Example sentences of "[det] have [be] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That has been successful Chair , during the course of the year , we 're three quarters of the way through , but our monitoring information shows that we 've easily reached that ten percent target , and that does fit in equally with the work we 'll be describing a bit later on , the Enterprise Agency is , is working on . |
| 2 | That has been monumental help , but it has not been just practical help . |
| 3 | Paralleling this has been increasing acceptance of artificial insemination by donor although little is known of how the private citizen and the community at large view this , in vitro fertilisation and other similar medical techniques . |
| 4 | One result of this has been that theology itself has become ecumenical in a fashion undreamt of a century ago , and many of the main fronts in theological debate and controversy now run across rather than along denominational boundaries . |
| 5 | This has been one reason for the increasing prominence of work groups at local level often demanding greater autonomy and a more active role in policy formulation than that provided by the official union structure . |
| 6 | Winter wheats are slightly backward because of cold weather , but the benefit of this has been disease-free crops with good root development . |
| 7 | After the trial Det Chief Supt Cooper said : ‘ I am entirely satisfied with the prosecution case and the trial ; this has been English justice at its best . ’ |
| 8 | Coupled to this has been careful control over costs . |
| 9 | This had been good fortune , as they had not been aware that it was a ‘ protected ’ aircraft , but Carrington arranged in any case for the record of their flight to be blotted from the squadron 's sortie book . |
| 10 | The effects of this have been massive job losses , the casualization of the labour force , a profound erosion of trade union power , and the virtual cessation of training to replace human capital in the form of skilled labour . |
| 11 | Well out of order , the thing is if that 'd been , if that 'd been another troop trying to do it to him , there would of been , there would of been shit |
| 12 | These had been regular church-goers in the Caribbean but had not felt at home in the more restrained worship of the British churches , and some had felt cold-shouldered by the white members . |
| 13 | If these had been real Tag Heuer watches they 'd have been worth thousands , but in fact at around 25 pounds each they 're a rip-off . |
| 14 | These have been possible questions to ask for some time . |
| 15 | Although planning has a number of wider social implications for rural areas , many of these have been unintentional side-effects of physical planning policies . |
| 16 | Judging from the ensembles in which their names appear , the instruments they are listed as playing in other ballet livrets , and the inventories of instruments that some of the royal wind players had in their possession at their deaths , they must all have been versatile performers on several instruments . |
| 17 | The company preferred to invest in well trained staff rather than cut overheads to the bone , and many have been 20 years in the trade . |
| 18 | Would that have been Buffy Strangeways ? ’ |
| 19 | Could that have been clerical discretion , Theodora wondered , or clerical deviousness ? |
| 20 | Erm if any have been those elders or ministers will advise us the days they are going to come , those ministers who are and seen , if we do so that we can remember whom our chosen . |
| 21 | That had been harmless fun . |
| 22 | But that had been pure chance . |
| 23 | That had been twelve years ago , just one year after the Chairman of the Revolutionary Command Council had promoted him to Director at the Atomic Energy Commission . |
| 24 | But that had been thirty years before , and the British were still there . |
| 25 | But that had been sixteen months ago and she was still here . |
| 26 | Now that had been one hell of a scrap . |
| 27 | That had been one month before . |
| 28 | That had been old Ian Paisley last time he was in the old country , but he had popped his clogs of apoplexy while explaining the Fall of Port Stanley to Robin Day on Nationwide and it was that upstart Jeffrey Archer now . |
| 29 | That had been old Throgmorton 's idea . |
| 30 | But that had been seven months ago , a chill morning in mid-February , when the bushes which screened the canal walk from the neighbouring council estate had been tangled thickets of lifeless thorn ; when the branches of the ash trees had been black with buds so tight that it seemed impossible they could ever crack into greenness ; and the thin denuded wands of willow , drooping over the canal , had cut delicate feathers on the quickening stream . |