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 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 .
10 Both French and European Community officials making their springtime visits to Washington have been anxious to dispel American anxieties .
11 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 .
12 In Rwanda soldiers loyal to President Juvénal Habyarimana have been responsible for atrocities against Rwanda 's Tutsi minority .
13 When disaster strikes , the people of Scotland have been quick to shed their mask of tolerance and search the dressing-rooms for a scapegoat .
14 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 .
15 Martin 's family who live near Stroud have been shocked by the news of the arrests :
16 Boro have been involved in photo-finishes since the 1986 liquidation crisis , while Lawrence performed a permanent highwire act at Charlton Athletic .
17 Boro have been involved in photo-finishes since the 1986 liquidation crisis , while Lawrence performed a permanent highwire act at Charlton Athletic .
18 Do you know me and Ted have been married thirty year no not thirty , they 've been going out together thirty years
19 ITV have been able to do that because of the monopoly .
20 Whereas these workers have successfully repeated their own experiments , others in Yorkshire have been unable to do so .
21 Some of the deaths in Teesdale have been young people depressed about failed relationships .
22 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 .
23 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 .
24 George and Helen have been married forty-five years .
25 Australians Mark Lemon and Dave Cheshire have been slow to recapture last season 's form but hope to hit fresh form .
26 HEALTH campaigners in Ulster have been stunned to learn that lung cancer patients were being sold cigarettes — in the province 's main chemotherapy centre .
27 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 .
28 Chelsea and Ipswich have been impressed .
29 Both colonial and indigenous rulers in Africa have been involved in newspaper propaganda since the beginnings of the press on that continent .
30 Third party databases such as those of Infocheck have been available on Telecom Gold for up to ten years , but until recently selling services was secondary to selling Prestel and E-mail systems ( and those two delivery options functioned as discrete entities ) .
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