Example sentences of "have be [adj] [verb] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While Germany spends 40% of her tax revenue on social security , Germans have been dismayed to observe a significant increase in homelessness and destitution on the streets of her cities , especially the rich western cities like Stuttgart and Munich . |
| 2 | Where exports have been direct , through their own overseas sales organisation , Japanese firms ( especially NEC and Mitsubishi Electric ) have been careful to avoid a direct confrontation with IBM . |
| 3 | Without economic revival , the Conservatives have been hard-pressed to identify a single reason that would justify giving them another five years in office . |
| 4 | Of course , Westland and all the associated issues about the harmonisation and rationalisation of the European defence industrial base are important , but I doubt that one specific case would in itself have been enough to become a resigning Issue . |
| 5 | Past generations of British farmers made dairy products ‘ for the house ’ yet today 's farmers have been slow to exploit a potential that exists for selling these products directly . |
| 6 | The authors , respected journalists who covered the Tampa trial , have been able to weave a convincing and tight narrative out of hundreds of interviews , tape transcripts and other material . |
| 7 | Employees have been able to take a direct stake in the newly privatised companies . |
| 8 | It is the first time the players have been able to field a large cast of nine for a serious production , with some 20 members involved in all . |
| 9 | Older women are less likely to remarry than younger women ( Ermisch , 1989 , pp. 50–1 ) and are consequently at risk of poverty in old age unless , unusually , they have been able to generate an adequate income through their own resources . |
| 10 | Plagued by years of opencast development in their areas some local communities have been able to mount an effective campaign against individual applications . |
| 11 | With them , chemists have been able to fulfil a long-standing dream : the direct observation of the motions of atoms as molecules undergo reactions . |
| 12 | Once people have been able to make a direct year-on-year comparison of local taxation demands , rather than be confused by a change of system , then councils may well be judged on their own individual performance . |
| 13 | The Italians have mae it work for them because they have been able to inject a comfortable , relaxed mood . |
| 14 | ‘ The owners of the poached ivory stock piles have been able to achieve a virtual monopoly of the international ivory trade , which was used to force prices up by as much as 300 per cent in three years . ’ |
| 15 | At the same time , we have been able to achieve a dramatic reduction in inflation — which , because it is better than the European Community average , means that there are better prospects for exporting firms and for the jobs in them . |
| 16 | Finally , there are a few killers that have been able to develop a special tolerance for certain poisons , enabling them to eat the noxious prey without ill-effects . |
| 17 | Despite the much-needed rain , schools have been able to play a substantial amount of cricket before turning to address the examiners rather than their opponents . |
| 18 | With their recently acquired wealth from the girls ' success , the Polgars have been able to buy an adjoining apartment to make one multi-roomed home . |
| 19 | But I know of several people who having been in full-time Christian work have been prepared to get a secular job for a time , until the new church was able to support them . |
| 20 | It is above all a crisis of and for British capitalism , but it is one in which the working class and its organisations have been unable to mount an effective resistance , let alone develop an effective struggle for a socialist solution : Conservative ideas and values may not be pervasive amongst working-class people , but they were sufficiently popular in 1983 to deliver 32 per cent of trade unionists ' votes to the Conservative Party . |
| 21 | Northern governments preparing for next year 's Cairo conference on population have been unable to agree a joint strategy . |
| 22 | Recent prospective studies have been unable to confirm a linear relationship between alcohol intake and the development of cirrhosis , and even for steatosis , the severity has been found to be unrelated to the amount , duration , or type of alcohol consumed . |
| 23 | I am still under the influence of Milton 's potent spell cast in the first two books and have been unable to find a successful remedy in the following books to bring . |
| 24 | Recent Secretaries of State for Education have been known to favour educational vouchers as a way of increasing parental choice and allowing the quality of schools to be judged by market forces though they have been unable to find a workable system . |
| 25 | Although all denominations within Christian and other churches have provided a measure of religious service for many people , it is difficult to avoid the conclusion that this is because such people have been unable to find an acceptable alternative . |
| 26 | ‘ For the third year running , we have been unable to build a single house , yet in that period we have had to re-house nearly 2,000 homeless families . ’ |
| 27 | The Socialists have been unable to clinch a similar deal with the Greens but they have now announced that they will unilaterally pull out their candidates in favour of better placed Green candidates in the second round . |
| 28 | They admit they are baffled by their findings because they have been unable to discover a common link to all the tragic cases . |
| 29 | This situation is the result of a chronic constitutional impasse in which the government and the parliament have been unable to develop a stable and effective working relationship , because of ‘ an unreformed public administration , a loosely worded constitution and an unbalanced party political development ’ . |
| 30 | In those years in which claims have exceeded premium income , the profits on the investment of premiums have been sufficient to produce an overall profit . |