Example sentences of "of [noun] have be [adj] " in BNC.

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1 The mile of shining water between him and the Forest of Dean had been devoid of a single ripple .
2 I THINK his charisma and style of play have been fantastic for our tour and for golf in .
3 The Zollverein is historically unique because previous unions of states had been military , not economic .
4 In the area of hydrology have been some of the most specific contributions made by physical geographers including the analysis of increased discharges ( Hollis , 1975 ; Walling and Gregory , 1970 ; Walling 1979a ) , investigation of sediment yield ( Walling , 1974 ) , research extending into the area of water quality and pollutants related to urban source areas ( Ellis , 1979 ) and analysis of river channel changes downstream from urban areas ( Leopold 1973 ; Gregory , 1981 ) .
5 Signs of change had been evident within various protest movements , like the Teetotallers , from the 1850s when they realized that without state action they could not achieve their goals .
6 The general pattern of change has been one of upward mobility .
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 For many , the whole idea of using Marxist concepts of analysis is out of the question for a Christian and the spectre of communism has been one of the most divisive aspects .
9 There are many other examples in which this type of protection has been effective .
10 Much of the research into the social psychology of racism has been narrow to the extent to which it has concentrated upon images of outgroups , rather than on the image of ‘ prejudice ’ or ‘ racism ’ itself .
11 A regular visitor to Upper Dean Terrace was my grandmother 's old cook , Bessie , whose chicken cream and queen of puddings had been such a highlight of Nairn holidays , and who was now living in retirement in nearby Learmonth Terrace .
12 The two companies said the Ministry of Defence had been supportive of their approach and they did not anticipate any regulatory problems .
13 In the immediate post-war years , the Minister of Defence had been little more than the co-ordinator of the three autonomous Service Ministries and the Ministry of Supply .
14 The competitive procurement policy of the Ministry of Defence has been good news not only for the Ministry and the taxpayer but for the yards .
15 The Ministry of Defence has been obliged to freeze its own orders to British industry in the run-up to the election , but a Downing Street spokesman said last night the civil service guidelines allowed the announcement of foreign arms sales .
16 Although the reduction in coca growing in this part of Bolivia has been significant , drug dealers in the Andes have the same easy access to coca today as they had five years ago .
17 Your contribution to the work of CPRW has been considerable , spanning many years .
18 All the same , rumblings of discontent have been detectable around Wantage Road over the past few weeks , prompting conjecture over a parting of the ways between Northamptonshire and their prized import , even though his contract still has a year to run .
19 I have always liked cat fish in general , but the more interesting species of Synodontis have been hard to get hold of in my area .
20 The same , of course had been true of the period of intensive ‘ peace efforts ’ , 1967–73 .
21 There will of course have been new developments but I am confident that little will have changed in the fundamental agenda of those truly concerned about the health of their nation .
22 The progression of destructionn moves from affecting the capacity for a full range of emotional feelings and then into affecting intellectual processes and finally affecting physical health , although ther will of course have been many episodes of some damage to physical well-being throughout the progress of the disease .
23 If , when it was in a position to do so , Consumers ' Co-operation had reverted to the Pioneers ' intention to develop independent and self-governing factories and workshops , the story would of course have been different .
24 But the cost of resistance has been high in blood , in material destruction , in local misery and humiliating international paralysis .
25 ‘ 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 ) .
26 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 .
27 As Steve Maine , BT 's director of visual and broadcast services says : ‘ Traditionally , users of videoconferencing have been large corporations , but the VC7000 will enable smaller companies to reap the benefits of visual communication . ’
28 Well presumably with , what we 're trying to do is create some sort of alternative family units , we do n't want , although , er , laudable what the youth service does , is , we would n't want , if they do n't want to plugged , clubbable together , if , if , if , if the , the unit could provide that , or provide alternatives to pick up the , the correlation between that and , and ordinary normal family unit , I would hope that that would have been the best way forward , erm , er , because often some youngsters are in this situation because they , they have n't found the , that sort of provision has been helpful for them .
29 Surveys of attitudes have been popular with some researchers .
30 A second legacy of Tiananmen has been increasing tension over the course of Hong Kong 's political development , with just six months remaining before China 's parliament is due to enact the mini-constitution , or Basic Law , setting out the pattern of post-1997 government .
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