Example sentences of "have [be] [adj] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the algorithm starts with an empty grammar , the only symbols it has are those in the text . |
| 2 | For 15 years it has been illegal in the U8A to produce a new car without a three-way catalytic converter . |
| 3 | Novix has been available in the UK since early 1992 and has reportedly been picked up by Parliament , BP , Amerada Hess , GEC and British Telecom . |
| 4 | Although directors and officers ' liability insurance has been available in the UK since the 1930s , it has only come into wide use in the last few years . |
| 5 | But the snow , which has been slight in the past half-hour , suddenly begins to fall fast and furiously again , limiting her vision . |
| 6 | Yesterday , chairman of the council , Phyll Hendy , said : ‘ He has been unswerving in the service he has given to the parish and has been kind and co-operative to everyone . |
| 7 | It appears to me that the arguments which I have heard involve the consideration of three separate questions , namely : ( 1 ) does the ex turpi causa maxim and its related rules ( which I will refer to as ‘ the ex turpi causa defence ’ ) afford a defence to a claim for contribution under the Act of 1978 ? ( 2 ) If the ex turpi causa defence is capable of so applying , can it be said , with the degree of certainty necessary for a striking out order to be made , that the defence will exclude any contribution from the third party in the circumstances of this case ? ( 3 ) Leaving aside the ex turpi causa defence , can it be said with the necessary degree of certainty that the court will , under section 2(1) and ( 2 ) of the Act of 1978 , exempt the third party from liability to make contribution even if he has been negligent in the performance of some duty of care owed to the plaintiffs ? |
| 8 | Liver fluke is not and never has been present in the islands . |
| 9 | A positive test result means that antibodies have been found and means that HIV has been present in the body . |
| 10 | Sponsorship forms will then be sent which should be signed by a sponsor who has been present in the Royal Enclosure for at least eight years . |
| 11 | They will require a sponsor who has been present in the Royal Enclosure for eight years . |
| 12 | After months of pursuing its quarry , it looks like IXI Ltd has finally nailed down the OEM agreement with DEC for its X.desktop manager that has been long in the making . |
| 13 | New enterprises and institutions are not created de novo , out of nothing ; they emerge from a fabric of events which is already complex , which has been long in the weaving , and from which they take their characteristic shape and colour . |
| 14 | It says business has been healthy in the Netherlands where Peek Traffic BV reportedly had an excellent year and the future for the newly consolidated German operations , Peek Verkehrssysteme GmbH , also looks good , with prospective introduction of motorway guidance and public transport systems in Germany . |
| 15 | Never was a truer word spoken and Sean 's absence has been noticeable in the dearth of cricket coverage in the south since his death . |
| 16 | Never was a truer word spoken and Sean 's absence has been noticeable in the dearth of cricket coverage in the south since his death . |
| 17 | The former England Under-21 international , 23 last Tuesday , has been intrumental in the Norfolk club 's surprise position at the top of the table with his 12 goals , arguably making him the buy of the season . |
| 18 | It has been lowest in the southeast and southwest of the country , where wealth is based more heavily on service industries . |
| 19 | There have to be doubts about Woosnam because he has shown so little of the form of which he has been capable in the past . |
| 20 | Today , I think people would say that a lot of what we did in those early days has been influential in the general brightening up of the high streets in this country . |
| 21 | The contribution of each has been influential in the development of such areas a robotics , natural language understanding , speech recognition and expert systems . |
| 22 | Such a model has been influential in the way we think about and respond to a variety of social problems but has been particularly significant in framing research , policy and practice in child abuse . |
| 23 | The two following chapters explore an issue which has been prominent in the debate on language teaching in recent years ( and which is related to the distinction between type and token descriptions which I discussed above ) , namely the relationship between meaning as formally encoded in a language , its grammar and lexis , and meaning which is achieved in context by the exploitation of these formal properties . |
| 24 | Voluntary effort has been prominent in the development of services for deprived children . |
| 25 | Perhaps he has no calling and has been unhappy in the family business for years . |
| 26 | The growth of venture capital funds in the UK has been substantial in the 1980s and is the result of a number of factors . |
| 27 | The combination of Blowpipes and US-supplied Stinger missiles has been effective in the past , because the Blowpipe is best against low-flying aircraft , while the Stingers are best against high-flying aircraft . |
| 28 | The technique adopted by US conservationists has been effective in the past . |
| 29 | It is not dignified to approach a client with mock servility , just because this client has been fortunate in the matter of this world 's goods . |
| 30 | Here , there is further anomaly , for it has been possible in the past for Anglican clergymen to circumvent the disqualification by virtue of the Clerical Disabilities Act 1870 , whilst others can not . |