Example sentences of "[conj] [noun] have [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | Where exports have been direct , through their own overseas sales organisation , Japanese firms ( especially NEC and Mitsubishi Electric ) have been careful to avoid a direct confrontation with IBM . |
2 | Candidates have the right to complain if they believe a governing body 's decision or procedures have been discriminatory and the latter will be answerable before an industrial tribunal . |
3 | Indeed , it is only since 1965 that mergers have been subject to public scrutiny at all . |
4 | Just 16 days ago a one-ton van bomb dumped at East London 's massive office development Canary Wharf also failed to explode although experts have been unable to find any fault . |
5 | But , although Marxists have been able to refute empiricist critiques of their theories by these methods , it has been the case that the original theory has come under severe strain , and this is one reason for the development of the modern structuralist approaches . |
6 | Thus one often encounters the claim that a large number of Quakers ( and other dissenters ) contributed significantly to eighteenth- and nineteenth-century physical science and that Jews have been preeminent in mathematics , physics , and psychiatry in the twentieth century . |
7 | Saddened that polytechnics have been unable to throw off the second-class public image , Teesside University 's director , Dr Michael Longfield said : ‘ The three polytechnics in the North-East have been universities in all but name for many years . ’ |
8 | But the development of the law does seem to show that judges have been able to dispense from the necessity of justification under a public policy test of reasonableness such contracts or provisions of contracts as , under contemporary conditions , may be found to have passed into the accepted and normal currency of commercial or contractual or conveyancing relations . |
9 | Concealed miniature radios and microphones which use wires other than telephone have been other bugging expedients . |
10 | Italian bankers also welcome the introduction of universal banking , though some grumble that regulators have been slow to bring the country into line with other European states . |
11 | While problems of partiality and bias in news-reporting are , rightly , matters of concern , various issues that have attracted Western media attention have excited public opinion in the United States and Europe to the extent that governments have been obliged to respond . |
12 | Usually the most that governments have been prepared to do is to publicise their activities and/or to seek voluntary undertakings . |
13 | The source/migration/entrapment model suggests that conditions have been favourable for gas accumulation in Palaeozoic reservoirs contained within rift-related fault-blocks and more subtle stratigraphic traps . |
14 | Nevertheless , Debord 's place within a reified history of ‘ political modernism ’ is assured , more by virtue of what is claimed for the work than by its testing in public — Levin admits that screenings have been rare , especially outside France . |
15 | It 's just since I had Donna that things have been different for me . |
16 | In many areas , the recovery has been so slow that cultivators have been able to move in , while fires have been an added retardant to recovery , sometimes resulting in the familiar Imperata savanna . |
17 | ‘ I 'm very grateful that people have been honest , ’ Courtney says . |
18 | To believe that people have been sensible of God in other ages is not however to accept what I may call the ‘ vehicle ’ of the Christian myth which has carried their religious sensibilities . |
19 | When you say that people have been bad packing things , |
20 | ‘ It 's an international career coming to a close and one that people have been full of admiration for for over a decade . ’ |
21 | Health watchdogs such as Hereford Community Health Council , say that patients have been confused by the NHS reforms . |
22 | So perhaps it is because they have angular gyri that chimpanzees have been able to sign successfully . |
23 | Although tigers have been able to adapt to different climates and landscapes , they have not been able to live alongside people . |
24 | Although worker-priests have been active in promoting the possibilities for convergence between Christianity and Sandinismo , the head of the Nicaraguan Church Cardinal Obando y Bravo has emerged as a focus for the non-armed Nicaraguan opposition . |
25 | Now for those of us that have been slightly biased by the dubiously titled ‘ Warehouse Raves ’ compilations that Rumour have been responsible for in the past , well we can not sit up and take note , because here comes their most exciting release for as long as I care to remember ( sorry Rumour ! ) . |
26 | Looking at examples of day-to-day practical assistance , it is apparent that women have been involved in exchanging this with other women much more commonly than men have been involved in exchanges with women , or with other men . |
27 | The church has been jarred and cracked , shaken and split more times than historians have been able to count . |
28 | ‘ The use of bed and breakfast is still hovering close to record levels , ’ says Pawson , ‘ It is only through the boom in short-term leasing that boroughs have been able to avoid further increases in hotel placements . ’ |
29 | Of the large number of individual faults ( Figure 3.27 just shows some of the major ones ) only a few are currently regarded as being active , although others have been active in the recent past . |
30 | Several authors report the presence of aluminium and silicon in the plaque cores , although others have been unable to detect any increase in the level of these elements in neuritic plaques . |