Example sentences of "[prep] [noun pl] have [been] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even the most powerful of the Duke 's vassals , the Counts of Angoulême , who for generations had been accustomed to act as though they were independent princes , had twice conceded defeat , in 1176 and 1179 . |
| 2 | The design process has been unnecessarily slow on many projects because the exchange of information between designers has been ineffective . |
| 3 | LIBF director Brian Bradford said this week that demand for stands had been considerable and the fair was already close to being a sell-out . |
| 4 | For matters to have been different , a far deeper knowledge of those forces would have been required , plus the willingness and ability to handle conflicting tensions long before they built up to breaking point . |
| 5 | It 's the same story up the road in Blaisdon … a village that for decades has been famed for its plums . |
| 6 | The Zollverein is historically unique because previous unions of states had been military , not economic . |
| 7 | A number of projects have been successful in which the supply of inputs and the marketing of the product are managed on a commercial basis while the bulk of production comes from small farmers . |
| 8 | ‘ Of necessity ’ , they wrote , ‘ the Government had to use the former regime 's detention institutions , which in the best of times had been rudimentary and which deteriorated notably in the years prior to the fall of Somoza ’ ( IACHR 1983 : 99 ) . |
| 9 | It had been built to accommodate sixteen patients and in February of that year was occupied by twenty-one paupers , for whose maintenance the Board of Guardians had been responsible . |
| 10 | Surveys of attitudes have been popular with some researchers . |
| 11 | The sale of books had been encouraging . |
| 12 | Wilson was hard put to rebut all these complaints , admitting that his management of funds had been bad , though as a result of inexperience rather than dishonesty . |
| 13 | The impact of these rises on the banks ' cost of funds has been sobering . |
| 14 | Added to that have been the cuts in funding ; the attack on the ‘ book health ’ of schools has been considerable . |
| 15 | The overall calibre of inspectors has been poor . |
| 16 | In those years in which claims have exceeded premium income , the profits on the investment of premiums have been sufficient to produce an overall profit . |
| 17 | The extension of assured tenancies and the deregulation of rents have been important contributory factors in the increased use of the Business Expansion Scheme ( BES ) in the private rented sector . |
| 18 | Over the past few months , our morning series of sermons has been concerned with different aspects of prayer . |
| 19 | By providing money for so-called buy-back operations , in which countries either bought their own commercial debts back from the banks at deeply discounted levels or , alternatively , simply used the money as collateral when negotiating low-interest bond deals , a number of countries had been able to reschedule their own external obligations on easier repayment terms than had been agreed at the time when they were made . |
| 20 | It was not uncommon for interviewees to report that at least one set of parents had been unhappy initially about their plans to marry and this was often connected in some way with disappointment or disapproval over the choice of spouse . |
| 21 | Anna and Jurgen , Charlotte and Horst — both sets of parents had been intent upon creating well-rounded offspring , and the holidays on Møn , whilst providing an excellent opportunity for the two young people to make music together , were designed to encourage other interests . |
| 22 | Over the last few years thousands of parents have been horrified to discover blackened , rotten milk teeth in their children 's mouths . |
| 23 | Certainly none of Yorkshire 's current crop of bowlers has been able to boast a similarly low average over the past two seasons . |
| 24 | At the same time rural transport has been caught in a vicious circle of declining demand and rising fares which not even the provision of subsidies has been able to break . |
| 25 | What is documented in the book is what everyone in sport has known for years — that the use of steroids has been widespread in many sports since the sixties . |
| 26 | The last couple of days had been mild , but at this hour there was no mistaking the imminence of winter . |
| 27 | The last couple of days had been wonderful . |
| 28 | Previous data on the influence of Helicobacter pylori on synthesis of eicosanoids have been inconclusive . |
| 29 | There was an extraordinary range of voltages : the London Board , for example , ( where the fragmentation of undertakings had been extreme ) inherited 17 different DC and 20 different AC voltages . |
| 30 | The range of predictions has been infinite , but now the Scottish Agriculture College 's economics unit has produced what it reckons to be the approved gospel . |