Example sentences of "have [adv] be [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , music chosen from a composer 's total output and specially arranged as a score for a three-act ballet with a story has rarely been completely successful . |
| 2 | TIM PAGE , photographed above in Vietnam , started work as a photographer in the country in 1963 at the age of twenty , and worked there intermittently until 1969. he has since been back six times — in the early Eighties for The Observer , and more recently to research his book Ten Years After . |
| 3 | The thing is moulded under your eyes , and a recent book which has been very popular in the university Gödel Esher Bach which is on some of the aspects of artificial intelligence and ideas , has in its preface got quite a long article on how the author actually organised all of the processes , right through to the final printing of that book , and indeed even wrote the programs for formatting the text , and it has obviously been very stimulating for him . |
| 4 | Mr Davies 's research has obviously been very thorough , for some of his photographs were unknown even to old BCR fans . |
| 5 | Thus the subject matter of this chapter , combining as it does both practices in the teaching of the arts and LEA 's INSET policies , has hitherto been virtually unresearched . |
| 6 | ‘ It has all been carefully stage-managed , ’ said one disappointed Norwegian . |
| 7 | Her mother was reported in the Star as saying : ‘ It has all been too much for her . |
| 8 | The English language has long been quite clear and readily understood : ‘ 10 months after ’ means exactly that , ie 10 calendar months . |
| 9 | My view has long been that 40 ought to be the cut-off age for parenting or you 'd be unfairly old for your child . |
| 10 | For B&O , form has long been as important as function , allowing it to avoid the open-sandwich school of Danish design . |
| 11 | At present no controlled group study has been reported with child victims and their families and , even when attempts have been made to evaluate interventions , findings suggest that the treatment of abusive parents has only been marginally effective . |
| 12 | But it has only been half successful because everyone wants to be able to go everywhere . |
| 13 | The Government 's own Department of Development Aid has apparently been so devious that the judge investigating the billions of Rand evidently missing or misappropriated , which should have gone towards assisting the poorer ( black ) communities , has thrown in the towel when faced by the department 's shambolic accounting . |
| 14 | As Paul writes to this leading city in Asia Minor ( present-day Turkey ) around the year AD 60 he makes many statements in opposition to the false teachers who–e influence has apparently been so prevalent . |
| 15 | Whereas the long-term significance of human activity upon plants and animals and soil characteristics and distributions has provided one research focus , in climatology the emphasis has perhaps been more evident on a spatial scale with the impact of human activity first appreciated at the local scale but then subsequently extended to the meso and thence to the world scale . |
| 16 | The application of traffic calming in Britain has thus been almost imperceptible , implemented here and there on new housing estates , and usually in a very diluted and faint-hearted manner . |
| 17 | It has nevertheless been quite comforting to discover , that , in general terms , most European lawyers make common cause with the Bar rather than the Law Society . |
| 18 | But David Stevenson , chief executive of Edinburgh Woollen Mills and former international pole-vaulter , would have you believe that he has just been rather lucky . |
| 19 | It has just been too long . |
| 20 | The task has just been too great but perhaps some enthusiastic committed person may take it on , with back up from the Village Association . |
| 21 | The number of pollums , plastics , medicines , has just been quite fantastic , but not the sudden flash of light , but the slow progress of a lot of people working together . |
| 22 | In its impact on British politics and economic policy it has already been remarkably successful . |
| 23 | It is usually only fair to deny you a right to appeal if top management has already been closely concerned in the matter because of your senior status or because the business is so small that there is no one left to whom you can bring your complaint . |
| 24 | That practice has already been very successful — as , for example , in straw combustion for space heating , which was demonstrated at Woburn abbey . |
| 25 | He has already been constantly amazed at what has taken place through Philip ! |
| 26 | I 've played many neck-through-body instruments before and sustain has generally been very good , but here it is nothing short of remarkable . |
| 27 | Neither the membership of this panel , nor its relationship to the Coordinating Team , has ever been sufficiently clear to its members . |
| 28 | One planning officer commented that ‘ probably no planning circular and all that it implies has ever been so popular with the public . |
| 29 | The philosophies we have described do exert a very real influence on the shaping of penal systems and penal practices , but none of the various schools of thought has ever been totally dominant , even at the height of its popularity . |
| 30 | Eliot now tended to be interested in anthropology mainly when it contributed to a Christian perspective , so that while he would maintain that ‘ the actual religion of no European people has ever been purely Christian , or purely anything else ’ since ‘ There are always bits and traces of more primitive faiths , more or less absorbed ’ , he became more and more interested in relating such faiths to Christian problems . |