Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [pron] have been " in BNC.
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| 1 | Students in possession of any Morrissey records are charged a higher rate of interest on their college loans • A hitman is hired to hit the Hit Man and Her as well as all the bloody dancers ( especially that git who 's been wearing the same crappy wig for the last five mindbendingly-dull years ) . |
| 2 | The youngest of the trio — he was a-twenty-seven-year-old ex-seminarian who had been greatly under the influence of Molloy before going to Africa — began to sing , in a terrible , faltering voice , probably the most unmelodious I ever heard from a Danuese what sounded like the first lines of ‘ O , Mighty Mountain ! ’ |
| 3 | At a regional level it has been demonstrated that , in 1971 , over 30 per cent of the population in North Wales and Sussex was aged over 60 , compared with the national mean of only 19 per cent ( Law and Warnes 1975 ) . |
| 4 | Although the March general election failed to produce an outright winner , it ended the political chaos which had been associated with the final months of Blaize 's administration . |
| 5 | The celebrity was a monosyllabic professional footballer who had been transferred from a Scottish club to a fashionable one in London . |
| 6 | When the dust settled yesterday Michael Knighton , a thwarted professional footballer who has been elected to the Manchester United board , spoke bitterly of the vilification he claims to have endured since moving in on the club and Martin Edwards , the chief executive . |
| 7 | In each case it has been a West Indian pupil rather than an Asian child . |
| 8 | Half the racing world seemed to have embraced the occasion , for which after the last race that afternoon there had been much speedy unrolling of glittering black and silver ceiling-to-floor curtaining , transforming the workaday interior of the grandstand into something ephemerally magnificent . |
| 9 | That afternoon she had been to see her doctor in Paris . |
| 10 | The case which comes closest to accepting the principle as a rule of law enforceable by journalists is R v Felixstowe Justices ex parte Leigh : David Leigh , an experienced reporter on " The Observer " was writing an article about a controversial case which had been heard in Felixstowe Magistrates Court . |
| 11 | The most significant part of Grundrisse for our subject is that part which has been published separately in English under the title Pre-Capitalist Economic Formations together with a very valuable introduction by the historian E. Hobsbawm . |
| 12 | In that case there had been a failure to make an application to appoint an independent surveyor within the time limit in the lease . |
| 13 | Although they are by present standards very much ‘ old hat ’ , it is surprising when you look back to realise how little change there has been in the fundamental principles of some systems . |
| 14 | Well I 'm hoping that , that tape I 've been using when I go to Ian and Shaun 's , that er the noise of Rangers does nay it ma goes too loud , you know . |
| 15 | He 's ma , he 's he 's er squitting It 's complete squit He 's been exposed . |
| 16 | All patients from that practice who have been admitted to any department of Bassetlaw Hospital ( except the units of psychiatry and paediatrics , which have their own similar systems ) have been assessed on admission for their likely needs on discharge . |
| 17 | Well , I have practised yoga for many years , but then I met a Jesuit priest who had been sent to the Far East by the Catholic Church to experience the Buddhist way and see how it might relate to Catholic worship . |
| 18 | Juron managed to heave the access panel back into position behind him , and what little light there had been diminished even more . |
| 19 | Outside , the afternoon was wet and miserable-looking , and what little light there had been — watery and grey — was going now . |
| 20 | I had certainly found the rural setting I had been hankering after . |
| 21 | What is remarkable is how little political opposition there has been to the programme to date . |
| 22 | ‘ It 's certain sure that there are poor devils on that boat who 've been cheated and do n't yet know it . |
| 23 | Martinho had lost no time in recounting the true details of Osvaldo 's moment of weakness , the point at which he 'd flipped his lid for the first and last time in his career , that murderous aberration which had been the doom of old friend and new foe alike . |
| 24 | There is , however , one little car which has been around for almost 33 years , is enjoying a revival in popularity and still holds it second-hand value well . |
| 25 | But the odd tension which had been nagging at him seemed to be increasing . |
| 26 | A Sheriff Officer is a person in private practice who has been appointed an officer of the court but is not a court employee . |
| 27 | Ensure that cutlery which has been cleaned using chemicals gets a thorough washing before going back into the dining room . |
| 28 | A person who wields authority in such a society does not do so typically by virtue of traditional rules ( about kingship or hereditary authority , for example ) or because of that person 's supposed special charismatic qualities , but as a result of an impersonal rule which has been consciously created by a rational legislative process , Weber says that the appropriate administrative form for a system of legal authority — because it is the most efficient form — is bureaucracy ( Weber 1969 : chs 3 and 11 ) . |
| 29 | The concurrent and predictive validity of the BPVT is based mainly on the extensive research which has been conducted with the Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test ( PPVT ) , and particularly the high correlations obtained when scores of the PPVT have been compared with scores from standardised intelligence tests . |
| 30 | Browne has noted that the early drafts he received , together with a synopsis of the action , already suggested the shape of the complete play — quite unlike the false starts and extensive rewriting which had been Eliot 's procedure in his earlier work ; Browne explained this in terms of his " greater self-confidence as a playwright " . |