Example sentences of "have [be] [adj] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It must also be said of Poland that its society has been most resistant to Communist influence and , that of all East European countries , the gap between the state and its society has been greatest The LWP has not gone out of its way to act as the arbiter of events ; rather , it has had this role thrust upon it by Party factionalism and weakness . |
| 2 | Yes but surely if you 're saying in combating Chinese collaborators , settling accounts with landlords and reducing rents and interest , the people have seized the land directly from the landlords thus realizing the principle of the land to the tiller where the mass movement has been thorough the land problem is being or has basically been solved . |
| 3 | Even when an in-house team has been successful the changes in many local authorities have been significant , costs have been cut and management has adopted more competitive attitudes . |
| 4 | When the lessons from the pilot survey have been fully learned alterations can be made where necessary , but if the work done prior to the pilot has been adequate the alterations consequent upon it should not be great . |
| 5 | In court he also stated he 'd been unaware the cannister , legal on the continent , was an offensive weapon in Britain . |
| 6 | This is his final total after he 'd been all the way round St Aldate 's , he went round 73 houses , and he says here , I think this is a sort of hieroglyphic that would probably mean something like 'item' . |
| 7 | But if it 's just been brought out of the calf pens , fresh muck when it 's been spreaded in , and you know that tummy muscles , along mucking out the calf pens , they 'd been all the winter on this , getting tighter and harder , all through the winter . |
| 8 | She was sitting calmly in bed like that 's where she 'd been all the time . |
| 9 | ‘ In theory , I suppose , the nearest piece of fruit could have been doctored , but I do n't see myself how the murderer could have been sure the victim would have picked it . ’ |
| 10 | Think it must have been all the cleaning and dusting I did . " |
| 11 | Above all , to Tolkien 's mind , there must have been present the problem of Beowulf . |
| 12 | His conclusion that there was no duress where the defendant could only put pressure on the plaintiff by the institution of proceedings , to which proceedings there would have been available the defence which ultimately prevailed , was , in my view , unimpeachable since there is ample authority for the view that a mere threat of action does not per se constitute duress . |
| 13 | ‘ Ebeneezer Goode ’ would n't have been half the phenomenon it was without that promo vid . |
| 14 | Mam would never guess how brave she had been all the way home . |
| 15 | Since then , those had been all the places she 'd known . |
| 16 | The traffic and the crowds were passing interminably in each direction , as they had been all the time . |
| 17 | Towards dawn , she said to his sleeping back that he loved his employers more than he loved her and if he had been half the man he thought himself , he would have left them rather than abandon her . |
| 18 | It was an enormously thorough and comprehensive review of the case , running to four volumes and more than 1200 pages , yet it would have been better if it had been half the length and taken half the time . |
| 19 | Still , he was young and she had been afraid the house would be full of only old people . |
| 20 | He said he had been living with his parents in Fazakerley , and had been sub-letting the flat to another man . |
| 21 | Now if the polymer had been crystallizable the curve of the specific volume against temperature would have shown a discontinuity at the melting point as in Figure 3.12 . |
| 22 | We , we 've been all the way round now . |
| 23 | We 've been all the way round now . |
| 24 | So they 'd better be nice seeing as we 've been all the way |
| 25 | Encounters have been all the rage of this Italian election campaign — only the 12th since the republic 's first in 1948 . |
| 26 | ‘ If you mean drugs , then no , Adam , you 're way off line and you have been all the time — as you 'd realise for yourself if you 'd just open your eyes and see the truth instead of what you want to see . ’ |
| 27 | he said he 'd been through recently , oh every time I 've been through Wolverhampton that ring road 's been awful the traffic like |
| 28 | Well , it 's been all the members are good , sort of thing , it 's a job to pick out one , but |
| 29 | I 've wanted you all the time , that 's what 's been half the trouble , thinking I was never going to have you again . " |