Example sentences of "[noun sg] have [adv] [be] [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 | The story has then been one of the dynamic interaction of politics and economics , with political change affecting the economy — so far mainly for the worse — and economic crisis sharpening the political struggle . |
| 6 | HAMILTON PARK has always been one of Jack Berry 's happiest hunting grounds , and the Cockerham-based trainer was in his customary bubbly mood as he brought off a 15-1 double yesterday at the track 's final meeting of 1992 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The band 's press coverage has generally been excellent and Houghton thinks it is a consequence of the group 's organised , professional outlook . |
| 9 | Public interest and involvement in Britain 's heritage has never been greater . |
| 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 | The tussle for the team award has rarely been tighter and with four to count Striders were clear winners with Sammy Doherty finishing fourth . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 ) . |
| 17 | The law on contributory negligence has never been clear and I for one do not profess to know it . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Although precious substances have done much to dignify and enrich the lives of individuals , their prime function has always been social . |
| 20 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 21 | IN football parlance ‘ doing the business ’ on the field has always been important in the game . |
| 22 | 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 ’ . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | It 's a time bomb that 's been ticking for centuries and the fuse has always been gold . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | The college route into teaching has never been exclusive ; university-based qualification has been a proper alternative , especially for graduates seeking a career in secondary education . |
| 27 | The coalition has rightly been ready to run these risks to get Iraq out of Kuwait ; but so long as it could achieve that central aim , how much better to do so without further fear of all the weapons in a tyrant 's armoury . |
| 28 | When these ‘ stages ’ have been used to identify societies outside Europe the result has often been misleading . |
| 29 | The precise nature of the relations between adult education institutions and organised labour has always been problematic , and usually unsatisfactory , but that there should be a close and organic relationship was never questioned by adult educators who saw their work as part of a broader movement towards social emancipation and change . |
| 30 | One reason why farm workers ' wages remain so comparatively low is that the demand for labour within agriculture has been declining as a result of mechanization-Indeed , the prospect of more expensive labour has often been sufficient to stimulate farmers to engage in a further round of mechanization so that both the supply and the demand for labour have chased each other down in an ever-decreasing spiral . |