Example sentences of "have [adv] be [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He takes it for a walk — such walks have long been a ritual activity of the country 's more optimistic male poor , the dog more expensively jacketed than the chap . |
| 2 | Gangsters have long been a good source of drama for the filmakers and there 's barely a star in Hollywood who has n't been ‘ mixed up ’ on screen with the mob at some point in his career . |
| 3 | BADGES have long been a cheap , effective way of making a statement — whether it 's Ban The Bomb or I Love Madonna — but do n't throw them away when your fervour wanes . |
| 4 | ‘ These schools have long been a closed shop and many have n't been inspected for ages . |
| 5 | I have long been a avid reader of books about islands . |
| 6 | Finally , some 520 million year old teeth found in fossilised form have long been a controversial subject — did they come from an early vertebrate creature ? |
| 7 | Local rates have long been a controversial source of local authority income . |
| 8 | Caricatured images of ‘ natives ’ — African , Asian and Arab — and selective and often fanciful representations of their histories and cultures , reinforced in comics , adventure stories and films , have long been a powerful presence in the official curriculum of British schools ( Mackenzie , 1984 , 1986 ; Klein , 1985 , ; Ahier 1988 ) . |
| 9 | Its leaders and pastors have long been the only people who can say what they think ; its press , although censored , is freer than the state media and its synods and congresses are the only places where people can openly discuss the problems in the country . |
| 10 | Christmas and New Year have long been the high point for visitor and Madeiran alike . |
| 11 | Emigration and tourism have long been the main contributors to the economy of Madeira , emigration being the older . |
| 12 | Much of this veneration is due to the fact that rugs , in addition to their aesthetic value , have long been an integral part of the religious experience of the Islamic world . |
| 13 | The research will thus deviate from the common run of ‘ community ’ studies which have hitherto been the main focus of anthropological research on ethnic minorities in Britain . |
| 14 | ‘ Instead she has , in effect , admitted that the problems have obviously been a major topic of conversation at the highest level . ’ |
| 15 | However , at district health authority and hospital level there have not been the practical measures needed to achieve that . |
| 16 | Nevertheless , for the Andes as a whole , compressive stresses arising from plate convergence have not been the major cause of uplift . |
| 17 | The football authorities have not been the only ones to agonize over the impact of television on sport . |
| 18 | There are many projects where farmers have seen potential benefits from a project , but where these have not been the same as those anticipated by the project designers . |
| 19 | ‘ I have not been the same since the assault , ’ the 20-year-old student said at her flat near Hanover , where she is continuing her biology degree course . |
| 20 | Things have not been the same on the operational side of the art business . |
| 21 | What has appeared as an intense , bitter and irreconcilable polarization has occurred partly because our basic moral concerns have not been the same . |
| 22 | It is simply that interest rates have not been an important part of their own calculations of credit costliness ( nor , indeed , have they been at all prominent in credit advertising ) . |
| 23 | Considerable evidence shows that , to date , those who have been successful through industrialisation and urbanisation have not been an independent , dynamic and progressive force in Latin America , but why ? |
| 24 | IBM 's internal networks have thus been an unwritten but real part of its winning culture . |
| 25 | Although , as we have seen , videodisc systems have generally been a commercial disappointment , training has been an constant and effective area of application . |
| 26 | Governments , politicians , departments or voting patterns have usually been the political scientists ' fodder . |
| 27 | Contrary to John Pain 's comment , I have always been a reasonable swimmer , and was convinced I would be able to reach the coast which I could see . |
| 28 | Sexual fantasies have always been a powerful stimulus in the enjoyment of sex — even for professionals in the business . |
| 29 | He says : ‘ I have always been a keen follower of fashion , even before I worked here . |
| 30 | He said you have always been a good friend to him ; he is very happy to do something for you , in return . ’ |