Example sentences of "have be [adj] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Both French and European Community officials making their springtime visits to Washington have been anxious to dispel American anxieties . |
| 2 | Attitudes appear to be somewhat unfavourable to ‘ welfare state ’ provision ; Newby ( 1979 ) suggests that influential local interests ( farmers and landowners ) have been keen to minimize local council house building in order to keep down rates — and through key positions on councils have been able to realize this objective . |
| 3 | I freely admit that , following that , the Government have been unwilling to introduce other proposals because they feel that they would have to be enforceable , workable and acceptable to a majority of hon. Members . |
| 4 | The trouble is that the French and German governments , swayed by their domestic farming electorates , have been unwilling to accept radical reform of CAP , even if it means access to foreign markets in which the EC is better able to compete . |
| 5 | Part-time Ulster Defence Regiment staff have been called-in to work full time . |
| 6 | Sandtoft 's natural red Old English clay pantiles have been used to roof new offices of BP Exploration near Newark in Nottinghamshire . |
| 7 | Raising decorative and useful herbs in pots is becoming popular , and Danish horticulturists have been busy selecting non-flowering varieties of sage with ornamental foliage for container growing . |
| 8 | Farmers have been slow to make adequate provision for their own retirement so it was important to see how many had this long term security and how much importance it carried . |
| 9 | The resultant systems have been able to perform detailed analyses of small fragments of language . |
| 10 | Boris Ford thought that Lord Robbins and his Committee had to accept some of the blame ‘ for the ease with which the grey eminences at the Department have been able to enlist radical ministers like Sir Edward Boyle and Mr Crosland in support of policies that are socially and academically reactionary ’ . |
| 11 | Politicians , local and national , have been able to claim great progress on the housing front , referring to the increasing numbers of sheltered housing units , yet conveniently ignoring that only about 5 per cent live in this kind of accommodation . |
| 12 | I have been able to give particular priority to spending on the health programme . |
| 13 | The result has been that recent chancellors have been able to give free rein to their tax-reforming ambitions . |
| 14 | For the expenditure of little more than £250,000 per year we have been able to generate extra funds to support and improve patient care within the NHS rising from £9 million in 1988-89 to £50 million last year . |
| 15 | But since April they have been able to lead-underwrite offshore bond issues by Japanese companies . |
| 16 | Active and articulate middle-class newcomers have been able to apply considerable pressure to local education authorities in order to improve the standards of rural schools . |
| 17 | In the LEA sector women have been able to learn non-traditional skills like building , carpentry , motor mechanics and electrics . |
| 18 | Formally independent of the Government , they have been able to raise contentious issues under the guise of kite-flying exercises without compromising individual politicians . |
| 19 | By contrast , the Conservatives have been able to raise public spending by nearly a quarter in real terms . |
| 20 | The point is that , with good continuous Labour control , we have been able to provide good services and good local administration . |
| 21 | On the other hand , nationalist movements within industrial countries have had some success when they have been able to establish strong party organizations , as in the case of the Scottish National Party or the Parti Quebecois , or more recently in the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia . |
| 22 | In a letter to the Stanford committee on research , the faculty said : ‘ For years we have been able to tell visiting school children , student , engineers , scientists , laymen and the press that we are here to do basic research on the fundamental properties of matter and that we do not do any military work . |
| 23 | Duncan Campbell and other journalists have been able to reveal intimate details of the workings of the system , as has Cathy Massiter , a former MI5 employee who ‘ went public ’ in a Channel 4 television programme . |
| 24 | Moreover , the leading multinationals have been able to gain critical efficiencies in financing the whole system . |
| 25 | Since April 1984 health authorities have been able to make continuing payments to local authorities providing social care , and to give grant aid to education and housing departments as well as social services and voluntary organizations . |
| 26 | Cats and humans both evolved as meat-eaters — as predators — and until our biochemists have been able to produce synthetic meats , with the magic mixture of essential amino-acids , we are both trapped by our evolutionary past . |
| 27 | With the benefit of hindsight , historians have been able to find various silver linings for de Gaulle in the protracted failure of the RPF . |
| 28 | It is the autumn statement of a Government who have been able to increase public expenditure , in a well-targeted and specific way , by 20 per cent . |
| 29 | It would , in any case , have been difficult to obtain unanimous support for the complete closure that Don Aldo Marangoni was advocating . |
| 30 | The new states , however , have been quick to remove other traces of the old regime and Walker has returned to Scotland with a unique memento . |