Example sentences of "have [be] [adj] of [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As we shall see later , they have been one of the factors that have helped to tip the economic balance firmly against the nuclear option . |
| 2 | Snobby brands have been one of the success stories of the late 1980s . |
| 3 | Ecologists have been critical of the government 's failure to introduce planned legislation to make farmers seek approval from local authorities before grubbing out a hedge . |
| 4 | Many psychologists have been critical of the discipline 's pathologization of racial ‘ others ’ . |
| 5 | The concept of DRGS was developed in the USA and some British clinicians have been critical of the appropriateness , and at least believing that more work is needed to make them usable in the NHS . |
| 6 | The schools meanwhile have been critical of the hardware on offer . |
| 7 | ‘ I have been proud of the way we have played in England and believe we are becoming a better team with every game . |
| 8 | Parents and families in the reception areas were shocked by what they saw and heard , incredulous that they could until then have been ignorant of the deprivation within a society which they thought they knew well enough . |
| 9 | Then there are the poems of Persia and India that I love above all others ; they have gone the farthest and have been freest of the world 's gravity . |
| 10 | Traditionally , Conservatives have been respectful of the claims of voluntary groups , interests , and self-governing professions ; these were Edmund Burke 's celebrated ‘ little platoons ’ . |
| 11 | If sociobiologists have tended sometimes to describe higher societies ( such as man 's ) too much as if they were simpler ones , some entomologists have been guilty of the reverse . |
| 12 | The couple have been two of the multi-millionaire showman 's biggest supporters in his campaign to help AIDS charities . |
| 13 | I ask you when when you were younger did you would there have been many of the folk in the place spoke Gaelic or was it dying out then or |
| 14 | ‘ If students have been convinced of the necessity of collective action , gained self-respect and respect for their peers , they will have a message that they can use and will want to spread . |
| 15 | Normally , edges would have associated with them a confidence score ; however for sake of clarity these have been omitted as have been some of the edges which would otherwise have been created . |
| 16 | ‘ At Manchester United I have been top of the table in April and still lost it . |
| 17 | Equally , creditors have been suspicious of the CAB who they consider may be too ‘ soft ’ on the client . |
| 18 | And had his voice been able to cut through metal as it cut through the early morning air , then they would all of them have been free of the Cages in moments . |
| 19 | Neither of us could claim that those exchanges have been free of the features that I have just identified . |
| 20 | Since the 1920s women have been free of the burden of high fertility which previously would have given them young children to cope with for more than two decades of their adult life . |
| 21 | ‘ We have been afraid of an attempt to snatch him back . |
| 22 | Well , they have been afraid of the Russians for so long that they have learned to live with it . |
| 23 | Studies have been conscious of the work in other disciplines such as the Metropolitan Meteorological Experiment ( METROMEX ) which is based in St Louis ( Chagnon , Huff , Schickedanz and Vogel , 1977 ) and has greatly increased knowledge of atmospheric processes within urban areas and investigations have also led towards applications of knowledge gained from the way in which a city generates its own climate so that Chandler ( 1976 ) in a review of urban climatology in relation to urban design suggested : |
| 24 | Professional organisations like the Library Association have been conscious of the problem , and have issued a useful policy directive on the dispersal of valuable books . |
| 25 | For some time , and particularly since NBS Services Ltd. was acquired , we have been conscious of the fact that there are certain activities which are similar in nature in more than one of our companies . |
| 26 | In recent years the Employment Department and the Department of Trade and Industry have been responsible for appropriate interventions but they have been more of a fire fighting nature than a sustained development of policy and role — which in any case , has not been the way government departments have tended to behave since they are organised to implement government policy in the immediate rather than long term . |
| 27 | ‘ The wireless and newspapers have been full of the flood . |
| 28 | Some writers have been sceptical of the advantages to women of these advances in contraceptive and abortion technology . |
| 29 | There is a good reason : those of childhood are or have been those of every client ( and also of every social worker ) and may be considered as common to every adult group . |
| 30 | In both instances , the main markets targeted for development have been those of the US and Western Europe . |