Example sentences of "[pron] [noun] have be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My words have been grubby confetti , faded , tacky , blown far |
| 2 | May I congratulate my right hon. Friend on what he has done at Maastricht in limiting the powers of the Commission , about which my constituents have been concerned for a long time ? |
| 3 | ‘ Not if I and my grandmother have been innocent of blackmail ! ’ she said , weariness washing over her . |
| 4 | My silences have been beautiful . |
| 5 | Some of my friends have been frightened into no longer wanting to smoke , others have faced the facts but are reconciled to being fonder of smoking than they are afraid of cancer , but I myself yield to the temptation to smoke although convinced that I ought to abstain . |
| 6 | Well , anyway , my men have been unable to find any connection between the two at all . |
| 7 | For the last couple of years , my thoughts have been full of Anne . |
| 8 | ‘ A lot of my horses have been sick , ’ Upson declared . |
| 9 | ‘ My family have been great in sticking with me during what has been a hard time . ’ |
| 10 | For generations my family have been staunch Conservatives , but I am afraid my immediate family will no longer support a Government which cares little about animal welfare . |
| 11 | ‘ All this will need to be verified , of course , but I can assure you my inquiries have been exhaustive . |
| 12 | Western countries for their part have been slow to respond to appeals for a WCY fund . |
| 13 | Most schools given control over their budget have been able to make savings on heating and lighting without much difficulty — savings which should go to education in the classroom . |
| 14 | And it has repeatedly bragged that its fighters have been responsible for the mounting attacks on policemen , 226 of whom were killed last year . |
| 15 | Thereafter , their books have been follow-up studies of this second group of children . |
| 16 | For years its shops have been empty and dark ( they had no bulbs ) . |
| 17 | Safe as the Mark 3 coaches have been , however , their designers have been responsible for actually causing one or two accidents because straps and fixings holding underfloor equipment were inadequate and worked loose , allowing major items to fall off . |
| 18 | The effects of the net changes in social class have been modelled explicitly for the university sector in a number of forecasts ( Diamond and Smith , 1982 , 1984 ; Diamond , 1985 ; AUT , 1983 ; Collins , 1983 ) as well as implicitly by the DES ( 1984a , b , 1986b ) .4 These effects have been the most important single factor for which data have been available at a national level albeit only for the university sector . |
| 19 | Perhaps the most glaring example of this problem of non-falsifiability can be found in the manner in which Marxists have been able to argue that state spending is functional for capitalism : increases in state spending are functional since they increase effective demand and legitimacy , yet so are decreases in state spending since they increase the profitability private sector firms . |
| 20 | Duke of Northumberland 's Archive ( Alnwick and Middlesex ) The Percy family and its successors have been prominent in English history since the thirteenth century , firstly as earls , and later as dukes , of Northumberland . |
| 21 | Apes may well have produced new two-sign combinations that their trainers have been inclined to interpret as appropriately invented for some feature in the context . |
| 22 | Their publication have been essential to the writing of this book . |
| 23 | Her appearances have been singular for the genuine interest she has shown on all occasions and have been made with the avowed object of giving encouragement and , if possible raising money . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | As in criminal law , look for all the possible torts that may have been committed , and consider whether their essentials have been satisfied . |
| 26 | A third of its beds have been empty for several years . |
| 27 | Just as in-service education does not work if it has not been tailored to match the stage or condition of the teacher who is to benefit from it , so the manager can not manage unless the method and style of management are acceptable and unless its purposes have been first unravelled and then knitted together after consultation between the manager and the manager 's colleagues . |
| 28 | Hostility to wealth and demands for its redistribution have been normal features of British politics since the 1890s . |
| 29 | They may not have been famous , but their contributions have been vital and never forgotten . |
| 30 | The oil minister , Gholamreza Aghazadeh , had declared the previous day that ‘ the US and its allies have been guiding certain oil producers in the ‘ conspiracy ’ to bring prices down' . |