Example sentences of "have [be] [det] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There would be no reason to expect either the ‘ gap ’ or the clear commitment to deviant values that have been such persistent stumbling blocks for the traditional versions of these theories . |
| 2 | Although there have been some useful television series , most television coverage focusses on the sensational , and some major documentaries and plays have compounded the fears and misunderstandings of the public rather than alleviate them . |
| 3 | Undoubtedly there have been some short-term fare benefits for the air traveller , but these are clearly the result of marginal cost pricing policies chasing after survival cash flow which blatantly disregard the ultimate responsibility to capital invested and are thus unsustainable . |
| 4 | Yet might there not have been some confused episode , something which , when Irina was much younger , had distressed her , appalled them both , something which neither of them in their childishness — for here Ludens saw Marcus as a child — had really understood ? |
| 5 | There have been some bad beer ads before . |
| 6 | There have been some 35 building society mergers over the past five years . |
| 7 | However , historians and contra-cyclical investors may argue that there have been few five year periods since the Second World War when deposits have outperformed equities — and stock markets should revive over the next five years . |
| 8 | There have been few detailed research studies that have examined arrest rates of those living in the same areas or sentencing in both the magistrates ' courts and the Crown Court in one study . |
| 9 | Another concern we have is that special employment and training measures , ( now catering for over 31,000 people in the North ) , have become a substitute for jobs — a way of reducing the official unemployment statistics and complementing the massive statistical fraud which those figures now represent . |