Example sentences of "have be [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Exmoor offers unrivalled opportunities to unwind — its dramatic scenery , quiet village centres and small towns have been welcoming visitors for centuries . |
| 2 | For some people their whole working lives so far have been one scheme to the next , never getting any really worthwhile training and never being paid a decent wage . |
| 3 | These demand changes have been one source of the escalating costs of voluntary and private residential child care and this escalating cost has , in a time of severe fiscal constraint , itself contributed to a further fall in the demand for contracted out places by local authorities . |
| 4 | Over the last century or so there have been frequent conflicts between individual and group interests . |
| 5 | We know that in most regions there have been frequent changes of climate in the geologically immediate past . |
| 6 | We have been frequent visitors at Government House and have been staying also at their cottage , New Norfolk . |
| 7 | There have been frequent disagreements over the use of industrial action to bolster annual negotiations . |
| 8 | I More recently there have been frequent criticisms of the injustice of examinations and of their effects on school . |
| 9 | There have been frequent demands for a single system and investigations of its possibility ; for after the introduction and spread of comprehensive schools it was clearly both inconvenient and divisive that pupils within the same school should be classified either as fit to take the GCE or fit only for the CSE . |
| 10 | Following the crash of the New Zealand share market in 1987 , and the subsequent failure of many large companies , there have been frequent demands from the public for improved standards in financial reporting . |
| 11 | There have been frequent attacks in the media on ‘ trendy teaching methods ’ and falling academic standards , and there can be no doubt that this has resulted in a deterioration of teachers ' status in society . |
| 12 | There have been frequent clashes between Coptic and Muslim students and between fundamentalist groups and the authorities . |
| 13 | In addition to material devoted specifically to Jesus , there have been innumerable works on the origins of Christianity , the formation of the early Church and its roots in Old Testament Judaism . |
| 14 | Over the years since union , there have been innumerable instances of Parliament enacting measures which conflict with the terms of union . |
| 15 | ‘ HAVE been sweating blood over the question of what is right and feasible to do . |
| 16 | Why is it that the Government promised higher standards of education in 1979 , 1983 and 1987 but the results of 13 years in office have been lower standards of education ? |
| 17 | They say they have been innocent victims in a crime for which the law says they must also be punished . |
| 18 | The British Government have been practising euthanasia on the British coal industry and the Rothschild report is about to take that even further . |
| 19 | There is a cuddly look about the new Scottish Office ministerial team and there have been unconfirmed sightings of the word ‘ consensus ’ . |
| 20 | ‘ One faces a decision , I guess at such times , about how far to go with company instructions , and since the spirit of such meetings only appeared to be correcting a horrible price level situation , that there was not an attempt to actually damage customers , charge excessive prices , there was no personal gain in it for me , the company did not seem actually to be defrauding , corporate statements can evidence the fact that there have been poor profits during all these years … |
| 21 | Two other manufacturing industries illustrate how market-seeking investors have been shifting attention to efficiency-seeking investments as competition has intensified . |
| 22 | Parts of Africa and South America have been keen buyers of our malt . |
| 23 | There have been similar incidents in Northumbria . |
| 24 | And there have been similar demonstrations in Gloucestershire which has a similar vote next week . |
| 25 | There have been similar events in the Middle East as well . |
| 26 | There have been impressive developments of audio-visual aids recently and you might consider some of them if you 're staging an ambitious project . |
| 27 | There have been dark mutterings by conspiracy theorists about the election result . |
| 28 | At the ‘ top end ’ the peculiarly British mutual accommodation and interpenetration of the bourgeoisie and aristocracy has licensed an extension of the term ‘ middle class ’ until there is only a vestigial ‘ upper class ’ against which to draw a contrast , while at the same time there have been successive waves of new recruits which have enlarged the base of the ‘ class ’ : the new groups of professionals , managers and technical experts which expanded from the latter half of the nineteenth century onward with the development of capitalist industry and trade ; the more recent expansion of salaried employment in education , research , health , social welfare , administration and planning . |
| 29 | I accept what the hon. Lady suggests , because clearly there have been regional differences in economic conditions . |
| 30 | Faldo , interviewed in Golf World magazine , blasted : ‘ I have been 16 years on tour and I can honestly think of only two times I have seen Peter Alliss on a practice ground watching me or anybody hit balls . |