Example sentences of "have [be] [adj] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | AEA 's Commercial and Planning Director , James Bretherton , commented that the ‘ MMC Report has been useful external validation of what we are trying to achieve . |
| 2 | Ferguson 's phone has been hot all summer as opposition managers enquired about Hughes ' availability . |
| 3 | But there has been one major repercussion from Monica 's failures to toe the official line . |
| 4 | If there has been one major impediment to successful religious achievement by humankind throughout the ages , it is surely this completely false assumption that the god to be worshipped was also creator of all matter , and of all life . |
| 5 | There has been one nasty moment . |
| 6 | You are all I 've got , all I 've got left to build my life on ; my life has been one long frustration , and to stand aside and see you throw yourself away on scum like … ’ |
| 7 | If the cartel mentality has been one striking component of ICI 's culture , commitment to research and development , and the fostering of individual scientific brilliance , has undoubtedly been another . |
| 8 | But should you become an undergraduate , the encouragement comes through the roof ( there has been one recent award of £200 ) . |
| 9 | From travels in search of head-hunting tribes in Indonesia to trekking across India on an elephant , Mark Shand 's life has been one big adventure . |
| 10 | There has been one undoubted benefit of the cold fusion saga : it has stimulated interactions among scientists from different disciplines and thereby brought together expertise that might otherwise have remained untapped on individual islands . |
| 11 | There has been one fatal accident on the crossing in recent years which was the tragic death of a young baby . |
| 12 | There has been one dramatic innovation since the days of Dicey , though he would not have approved of its European focus and its impact on British law is confusingly oblique . |
| 13 | Since far fewer females than males commit crimes , this preoccupation has been one main source of sexism . |
| 14 | There has been one independent study of the open farm system ( McCabe 1986 ) . |
| 15 | Since there has been such extensive research on both systems we have had to be selective : we have therefore confined ourselves to discussing just one line of work in connection with each . |
| 16 | This is when there has been such heavy use that the pile eventually flattens or there is excessive ‘ tracking ’ in a doorway . |
| 17 | There has been extensive theoretical discussion about how this affects the Kolmogorov result , suggesting that with n a little larger than 5/3 but not exactly known . |
| 18 | Penelope Lord ( Mrs Baines ) since 1988 has been Principal Clinical Psychologist with the North Devon Health Authority , based in Barnstaple . |
| 19 | It is from this stance that there has been much recent emphasis on subject depth in the training of teachers , and a virtual embargo on teaching for those with degrees in subjects ‘ not on the school timetable ’ . |
| 20 | There has been much recent work by psychologists and linguists on these early stages of acquisition that has direct relevance to pragmatics , but is not reviewed in this book ( see e.g. Ervin-Tripp & Mitchell-Kernan , 1977 ; Snow & Ferguson , 1977 Ochs & Schieffelin , 1979 ; and the critical account of such work in M. Atkinson , 1982 ) . |
| 21 | The chapter begins , then , by focusing on a phenomenon about which there has been much recent discussion — deindustrialization . |
| 22 | There has been much adverse publicity concerning food poisoning caused by soft cheeses . |
| 23 | There has been much unprofitable speculation about whether John XXIII could have concluded the Council successfully . |
| 24 | With IBM UK Ltd taking away its RS/6000s and PS/2s and Digital Equipment UK Ltd ready to end its agreement with ICL Plc 's Technology Plc personal computer and workstation distribution acquisition , there has been much frenzied speculation that Sun Microsystems Inc and Compaq Computer Corp are ready to withdraw their products too , and that ICL has dropped a very big brick on its foot in buying the company . |
| 25 | 9 Equity , law and property There has been much academic discussion about the nature of the law of confidence . |
| 26 | There has been much academic debate about the ambit of s3 . |
| 27 | It is a controversial establishment because it is entirely staffed by NSA personnel and there has been much local discussion as to whether the station operates in the interests of Australia or only America . |
| 28 | In recent years , there has been much commercial development here ; the facilities have been greatly improved for the fishing vessels and the huge container lorries that transport the catch to the wholesale markets in the cities . |
| 29 | ‘ There has been much grievous suffering for everyone involved in this case . |
| 30 | Although there has been much detailed study of the effects of tariff reduction in western Europe over the period 1945-68 there has been virtually no research into the impact on foreign trade and national balances of payments of the removal of non-tariff barriers , especially the quotas which had been widely imposed from 1931 onwards . |