Example sentences of "have been [adj] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Three subsequent colonoscopies have been negative for dysplasia . |
| 2 | This is good news for all women who have been unsuccessful with hip and thigh diets that concentrate mainly on dieting and calorie-counting . |
| 3 | ‘ Not if I and my grandmother have been innocent of blackmail ! ’ she said , weariness washing over her . |
| 4 | The developed nations have been lavish with advice . |
| 5 | They have been judicious in storage and , besides , many have died . |
| 6 | Some of these sets have been available through specialist dealers before , others are new . |
| 7 | It is worth noting at this point that currently there is very little overlap with the Savoy titles from France which have been available through Vogue ( distributed by New Note in this country ) . |
| 8 | History , as we have mentioned , has been kind : the country has staved off invasion by its enemies , and the resources have been available for government to make and meet commitments in response to changing demands and expectations . |
| 9 | Since March of this year quality greetings cards in many designs have been available for Society members to purchase for £1.00 each . |
| 10 | The research will examine the behaviour of government institutions directly providing finance for industry , such as the Japan Development Bank , as well as the interaction of government and private finance when both sources have been available to industry . |
| 11 | Written in the Thirties , the six Babar stories have been available in English ever since , but Methuen now publish three sizes of Babar . |
| 12 | Charlton have been unbeatable at home … |
| 13 | Snowdonia ) the greatest losses have been due to afforestation ; in SW England and southern Wales , agricultural conversion has been the main cause , whereas in intermediate areas such as the Cambrian Mountains of mid Wales , moorland has been lost to both . |
| 14 | These falls have been due in part to straightforward changes in age structure : fewer children — who tend to increase average household size — and more elderly people — who tend to live in smaller households — will both lower the overall average household size . |
| 15 | Ever since Stone Age man began to keep livestock and cultivate crops , farming methods have been subject to change . |
| 16 | Fatigue fractures , by their very nature , are more prevalent in structures that have been subject to stress over a long period of time . |
| 17 | The Maidenhead , Windsor and Eton areas have been subject to flooding from the River Thames for generations . |
| 18 | Particular attention should be focused on hospital incinerators , since these have been subject to Crown immunity for many years and most are technically ill-equipped to burn at sufficiently high temperatures for adequate disposal of wastes ( Gatrell and Lovett 1991 ) . |
| 19 | Some values , attitudes and emotions have been subject to modification over time , but the essential orientations outlined above have not been discarded . |
| 20 | I have omitted , with reluctance , references to a few natural features of interest that have been subject to abuse of privilege by a minority of visitors . |
| 21 | Inside , the walls have been damp-proofed by injection and I have re-layed the stone floor flags myself . |
| 22 | The Epps family have been involved with aviation since 1907 and Epps Aviation has been established in Atlanta since 1965 . |
| 23 | ‘ Pupils have been involved with soil analysis and seed propagation , ’ says Stuart . |
| 24 | The unit will gradually take over from other Scottish Office staff , who have been involved with monitoring , sampling , policy and financial work relating to the tanker grounding . |
| 25 | We have been involved with Operation Raleigh for many years , seconding executives with special skills to lend their expertise to the organisation and sponsoring employees to participate . |
| 26 | Recently Joe and his wife Janet have been involved in support for couples in frontier work . |
| 27 | To ask the Secretary of State for Defence if he will visit factories in north Devon which have been involved in defence contracts and seek to maintain this link . |
| 28 | Both colonial and indigenous rulers in Africa have been involved in newspaper propaganda since the beginnings of the press on that continent . |
| 29 | ( e ) Conflicts of interest Where firms involved in an amalgamation have previously acted for clients who have been involved in litigation against each other , the amalgamated firm must not accept instructions to act for any of those clients unless they are able to erect and maintain effective " Chinese Walls " and : ( 1 ) none of the solicitors involved are professionally embarrassed by continuing to act ; ( 2 ) all the clients have given their consent ; ( 3 ) those clients have received full and frank independent advice before giving their consent ; and ( 4 ) such continuing to act can be shown to be in the best interests of the clients . |
| 30 | MDS Transmodal of Chester have been involved in part of an SE-financed study of opportunities for roll-on roll-off facilities on the East coast — while at the same time conducting a trawl of potential customers for a Medway base at Rosyth . |