Example sentences of "have be [noun] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There has been speculation among local climbers that the individuals responsible for the chipping of Hareless Heart are also to blame on this occasion ; a theory backed up by the likelihood that the vandals had some level of climbing expertise . |
| 2 | There has been bloodshed in other communities . |
| 3 | There has been work on imperfect monitoring in reputational models , Benabou and Laroque ( 1988 ) , Fudenberg and Levine ( 1988 , 1989 ) ; and there has also been work on models with a continuum of types , Milgrom and Roberts ( 1982 ) . |
| 4 | It would be very wise if the Left advocated the policy of land-value taxation , which has been part of Liberal policy this century . |
| 5 | But however much that sense of a local spiral of depression exists , there is an ever-present sense that the economic crisis has been part of broader international changes and problems . |
| 6 | In such intimate matters , one would expect that the feelings of the old person about their body and the extent to which ‘ family frankness ’ has been part of earlier experience would also play a part . |
| 7 | Less publicised , but equally significant has been evidence of corrupt practices in police forces outside of London . |
| 8 | But elsewhere , despite quite a bit of stodge , there has been evidence of lively and ( that old critical standby ) interesting , if not necessarily very innovative , work from a wide range of quarters . |
| 9 | The result has been fragmentation in political life . |
| 10 | Having listened with interest to the Minister 's statement on renewable energy and the fact that there has been reference to other sources of power , when shall we have a comprehensive statement on energy policy from the Government ? |
| 11 | — CONSETT Number One Central Club 's chairman Jim Harris has headed the management team for 21 of his 26 years in the boardroom and treasurer Jimmy Hope has been treasurer for eight of the 11 years he has been on the committee . |
| 12 | As with numerous other mill sites , it has waxed and waned in importance , and over the centuries has been home to many individuals and industries . |
| 13 | has been Head of Christian Aid 's Latin America/Caribbean Group for the last seven years . |
| 14 | Nonetheless , in both companies there has been scope for local initiative on the margin of national agreements , and at times in violation of them . |
| 15 | Secretary Anne Branch , of College View , Monkwray , who has been with the Company since 1948 and has been secretary to various Managing Directors including the present incumbent Keith Jackson . |
| 16 | Cooper , painstaking but unassuming , has been secretary since 1978 and now becomes vice-chairman . |
| 17 | Such an approach has been characteristic of much of the best historical writing of the last generation or so . |
| 18 | He has provided a much needed corrective to the over-individualistic approach to conversion which has been characteristic of many western evangelists and missionaries . |
| 19 | It is not accidental that the assertion of ‘ the rights of man ’ has been characteristic of revolutionary regimes which aspired to interfere with and overturn the systems of law and society of their neighbours ; and there could be no more striking evidence of the antagonism of Soviet Russia to Trotskyism than that ‘ human rights ’ have to be forced down its throat at Helsinki or Belgrade like spoonfuls of brimstone . |
| 20 | A second trend has been abolition of withholding taxes in countries such as the US , Germany and ( for non-residents ) France and Spain . |
| 21 | He has been chairman for ten years of the Scottish Business School , which comprises the business studies departments of the Universities of Glasgow , Strathclyde , Edinburgh , Heriot Watt and Stirling . |
| 22 | Mrs Owain Williams , who has been Chairman of this ball for the last three years , looked very pretty in black velvet . |
| 23 | Herbivores are , of course , also affected by the carnivory regime , weather , and other physical features , but , in the groups of plants that have survived the animal onslaught , there has been evolution of defensive features , both physical and chemical . |
| 24 | There has been coverage with such as yourselves and er the local papers , and we are getting word of mouth enquiries now , but we , we have said it 's for the newly qualified driver and since we 've started this scheme , I would put newly qualified in inverted commas , because we 've had two or three ladies ring us up who 've had four and five years driving experience as such and they 're frightened to death to go on a motorway and have n't been on a motorway . |
| 25 | Jordan , Europe 's number one toothbrush manufacturer , has been expert in dental hygiene for over 100 years . |
| 26 | The most serious impact on the community sector has been cuts in local authority spending — the largest source of revenue for most local organisations . |
| 27 | Both Nicaragua and Cuba have seen significant changes for women , but the Cuban example is particularly instructive , since there has been time for new gender roles to develop . |
| 28 | This is to ask whether there has been time for natural selection to specify the DNA present in the human genome . |
| 29 | There has been interest in these questions from time to time in the past , in particular in Britain between the end of World War Two and the early 1960s . |
| 30 | Since 1985 , there has been action in several prisons over several demands , but perennially the amount of overtime that has to be worked . |