Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun sg] have [been] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The support play has been brillient . |
| 2 | During the last few years the Printing Division has been able to offer photosetting via its P.E . |
| 3 | If the Sudan Defence Force had been unsuccessful in capturing this oasis , they would be in grave difficulty , stuck in the desert without fuel , water or rations . |
| 4 | Men 's and women 's claims to social security income maintenance have been subject to different assumptions . |
| 5 | She did not think it necessary to tell him that the University administration had been obliged to circulate all members of staff with a memorandum asking them , if they had been on strike , to volunteer the information ( since there was no other way of finding out ) so that their pay could be docked . |
| 6 | The advantages for the printing industry have been enormous . |
| 7 | She then thanked Silas for his informative talk on New Zealand 's native trees and birds , and declared that the afternoon tea had been delicious . |
| 8 | George and Marie are very disappointed , especially as they have both been working around the clock since the expansion , managing the Brasserie and L'Auberge respectively , interviewing and training new staff ( labour turnover has been high at the Brasserie from the start and is now significantly higher at L'Auberge too ) and filling in whenever necessary at either establishment . |
| 9 | ‘ For some time the bloodstock industry has been concerned about competition from our EC counterparts , and this was threatening 30,000 jobs . ’ |
| 10 | Certainly not by direct experience , for few who ‘ know ’ about schoolroom or football violence have been present at its manifestations . |
| 11 | I sat on the facilities , and told him that the water samples from the horse car had been pure and simple H&sub2 ; O. |
| 12 | After the war opinion was more fluid and open on political grounds the tariff issue had been dead for years and I felt it was one which would pull the party together , including the Lloyd George malcontents . |
| 13 | Yet such sociological explanations for men 's reticence at reporting abnormal symptoms only serves to underline the absence of a national prostate screening campaign , particularly so since a simple blood test has been available over the last four years which can detect the likely presence of prostate cancer . |
| 14 | A spokesman for the Durham Anti-Apartheid Group said the Labour Group in Darlington Borough Council had been right to refuse to see the delegation . |
| 15 | The parents and their action group had been free to talk to the press . |
| 16 | His short doze in the living room had been long enough to keep him awake now . |
| 17 | What is beyond doubt is that the investment community has been enthusiastic in its response . |
| 18 | Most thought the event had gone well , and that the fifty pound entrance fee had been well-spent . |
| 19 | To illustrate this I want to mention briefly a list of ways in which the Milltown Action Team has been able to either increase employment or increase local people 's chances of gaining employment . |
| 20 | It should be noted that no modules will be deleted until the module version deletion process has been able to run through the whole LIFESPAN database . |
| 21 | Since the 1960s in England , football spectatorship has been subject to increasingly stringent surveillance from the football authorities , law and the police . |
| 22 | What petty little tin god had been responsible for this I do not know , for Mr Herbert Morrison , the leader of the LCC as it was then , had set the example after the great fire of December 1961 by taking his bed into the next office to his , and staying there all night . |
| 23 | Blood sugar 's been fine . |
| 24 | They accepted the claims without question and assumed , equally without question , that the detained paramilitary men from the Rathcoole district had been responsible for both of the specified shooting atrocities . |
| 25 | Half the vacant land in the study area had been empty for at least two years and , on the likely level of public and private resources , the consultants predicted that three-quarters would still be vacant in 1980 , five years after their survey . |
| 26 | he said he 'd been through recently , oh every time I 've been through Wolverhampton that ring road 's been awful the traffic like |
| 27 | Does he agree that much of our country 's undoubted export success has been due to competitive premium Export Credits Guarantee Department rates ? |
| 28 | The nerve strain had been bad , and these were not men with the mental resources to immerse themselves in books or thought . |
| 29 | Another round of talks with 10 per cent shareholder Continental have been futile . |
| 30 | However , there is little basis for confidence , since , as Frankel writes , ‘ research activity has been concerned almost exclusively with the probability of neediness and not with the distribution of those who might be expected to benefit from particular interventions . |