Example sentences of "[noun sg] have [adv] been [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This technique has probably been responsible for scoring more points than any other in the entire history of karate competition . |
| 2 | The University Art Gallery in the Portland Building has always been open to the public , but it was necessary to know one 's way around the campus to take advantage of this . |
| 3 | NCR Corp has long been interested in offering a high degree of fault-tolerance on its computers , and its final line of mainframes , the 9800s , were claimed to be fault-tolerant . |
| 4 | Her hair has usually been black , and worn long . |
| 5 | Although income inequalities have been reduced in Britain this century , this reduction has not been sufficient to justify the claim that class divisions are disappearing . |
| 6 | On the other hand , cost reduction has not been sufficient to avoid censure by the MMC . |
| 7 | Indeed , such progress has not been common to all publishers — some still produce little more than typesetting tapes with cryptic codes labelling the various components of each entry , and little or no accompanying software or documentation for their search or extraction . |
| 8 | Open Tues — Sun 12.30 — 2.30 except Sat , Tues — Sat 7.30 — 10.30 C4 S5 V5 £40 ( three-course lunch £13.50 including coffee ) St Quentin ( 071 589 8005 ) 243 Brompton Road , London SW3 Smart South Ken canteen opposite the Oratory has always been terrific value ; now it 's got cooking with the flair to match its friendly , highly efficient French service and jolly brasserie decor — all mirrors and panelling . |
| 9 | The band 's press coverage has generally been excellent and Houghton thinks it is a consequence of the group 's organised , professional outlook . |
| 10 | The growth of er , Information Technology in mounting information is required at member level and chief officer level has indeed been enormous over these years , and does not necessarily reflect in reductions elsewhere . |
| 11 | By itself , this approach does not establish a concept of durability since , in the case of perishables , it is self-evident that , if at the time of delivery to the carrier the natural produce are in such peak condition that they are likely to arrive in a deteriorated state , the requirement of merchantability at the time of delivery to the buyer has not been satisfied . |
| 12 | Aduna said he gave international organisations an early warning five months ago , ‘ but the response has not been good ’ . |
| 13 | The early response has not been enthusiastic , though aides insisted yesterday that for many households the new tax bills would amount to only a few dollars a month . |
| 14 | This statement of the legal base has always been important to the European Court , because it helps situate a measure in its legislative context and is thus a valuable aid to the schematic method of interpretation . |
| 15 | The new novel , unlike the fictions of Tolkien and Lewis , is stubbornly secular , but with an ear cocked to the supernatural ; it is no more anti-religious , that is to say , than Philip Larkin 's poem ‘ Church Going ’ , which intones sympathetically the values of an empty place where the dead lie buried and where prayer has once been valid . |
| 16 | The former Old Trafford favourite has n't been idle since a knee injury forced him to quit the game nearly two years ago . |
| 17 | The poem reflects on themes such as poverty and death in a way seemingly detached , but yet at considerable depth indicating the writer has really been involved in what she was expressing . |
| 18 | The Ukrainian settlement in the north west has always been close-knit and Ivan Solowka soon found himself running a club for the 20 or so families in Middleton . |
| 19 | As Figure 2.3 ( from the same quinquennium ) indicates , the Course has also been able to maintain a fairly stable pattern of enrolments by subject through the initial years of NAB-led planning ( an issue discussed further in Chapter 3 ) . |
| 20 | The law on contributory negligence has never been clear and I for one do not profess to know it . |
| 21 | We considered that it would be reasonable to take peptic ulcer in people admitted after 1976 as a proxy for cimetidine use ( bearing in mind that cimetidine has only been available since then ) and to see if peptic ulcer was commoner in people with motor neurone disease than in others . |
| 22 | Although precious substances have done much to dignify and enrich the lives of individuals , their prime function has always been social . |
| 23 | ‘ In point of fact , the hegemonic function has often been distinct from the governing class or function , and is so today in certain social formations . ’ |
| 24 | IN football parlance ‘ doing the business ’ on the field has always been important in the game . |
| 25 | The experience has already been invaluable , as proved in the recent World Cup when the backbone of our team had been to the 1990 CANZ series where we lost all four matches ’ . |
| 26 | The dualistic ambience in literature has long been influential , but has remained controversial , and it is both influential and controversial in these annals of the House of Roth . |
| 27 | It 's a time bomb that 's been ticking for centuries and the fuse has always been gold . |
| 28 | The LTTE has also been responsible for massacres , both of Sinhalese and Moslem civilians , since June 1990 and against rival Tamil political groups who , in some cases , have now aligned themselves with the government 's forces . |
| 29 | My hon. Friend is right to point out that , in the past five years and beyond , the taxpayer has not been ungenerous in giving money to the coal industry . |
| 30 | No , they are threatening a sterling crisis because the fiscal and monetary tightening has not been brutal enough . |