Example sentences of "[adj] have be [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That has been successful Chair , during the course of the year , we 're three quarters of the way through , but our monitoring information shows that we 've easily reached that ten percent target , and that does fit in equally with the work we 'll be describing a bit later on , the Enterprise Agency is , is working on . |
| 2 | That has been monumental help , but it has not been just practical help . |
| 3 | Paralleling this has been increasing acceptance of artificial insemination by donor although little is known of how the private citizen and the community at large view this , in vitro fertilisation and other similar medical techniques . |
| 4 | Winter wheats are slightly backward because of cold weather , but the benefit of this has been disease-free crops with good root development . |
| 5 | After the trial Det Chief Supt Cooper said : ‘ I am entirely satisfied with the prosecution case and the trial ; this has been English justice at its best . ’ |
| 6 | Coupled to this has been careful control over costs . |
| 7 | The one responsible for putting together the JP233 since July 1985 has been Royal Ordnance 's Glascoed site : 1,000 acres of low-lying ground , with an obliging screen of hills on every side , deep in the countryside of mid-Gwent . |
| 8 | This had been good fortune , as they had not been aware that it was a ‘ protected ’ aircraft , but Carrington arranged in any case for the record of their flight to be blotted from the squadron 's sortie book . |
| 9 | The effects of this have been massive job losses , the casualization of the labour force , a profound erosion of trade union power , and the virtual cessation of training to replace human capital in the form of skilled labour . |
| 10 | I 'm the first to admit the English have been utter bastards . |
| 11 | For too long , the British have been reluctant Europeans — for understandable reasons , because our strong sense of national identity has been shaped by our exceptional history . |
| 12 | To celebrate Britain 's rich heritage of mazes , 1991 has been designated Year of the Maze — a venture backed by the English Tourist Board and the Maze Society . |
| 13 | The GCC six had been interested parties from the very beginning . |
| 14 | Totalling fewer than twenty and confined to a minority of townships , they can hardly have represented more than a fraction of the real number of demises , most of which were likely to have been annual tenancies anyway . |
| 15 | Furthermore , an additional factor is likely to have been British support for Bridei , king of the Picts , as the son of Bili , former king of Strathclyde . |
| 16 | However , current research shows that early humans did not generally rely on a meat diet , but that plant foods were at least as important : far from being mighty hunters , early humans are more likely to have been opportunist scavengers . |
| 17 | All three had been prominent opposition figures in the period before November 1989 . |
| 18 | These had been regular church-goers in the Caribbean but had not felt at home in the more restrained worship of the British churches , and some had felt cold-shouldered by the white members . |
| 19 | If these had been real Tag Heuer watches they 'd have been worth thousands , but in fact at around 25 pounds each they 're a rip-off . |
| 20 | These have been possible questions to ask for some time . |
| 21 | Although planning has a number of wider social implications for rural areas , many of these have been unintentional side-effects of physical planning policies . |
| 22 | The best installations have demonstrated what is already known — that gasifiers can be made to work ; the worst have been total failures . |
| 23 | Judging from the ensembles in which their names appear , the instruments they are listed as playing in other ballet livrets , and the inventories of instruments that some of the royal wind players had in their possession at their deaths , they must all have been versatile performers on several instruments . |
| 24 | Dozens of Tibetans were killed during demonstrations in incidents which , in some cases , are believed by Amnesty International to have been extra-judicial executions . |
| 25 | THE '80s have been traumatic years . |
| 26 | Would that have been Buffy Strangeways ? ’ |
| 27 | Could that have been clerical discretion , Theodora wondered , or clerical deviousness ? |
| 28 | Previously , March 25 had been New Year 's Day with attendant ceremonies leading to a climax on April 1 . |
| 29 | Dr Helen Muir has since 1977 been Director ofthe Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology and since 1982 has been Scientific Trustee of the Wellcome Trust . |
| 30 | That had been harmless fun . |