Example sentences of "[subord] [noun] have be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where exports have been direct , through their own overseas sales organisation , Japanese firms ( especially NEC and Mitsubishi Electric ) have been careful to avoid a direct confrontation with IBM . |
| 2 | Just 16 days ago a one-ton van bomb dumped at East London 's massive office development Canary Wharf also failed to explode although experts have been unable to find any fault . |
| 3 | But , although Marxists have been able to refute empiricist critiques of their theories by these methods , it has been the case that the original theory has come under severe strain , and this is one reason for the development of the modern structuralist approaches . |
| 4 | Concealed miniature radios and microphones which use wires other than telephone have been other bugging expedients . |
| 5 | Although tigers have been able to adapt to different climates and landscapes , they have not been able to live alongside people . |
| 6 | Although worker-priests have been active in promoting the possibilities for convergence between Christianity and Sandinismo , the head of the Nicaraguan Church Cardinal Obando y Bravo has emerged as a focus for the non-armed Nicaraguan opposition . |
| 7 | Looking at examples of day-to-day practical assistance , it is apparent that women have been involved in exchanging this with other women much more commonly than men have been involved in exchanges with women , or with other men . |
| 8 | The church has been jarred and cracked , shaken and split more times than historians have been able to count . |
| 9 | Of the large number of individual faults ( Figure 3.27 just shows some of the major ones ) only a few are currently regarded as being active , although others have been active in the recent past . |
| 10 | Several authors report the presence of aluminium and silicon in the plaque cores , although others have been unable to detect any increase in the level of these elements in neuritic plaques . |
| 11 | If sales are pursued regardless of costs and other limiting factors , such as reputation , the value of the sales volume obtained can be severely reduced , if costs have been excessive and/or the organization 's image has been tarnished by over-zealous representatives . |
| 12 | A , was the correct answer , until benefits have been payable for one full tax year . |
| 13 | If sections have been pre-impregnated in a cold-setting resin such as Epo-tek , then they should be bonded with the same material . |
| 14 | ‘ If students have been convinced of the necessity of collective action , gained self-respect and respect for their peers , they will have a message that they can use and will want to spread . |
| 15 | Neither measure has proved very effective partly because governments have been half-hearted . |
| 16 | He was concentrating furiously now , for , he thought , if I know of these places , then surely it must be because people have been able to talk of them . |
| 17 | As a result , supply supply is increasing right in the face of re falling demand , right demand falling off because prices have are high . |
| 18 | ‘ We 've also seen quite a difference in our seed rate trials , with the lower rates giving a better pod set , possibly because bees have been able to get into the crop . ’ |
| 19 | In the past , because children have been able to chant numbers in order ( 1 , 2 , 3 … ) , it has sometimes been assumed that they understood them and so were ready for sums . |
| 20 | Wether there is a deficiency of secreted salivary EGF in patients with uncomplicated reflux oesophagitis is unknown , because reports have been contradictory . |
| 21 | All of this has been achieved with an inevitability which few batsmen since Bradman have been able to suggest , and in 111 Tests at the end of the 1989–90 series he was just ten runs short of 8,000 at an average of 51 . |
| 22 | While insurers have been effective at repelling banks as a group , they seem to be less successful at denying individual banks access to their turf . |
| 23 | In this sense the very high ‘ yes ’ votes he achieved in the four presidential elections since independence have been genuine , but should not be mistaken for support for specific policies , and still less for support for other leaders at either the local or national level . |
| 24 | Since Indians have been unable to resolve their intra-mural debate , English , the language from six thousand miles away , continues to hold sway . |
| 25 | Some have received large capital grants to improve their buildings , while others have been able to put to good use the money which would normally be spent on local authority overheads . |
| 26 | It is , however , harder to explain purely in the context of the theory of contestable markets why some firms ' eurobond operations have continued to be successful while others have been unable to establish themselves , why there has been no significant decline in market concentration over time despite continual new entry , and why profitability has declined so steeply . |
| 27 | This would not only reduce its political significance but it would allow for yearly increases ( though broadcasters have been quick to point out that the general rate of inflation is below the industry 's rate and so an increase would still leave a shortfall which can only be made up by savings ) . |
| 28 | For the Apple Macintosh the runaway winner appears to be Microsoft 's Excel as Lotus have been unable to repeat their success with 123 in Jazz . |
| 29 | Returning to the All Blacks ' 11-match tour to Australia , the NZRFU has bowed to Australian pressure and loosened the grip on the Bledisloe Cup , for many years the symbol of Trans-Tasman supremacy , but which has only regained popularity in the last decade or so when Australia have been able to break the All Blacks ' hold on the Cup . |
| 30 | Environmentalists as well as scientists have been afraid to admit to having emotions or sentiments . |