Example sentences of "[adj] have [been] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fact that these efforts go unrecognised has been a major element in the ‘ failure ’ labels attached to many deaf schoolchildren . |
| 2 | It ca n't have been easy to have been a good Muslim in Cheltenham , thought Robert ! |
| 3 | She was a national leader in the W.C.T.U. ( Women 's Christian Temperance Union ) but in spite of her reputation for being austere , dogmatic and old-fashioned , I considered myself fortunate to have been a personal friend of Nellie McClung . |
| 4 | Indeed in the circumstances in which he found the community there is likely to have been a good deal of disorder . |
| 5 | Akrotiri was built in about 1550 BC ( Late Minoan IA ) and is likely to have been a Minoan foundation . |
| 6 | Family restriction , by cutting down on labour costs , accelerated middle-class living standards , and this seems likely to have been a major contributory factor to decisions to limit family size . |
| 7 | It appears that severity of illness or disability is likely to have been a critical variable , and in cases of severe disability , health would have been an overriding consideration . |
| 8 | The hand-loom weaver on the eve of his long decline was much more likely to have been a Methodist than was the mule spinner of the new generation proletariat . |
| 9 | Nor is this likely to have been a novel feature of the tenth and eleventh centuries , whose rulers were building on traditions of public authority already old . |
| 10 | It is just as likely to have been a Turkish Cypriot farmer moving too far south . |
| 11 | Abimelech , the Philistine king ( 26:1 ) : the name is probably a family or throne-name , this is therefore likely to have been a later king than the one Abraham encountered ( 20–21 ) . |
| 12 | Deprived after Nechtansmere of the land and tribute from the Picts and Irish which probably underlay such power , Northumbria is likely to have been a poorer as well as a less dominant kingdom . |
| 13 | Faint praise for what was supposed to have been a serious scientific work ! |
| 14 | Still being distributed throughout the UK and abroad , Networking International has been a real source of information as well as opening up opportunities for women artists . |
| 15 | The nine-year-old has been a fine servant for trainer David Nicholson and , although a few pounds below the very best over two miles , he picks up enough prize-money each year to comfortably pay his oats bill . |
| 16 | This reflects the fact that the commodities boom was highly generalized , and therefore unlikely to have been a freak coincidence of very different developments in different markets . |
| 17 | They conclude that there must be less than 5 x unc monopoles per sq.cm per steradian per second in the vicinity of the Earth , and that ‘ the Cabrera candidate is unlikely to have been a true monopole -induced event . ’ |
| 18 | On the debit side , there is unlikely to have been a significant shift of travel in such a small town from cars towards public transport or indeed towards the bicycle . |
| 19 | The ‘ aristocratic ’ character of landowning has been a central basis for social status and political power in Britain for centuries , and the divisions of interest between land and industry have been fundamental to the political development of the upper class . |
| 20 | My next book was due to have been a literary novel but that 's been put back in the top drawer . |
| 21 | The café-cum-shop up on the ravishing Col du Soul or in particular has been a wondrous mess on my two ascents there : very dark , immensely cluttered , low ceilinged and lit as much as warmed by a large log fire . |
| 22 | The presence of a very occasional lesser white-fronted goose from Scandinavia on the reclaimed land of the Severn is well-known to have been a crucial factor in Sir Peter Scott 's choice of site for the new wildfowl refuge and research station he had dreamed of creating during the War . |
| 23 | He said Fisher 's plea of guilty had been a mitigating factor . |
| 24 | Since 1948 Russian has been a compulsory language in Czech schools , but as of next month , she will be able to switch to teaching English and German . |
| 25 | There , funerals for the martyred and the massacred have been a daily fact of life . |
| 26 | Before experiencing a Methodist conversion , Bamford senior had been a noted drinker and wrestler , but even at that time had had a taste for books . |