Example sentences of "[noun] they have been [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a result they have been weak in the diplomatic arena . |
| 2 | By constantly shuffling alliances with smaller satellite parties they have been able to prevent the left from taking office . |
| 3 | Even in their heyday they had been fluid entities which could be dormant in specific areas for years at a time , but the decline at the turn of the century was much more widespread than earlier fluctuations . |
| 4 | In the days when the great Bugis kingdoms had ruled the seas all the way to the Spice Islands they had been unrelenting in their determination to conquer Bouton . |
| 5 | He was diving with his wife Deborah they had been married 15 days off the resort town of Byron Bay , 400 miles north of Sydney . |
| 6 | We opened our Amsterdam , our new exhibition in Amsterdam in June and er , up to now audiences have flocked there many weeks they 've been thirty percent ahead of er ahead of budget . |
| 7 | During the first few days of the Blitz I had to go to Kings Cross and there I saw whole streams of weary and frightened East Enders pouring through the station , intent only on getting away from the bombing with what bits and pieces of their belongings they had been able to salvage ; with their small children crying and bewildered , and family pets bundled up in rugs or protesting loudly in makeshift cardboard boxes . |
| 8 | In the two years they 've been married they have only had one day together . |
| 9 | In all the years they had been married , she could not remember quite such serious conflict . |
| 10 | Two weeks later the same students were called together and reminded of the questions they had been unable to answer . |
| 11 | In the beginning they had been manly contests of strength and skill , strictly conducted to emphasize the virtues of morality , honour and courtesy . |
| 12 | Indeed , the measure of the difficulty they were in can be seen in their own statement of 6 August in defence of their lack of achievement , made on the very day they had been disappointed by Cecil 's letter ; for Knox was inscribing a letter from Argyll and lord James to Sir James Croft , captain of Berwick , saying that they were ‘ sorry to be judged slow , negligent and cold in our proceedings … . |
| 13 | Now I suppose for most of us because of the very fact were here this morning they have been few and far between such experiences , perhaps what is more common is that we may have spent time with someone who was dying , their last few hours , their last few minutes , and if they were not unconscious I wonder what sort of conversation would be going on between us and them , what sort of things would we , would we of been saying , what would we be asking us , well in this passage that we have been reading we have just such a conversation , two men who are on the verge of death , death can only be hours away for both of them , and here they have this conversation , it was in that sense it was one of the strangest interviews any body ever had with Jesus not only is the , the account here of er a death bed conversion , but the one who is saving is also in the process of dying . |
| 14 | Now , I suppose for most of us , bu bu because of the very fact we 're here this morning they have been few and far between , such experiences . |
| 15 | We 're the only vets they 've been able to contact . ’ |
| 16 | They were walking on to the long ridge they had been able to see from the cottage window . |
| 17 | Most Victorian cities had been urban centres since at least the Middle Ages , though of course they had been tiny in comparison with the size they attained in the nineteenth century . |
| 18 | For the most part they had been one of Europe 's invisible , historyless , subject peoples . |
| 19 | But for the most part they had been undisturbed in their magic island or resort that was closed to others but which they could leave when they pleased . |
| 20 | It is an experience they have been prepared to share with other communities , and Jim Killeen has spoken against mining at meetings in Westport , Co . |
| 21 | It is not necessary that Traditions and Ceremonies be in all places one , and utterly like ; for at all times they have been divers , and may be changed according to the diversities of countries , times , and men 's manners , so that nothing be ordained against God 's Word . |
| 22 | In the past they had been happy to sit and watch the match all afternoon ( even if that meant dying from the cold ! ) . |
| 23 | Now in Selby for example , where I think a we'v Bill and I have tried to offset the balance a little bit , but in the past they have been better staffed . |
| 24 | These three genera seem to form a natural grouping ( Box 2 ) and in the past they have been confused with one another : in commenting on the original description of the Buluk specimens , Deslon suggested that they should be attributed to Kenyapithecus ( rather than to Sivapithecus , as they then were ) , and in an addendum to their original description of Heliopithecus , Andrews and Martin recognized the affinities of that genus to Afropithecus , which was published just before Heliopithecus . |
| 25 | The dead young men on them were covered by the nylon parachutes they had been unable to use to save their lives . |
| 26 | She thought she had never been happier , not even in Seville , which was peculiar because in Seville they had been free . |
| 27 | So Waleran goes where his roots are , to keep them safe from being torn up , even if he must do homage to Anjou for the soil they 've been firm in for generations . |
| 28 | As Poles they had been subject to St Petersburg 's longstanding attempts to interfere in relations between Polish nobles and non-Polish peasants . |
| 29 | A group of evangelical youth organisations wanted to find a way to send 18–23 year olds they had been involved in discipling to put their faith to work . |
| 30 | By locating these and hammering stakes into the ground at strategic points they have been able to divert or stop the streams and return the house or area to a healthy state . |