Example sentences of "[conj] [noun] have [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where prayer has been valid . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | History might have been different if Cleopatra 's nose had been longer or Napoleon had been taller . |
| 4 | They claimed to have killed up to 200 government soldiers , especially in the provinces of Chalatenango , Morazan and Usulutan where fighting had been fiercest , and to have " neutralized " the main Ilopango air base near the capital , San Salvador . |
| 5 | The training or instruction has been successful . |
| 6 | However , much misunderstanding surrounds the nature of the so-called ‘ one voice ’ campaign which Caterer & Hotelkeeper has been instrumental in promoting . |
| 7 | As I said , I was somewhat annoyed in view of the definitive nature of the arrangement I had made the previous day , and the fact that no explanation or apology had been forthcoming . |
| 8 | These companies have given Wehmiller a useful exposure to the US , where demand has been buoyant . |
| 9 | In the 1930s Auden & Co. had been another ; with Auden himself , as early as his undergraduate days at Oxford in the late 1920s , confidently apportioning literary roles to Isherwood , Spender and himself . |
| 10 | And Mr. Marshall was very different from Ingard — where Ingard had been expansive , he was withdrawn , and where Ingard had been cocksure and flamboyant , he seemed almost nervous . |
| 11 | And Mr. Marshall was very different from Ingard — where Ingard had been expansive , he was withdrawn , and where Ingard had been cocksure and flamboyant , he seemed almost nervous . |
| 12 | I was asked by Wales Link to write again , but still no reply or acknowledgement has been forthcoming . |
| 13 | Truman was blunt and straightforward where Roosevelt had been subtle and evasive . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Some of this interference has been seen as necessary where competition has been impossible or illogical , in the public utilities and the railways for example . |
| 16 | ( Prior to World War I , where gas had been available for cooking , it was often used only for the Sunday dinner . ) |
| 17 | Where cloth had been scarce they had pinned ivy or ch'in-sei , the silver-leafed creeper which grew where nothing else would survive , and Artai 's device — an eagle with an arrow in its talons — was painted onto friezes which were roped to gables and lamp cressets . |
| 18 | Section 40 , like section 23 of the Trade Descriptions Act 1968 ( paragraph 16–26 above ) , deals with the situation where A commits an offence because of the fault of B. It enables B to be convicted where A has been guilty of conduct which either was an offence under the Consumer Protection Act or would have been one but for one of the statutory defences . |
| 19 | It would seem sensible that strategies to help Sheffield , with the recent and very sudden collapse of its steel industry , may not be able to assist Liverpool or Newcastle , where steel has never been an important industry and where decline has been long-term . |
| 20 | In much of the West where productivity has been high and population increases relatively small — in some countries zero — the problem confronting agriculture has been how to control expensive surpluses . |
| 21 | Climatology is probably the most data-rich branch , in which maps showing mean values of climatic elements such as precipitation or temperature had been long-established and numerous attempts had been made to classify climates upon a world basis . |
| 22 | Indeed , it is only since 1965 that mergers have been subject to public scrutiny at all . |
| 23 | Summing up , Nick Carey believes that ICI has been innovative in its approach towards the rationalization of its petrochemicals business — necessary because production capacity in europe was far too high . |
| 24 | It achieved funding for a full-time advice worker in 1983 , although funding has been precarious since the abolition of the GLC . |
| 25 | In a letter to Environment Minister Lord Strathclyde , Shadow Environment Secretary Chris Smith accepted that sulphur dioxide emissions have been reduced by 45 per cent since 1970 , but pointed out that progress has been haphazard , with reductions in emissions coinciding with economic recession . |
| 26 | But it was impossible to forget entirely the rumours that William had been involved with some very undesirable people over the last few years . |
| 27 | Springfield looked up from his examination of Grant 's inert form , a more thorough examination than Chuck had been able to give him earlier . |
| 28 | Nikki Richardson , head of Digital 's information directorate , said only that discussions had been candid . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Although no evidence had been found that Gnassingbe had been present during the attack , the report said he had been at the scene of the attack " immediately beforehand " . |