Example sentences of "be [adj] [conj] have been " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our local starling population is a race apart in that they are non-migratory and have been isolated in the islands for long enough to have developed their own characteristics . |
| 2 | Painting throughout its history has served many different purposes , has been flat and has used perspective , has been framed and has been left borderless , has been explicit and has been mysterious . |
| 3 | You 're sixty-one and have been looking forward to retirement . |
| 4 | Well I I would have said on the phone that under normal circumstances if you 're salaried or have been salaried I do n't talk people into this unless they 're a certain age . |
| 5 | People like myself and the footballers and athletes , we 're black and have been pressed down . |
| 6 | Many of the problems associated with the uncontrolled access to farmland are long-standing and have been enshrined in the Country Code , the list of ‘ do 's and don'ts ’ concerning open gates , litter , dogs which worry livestock , fire risks and so on . |
| 7 | ‘ I am glad that has been made clear . |
| 8 | Most roofs exceed these minimum requirements , but if they are inadequate or have been seriously affected by bad workmanship , poor quality timber , woodworm , dry rot , wet rot , and so on , the eventual result is seen in sagging roofs , displaced or split timbers , twisted and open joints — and visible movement of walls at eaves level . |
| 9 | The theoretical differences between recall and recognition are complex and have been the subject of considerable debate ( e.g. Kintsch , 1970 ; Mandler , 1980 ; Tulving , 1976 , 1983 ) . |
| 10 | Most of these criteria are measurable and have been measured in management research in quantifiable terms . |
| 11 | And though we do not know for certain , it does seem doubtful that the only sins against EPA science are those that have been revealed . |
| 12 | The difficulties of achieving comparability of sampling , measurement , and outcome criteria across cultures are enormous but have been addressed in the WHO 's transcultural schizophrenia research programme , where in one study a cross-sectional sample covering eight countries was followed up over two years . |
| 13 | Some £75,000-worth is still thought to be outstanding and has been traced to Germany , Syria , Bahrain , Saudi Arabia , Kuwait and Jordan . |
| 14 | I 'm 32 and have been climbing seriously for the last 18 years , which helped me get accepted . |
| 15 | As long as you can show that they owed you a legal duty to be careful and have been negligent , damages could come your way . |
| 16 | Stone recurrence after extracorporeal shockwave lithotripsy is expected to be similar and has been reported as 9% in the first year . |
| 17 | Good clean garden soil is the best sowing medium , especially if it is inclined to be heavy and has been well sieved to eliminate stones , twigs and similar undesirable debris . |
| 18 | However , the category may be wider than has been envisaged . |
| 19 | Arrested by the Germans in 1942 , he had saved his life by pretending to be mad and had been interned in the Saint-Anne asylum until the liberation . |
| 20 | He had only been fifteen and had been given the four-ten , the so-called lady 's gun , which Rufus gathered had rather gone against the grain . |
| 21 | In the case of joint submissions a letter will be needed confirming that methods of resourcing are available and have been agreed between the two parties . |
| 22 | Unlike many Third World countries , though , the Eastern European economies are industrial and have been capitalist . |
| 23 | Both men are American and have been among the best-paid executives of a British quoted company since the merger three years ago of SmithKline , an American drug company , and Beecham . |
| 24 | The contents are secret and have been seen in their entirety by very few officers below the rank of Assistant Chief Constable . |
| 25 | The other man was in no particular rush to be anywhere , being newly-divorced and having been thrust back into bedsit-land alone and at the age of forty-two , but out of a range of possibilities the prospect of hanging around on a station platform with Joe Lucas had to rank among the lowest . |
| 26 | I , I think that 's again going to be part of it because that is certainly I mean a major reason why er a lot of peasant societies have large families , but we 'd still have to try and explain why it was that in this period , presumably so very much more of those children were surviving than had been the case earlier . |
| 27 | The sentences were lighter than had been generally expected ; the military prosecutor on July 14 had asked for life sentences rather than death sentences ( as sought in June ) . |
| 28 | The differences between Blacks and Whites were fewer than have been found in other surveys , though Blacks ' attitudes tended to be less favourable . |
| 29 | But , of course , the client had only approached the lawyer because the solutions she could think of — those available in everyday discourse — were inappropriate or had been tried and had failed . |
| 30 | It found that the build-up of methane in the atmosphere had slowed down , and suggested that emissions of methane from rice paddies were less than had been previously estimated . |