote of no confidence in the country since Gallup began measuring the urge to emigrate in 1948 . |
| 8 | There never had been such a moment , for critics ; there has never been such a moment since . |
| 9 | In a study of miraculous images of Mary which weep , the author , Father Hebert SM , after saying there is a long history of these writes , ‘ There has never been such an outpouring of tears as there has been in this century … more explicitly during the ten years , 1971–1981 , particularly so in Italy and in the United States ’ . |
| 10 | The swings had gone and the pier had been demolished ; a few years ago the Council had given permission for a café-and-restaurant to be built , but the place had only been open a month when it caught fire and was burned out ; the Fire Brigade could n't get to it , the promenade being too narrow for their vehicles . |
| 11 | Its Nine Elms terminal had only been open a week when in 1838 the London and South-Western announced the running of eight special trains on Derby Day to Kingston , the nearest station to Epsom . |
| 12 | It had n't been easy to break into the tough world of radio news reporting , not with her fragile appearance , which had always been such a handicap . |
| 13 | Travelling , which had once been such a bore to him , was now a continual nightmare . |
| 14 | There had never been such a period before , of such security and stability . |
| 15 | As for the matter of the diversion of funds , he still believed that there had never been such a thing . |
| 16 | She told her how beautiful they were , how there had never been such a blue . |
| 17 | Actually , I sent Felicity to Summerhill because I saw this awfully exciting film called The Alamo , starring John Wayne , whom I adore , and he makes this absolutely glorious speech in it which goes ‘ Freedom , I like the sound of the word ’ , actually it 's ‘ Republic ’ he says , I know that because it was on the television last week , but I 've always heard it as ‘ Freedom ’ and I read that A S O'Neill positively breathed Freedom , as indeed do all the Irish , I find , and one has to have pots of money to go there , which gives one — what 's the word ? — sachet , which you do absolutely need to get into Society these days , and Felicity ( her name means Freedom , too , from the Latin , you know ) was frightfully keen to go , and does n't the name simply drip June in , say , the Cotswolds , and Felicity says there are teachers there with nothing to do at all , so you can tell the staff must be tip-top — I mean , what luxury ! spare staff ! — and Felicity 's always been such a tearaway and I know it 's jolly hard but I do think one needs Discipline to get one 's Freedom , I 've always had it , and Republics too , and now I gather she 's been on television , and Felicity was absolutely swearing by the school or something , Angela says , and where is it — somewhere pretty — she goes by train … |
| 18 | The Wards are most helpful ( they say that running Culver Lodge has restored their faith in human nature as their guests have always been such a pleasure ) and are always ready to give advice on places to visit , walks , bus and rail timetables . |