Example sentences of "[noun prp] have been [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Viewpoint 93 documentary shows how the Allied powers which liberated Kuwait have been reluctant to help the Shias . |
| 2 | Adkin have been involved in handling all aspects of agricultural property and chattels since the firm was established in 1793 . |
| 3 | Most LEAs have been unwilling or unable to improve their ‘ global ’ budgetary provisions for clerical and administrative support for schools . |
| 4 | Courts in the United Kingdom , Australia and the United States have been reluctant to interfere with executive treaty-making power and have used various judicial devices to avoid allowing individuals ' claims . |
| 5 | Although climatic changes undoubtedly occurred during the post-glacial , it appears that the principal determinants of regional vegetational change in the Outer Hebrides have been natural soil changes , with widespread leaching , podsolisation , and bog development beginning at about 7000 B.P. From about 5000 B.P. or even earlier ( Bohnke , 1988 ) , human influence has also been an important factor . |
| 6 | Since there are so many alleged dope smugglers languishing in Mexican jails , some claimed to be unjustly accused , relations between the U.S. and Mexico have been taut of late . |
| 7 | She and co-star Charlie Schlatter have been toiling flat out for six months . |
| 8 | If that is the case , then Annabelle and Steven have been fortunate in enjoying the most wonderful beginning . |
| 9 | ‘ The earls of Warwick have been some of the most powerful men in English history . |
| 10 | There are shallow inlets and islands in the Portsmouth area , but the main river valleys , although aggraded in their lower reaches , are not rias , presumably because the rivers have brought down so much alluvium that they have filled any rias which may have been present , whereas the rivers of Pembroke and south-west Ireland have been unable to achieve this . |
| 11 | Both French and European Community officials making their springtime visits to Washington have been anxious to dispel American anxieties . |
| 12 | At home , England have been unbeaten in a Test series since that 1989 summer , beating New Zealand and India and manfully fighting back to level with West Indies last summer at 2–2 . |
| 13 | In Rwanda soldiers loyal to President Juvénal Habyarimana have been responsible for atrocities against Rwanda 's Tutsi minority . |
| 14 | When disaster strikes , the people of Scotland have been quick to shed their mask of tolerance and search the dressing-rooms for a scapegoat . |
| 15 | MDS Transmodal of Chester have been involved in part of an SE-financed study of opportunities for roll-on roll-off facilities on the East coast — while at the same time conducting a trawl of potential customers for a Medway base at Rosyth . |
| 16 | Martin 's family who live near Stroud have been shocked by the news of the arrests : |
| 17 | Boro have been involved in photo-finishes since the 1986 liquidation crisis , while Lawrence performed a permanent highwire act at Charlton Athletic . |
| 18 | Boro have been involved in photo-finishes since the 1986 liquidation crisis , while Lawrence performed a permanent highwire act at Charlton Athletic . |
| 19 | According to Lévy , ‘ The only galleries of modern and contemporary art in Geneva have been those of Daniel Varenne and Jan Krugier . |
| 20 | Do you know me and Ted have been married thirty year no not thirty , they 've been going out together thirty years |
| 21 | ITV have been able to do that because of the monopoly . |
| 22 | Whereas these workers have successfully repeated their own experiments , others in Yorkshire have been unable to do so . |
| 23 | Some of the deaths in Teesdale have been young people depressed about failed relationships . |
| 24 | Parents Barry and Carmen Daniels have been involved in a legal battle to force Health Secretary Virginia Bottomley to reopen London 's Westminster Children 's Hospital , where a transplant was to have taken place . |
| 25 | Parents Barry and Carmen Daniels have been involved in a legal battle to force Health Secretary Virginia Bottomley to reopen facilities at Westminster Children 's Hospital where a transplant was to have taken place . |
| 26 | George and Helen have been married forty-five years . |
| 27 | Australians Mark Lemon and Dave Cheshire have been slow to recapture last season 's form but hope to hit fresh form . |
| 28 | HEALTH campaigners in Ulster have been stunned to learn that lung cancer patients were being sold cigarettes — in the province 's main chemotherapy centre . |
| 29 | It is two thousand years since the Children of Israel have been able to follow the Torah of Israel as citizens in their own land . |
| 30 | Chelsea and Ipswich have been impressed . |