Example sentences of "have [been] [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps the honourable member should do a competitiveness survey and go somewhere else for his queue , I do n't know but what I can tell the honourable gentleman is that even though there were losses in the banking industry for the last year there have been strongly offsetting rises in insurance and business services . |
| 2 | As Sean will testify I have been pretty anti Strachan in the past especially when he was still playing when obviously suffering from his back trouble . |
| 3 | Preparations for the completion of the single market and discussions about economic and political union have been particularly prominent themes during the year . |
| 4 | Their ‘ Labour Of Love ’ albums , which feature covers of reggae classics , have been particularly big sellers . |
| 5 | Similar studies have also been conducted with children attending pre-school play-groups and nursery schools , where the caretakers have been either voluntary helpers or professionally trained nurses and teachers ( Wells 1981 ; Wood et al . |
| 6 | The result , which we obtain there , is that in general it will be rational for agents to infer from an own price higher than initially expected that there have been both positive aggregate and positive relative demand shocks . |
| 7 | ‘ Users who have been successfully running applications on systems which are now nearing the end of their life cycle , such as the NCR Tower , will now be able to right-size to UnixWare platforms . |
| 8 | For example , in areas close to the sea the newcomers have been predominantly retired couples whose impact i n the local housing market has again caused resentment in those regions where they have become concentrated , such as Devon and Cornwall . |
| 9 | Over the past seven days , there have been most encouraging reports about Magic Ring , winner of four of his five outings as a two-year-old — although he was disqualified once . |
| 10 | we have been most upset Gordon and I about |
| 11 | ‘ I am happy to say , ’ Gould wrote to Sir John Franklin , with a somewhat exaggerated show of piety and self-restraint , ‘ that my last trip to the interior has been productive of much that is interesting , having discovered many novelties both in birds and quadrupeds , my whole journeys in fact to these colonies have been most auspicious ones and I return satisfied and especially thankful for what our almighty providence has in his infinite goodness allowed me to see . |
| 12 | There have been equally difficult negotiations to satisfy the partner nations ' demanding requirements . |
| 13 | Although I have so far been concentrating on Thomist interpretations of existence , there have been equally profound examinations in Buddhist and Moslem tradition , and in the modern day by existentialist writers , some of whom are religious and some of whom are not . |
| 14 | There have been unexpectedly large claims ( especially on catastrophe policies ) , and poor investment returns on assets such as real estate . |
| 15 | Although there have been well publicised incidents of alleged poor husbandry of laboratory animals , most well-run organisations have too large an investment in their stock to afford mishandling them , especially primates , whose importation is now severely restricted . |
| 16 | Since 1983 large areas of Peru have been progressively designated emergency zones and placed under military control as part of counter-insurgency operations against the armed opposition groups , principally Sendero Luminoso which has been responsible for widespread atrocities . |
| 17 | While non-evangelicals and atheists might agree that there have been historically specific benefits from Protestantism , and that we ought to preserve such benefits , the evangelical adds a more direct link with the belief that God will punish us if we deviate further from his commands . |
| 18 | The Irish have been so busy praying for the winners that they must have forgotten to ask for the right weather . |
| 19 | In response to the import quotas , Japanese manufacturers have been rapidly expanding production in the US . |
| 20 | ‘ I have been around certain bands and been in bands and I 've never actually seen a groupie . |
| 21 | The blooms usually occur at the end of the summer if there have been long hot spells and settled weather . |
| 22 | Courses aimed at community nurses and health visitors have been relatively late arrivals on the ‘ back to nursing ’ scene . |
| 23 | But these have been relatively rare phenomena , with small , alternative media constantly struggling to survive and dependent on financial support from donor agencies due to women 's inability to pay for such information flows . |
| 24 | Erm people spitting er obscenities , obscene gestures , er we 've had two assaults er but they have been relatively minor assaults as far as we 're concerned . |
| 25 | There have been only limited studies which directly address the effect of cholesteryl esters on the stability of biologic membranes . |
| 26 | As mentioned before , Mains seemed pleased with the final choice and there have been only muted complaints from about the country — although it would be hard to be too critical 24 hours after a test was won 59–6 . |
| 27 | Nevertheless , they have been potentially major incidents . |
| 28 | ‘ That will mean losing some players who are popular with the fans and have been really good servants of the club . |
| 29 | Having said that , many of my favourite pictures have been really bold designs using very strong colours on striking backgrounds ! |
| 30 | It is not a recent development ; there have been mentally handicapped people for as long as there have been people , and efforts to cope with their presence have been proceeding since the last century . |